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Is the duty of our government not the welfare of its people? Is the government not obligated to better the lives of its own citizens? Are elected officials not supposed to care for the citizens they represent? Why then is our president, Barack Obama, agreeing to send $100 billion to China and India ...
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"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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Despina Karras
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06-28-2009
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Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists
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As the stimulus was passed, news was made about a clean-coal plant in Illinois that was a championed pet project of President Obama when he was Senator Obama. It was emphasized over and over again that although the plant could use money, it would not receive favoritism in the form of earmarks or special...
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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...
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When people think of oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens these days, wind may be the first thing that comes to mind. Pickens spent part of his fortune last year promoting the notion that a shift toward wind power is key to American energy independence. But wind is just one element of the Pickens Plan ....
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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...
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One of the greatest movie villians ever to chew the scenery once said there is a "Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold". There is a similar proverb, probably not Klingon though, that tells us a Week in Review post is best served with bullet points. Am I the...
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Russia has an energy problem and what it is doing about that problem strikes me as both interesting and frightening. Russia is planning a fleet of floating and submersible nuclear power stations to exploit Arctic oil and gas reserves, causing widespread alarm among environmentalists. A prototype floating...
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You might remember, back in February, that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood suggested a per-mile tax on American drivers to fund infrastructure projects. At the time, I wrote : Here’s the hitch. In order to do that, they have to be able to track everywhere you drive and you have to trust that...
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Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., wants your ideas about energy and he's taken to YouTube to get them. As the Chair of the Democratic Policy Committee he's now drafting an energy bill that, he says, will break us free of the pernicious grip of foreign oil. His video is long on images of enrivonmental...
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During the campaign, John McCain often made jokes about the French when he was talking about the nuclear power debate. I remember watching him at a town hall in Youngstown, Ohio where he said, in regards to nuclear power, “I'm asking you to emulate the French, which goes to show you that if...