I remember, when President Bush was in office, the mere mention of 9/11 or the threat of terrorism was immediately labelled the "politics of fear" by Democrats who understood that the more people were comfortable with how Republicans handled the issue of terrorism. Never mind that Al qaeda...
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by
Matt Margolis
on 07-13-2009
Filed under: climate change, politics of fear, Barbara Boxer
It has to be a little redundant at this point, hammering away at the failure of an environmental/energy policy known as "cap & trade". Many people refer to it as "cap & tax", because it is the largest proposed tax hike in the history of the United States. I call it "cap...
President Obama played the role of concerned economic leader over the weekend after the House on Friday narrowly passed a bill designed to curtail global warming. He questioned language that would use trade penalties as a stick to punish countries that don't accept limits on emissions. "At a...
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by
K. Daniel Glover
on 06-29-2009
Filed under: cap and trade, cap and tax, energy bill, energy policy, national energy tax, global warming, climate change