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How meta. The big-time blogosphere is fascinated not just by the National Staff Organization’s boycott of hiring at the Wisconsin Education Association Council (first reported here, I might add), but...
View Article$737 million in green-tech loan to company connected to Pelosi family?
45 jobs. As Tina wrote yesterday, Americans still favor government subsidies to companies unable to otherwise compete in the green-tech industry. That may be especially true of Nancy Pelosi and her...
View Article“Invertebrates aren’t sexy megafauna”: Your tax dollars at work for you
Fish tale. Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit highlights a Powerline piece from Sunday by Steven Hayward on “demosclerosis,” which Hayward sees evidence of in the twin tales of the Keystone XL pipeline and...
View ArticleBoehner to Obama: Thanks for the veto threat!
“180-degree difference.” What’s a House Speaker to do when his conference starts balking at his strategy? When conservatives resisted John Boehner’s efforts to craft a payroll-tax cut extension...
View ArticleVideo: Mia Love makes the economic case
Will Utah caucusers take note today? How many Congressional candidates can quote Bastiat while mostly parrying a question on the Republican nomination? Mia Love talks economics, politics, and the Tea...
View ArticleDem Rep: Jobless will vote for Obama to keep benefits flowing
“We’re heading in the right direction.” Rep. Chaka Fattah’s assertion on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show last night has received plenty of derision. Instapundit calls it “banking on the moocher vote,” and...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
The wheels on the Canadian-made bus go round and round … Barack Obama hit the road on a campaign bus tour with yet another theme for his re-election effort — “Betting on America.” Obama intends to...
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