John Fund at the Wall Street Journal says it is in an opinion piece. A lame-duck session—that’s when Congress gets together after an election but before the start of the new term. Members of Congress and senators who have been voted out still get to vote on policies, and their incentives are quite a bit [...]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve reviewed each of the ten items in the Contract From America, a document put together with input from many people in the loosely affiliated groups that make up the Tea Party movement. Hopefully, this is helpful to Tea Partiers and non-Tea Partiers alike. For the former, it’s a deeper [...]
This is the eighth in a series of posts on the Contract From America’s ten-point agenda. Read previous posts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The eighth item in the “Contract From America” (including the level of support it received in a voting process) is: 8. Pass an “All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy Authorize the [...]
This is the second in a series of posts on the Contract From America. Read the first one—on Agenda Item 1—here. The second item on the “Contract From America” (including the level of support it received in a voting process) is: 2. Reject Cap & Trade Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise [...]
The allegation that climate scientists sought to suppress research questioning some of their findings has sent shock waves around the world. Sort of. Well, that’s hyperbole, like the name “Climategate” is. But in case you hadn’t heard of it already, hackers apparently accessed email exchanges among climate scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the [...]
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office issued a cost estimate for H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The bill would establish not one, but two “cap-and-trade” programs designed to limit the release of undesirable gasses into the atmosphere. “Cap-and-trade” is when the government limits (“caps”) the emissions of greenhouse gasses [...]
The Internets are seeing much ado today about some remarks Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made early this year on coal and greenhouse gasses. A snippet is in the video at right. (Ignore the red captions and exclamation marks – if you can!!!!) Senator Obama describes a carbon cap-and-trade system pretty accurately. He concludes with [...]