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Tuesday, the House is expected to vote on HR 3920: The Trade and Globalization act of 2007. Like George Costanza deconstructing the word manure, the innocuous title belies the more sinister aims of the bill. HR 3920 intends to expand the original Trade Adjustment Agreement of 1974 (aimed at helping those in the […]

John Edwards isn’t done with his promises to spend more of our money on his big government agenda. The Concord Monitor quotes him gleefully extolling the virtues of redistributing someone else’s money.
I think if we want to fund the things that I think [emphasis mine] are important to share in prosperity, then people who have […]

FINALLY, someone in the mainstream media covers the one aspect of the automotive fuel standards debate that almost everyone– even most Republicans– ignores: the inconvenient fact that smaller, lighter cars are more dangerous to drive. In a piece in August titled “People buy small cars even though they can be deadly“, USA Today’s James […]

The Club for Growth has just put out its white paper on Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul. [Hat tip to National Review’s The Campaign Spot.]
Jim Geraghty quotes Pat Toomey, “his insistence on opposing all but the perfect means that under a Ron Paul presidency we might never get a chance to pursue the good […]

As I’ve been reporting on Freedom Talks, Mike Huckabee’s record has been questioned by rank-and-file conservatives. Today’s OpinionJournal.com has his response to columnist John Fund, who wrote a critical piece last week.
One of the lines that proves Fund’s point is this one from Huckabee,
“I believe that we must be good stewards of our environment and […]

When I was a kid, I loved playing arcade games, especially the 2-D fighters like Bad Dudes and Double Dragon that were prevalent at the time. The structure of the games was pretty simple: You’d walk through a hilariously under-animated two dimensional environment taking out swarms of lowly henchmen, and every so often you’d run […]

The New York Times reports this morning that the FCC has taken a look at exclusive contracts between cable companies and apartment complexes and said, roughly, fuhgetaboutit.
Kevin Martin, tireless advocate of government management of the telecom sector, argues that the idea is to spur competition between providers.  It’s true, folks. No day in Washington would […]

We’ve already noted some of the problems in Charlie Rangel’s tax bill. Today, the WSJ piles on, giving us a pretty solid rundown of much of what’s wrong with proposal, which we’re now, I think, legally* required to refer to as the “mother” of all tax hikes.

But where Mr. Rangel really gets busy is with […]

Thanks to my colleague Peter Suderman for emailing this article to me. (He could have just walked down the hallway, but in today’s world, I’ll accept information any way I can.)
Excerpts from the article:
Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle Forum and a key backer of his early runs for office, was once “his […]

Kudos to John Stossel for debunking the global warming alarmists. He points out that the environmentalists are fear-mongering the public and threatening scientists who speak out against junk science.
Watch this great video clip: