Casteel, 32, of Ankeny, Iowa, was arrested at the hotel in the 600 block of North DuSable Lake Shore Drive on July 4 and charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. In addition to the rifle, police recovered several rifle magazines and a .45-caliber handgun from hi...
The event in Washington, D.C., spanned a wide range of topics, including the balance of equality, with Dimon admitting he’d tax the rich more to support the poor. He described the idea as “as much of a no-brainer policy as I have ever seen.” It is Easy to favor taxing the r...
At the risk of stating the obvious, there will be a huge incentive to migrate to America – but not for the right reasons. And my little example doesn’t include the value of any of thedozens of other redistribution programsin Washington. The bottom line is that we shouldn’t have a we...
Iowa is…a bad place to start is because it’s the heartland of Republican corporate welfare. Witness this weekend’s pander fest known as the Ag Summit, in which the potential 2016 candidates competed to proclaim their devotion to the Renewable Fuel Standard and the 2.3-cent per kilowatt hou...
What tells me all I need to know about priorities in Washington is the failure of either party to get rid of tax dodges by the rich. There is no shortage of alternative ideas out there. Congress could fiddle with the specifics of Social Security to make the program less expensive over ...
“Extending unemployment benefits to the unvaccinated is just the latest in a series of proposals aligning the GOP with people who won’t get a COVID shot,” Axios reports, noting that Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee have also changed their rules to favor anti-vaxxers. “Republicans see a prime...
Iowa’s governor also scored highly because “Iowa general fund spending has risen at just a 2.3 percent annual average rate under Reynolds.” Chris Sununu of New Hampshire was in second place, followed by the governors of Nebraska, Idaho, and Arizona (which also enacted sweeping tax reform)....
Ms. Cohen also asserts that the “preferred cocktail” of pro-market policies (known as theWashington Consensus) has “lost favor,” which certainly is accurate. But she offers another empty – andinaccurate– assertion by writing that it was “counterproductive.” ...
WASHINGTON – A narrowly divided Supreme Court on Monday blocked federal clean air regulations on coal- and oil-fired power plants that have beenon the drawing board for a quarter century. The 5-4 ruling stops the Environmental Protection Agency, at least for now, from imposing new rules desig...
Why must criminal and civil laws in Illinois be different from criminal and civil laws in Iowa or Texas? Is a murderer in one state deserving of a different trial and a different punishment from a murderer in another state? Why not one national murder law?