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Government Study Shows Cap-and-Trade Will Raise Energy Prices
Tweet Share on Facebook August 5, 2009 Comment (10)By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, two of the leading Democratic co-sponsors of H.R. 2454—the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, better known as the cap-and-trade bill—asked the United States Energy Information Administration to analyze their bill's impact on energy prices and the U.S. economy.
According to a draft of the report released Tuesday night that has already found its way into the media and is circulating through Washington, Waxman and Markey may now wish they hadn't.
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Obama Cannot Remain Silent About Pakistan Outrage
Tweet Share on Facebook August 4, 2009 Comment (15)By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
It was something more than horrific to read in Monday's Times of London that paramilitary troops were on patrol in the streets of a town in eastern Pakistan after "Muslim radicals burnt to death eight members of a Christian family."
The Times' account of what happened reads like something one would hope would only have happened in an earlier time.
"Hundreds of armed supporters of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed Islamic militant group, set alight dozens of Christian homes in Gojra town at the weekend after allegations that a copy of the Koran had been defiled," the paper said.
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From Obama’s Birth Certificate to Trig Palin’s Birth, Both Sides Have Fringe Nuts
Tweet Share on Facebook August 3, 2009 Comment (37)By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The Washington Post's reliably liberal E.J. Dionne Jr. makes it a habit to offer advice to conservatives and to the Republican Party on the strategic and tactical levels. One could almost call his penchant for doing this a fetish. Rather than use his column to explore what may be right—or wrong—with the positions taken by those inside his ideological bailiwick, Dionne spends an awful lot of time telling the GOP what it must do to avoid electoral disasters and policy defeats.
As a general rule, it is the foolish man who takes to heart the counsel of his adversary. And Dionne's advice usually boils down to "be less conservative." But, as it is when a blind squirrel stumbles across an acorn, he gets it right every once in a while—or at least nearly right—as he did on Monday when he wrote that the GOP was "being defined by extremist voices who have faced little push-back from its leaders."
