DECEMBER 14, 2011 Congress mandated purchase of 250 million gallons in 2011. Actual production: 6.6 million. ‘We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years.” […]
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DECEMBER 10, 2011 The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee on the party’s chances to take control next November. By JAMES TARANTO New York The junior senator from Texas is decidedly unenthusiastic about the current state of the institution he joined nine years ago. “It’s not what I would call the world’s greatest deliberative
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unchanging Science Among other things the global warming crusaders got wrong: skepticism is a virtue, not a vice. Joseph Bottum and William Anderson November 28, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 11EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Perhaps the greatest reason for any of us to feel skepticism about climate change, however, is
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com by Dennis Prager November 8, 2011 Optimistic or Pessimistic about America? It will depend on the outcome of the 2012 election. Commentary magazine asked 41 Americans to respond to the question: “Are you optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future?” The responses, including my own, appear in the current issue of Commentary. As
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DECEMBER 12, 2011 In the U.S. mortgage crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis, bad policies subsidized bad investments. By L. GORDON CROVITZ EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The reason prosecutors can’t prove criminal intent is that in many cases the bankers were simply trading in compliance with the regulations governing them. Art imitates life, even
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DECEMBER 9, 2011 The Newtitlement State On Medicare, Mitt Romney has the bolder, better reform. Newt Gingrich has risen from nowhere to lead in the early GOP primaries, and many voters seem to be gravitating to the former Speaker for his reform platform. In Mr. Gingrich’s telling, his ideas are bold and even radical, but
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DECEMBER 8, 2011 The president sounds more like a Corleone than a Roosevelt. By DANIEL HENNINGER Most press accounts of Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, Tuesday described it as delivered by the “president of the United States.” And indeed the person delivering it analogized himself to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and
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Neurosurgeon Caller To Mark Levin Show: Patients Over 70 Who Need Neurosurgery To Be Called Units Given Comfort Care Under Upcoming Obamacare Rules Common American Journal http://commonamericanjournal.com/?p=36197
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By TOM ORLIK ReutersResidential buildings under construction in the Kangbashi ‘ghost town’ in Ordos in Inner Mongolia, now hit by falling prices and unsold inventory. ORDOS, China—For a sense of the sharp policy shift China’s leaders have to orchestrate to avoid the world’s second-largest economy landing with a hard thud, look no further than this
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DECEMBER 2, 2011 His Comments in Support of the Mortgage Giant’s Business Model Came as Housing Bust Was Dragging Down Company By NICK TIMIRAOS and PATRICK O’CONNOR Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich touted the virtues of Freddie Mac’s business model in an interview published by the company in April 2007, remarks that contrast with the
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