Tankosphere Today: Aug. 19, 2008

Todd Thurman / August 19, 2008

• Now Safely Asserted: Card Check Eliminates the Secret Ballot – Shopfloor.org

  The DFL Party in Minnesota, feigning outrage that someone would express disagreement with their candidates’ support of the Employee Free Choice Act, tried to punish and prevent the speech rather than…

• To Drill, or Not to Drill – the Weekly Standard

  Republican presidential candidate John McCain says that he’s taking another look at the possibility of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and as part of that assessment McCain says that he plans to talk…

• Want Help from Washington? Gamble, Don’t Save – Cato-at-Liberty

  Not long ago I heard Rush Limbaugh thundering that the venerable Associated Press had said that it would start putting opinion in its stories (referring to this story about the AP’s new Washington Bureau chief)…

• Economist Debate – Solving the World’s Energy Crisis – Atomic Insights Blog

  I received an email invitation to help The Economist advertise a “two-week long online, Oxford-style debate”. I am happy to oblige, and actually feel kind of honored that Atomic Insights…

• ATR Forms 60 Member Coalition Opposing “Gang of Ten” Compromise – RedState

  Today, Americans for Tax Reform released a coalition letter signed by 60 national and state think-tanks, advocacy groups, blogs and other organizations (including Red State.com…