OCTOBER 26, 2011 The Post-Global Warming World Moving on from climate virtue. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Then there are those “technical problems.” The process of capturing and compressing CO2 is energy-intensive. Storing the carbon once it’s been sequestered is another issue. In Germany, a 30-megawatt carbon-capture pilot plant has been in operation since 2008. Yet
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Magical thinking about jobs from liberal Democrats. Fred Barnes October 24, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 06 It’s not just the Occupy Wall Street rabble who are promoting unorthodox ideas (to put it kindly) about our economic plight and how to create jobs. They have friends in Washington. A few
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) ‘Just the Way Business Works’ Matthew Continetti October 24, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 06 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The fact that the president and his senior staff poorly grasp the distinction between private capital and taxpayer guarantees is nothing less than depressing. For the umpteenth time: When an investor
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OCTOBER 25, 2011 My Tax and Spending Reform Plan Individuals will have the option of paying a 20% flat-rate income tax and I’ll cap spending at 18% of GDP. By RICK PERRY The folks in Washington might not like to hear it, but the plain truth is the U.S. government spends too much. Taxes are
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL: The solar swindle Subsidies are the only thing green about the Solyndra scandal By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Tuesday, September 27, 2011 FBI agents stand guard outside the headquarters of Solyndra, a solar firm in Fremont, Calif., on Sept. 8, 2011. The FBI executed search warrants at the headquarters of the firm,
WASHINGTON POST Infrastructure projects to fix the economy? Don’t bank on it. By Chris Edwards, Published: October 21 In a recent television ad for her network, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stands below the Hoover Dam and asks whether we are still a country that can “think this big” — Hoover Dam big. The commercial is built
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Patrick Michaels, Contributor 10/21/2011 The Great Green Energy Crack-Up FORBES Image via Wikipedia History — of the U.S., Europe, the U.K. and its former dominions — repeatedly shows that environmental protection is a luxury good. When per-capita income reaches some threshold, the citizenry tire of opaque air and sleazy waters, various agencies and permanent bureaucracies
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OCTOBER 20, 2011, 7:02 P.M. ET An End to Budgetary Trickery When is money it spends considered money saved? When Congress says so. By OLYMPIA J. SNOWE AND JEFF SESSIONS Mr. Sessions, a senator from Alabama, is the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee. Ms. Snowe, a senator from Maine, is the ranking Republican on
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Vice president Joe Biden, left, and Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive announces that the company will produce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at the former General Motors Boxwood Plant, Oct. 27, 2009, in Wilmington, Del. (Rob Carr/AP Photo) By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and RONNIE GREENE ABC NEWS and iWATCH NEWS Oct. 20, 2011
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OCTOBER 19, 2011 A New Spending Record Washington had its best year ever in fiscal 2011. Maybe it’s a sign of the tumultuous times, but the federal government recently wrapped up its biggest spending year, and its second biggest annual budget deficit, and almost nobody noticed. Is it rude to mention this? The Congressional Budget
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