JANUARY 14, 2011 A proposal to ban regulation without representation. One of the most important political stories of 2011 will be regulation, as the backwash of the outgoing Congress hits the federal agencies and the White House drives its agenda via rule-making rather than democratic consent. Republicans are vowing to thwart these maneuvers, but the […]
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WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will Sunday, January 9, 2011; Consensus is scarce but almost everyone agrees with this: The government is dysfunctional and the Internet is splendid. But last month, the Democratic-controlled Federal Communications Commission, on a partisan 3-2 vote, did what a federal court says it has no power to do: It decided
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JANUARY 7, 2011 Microbes Mopped Up After Spill Bacteria Swiftly Devoured Methane Unleashed Into the Gulf of Mexico, Study Says By ROBERT LEE HOTZ Bacteria made quick work of the tons of methane that billowed into the Gulf of Mexico along with oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, clearing the natural gas from the waterway
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Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped
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BOOK REVIEW: By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times December 10, 2010 WHEN OIL PEAKED By Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang, $24, 143 pages In 2001, building on the geologist M. King Hubbert’s prediction that U.S. oil production would peak between 1965 and 1970, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, emeritus professor of geology at Princeton
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Gulf of Mexico suffered remarkably little damage. Why were so many so willing to believe otherwise? Robert H. Nelson December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 The day after the midterm elections in November, panelists at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy discussed the various factors
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DECEMBER 21, 2010 Foreigners can own 100% of Iraqi companies, must pay only a 15% flat tax on profits, and may take 100% of those profits home when and how they please. By BARTLE BULL The expected announcement of Iraq’s new government marks the culmination of a remarkable process. The former bully-boy of the Arab
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Hill, president support power source, but economy lags By David Eldridge – The Washington Times November 14, 2010 ASSOCIATED PRESS Work continues to excavate what could become the foundation for a new nuclear power plant near the existing nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle (background), located in Waynesboro, Ga. With political support now on both sides of
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THE ROCHE RECORD, by Frank Roche, economist November 22, 2010 GORE AGREES, CONSULAR ID’S, FONDLING YOU AND ME, PLUS SOME Gore now agrees about corn ethanol: Giving yet another speech on foreign soil (Athens this time) critical of the US, Al Gore came clean on corn ethanol. I’ll give him credit for admitting it, though to do so
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Tod Lindberg November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 No, this is not going to be a full-blown exercise in the fiction genre of Alternative History: A minor adviser to the 2008 McCain presidential campaign chronicles the day-to-day ups and downs of the two eventful years following the American
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