Tankosphere Today: Aug. 4, 2008
Why No Real Debate on Global Warming? – Vallejo Times Herald The dumb things cooking in congress and state legislatures should force a national debate… Read More
Why No Real Debate on Global Warming? – Vallejo Times Herald The dumb things cooking in congress and state legislatures should force a national debate… Read More
Today the House voted 213-194 (with 24 abstaining) in favor of adjourning for a five-week August recess. Lawmakers chose to take a paid vacation instead of… Read More
Hank Paulson’s Fannie Gamble – WSJ.com Our housing finance system has been broken for quite some time, creating perverse incentives for borrowers and lenders… African… Read More
Anti-Arbitration Bills Moving Forward – Shopfloor.org The House Judiciary Committee yesterday reported out H.R. 6126, the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act, which would vitiate… Read More
Accounting Reform – The Next Right As the crush of entitlement obligations worsens, this would be a very valuable message for the Right to begin… Read More
Obama Wants America to Be More Like Europe…While Much of Europe Is Trying to Be More Like America – The Market Center Blog Obama Wants… Read More
Caught: Illegal Voter Registration in VA and Rubix Cubes – The Next Right Warner Todd Huston just wrote about ACORN embezzling issues. Thankfully, we just… Read More
Global Warming Produces New Oil Boon – The Minority Report Well, Well, Well Hollywood couldn’t have written a more ironic twist to the potential outcome… Read More
The Great Swindle – Adam Smith Institute I’m pleased to see that The Great Global Warming Swindle is still up on the website of the… Read More
Hollywood’s Conservative Underground – Washington Times A group of politically conservative and centrist Hollywood figures organized by actor Gary Sinise and others has been meeting… Read More
Who Pays Income Taxes – Government Bytes Have you been wondering whether the richest taxpayers in America paid their fair share of income taxes in… Read More
Let’s Have Some Love for Nuclear Power – WSJ.com All over the world, nuclear power is making a comeback. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has… Read More
Al Gore, You Are No Jack Kennedy, Sir – The Chilling Effect Al Gore owes the Associated Press for a big, sloppy kiss comparing his… Read More
Union Pension Report Taints “Take Back the Economy” Day – U.S. Chamber of Commerce WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce echoed concerns raised… Read More
District of Columbia v. Heller: What’s Next? – Cato Unbound District of Columbia v. Heller, the final opinion of the Supreme Court’s 2007-08 term, Justice… Read More
The Obama Health Plan – John Goodman’s Health Policy Barack Obama rarely gives a speech these days without mentioning “universal coverage.” Yet, in contrast to… Read More
How Oil Prices Could Collapse – Pajamas Media Do you think $140 a barrel is insane? Last week the president of OPEC Chakib Khelil predicted…… Read More
The Mortgage Bailout Bill Gets Weirder and Weirder – OpenMarket.org The mortgage bailout bill sailing through Congress gets weirder and weirder. It turns out that… Read More
The Important Work of Government – National Taxpayers Union Congress is back in session this week to start the mad sprint to the August recess…. Read More
The Most Valuable Reading First Lesson of All – The CATO Institute This morning, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has an op-ed in… Read More
Washington, D.C. Government Attacks Cheap Buses, Environment – OpenMarket.org Washington, D.C. recently tried to put cheap private buses out of business, by preventing them from… Read More
How the Next President Can Return America to Prosperity – U.S. News and World Report Don’t look for President Obama or President McCain to save… Read More