The Cap and Trade Experience

Ben Lieberman (Heritage Foundation, The European Experience with Cap and Trade, July 10, 2009) gave testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. In his testimony we find all the data necessary to accurately describe any Cap and Trade proposal in the U.S. an unproductive waste of our time and money, with [...]

Pet Peeve

Sean Trende (Real Clear Politics–TIME.com, What Emerging Progressive Majority?, July 6, 2009) addresses one of my pet peeves.
The only problem with this theory is that, to claim the country is shifting to the left, you first need to establish a baseline. Teixeira’s study doesn’t have any baseline off of which to operate. It merely asks [...]

A Lefty Complains

Instapundit links to an article by Clive Crook (FT.com, Obama is choosing to be weak, June 28, 2009).  The title being what it is, I was expecting something about Iran or Obama’s other goofs with respect to foreign relations. Oh, no. This article is about the cap and trade and healthcare reform. [...]

Missing the Missing Link Link

At the dinner table last evening we were discussing recent headlines. Two of us, including me, were quite surprised that we missed any mention of the discovery of the missing link (National Geographic News, “MISSING LINK” FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs?, May 19, 2009):  
The fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates [...]