Month: August 2009

The last vote the House took before their August recess was on the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act (PDF). It passed 237-185. The bill gave shareholders an advisory vote on CEO compensation. Sixteen...

This is your Senate Finance Committee: These people have jurisdiction over major elements of the health care bill that is being crafted in the Senate. As the name of the committee suggests, their primary jurisdiction is over how...

You’re 18 years old. Last year a state supreme court ruled that laws prohibiting you from owning a handgun are invalid. Lucky you! Of course, what fun is owning a gun if you can’t get legally drunk? But now that same...

. Lou Dobbs challenges his own CNN network Dobbs’ work has been so unpopular that even Ann Coulter has criticized him. Dobbs has acknowledged that he believes Obama was born in Hawaii. But he gives airtime to disbelievers,...

Thurman Munson died thirty years ago today. Any boy with an interest in sports who lived in the New York Metropolitan area during the 1970’s knows what it meant when Thurman’s Cessna crashed at the Akron-Canton...