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Posts in category "Government"

Why are those who yearn for moderate government called extremists?

Following the example of my sometimes debating partner, Tribune commentator Eric Zorn, I was skimming through my column archives and came across a Chicago Tribune column I liked when I wrote it, and still like. It was written two years ago, but applies today as much to America’s upset caused by the overreach of government... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 21, 2012 at 1:48 pm
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A modest proposal: kill your newborn if you don't want him.

Killing newborns should be permissible. Call it “after-birth abortion” (but don’t call it infanticide). Insist that killing an infant should be permissible for any reason, just like abortion. Argue that an infant is no different than a fetus. Assert that not wanting a newborn is reason enough to kill it. No, I’m not making this up... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 27, 2012 at 10:02 am
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Obamacare cost to double what we were promised

Instead of costing $940 billion over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office now estimates that it will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years. We told you so. I think Barack Obama and congressional Democrats knew this but just, uh, fudged the numbers a little... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 14, 2012 at 3:16 pm
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New Wisconsin public employee law working out 'just fine'

Here is an in-depth analysis of the impact of the restrictions that Gov. Scott Walker and the Wisconsin legislature put on the bargaining process of local public employee unions. James Ladwig recently took over the job of Racine County executive. He was sworn in last April, not long after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed a... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 13, 2012 at 12:57 pm
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Mike Madigan Speaks!

A politician speaking certainly shouldn’t be news. But it is in the case of House Speaker Michael Madigan, Illinois’ political potentate who acts as if we’re all too stupid to know how state government should be run. Usually he has nothing to say in public about anything, in response to media questions. So, it’s news... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 25, 2012 at 11:58 am
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IL temporary tax increases may not be so temporary

An increase of $7 billion is not enough to cover spending. To no one’s surprise. Illinois Statehouse News takes a closer look at what the state’s huge income tax increase is doing to extricate Illinois from its pathetic economic condition. Apparently, not enough. The article considers the possibility of making the tax increase permanent when... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 13, 2012 at 11:51 am
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New Hampshire voters can do us a favor...

by keeping Jon Huntsman in the Republican presidential race. It’s his turn to bubble to the top, like other GOP candidates have, and perhaps this time he will be recognized as a legitimate alternative to all the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. My own feeling is that the voters don’t know enough about him, due... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 9, 2012 at 8:15 am
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Do Catholics want to 'impose their morals on America?'

No. Catholics as much as anyone understand that this is a democracy. So when it comes to “imposing,” it won’t happen. Yes, Catholics, as citizens, have as much of a right to seek a moral society as they see it as do “progressives,” athetists and others do–through the democratic process. How else do you think... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 20, 2011 at 12:07 pm
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Dick Durbin, hack that he is, thought he could get away with this dirty trick...

but thanks to the blogosphere he won’t. Sen Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) tried to dump a $140 million Illinois white elephant, the Thomson Correctional Center, on federal taxpayers with a bizarre but revealing political trick: He’s holding up the reauthorization of an obscure federal agency that is designed to protect religious liberty around the globe. Until... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 9, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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'Moment of Truth'--one year later

It’s been a year since the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform issued its “Moment of Truth” report on how to get control of the federal budget. What’s happened since? Nada. Rein. Nothing. Yes, it has contributed to the discussion with important policy proposals, but Washington’s farting around continues unabated. Here’s a statement from... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm
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