Although the election is over, as it should be, there should still be a look at a batch of ballots that produced disparate results.
Author Archives: robertrobb
Time to take North Korea’s nuclear threat seriously
Sanctions probably won’t be enough to prevent North Korea from developing the capability of striking the United States.
The way out of Ducey’s budget box
A net increase in spending may be the only way to get Ducey’s bold tax reform lowering income tax rates.
Winner, Mixed Metaphors
From Charlie Dent (R-Pa) regarding Zika funding: “We can have these debates, the circular firing squad discussions until the cows come home, but we are going to end up eating what the Senate sends us.”
The misguided efforts to keep us safe after 9/11
First, there was the lumbering Department of Homeland Security, then the Iraq War, and now Islamic State.
The real lesson of the Apple-EU tax dispute
It’s not corporate tax avoidance. It’s the futility of taxing corporate profits.
More Trump fiscal foolishness
Trump should introduce his military buildup plan to his tax and budget plan. The two have clearly never met.
Big Social Security questions for Kirkpatrick
Proposals to expand Social Security are whistling past the fiscal graveyard.
Hopeful sign in Trump immigration waffle
When Trump waffled, other hardliners waffled with him.
Arizona seems to love carpetbaggers
Homegrown doesn’t seem to matter, even in areas with strong regional identities, such as the East Valley and rural Arizona.