via: Heritage The dispute over MIT professor John Reilly’s cap and trade cost study has exposed, again, how the left has no idea how wealth gets created. The MIT study estimates that the government revenue from a carbon cap and trade policy would amount to $366 billion per year, or roughly $3,128 per American household. [...]
Archive for April, 2009
24 Apr
The Audacity of Hypocrisy
via: Heritage President Barack Obama may have written a best-selling book with the word “audacity” in the title, but so far Education Secretary Arne Duncan is the member of his administration that best embodies that word. Secretary Duncan wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week “When parents recognize which schools are failing to educate [...]
24 Apr
A Time for Giving Thanks
via: Heritage Usually the time to give thanks is, well, Thanksgiving. But on Earth Day, economist Don Boudreaux had plenty of reasons to be thankful: “My son, Thomas (a sixth grader), has a homework assignment today: write an essay entitled “What Earth Day Means to Me.” I will help him out with my own essay. [...]
24 Apr
Secretary Chu Admits His Views Are “Silly”
Yesterday Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified before the House Committee on Energy Commerce. When pressed by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) on statements Chu made last year about the desirability of high gas prices, Chu admitted his ideas were “silly”. Watch:
24 Apr
Just a Tiny Example of Government Waste
via: americanconservativedaily On April 22, the Associated Press published a short report about the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has decided to stop paying for employee subscriptions to newspapers and magazines “to save money.” Upon reading this, some may initially shake their heads in hearty agreement and congratulate Obama’s DHS for trying to [...]
24 Apr
The ‘Youth’ Have Failed The Messiah
via: americanconservativedaily Obama was supposed to have energized “the youth” of this country like no other presidential candidate ever. We were assured that with Obama as president we’d see a revitalization of “the youth” that would respond by streaming to volunteer for public service. And, in expectation of this avalanche of volunteers, and in build-it-they-will-come [...]
24 Apr
Day of Silence evokes opposition, death threats
via: onenewsnow Not all schools remained silent on Friday during the “Day of Silence” protest — and certainly neither did homosexual activists who left death threats in the voice mailbox of a pro-family group in California. The Day of Silence is an annual observance when students refuse to speak while at school in order [...]
24 Apr
Gird Your Blogs!
Under “Cybersecurity”, Congress Will Be the Internet’s Greatest Threat! Gird your blogs, because if liberals in Congress get their way, President Obama will have sole discretionary authority to shut down the Internet or critical parts of the Internet should he feel his presidency is being tested. Worse, under the guise of cybersecurity, Obama will essentially [...]
24 Apr
Why Eggheads Are Sometimes Bad for America
via: americanconservativedaily I will admit it. I am a subscriber to the Claremont Review of Books. Whatever you make of that, don’t imagine that I am one of those pointy-headed, University types that sit about in tweed jackets with leather elbow patches, drawing on a pipe, and pontificating about the Greek Classics. On the other [...]
24 Apr
Jon Stewart Cows Another Lefty – Did Matthews Change Book Title Over Stewart Mockery?
via: americanconservativedaily Back in 2007, lefty comedian Jon Stewart mercilessly mocked lefty talk show host Chris Matthews over the title of his book when Matthews appeared to flog the tome on Stewart’s The Daily Show. The ribbing was so unexpected and so mean spirited that Matthews later said it was a “book interview from hell.” [...]
