I know I don't post regularly. I'll go months, sometime a year where I don't post anything. My work life doesn't exactly consist of normal business hours and doesn't allow me to dedicate the amount of time I would like to to this blog. And, I have to make time for my personal life. This blog is important to me, and I promise this: If I see, hear, or read something that I find interesting or funny politically; I will definite post something on it.
George Will urges the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an Illinois law that may be the next step in post-bailout, post-Kelo America: direct transfer of the profits of successful industries to the accounts of those that are failing. The Illinois law attempts to prop up the state’s sagging horse racing industry by requiring the state’s four most profitable casinos to simply hand over 3 percent of gross receipts to Illinois’ horse racing tracks. The bill was recently upheld by the state’s supreme court.
As Tad DeHaven mentioned the other day, CNN reported recently that business owners and residents on Hawaii’s Kauai island got together and made repairs to a state park — in eight days — that the state had said would cost $4 million and might not get done for months. Businesses were losing money since people couldn’t visit the park, so they decided to take matters into their own hands.
