Tankosphere Today: Dec. 17, 2008
Families of 80% of Uninsured California Kids Reject State Coverage – Pacific Research Institute The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has published its annual… Read More
Families of 80% of Uninsured California Kids Reject State Coverage – Pacific Research Institute The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has published its annual… Read More
Politicians Creating Anti-Growth Business Environment – The Market Center Blog Investor’s Business Daily notes that companies now have an incentive to escape America because of… Read More
Numbers Dont Add Up for Big Labors Main Goals in 2009 – DC Examiner For pols addicted to polls, Gallup recently released an analysis titled… Read More
The Better Option – Adam Smith Institute The blogger, Harvard economist, and former chair of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, Greg Mankiw had an… Read More
Investment: Government and Private – Cato @ Liberty There is much excitement about a federal “stimulus” plan focusing on state and local infrastructure spending. At… Read More
Card Check: In Light of Business’ Views, Boycott Everything! – Shopfloor.org More measured commentary from The Huffington Post, in this case the long-time labor activist… Read More
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyPQ5ARVzOo[/youtube] Automakers or on the Hill this week making their case for a taxpayer sponsored bailout bill. Heritage’s James Sherk wrote a paper on why Bankruptcy… Read More
Unbelievable Gall from the New York Times – OpenMarket.org As economists and the Wall Street Journal have noted, the Community Reinvestment Act was an important ingredient of… Read More
Top 10 Outrageous Earmarks – TIME $2 Million for Children’s Wooden Arrow Makers. The passage of the economic bailout bill in October 2008 was viewed… Read More
Change We’ve Seen Before – FRC Blog The Washington Post reports today that the very impressive e-mail and cell phone number lists that Obama’s political… Read More
Podcast of Fairness Doctrine Discussion on Jim Bohannon Show – The Technology Liberation Front Last night, I appeared on the Jim Bohannon radio show for… Read More
Bloated Employee Contracts Push Profligate States into Fiscal Crisis – The Market Center Blog Many state politicians want multi-billion dollar handouts from federal taxpayers. But… Read More
Was the Real Target Indo-Pak Peace? – Peter Brookes The Indians claim al Qaeda doesn’t exist in their country, and the lack of suicide bombers… Read More
If Unions Are So Great, Why Doesn’t the Economy Show It? – InsiderOnline Defenders of unions have a very interesting response to critics of the… Read More
Card Check: Highly Refined Nonsense – Shopfloor.org From a Politico story on the political pressure Senate Democrats face over the anti-democratic Employee Free Choice Act…… Read More
Reason Online: Clinton Admin Credited Deregulation for Good 1990s Economy – NewsBusters.org During the presidential campaign, we constantly heard from Team Obama and the media… Read More
The Killer Frost for Global Warming – Washington Times Turn up the heat, somebody. The globe is freezing. Even Al Gore is looking for an… Read More
Heritage Senior Research Fellow James Gattuso appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews last night to talk with Pat Buchannan about the auto bailout. Gattuso has also… Read More
Ann Curry Cites Gross ‘Mis-Example’ of Climate Change – NewsBusters.org The glacier on Mt. Kilimanjaro is melting. If you were watching NBC “Nightly News” Nov…. Read More
Senior Policy Analyst Dave Kreutzer discusses the economic cost of the proposed regulations of the EPA. You can make a difference. The Heritage Foundation has… Read More
Obama Should Back Missile Defense – DC Examiner During the campaign, Barack Obama was ambiguous, at best, on whether as chief executive he would support… Read More
Heritage President Ed Feulner addresses members of The Heritage Foundation’s President’s Club about the current state of the conservative movement. Click here to read Feulner’s… Read More
In an Op-Ed peice about the Auto-bailout that appeared in today’s DC Examiner, Lori Roman equated the government bailing out to sending arsonists to fighting… Read More
Adolescent Behavior Problems and Family Structure – FRC Blog In the latest Mapping America, federal surveys show that adolescents who live with both biological parents… Read More
Heritage Senior Research Fellow James Gattuso explains what happens when bankruptcy is declared and why it is a better option for Detroit Automakers [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKGODqsZ2o[/youtube]
Congress returns from recess this week to debate a bailout for Detroit’s automakers. Heritage’s Brian Darling surveys the landscape on Capitol Hill. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcdy_bVq_nI[/youtube]
The Club For Growth interviewed U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab for its new podcast. Among the topics discussed were the Columbia Free Trade Agreement, trade relations… Read More
Is Stability Our Goal? – Adam Smith Institute To listen to some commentators these days you would think that stability is indeed our goal. Almost… Read More
CNN’s Toobin Seems Puzzled by Difference Between a Gun and a Missile – NewsBusters.org Liberal CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared on the Tavis Smiley… Read More
A Round up of Op-eds from the Heritage Foundation US: Why We are All Winners – Israel Ortega Many of us who are first-generation Americans… Read More