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When Charts Attack WSJ Columnists
Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist Daniel Henninger writes today that the democratic agenda has caused public trust in government to collapse: "After one year of the charismatic, ever-present Barack Obama," he writes, "after passage of the party's totemic health-care bill, after spending zillions on Keynesian pump-priming, the American people—well beyond the tea partiers—have the lowest opinion ever of national government." READ MORE >>
I Expected More Of The Gambino Crime Family
I love the disappointed tone in this New York Times piece: But in what Mr. Bharara said appears to be a first in a case involving the Mafia, some defendants were charged with operating an interstate sex trafficking network, in which they recruited women to work as prostitutes in New York and New Jersey. READ MORE >>
Eyjafjallajökull: Bad, But Could Be A Lot Worse
What Does Palinspeak Mean?
Why does Sarah Palin talk the way she does? Just what is this sort of thing below? READ MORE >>
Why Is Obama Opening Up New Areas For Offshore Drilling?
The big news today is that Obama's reportedly planning to open up a bunch of new offshore areas to oil and gas exploration for the first time: READ MORE >>
Does Carbon Pricing Work? Ask The Northeast.
Not many people realize that there's already a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions up and running in the United States. I'm referring to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in the Northeast, which includes a cap that came into effect in 2009 and covers CO2 emissions from power plants in ten states. True, the cap isn't very stringent—it doesn't require power plants to make any pollution cuts until 2014—but it does exist. READ MORE >>
Local Government Fiscal Woes Hit Home
We’ve been warning about the coming local government fiscal crisis for months now (see this paper and event we did with the National League of Cities (NLC) last fall). Now, the crisis is no longer coming. It’s here. Just check out the headlines from the relatively resilient Mid-Atlantic region. READ MORE >>
Process Arguments And Health Care Reform
The controversy over the "deem-and-pass" strategy will probably end very quickly. (I expect Democrats to conclude it's not worth the hassle.) But it's another telling episode in the health care saga. Conservatives have spent the last day in a fit of outrage at the prospect that House Democrats might enact the Senate health care bill and changes to it in one vote rather than two. READ MORE >>
Nuclear Standoff
The Broad Variation in Broadband
In advance of the March 17th delivery of a National Broadband Plan to Congress, mandated as part of the Recovery Act, the Federal Communications Commission has released a mound of useful data this month. Last week, at an event hosted by Brookings, Chairman Genachowski presented the results of a consumer survey on attitudes towards broadband and views on how to improve access for all. Some major findin READ MORE >>
