Grover Norquist Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Grover Norquist.
Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers
Globe Gazette. May 13, 2013. Iowa's good fortune is blowing in the wind If you were outdoors over the weekend, you're well aware that Iowa has plenty of something MidAmerican Energy Co. wants to harness: The wind. Iowa's largest utility company made big headlines last week when it announced it ...
Internet sales tax bill faces tough sell in House
Traditional retailers and cash-strapped states face a tough sell in the House as they lobby Congress to limit tax-free shopping on the Internet. The Senate voted 69 to 27 Monday to pass a bill that empowers states to collect sales taxes from Internet purchases. Under the bill, states could require ...
Senate passes bill letting states tax online sales
The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping — for many a largely tax-free frontier — to state sales taxes. The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, getting support ...
Study sets off immigration bill squabble
A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally, the Heritage Foundation said in a report Monday, setting off a fierce dispute with fellow conservatives who attacked the ...
Obama should support legalization of marijuana
As the nation’s capital prepares to open its first legal medicinal marijuana dispensary and Sen. Rand Paul’s call for legalization basks in bipartisan praise, it’s time for President Barack Obama to clear the air around his own passive-aggressive position on pot. Until now, the president has been remarkably adept at ...
The budget deficit is not our biggest problem
“Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits,” President Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting.The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly. The biggest problems we face are unemployment, stagnant wages, slow growth and ...
Fiscal cliff talks set for Thursday
After several days of post-Thanksgiving rhetorical shadow boxing, there will finally be some closed door talks on the fiscal cliff between the White House and leaders in Congress. Sort of. Instead of the Big Four of Boehner, Pelosi, Reid and McConnell meeting with President Obama at the White House, the ...
Ohio Republican lawmakers won’t completely back away from no-tax pledge
Ohio congressional Republicans say they will not completely back away from an anti-tax pledge they signed, but some are willing to raise tax revenue through capping or eliminating scores of deductions and credits that are available to wealthier taxpayers. As President Barack Obama and Congress lurch toward an end-of-the-year deadline ...
Much VP buzz for Portman
WASHINGTON — Whether or not he likes it or wants it, Sen. Rob Portman is involved in the most complicated and arduous job interview of his life as potential vice president.There are near-constant profiles and personality pieces in national publications such as the Washington Post — rare for any lawmaker, ...
Clarence Page: Is it time for states to bring back flogging?
When Peter Moskos’ new book landed on my desk, I wasn’t sure if it was going to be a treatise on crime and punishment or some sort of kinky sex manual.Its title: “In Defense of Flogging.”You rascal, I thought. Moskos, a former Baltimore cop who teaches law at John Jay ...
Jonah Goldberg: GOP candidate field sharpens
The Republican presidential logjam has finally broken.Donald Trump, who believes not only that he would make the best president but that he could win, declined to run because making money is his true “passion.” It’s as if Cincinnatus loved his plow too much.Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also bowed out, ...
Clarence Page: Conservatives, NAACP agree: Too much spent on prisons
Can prominent right-wingers like Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist get along with the very liberal NAACP? Yes, they can, at least on the high cost of prisons.I’m talking about the recent dance toward common ground taken by some prominent conservatives toward the very liberal National Association for the Advancement of ...
Paul Krugman: GOP waiting for fiscal catastrophe
OK, the beast is starving. Now what? That’s the question confronting Republicans. But they’re refusing to answer, or even to engage in any serious discussion about what to do.For readers who don’t know what I’m talking about: Ever since Reagan, the GOP has been run by people who want a ...
Clarence Page: Civilian courts fight terrorists, too
Terrorists by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things. In the run-up to his trial as alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s success as a terrorist is showing in us. A lot of good patriotic law-’n’-order Americans suddenly sound frightened by ...
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