Yesterday, Paul Krugman attacked The Heritage Foundation and other opponents of cap and trade. Are the opponents of cap-and-trade relying on different studies that reach fundamentally different conclusions? No, not really. It’s true that last spring the Heritage Foundation put out a report claiming...
Unlike our President and many of our representatives in Congress, I've tried to read the 1000+ page health care bill a few times this week. As a lawyer, I'm used to dealing with tedious and confusing legal jargon, yet this monolithic bill is still too hard for me to understand. It proposes drastic...
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President Obama wants to add yet another czar, a Health Choices Commision czar this time, to the growing list of these unelected officials that are handpicked by the President and go through absolutely no confirmation process. A Virginia paper recently asked, " how many czars can fit into the West...
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Can you put a price on legislation that will do nothing to help the environment, but increase your energy bill and destroy jobs ? Well, it depends on who you ask... but don't ask the government, because you won't get an honest answer. The Environmental Protection Agency claims the answer is between...
The Obama Administration had announced before unveiling the stimulus package that it would have to be "targeted, timely, and temporary." Last week I wrote about the Heritage Foundation's analysis of the stimulus money failing in these items, this week the USA Today confirms this view. Today...
Remember when the Obama Administration said while pushing for the stimulus bill to be passed that it would be timely and targeted? The Heritage Foundation has been tracking the claims and has found that the bill is neither. As this chart provided by Heritage shows, the spending of the billions in the...
Yesterday, voters in one of the most Liberal states in the entire country turned down a series of tax hikes and budget adjustments that would have temporarily kept the state floating, but would have further damaged the state's economic climate leading to future problems with revenue and employment...
Back in April, The Weekly Standard 's John McCormack set the record straight over claims that Republicans' lied about how much cap and trade would cost the average household. They put the cost at $3,128, which was based on an MIT study. The number was refuted by MIT professor John Reilly, who...
Eerlier Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee says that controversial Waxman-Markey climate change bill will pass through the energy committee before Memorial Day. Some Democrats have been hesitant to get behind it, and many outright oppose. Michigan Democrat John Dingell...