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Cap and Trade — Votes Like a Tax
June 29, 2009 No, no, no said the Environmental Defense Fund. We can't have a re-funded carbon tax. Any tax would sink like the 1993 BTU tax, which passed the House 219 to 213. So they pushed through a cap, which passed the House 219 to 212. So much for the #2 reason why caps are better.
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Neda Soltani, Symbol of Iran's Democracy Movement
June 22, 2009 Shot to death by the Iranian government after getting out of a car trapped by the demonstration in Tehran. She has become the dictatorship's most feared symbol of Iran's Democracy Movement. Processions on the 40th day of mourning for fallen ... more >>
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A Note to the Champions of Iranian Democracy
June 20, 2009 Mousavi called off Saturday's demonstration with good reason. Violence keeps away most who wish to protest and helps Khamanei. Mix a mass demonstration with rush-hour crowds. No one can tell who's who. The effect is amplified, ... more >>
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Iranian Election Fraud Was Likely Meant to Be Obvious
June 17, 2009. The point was to demoralize, not just to steal the election. On the far left, note that Hugo Chávez was the first to congratulate Ahmadinejad. ... Vote details. >>
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zPuzle (6-15-09). Under the Waxman carbon cap, U.S. emission will return to their 1990 level in (a) 2015. (b) 2020. (c) 2025. (d) After 2030. Answer: mouse over
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When Is a Cap Not a Cap?
June 14, 2009. Carbon-emission caps are financially dangerous, so their designers build in "safety valves" one way or another. The EPA has found that Waxman's cap will cut our emissions 39% instead of the claimed 83%. But even that ... more >>
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Time: "Oil unlikely to hit $147 again." Really ?!
June 2, 2009.
Reporting like this is why we never do anything about oil:
Oil is unlikely to hit $147 a barrel again — at least not during the coming decades. —Time, May 29, 2009.
Why didn't Time just call up the Energy Dept. and ask what they meant? DOE's forecast is more than double what it was in 2007, the year before we hit $147. And DOE is not talking about peaks. It's like the weatherman ... more >>
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There's Money on the Table. China Gets It. Gore Doesn't.
May 24, 2009 China cares about global warming, but it knows how to bargain. Gore just cares: "If the United States leads, China will follow," AP foreign. Why should China follow? Just to be nice? Like in Tibet? Meanwhile Waxman's cap-n-trade bill is offering China a $5 billion bribe not to follow. Here's how that "works." Cap-n-trade ... more >>
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How We Get Out of the Great Recession
March 2, 2009. Here we go again: Hoover got us in, and WWII got us out. Bush got us in, and to his credit, starting trying to get us out. Though, mostly he threw money at bankers. In the Great Depression, Roosevelt tried deficit spending, but he was too more >>
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Your Contribution to Israeli Settlement Expansion
June 7, 2009. Every man, woman and child in America donates $10 every year to the Israeli military. That's $3 billion. "There are almost 300,000 ... more >>
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Why Obama Can't Leave Afghanistan
June 6, 2009 No American President could leave Afghanistan—even if they thought our chances there were poor. What would happen if Obama just brought our troops home? (1) The Taliban would take over most of the country for sure—they almost have now. (2) They would invite al Qaeda in again—they are still ... more >>
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Afghanistan — How We Can Win
May 14, 2009. Afghanis earn an average of $1 per day. That includes all the drug lords and government officials. We can bribe the bottom half of the population away from the Taliban for what the military costs us in three weeks. The only trick is knowing how to make the bribe in a way that knocks out opium and helps develop the country.
The trick is to pay them to grow the crop they need most and that ... more >>
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