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David Walker thinks the U.S. is facing a fiscal and moral crisis similar to that which brought down the Roman Empire in the 5th century.
The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not [...]

I’m no scientist, but the recent discovery by DC resident John Lockwood is pretty telling when it comes to the history of global warming extremism.
He found news articles from the early 20th century that proclaimed the polar ice caps were melting, and that civilization as we know it was close to an end.
Sound familiar?

“This [...]

Despite recognizing the costs of imposing a punitive carbon tax on energy production, the liberal editorial board at The Washington Post supports such a policy.
Here is an excerpt from today’s editorial,
“Whatever his motives, Mr. Dingell has positioned the climate-change conversation on Capitol Hill where it needs to be. A price per ton of carbon emitted [...]

The New York Times on the benefits of free trade:
… most economists still agree that free trade, for the most part, helps the economy, through increased job creation and lower prices, more than it hurts it, through jobs lost to low-wage competitors around the world. Overall, the aggregate benefits of globalization to American consumers, economists [...]

The Washington Post has two editorials worth reading this morning. In the first, Sebastian Mallaby throws some cold water on the Cramer-style hype surrounding sub-prime credit markets. Mallaby recalls how junk bonds caused a similar stir in the mid 90s, but have since more than tripled their total market value and are now [...]

I will be attending this event with FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey.
Here is the schedule.
2007 CONVENTION SCHEDULE
(Tentative / Subject to Change)
THURSDAY, October 11, 2007
7:30 am - 5 pm - Conference Registration
9:00 am - 5 pm - Training Workshops
6:30 pm - Cocktail Reception
7:30 pm - Welcoming Reception
FRIDAY, October 12, 2007
7:30 am - 5 pm - Conference [...]

A liberal columnist points out Huckabee’s liberal tax and spend record in Arkansas.
Hat tip to Andy Roth at the Club for Growth.
Huckabee’s record
by Ernest Dumas
For a man who did not have that much to run from, Mike Huckabee has spent inordinate time repudiating his past.
Before his campaign for president has really got off [...]

In their rush to rail against free trade during the AFL-CIO debate, Democratic presidential candidates simultaneously pandered to unions and illustrated their unabashed ignorance of economics.
Daniel Ikenson, associate director of Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies, wrote a recent article on the subject of trade.

A free-trade agreement would increase U.S. national income by an [...]

Our members in North Carolina gathered to ask three important questions about the death tax, retirement security and global warming. I will post the other two later today or next week.

According to the Journal, when it comes to economics, the answer is: more than you might think. On a test given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the scores this year were surprisingly strong:

NAEP reported this week that 79% of twelfth graders passed this first-ever national economics test. Holy Hayek.
The exam, taken [...]