The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle has been tackling the proposed auto bailout like a champ. Here are just some of her contributions from the past week:… Read More
Both the House and the Senate are set to gavel back into session this week, and both chambers’ first order of business will be a… Read More
During the Senate debate over the Lieberman-Warner cap and trade bill, the Center for American Progress published a report purporting to show the ‘profits’ the… Read More
Since 1973 U.S. energy consumption has grown 115%. Right now the U.S. has 760 gigawatts of power to meet consumption. Economists predict we will need… Read More
In the video below, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) describes the inevitable bailout of the auto industry as “a bridge to the future.” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w8jEKoX5-Q[/youtube] A “bridge… Read More
The communists that dethroned Czar Nicholas II were the first to implement “central planning” but President-elect Barack Obama is doing his best to match both… Read More
On Nov. 9, the communist Chinese government announced a $586 billion economic stimulus plan that party leaders hailed as a “New Deal” for the people…. Read More
George Mason’s Don Boudreaux has a snappy response to Center for American Progress suggestions that If It Happens, The Auto Industry Bailout Needs To Be… Read More
Blogging at The New York Times, Pacific Research Institute senior fellow Lance Izumi writes on the future of conservative education policy: Republicans have always favored,… Read More
The Corner‘s Iain Murray flags a valuable new study out of the University of Chicago on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s bank recapitalization plan: We calculate… Read More
On Aug. 1, then-candidate Barack Obama announced a $50 billion “emergency” economic stimulus plan. Now that he’s been elected, President-elect Obama’s advisers are pushing for… Read More
Last week Heritage Senior Policy Analyst David Kreutzer wrote a WebMemo detailing the flaws of three recent enviro/leftist reports purporting to show that massive government… Read More
According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration is planning to “launch a review of the classified files of the approximately 250 detainees at Guantanamo… Read More
It is already well established that the European Union’s cap-and-trade plan has not only failed to actually reduce carbon emissions, but even if the reductions… Read More
President-elect Barack Obama made it pretty clear during his campaign that he did not support free trade, but The Washington Post endorsed him anyway. Still,… Read More
The environmental left spews so many lies it is difficult picking out which is the most pernicious. But considering how the economy is everyone’s number… Read More
There was no bigger media cheerleader for Barack Obama over the past year than MSDNC. Hardball host Chris Matthews famously admitted that Obama sent “a… Read More
The Politico is famous for its fact free political analysis. Glenn Thrush continues this tradition today in an article purporting to identify the biggest losers… Read More
Yesterday the Center for American Progress boldly proclaimed that Barack Obama’s 6-point popular voter victory represented “A Progressive Mandate.” Really? How many millions of dollars… Read More
The Volokh Conspiracy‘s Todd Zywicki flags this video from an ABC affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia. This one television station identified more than 100,000 people who… Read More
Commenting on the top priorities of the Obama administration, former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta told The Los Angeles Times: “First you’ve got to… Read More
After a hard-fought campaign nearly two years in the making, last night a candidate was elected president of the United States. That candidate promised to… Read More
Google “the speech reagan” and the fourth result should be the YouTube below. It is labeled “Ronald Reagan Speech – 1964 Republican National Convention” but… Read More
According to federal election law, any presidential campaign that participates in public financing is automatically audited after an election. When Barack Obama broke his promise… Read More
Last week we documented Barack Obama’s devolving definition of who he considers to be rich. At first it was families making more than $250,000. Then… Read More
As we’ve documented before, one of the major selling points liberals deploy when arguing for socialized medicine is how much government run health care will… Read More
For all of Barack Obama’s trouble telling the truth, he always feels free to speak his mind whenever he is in San Francisco. In April,… Read More
Reporting on the latest incarnation of the Wall Street Bailout, The New York Times managed to discover the concept of moral hazard today: As the… Read More
Just last week, Heritage analyst Rea Hederman published a paper comparing John McCain and Barack Obama on taxes, concluding: “Senator McCain’s plan is substantially better… Read More
This week Argentina’s leftist president, Christina Kirchner, announced she would move forward with her plan to seize the nation’s private pension funds. Kirchner claims government… Read More
