JULY 15, 2011 Cellulosic Ethanol and Unicorns The EPA punishes oil refiners for not buying a product no one makes. Today’s pop quiz: What happens if the government mandates the consumption of a product that doesn’t exist? Naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to punish the gasoline refiners because they can’t buy a type […]
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JULY 15, 2011 The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating. So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there’s no benefit
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JULY 15, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking heat from some in his caucus for “caving” on debt-limit talks. They might instead be thanking him for finally laying out the real choice Republicans face in this debate: 2012 or 2010. Put another way: With President Obama
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The following comments were sent to us from one of our members, Bonnie Clarke Sagan, who lives in Bakersville, North Carolina which is in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Bonnie is very concerned about the White House’s Executive Order for a Rural Council that was signed last month in June 2011. To refresh our memories, I have included
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Fri, Jul 15, 2011 BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?” How about last December, when he ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations? How about February, when he presented a budget
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JULY 13, 2011, 7:28 P.M. ET What if the weak recovery is all the recovery we are going to get? By DANIEL HENNINGER Barack Obama, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have been performing an intricate scorpion dance over spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, premised on the belief that this is the deal that would
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, Jul. 13, 2011, By MICHAEL GOODWIN July 13, 2011 When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an
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Policy, Politics & Culture Via Meadia Walter Russell Mead’s Blog July 12, 2011 Walter Russell Mead The election of the first African-American president was widely hailed as a giant step forward for American racial politics. The future, however, may remember this administration as a giant step back for Black America during a period of deepening
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