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The political action committee of the National Rifle Association spent more than $73,000 this week on mailings in support of Michael Gableman's campaign for Supreme Court. Gableman is challenging incumbent Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler in Tuesday's election. According to documents filed with the Government Accountability Board, the NRA Political Victory Fund spent more than $14,000 on postcards and more than $59,000 on postage on March 27. Because the expenditure was made on March 27, the cost was not recorded on the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the GAB; the cutoff for those filings was March 17. Gableman...

The US budget deficit is falling, but it is expected to rise again next year. Unfortunately Rob Portman, head of the Office of Management & Budget has fallen into the leftist trap of saying next year's rise is due to a slow in the growth of revenues. Huh? Revenues go up (albeit more slowly) and this causes the deficit to go up? Nope. Arithmetic does not work like that. If revenue goes up and the deficit goes up that can only be because expenditure is rising even faster. As ever, the deficit is caused by runaway expenditure. Quentin Langley is...

Much has been said or written about the Terri Schiavo case, but the bottom line is that there was no moral justification for killing her because she had an inherent right to life and there was no clear evidence that she wanted food and water withdrawn. The morally correct course of action would have been to let her family take care of her. Nobody would have been harmed by that. Indeed, as radio host Julian Tepper points out, even if she had wanted to exercise a right to die, the autopsy results showed that she was not in a position...