MARCH 3, 2011 Why is Washington blocking oil exploration in states like Alaska and Louisiana when the Middle East is such a powder keg? By SEAN PARNELL, governor of Alaska The revolution that began in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, and is now dramatically unfolding in Libya is far from over. The events in North Africa […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Environmental activists have yet to meet an energy project they won’t try to stop. Adam J. White February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 “Sputnik” was not the only nostalgic moment in the State of the Union address. When President Obama called on Congress to “invest” in “clean energy
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty. By ROBERT BARRO How ironic that Wisconsin has become ground zero for the battle between taxpayers and public- employee labor unions. Wisconsin was the first state to allow collective bargaining for government workers (in
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REDSTATE.COM The Obama Administration’s energy policy is not evil, it’s just wrong, wrong, wrong. Posted by Steve Maley (Profile) Thursday, February 24th As “Vladimir”, I’ve written at length about the destructive energy policies of the Left and of the Obama Administration. Specifically, their hostility toward domestic producers and the producing states will inevitably lead to
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OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on February 14, 2011 The Obama Administration and its acolytes on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission are propagating the myth that it is Social Security and Medicare that are driving the deficit over $1.5 trillion. Discretionary spending, they plead, is but a tiny
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Thomas Sowell: New Heroes vs. Old Thomas Sowell 2011-01-26 14:27:31 When I mention that my family used kerosene lamps when I was a small child in the South during the 1930s, that is usually taken as a sign of our poverty, though I never thought of us as poor at the time. What is ironic
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February 10, 2011 Jerry Brown: A Modern-Day Sisyphus By Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Take unemployment. It currently runs 12.6
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In the Dock Get ready for two years of Obama administration oversight by the House GOP. Fred Barnes January 31, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 19 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Upton’s committee is taking up the White House review of past regulations, which the president announced in the Wall Street
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 A Modest $500 Billion Proposal My spending cuts would keep 85% of government funding and not touch Social Security or Medicare. By RAND PAUL After Republicans swept into office in 1994, Bill Clinton famously said in his State of the Union address that the era of big government was over. Nearly $10
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FEBRUARY 5, 2011 Listening to the Shale Revolution Often the only ‘reform’ needed is a plan to remove obstacles to innovation. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. With turmoil in the Middle East comes the inevitable spike in oil prices, topping $90 this week. Look for energy security to make one of its recurrent runs to
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