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ALASKA PIPELINE IS AT RISK

MAY 11, 2011 Shrinking Oil Supplies Put Alaskan Pipeline at Risk By RUSSELL GOLD As less oil runs through the Alaska Pipeline, the crude it carries is cooling. This is raising the risk of ice formation and waxy buildup. WSJ’s Russell Gold reports from Alaska. FAIRBANKS, Alaska—When the famed Trans Alaska Pipeline carried two million […]

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ABOUT THOSE OIL SUBSIDIES

May 02, 2011 By Randall Hoven Everyone wants to end subsidies to oil companies, from President Obama to John Boehner and Paul Ryan.  My question was “What subsidies?”  Remarkably enough, CNN Money provided the answer. It turns out that they are all tax “breaks.”  I even hesitate to call them “breaks” because some of them

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GEORGE SOROS ON KOCH BROTHERS: ‘WE USED TO BE FRIENDS’

By Chris Moody – The Daily Caller 04/28/2011 Liberal financier George Soros may fund groups that attack fellow billionaires Charles and David Koch for their donations to conservative political groups, but ask him what he thinks of the Koch brothers, and the Hungarian-American businessman plays nice. Koch industries (pronounced “coke”) is an energy conglomerate that

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THE WHITE HOUSE VS. BOEING: A TENNESSEE TALE

APRIL 26, 2011, 10:30 A.M. ET Our auto industry took off because workers could choose whether or not to join a union. By LAMAR ALEXANDERMr. Alexander is a U.S. senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.  He is also a former governor of Tennessee. The National Labor Relations Board has moved to

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THE GAS REVOLUTION

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Amazingly, an era of energy abundance is upon us, unless politicians and environmentalists get their way. Steven F. Hayward April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 When Andrew Liveris took over as CEO of Dow Chemical at the end of 2004, the company was in the midst of a

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THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS A LIST

APRIL 25, 2011 Want a federal contract? Show politicians the money. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:And what do you know? The draft order doesn’t cover federal employee labor unions, the Democratic allies whose free speech rights were recognized alongside corporations in Citizens United. Nor do the disclosure requirements extend to recipients of federal grants, which often

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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ – OF JOBS IN TEXAS

APRIL 22, 2011 Hounded by taxes and regulations, employers in the once-Golden State are moving East. By John Fund Austin, Texas It wasn’t your usual legislative hearing. A group of largely Republican California lawmakers and Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled here last week to hear from businesses that have left their state to set

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MICHELLE MALKIN ON “THE DONALD”

Donald Trump’s Eminent-Domain Empire by Michelle Malkin (more by this author) Posted 04/22/2011 ET Don’t be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I’m a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump’s towers. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats

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THE MOST TRANSPARENTLY POLITICAL ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY?

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Obama administration to make government contracts political. Jeffrey H. Anderson April 21, 2011 2:46 PM Under a headline reading, “White House may add politics to contract bids,” Washington Technology Daily reports, “The Obama administration is determining how to require companies competing for government contracts to list their political contributions

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