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Affirmative Action quotas on trial – Thomas Sowell http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2341

State tax hikes bad idea – “States which enacted tax hikes during the last budget crisis (in the early 1990s) experienced slower income, employment, and population growth during the ensuing decade.”

http://www.ntu.org/news_room/press_releases/P0301statebudgetwoes.php3

Property rights – the essential right Property rights determine who may cultivate a field, who can park in which slot in a parking lot, who is responsible for pollution, and who can profit from the sale of music. If property rights are clearly defined and enforced, cooperation replaces conflict as property owners bargain with one another and share in gains from trade. …To rebuild the barriers against property rights takings, we must resurrect constitutional limitations, encourage federalism that devolves governmental authority to lower levels that are more accountable, and rely more on common law than on regulation. http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/024/anderson.html

Politically correct tax talk http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2335

Family traumatized http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=4879

Government policies are anti-life - Herein lies the fundamental distinction between the marketplace and political systems: in the marketplace, people are persuaded to cooperate and exchange with one another in anticipation of being rewarded for doing so. Political systems, by contrast, induce participation in their schemes through compulsion. In place of rewards, threats to the loss of one’s life, liberty, or property are held out as the consequences of disobedience. I have always found it remarkable that so many men and women are prepared to distrust any and all businessmen – whose appeals, in a free market, they are free to ignore – while trusting even the most corrupt or cruel politician – whose demands they fail to meet at their peril. …It is ironic that, not so many months ago, the present-day fomenters and conductors of the "war on terror" were parading under the banner of being "pro-life," particularly as such was useful in their campaigns against abortions. But the use of state power – especially in the conduct of wars – is anti-life, for it is premised on the exercise of force against people. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer34.html

Rethinking traffic congestion http://www.uctc.net/access/21/Access%2021%20-%2003%20-%20Rethinking%20Congestion.pdf

Rebuilding Marquette Interchange by public/private partnership http://www.rppi.org/ps304.pdf

Tax reform – see a chart telling how much you will save http://money.cnn.com/pf/taxes/tax_reform.html

New reason for Iraq war still not convincing http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/monday/opinion_e3

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Pro-growth agenda vs. class warfare politics - As has been said before, pro-growth does not mean anti-poor. Quite the opposite is true. If one understands that growing the size of the economy is the best way to create jobs and raise standards of living, then it is clear the pro-growth agenda has much to offer low-income workers. For too long, welfare state economics have succeeded in only nurturing a certain level of subsistence living for many Americans, instead of creating economic opportunity. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=120

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