Publius Awakened

I know I haven’t been posting frequently in the last few weeks as midterms are currently taking up a great deal of my time but something I read today blew my mind: the United Nations General Assembly elected a stooge of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to serve as that body’s president in September 2009.
I don’t [...]

Ending the Democrat’s legislative dominance last month, Massachusetts voters elected Scott Brown the 41st Republican Senator of the 111th Congress and simultaneously killed Democratic hopes for statist health care reform.
But like Lazarus from the grave, Democratic health care reform reappeared Monday as a new proposal, drafted by the White House, that combines elements of both [...]

The Community College of Allegheny County’s student government gave preliminary approval to student Christine Brashier to form a chapter of the national Students for Concealed Carry on Campus at CCAC, the Post-Gazette reported.
The group will receive student activity money in what should be recognized as a major step forward for advocates of the Second Amendment [...]

The City’s response to last week’s storm illustrated that government is better suited to making regulations and collecting tax dollars than it is to providing services. Although it’s important to praise the employees of the Departments of Public Works and Public Safety for their admirable efforts, it should be recognized that city politicians failed once [...]

The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat reported that Pittsburgh’s road salt budget for 2010 is $559,640 – down $400,000 from last year’s budget. I’m not sure where this $400,000 went but I’m pretty certain that it didn’t end up back in taxpayer wallets.
Instead, I’m willing to bet that City Council siphoned this money away to a pet [...]

Student Government Board President Charlie Shull said that the University asked for his opinion on make up days and gave him three options: hold class during Spring Break, hold finals week past graduation or hold classes on Saturday.
Of these options, Shull said that he recommended holding classes on Saturday because it was the least disruptive [...]

There were a few things wrong with the city’s response to the recent snowstorms: some residents were stranded for days without power, many tertiary roads are still unplowed and the city’s workforce was unable to cope with the volume of snow that fell.
These flaws were magnified by Mayor Ravenstahl’s promise in 2008 to totally revamp [...]

Brian Doherty’s “Radicals For Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement” is the perfect text for any individual seeking to learn more about the pro-liberty movement. Charting the beginnings of pro-liberty ideologies in 19th century America and following their development into the 21st century, Doherty’s work is expansive and thorough.
Certainly, the text [...]

I’ve written a great deal over the past four months about the need for greater transparency in Student Government Board’s operations and I’ve been pleased to also document the progress made by SGB President Charlie Shull in making SGB more open.
Indeed, SGB is becoming more open every week making changes that excite me as well [...]

In a discussion on WPTS-FM’s Media Roundtable last Wednesday, Student Government Board member Phil LaRue voiced his support for allowing individual students to speak for or against specific allocation requests during SGB’s public meetings.
LaRue said that it was something he hoped to see happen in the future and said that he would be discussing it [...]