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TownHall.com reporter Amanda Carpenter calls for a Senate ethics investigation of the Dodd/Countrywide Scandal.

This morning, the Senate held a vote to end debate on the Climate Tax Bill sponsored by Senators Lieberman, Warner and Boxer. It failed by a margin of 48-36. Here are some thoughts by Myron Ebell, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The Senate voted on Monday evening to bring the Lieberman-Warner energy rationing bill, formerly S. [...]

Watch the video of Carl Mumpower signing the FreedomWorks No Earmarks Pledge. Carl is running for Congress in the 11th Congressional District in North Carolina.

Kenneth Cole should stick to selling expensive shoes. Instead, he and his blogger minions are selling untruths about FreedomWorks. And covering up their smear campaign when they are proven wrong. Here is what happened. A blogger named Dominic Basulto wrote the following post on the Kenneth Cole Awearness blog.
Ever wondered what a fake grassroots movement [...]

I just got this from FreedomWorks super-activist Bill Lack in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Watch one of our best local chapters in action, as they visit Congressman Heath Shuler. You can watch them deliver our “No Earmarks Pledge” to his staff. Thanks to Bill and his chapter for sending this along!

Read this great editorial in the Wall Street Journal from today. Rep. Paul Ryan is one of the few congressmen showing leadership on entitlement reform. He should be commended for actually trying to do something that would reform the system, instead of ignoring the fiscal crisis created by the government.
By doing nothing, we are shackling [...]

Our friends at the Heritage Foundation have a great new study out about the economic harms that a cap and trade system on carbon would cause. Both presidential candidates with a shot at the office support “cap and trade.” In fact, Senator McCain will be pushing the bill mentioned below quite hard this summer. Conservatives [...]

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting post up about Ron Paul’s new best-selling book The Revolution: A Manifesto.
Socialist candidate Eugene Debs, after all, never got elected President either, but within a few decades much of his platform was adopted by the Democratic Party. May Paul enjoy similar influence on the future of national politics.
Professor Reynolds notes [...]

Ben Lieberman over at the Heritage Foundation has a smart piece about the biofuels mandates and their harmful effects. Here is a summary of his argument:
The very food-related problems that we see today are much like the hypothesized future ones that were supposed to be caused by global warming. That global warming policy [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton is the queen of pork barrel spending for fiscal year 2009. As The Hill reports, she is asking for $2.3 billion in earmarks for New York at the expense of taxpayers.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received [...]