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Dying over the Truth: Murder Inside the Wire
By Diana West ~ This is a particularly current article to post today, as yesterday 5 Australian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, the worst day in combat operations for Australian military forces since the Vietnam era. 3 of those soldiers were killed in a ‘Green on Blue’ attack when an Afghan soldier opened up on […]
CO2 Tax Australia – We Pay Europe $1 Billion For Nothing
By Andrew Bolt ~ Alan Moran says the Gillard Government’s latest backflip on the carbon tax – letting the price fall to European levels – makes a mad tax even madder: First it has abandoned the intent of the carbon tax, which as the Government appears to have forgotten, is an 80 per cent reduction […]
Happy New Year! Save $1 million a day!
Democracy Rising Pennsylvania ~ On September 1, it will be 122 days until New Year’s Day. At last report, the General Assembly continues to sit on a surplus of $122 million, and they gave none of it back to taxpayers for this year’s budget. Last year, they gave back $62 million of their $184 million […]
Proposed GOP Cuts to Spending
By Alan Caruba ~ No wonder Democrats are sweating bullets over proposed cuts to the spending that has been the hallmark of their party and politics for decades. This list, taken from a recent issue of U.S. News & World Report provides an insight to the many ways fiscal sanity can be restored. These are […]
Why A Campaign Should Consider More Than Economic Issues
By Herbert London ~ Bread and butter issues will undoubtedly be emphasized in this presidential campaign season. The unemployment rate, the need for jobs, the rapid growth in dependents, fiscal deficits and the enormous debt overhang will garner headlines in the weeks ahead. But there are other issues the nation must confront. While on some […]
CO2 Tax Australia – Linking Europe’s Carbon Anchor To Our Ankle
By Andrew Bolt ~ An insane policy is still insane even when you change an insane detail: The Australian government’s plans to link Australia’s emissions trading scheme to Europe have been attacked by the chairmen of two of Australia’s biggest carbon polluters. John Hannagan, chairman of the Australian arm of the world’s largest aluminium producer, […]
New Auto Efficiency Regs: Special Interests Win, Consumers Lose
By Nicolas Loris ~ The federal government finalized new automobile efficiency rules today for cars and light trucks for model years 2017–2025. The rules require an average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) in 2025. Proponents of the rule advertise the more stringent mpg standard as a win for producers, consumers, and environmentalists. […]
CO2 Tax Australia – The Carbon Tax Just Became Another Damaging Tax Grab
By Andrew Bolt ~ Henry Ergas on the cost of the latest Gillard Government backtrack – dropping the $15 a tonne floor price on carbon permits: But even if the carbon price falls to only $10, and then rises after that by 4 per cent in real terms annually, the commonwealth’s fiscal position during the […]
Starving Amidst Plenty
By Daniel Greenfield ~ There are two types of societies, production societies and rationing societies. The production society is concerned with taking more territory, exploiting that territory to the best of its ability and then discovering new techniques for producing even more. The rationing society is concerned with consolidating control over all existing resources and […]
CO2 Tax Australia – Carbon Tax Changed Already To Limit Damage
By Andrew Bolt ~ Australian Climate Change Minister Greg Combet today proved the carbon tax was not thought through and needs dramatic revision just two months after it was introduced. The change is to stop the worst of the damage, but it makes the tax even more useless. When the carbon price switches to emissions […]
With Hurricane Isaac Coming, Everyone Asks the Wrong Question
By Matt Mayer ~ As Tropical Storm Isaac is upgraded to Hurricane Isaac, the national media’s focus is on comparing the potential impact of Hurricane Isaac to Hurricane Katrina. Given that Hurricane Isaac appears headed to New Orleans and may hit land exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina did, this focus is natural. With this […]
The Grand Old Party: 1854 to 2012
By Alan Caruba ~ I grew up thinking that the only political party was the Democratic Party. Born a few years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932, he would be the only President of whom I was aware until he died in 1945, thirteen years later! A Constitutional amendment was passed to avoid […]
Who Is Attacking Science?
By Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman ~ The world we now live in is largely the product of science. Thanks to science we have doubled our life spans over just one century: the result of clean water, antibiotics, birth control, and the medical care that keeps women in childbirth (and their babies) alive. We have become so […]
School Days
A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ A new generation of college freshmen (including a grandson of mine) is preparing to face the future by equipping themselves with an education. The speed with which the world is changing is astounding. I believe that these kids would be best prepared for the future by studying the past, a […]
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