By Justin Lalputan, Broadside Correspondent

President Barack Obama has made a trip to China to speak with its leaders about many things, but one of the major things that he wished to talk about was the impact that China has made on the environment.

This is a good move on the president’s part. China needs to be steered in the right direction.

They have simply continued to pollute with no care for the environment.

In 2007, China overtook the U.S. as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and it has not slowed down since.

By Brandon Minster, Staff Writer

We’ve all been there before – short on cash and short on options, but what to do? If you’re law-abiding, your options are limited to selling your plasma or getting a payday loan.

Those with a freer sense of decorum have a wide variety of time-tested vices for which the public will pay handsomely.

But if you really want carte-blanche, there’s no surer way to get it than being the government. As the state of California is proving, only the government gets to steal to cover its needs.

By Frederick Keown, Broadside Correspondent

In 1775 at St. John’s church in Richmond, Va., Patrick Henry gave his famous speech in which he proclaimed, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” Now more than three centuries later, Republican Party members gathered in the Marriott hotel down the street for the November gubernatorial election.