Tankosphere Today: Nov. 13, 2008
DC Auto Bailout Ideas Involve US Equity Stakes, Turn into an Early Christmas Tree – NewsBusters.org Ken Thomas’s Associated Press report today (link is dynamic,… Read More
DC Auto Bailout Ideas Involve US Equity Stakes, Turn into an Early Christmas Tree – NewsBusters.org Ken Thomas’s Associated Press report today (link is dynamic,… Read More
A Growing Tension with the First Amendment – InsiderOnline The proliferation of media that digital technology has made possible, writes Randolph May, has only increased… Read More
Media Reformista to Manage FCC Transition? – The Technology Liberation Front There’s much to discuss as Obama shapes his administration (more on this at OpenMarket.org)… Read More
The Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce our first full-length documentary, “33 Minutes,” and to release the first trailer for the film. The documentary has… Read More
Nothing Innovative in Federal Education – Cato-at-Liberty I’m getting to this paper — a proposal from moderate-liberal, Democratic insiders Andy Rotherham and Sara Mead —… Read More
The Failure of the EU Savings Tax Directive – Adam Smith Institute In Challenges facing the EU Savings Tax – the first independent study of… Read More
Sense at Last – Adam Smith Institute As expected, the government yesterday decided to allow ‘private top-ups’ within the NHS. In other words, patients are… Read More
The Case of The Missing Victory – RedState There’s been a strange silence lately in the Presidential election: silence about victory in Iraq. Number of… Read More
As the House of Commons in England was debating global warming legislation, something happened that hasn’t occurred since 1922. Snow started to fall in October…. Read More
Midnight Regulations? If ‘Midnight’ Means December 2006 – Shopfloor.org The Washington Post publishes today as its lead, page one story, “A Last Push to Deregulate”… Read More
A round-up of Op-Eds by The Heritage Foundation If Democrats Win it All: Obama, Congress Will Get Best Red Tape Your Tax Money Can Buy… Read More
California’s High-Risk Pool Is Not Working – Pacific Research Institute California’s high-risk pool for medically uninsured residents, MRMIP, is in trouble – poorly funded and… Read More
On Google’s Knol site, Heritage senior policy analyst Dan Lips and Joydeep Roy, Lawrence Mishel and Sean Corcoran from the Econimc Policy Institute and New… Read More
My Apologies to the Swiss (Hold Firm Against OECD Meddling) – OpenMarket.org Last week, the German government said that Switzerland should be placed on the… Read More
Is poverty rising in OECD countries? – IEA Blog A new report by the OECD, Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, warns:… Read More
COMSTOCK: Big Labor Power Grab – Washington Times As Americans are focused on the economy, an economic issue of note that has not gotten enough… Read More
To the NYT, the Well-Off Do Not Work and Vice Versa – Shopfloor.org The New York Times publishes the most tedious major editorial page in… Read More
A Round-up of Op-Eds by The Heritage Foundation Financial Forensics – Ed Feulner Yet Fannie and Freddie evaded attempts to regulate them. A big reason… Read More
Nickel & Dimed in San Francisco Health Care – Pacific Research Institute Still Not Enough Taxes to Pay for All the Government’s Needs Despite a… Read More
LawNews
Robert Bork at Heritage / Photo by Andrew Blasko Former judge Robert Bork delivered the first lecture in Heritage’s Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture series that… Read More
Card Check: No Debate Question on Employee Free Choice Act – Shopfloor.org Ridiculous. Neither the moderators nor the candidates posed a question in the three… Read More
Was Hayek Right? – Adam Smith Institute So Paul Krugman has won this year’s Nobel Prize for economics. Well, congratulations, I suppose, but Krugman’s not… Read More
Tonight, The Heritage Foundation will host Judge Robert Bork as part of our Jospeh Story Distinguished Lecture Series. RSVP to the event here. The Center… Read More
If We Can’t Get Price Transparency, Let’s Try Calorie Transparency – Pacific Research Institute Who knows why Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB-1420, a silly law that… Read More
Blame Wrongly Apportioned – Adam Smith Institute Here’s an excellent piece by Thomas J DiLorenzo on who really got us into the credit mess –… Read More
Earlier this morning, at the Defending the American Dream Summit hosted by Americans For Prosperity, I attended a blogging seminar hosted by my colleague at… Read More
Card Check: Concerns in the Keystone Stone – Shopfloor.org Yesterday, I had an opportunity to meet with manufacturers and other employers in the Philadelphia area… Read More
Are Targeted Tax Breaks Like Pork – InsiderOnline The “sweeteners” that supposedly were needed to get the bailout bill passed last week has renewed a… Read More
A Round-up of Op-Eds from the Heritage Foundation Tax Us, Exempt Matt Damon? – Brian Darling Congress decided to load up the bailout bill too,… Read More
Energy Independence: Brazil Leads the Way? – Growthology Everyone seems to be preoccupied with the question of energy independence. It’s a bipartisan issue, heightened ever… Read More