***** Release Date October 12, 2012
James Valvo: Disinherit The Wind
It's time to end the wind-energy tax preference. The federal wind production tax credit (PTC) is scheduled to expire at the end of this year, offering the country a real chance to end the failed 20-year experiment of propping up a favored industry. Not surprisingly, proponents of the special tax break are working mightily to have it renewed. ... MOREPaul Ryan: U.S. Shouldn't Interfere With Medical Pot Laws
by Kristen Wyatt and Nicholas Riccardi. Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan told a Colorado television station that he thinks the federal government shouldn't interfere with states that have legalized medical marijuana. Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, told KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that he personally doesn't approve of medical ... MOREBrook And Watkins: The Virtue Of Employee Layoffs
Hamstringing the ability to make profits. A CEO stands in front of his crumbling, century-old factory and speaks to his employees. “I promise that no matter what, I will never renovate this place. No matter how many worn-out items break, no matter how much our out-of-date machinery slows us down, no matter how many people tease us for clinging to ... MOREProposed Minimum Wage Could Cost Up To 768,000 Jobs
Democrat plan spells more unemployment. The Democratic Party’s 2012 platform calls for raising the minimum wage and pegging it to inflation — and a wage bill already introduced by congressional Democrats could cost at least 256,000 jobs, according to a new report. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut have proposed raising the ... MOREMark Steyn: A Nation Of Sandra Flukes
The tragedy for America is that she's all too typical. According to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, invited to address the Democratic convention and the nation, America faces a stark choice this November. “During this campaign, we’ve heard about two profoundly different futures that could await women in this country — and how one of those ... MORE
Christopher Danzig: The TSA Needs To Inspect Your Coffee
Kicking the tyranny can down the road. At this point, stuff like this doesn’t even make me mad. I’m just impressed. In a few years, I swear Ashton Kutcher will come out and that he’s been secretly working with the Transportation Security Administration on a new airport-themed reboot of Punk’d. They dump grandpa’s ashes all over the floor. They accuse ... MOREGeithner's View From The Top Of The Bubble
by Alex J. Pollock. What a careful, informed, balanced, and intelligent discussion of risk management tells us about the high price of extreme risk. On February 28, 2006, Timothy Geithner— then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now secretary of the Treasury—addressed the topic of risk management in the U.S. financial system, in a speech ... MORE
Baylen Linnekin: Is Organic Food A Waste Of Money?
New study challenges conventional wisdom. Everyone knows by now that organic foods are aren’t objectively superior to their conventional counterparts. Right? Exactly. Many of us have been told for years that organic food was healthier (for people, streams, bees, cows, Gaia, etc.) than conventional alternatives. But others have disagreed. ... MOREThe Accounting Trick That Will Haunt Public Pensions
Encouragement for riskier investments. State and local government employee pensions around the country are significantly underfunded. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), which is the closest thing that comes to a regulator of public pensions, tells them, through its accounting rules, that the single best thing pensions can do to ... MORERich Lowry: The Party Of Government
Democrats have one true allegiance. At the Democratic National Convention, the Charlotte host committee knew its audience. “Government,” the narrator says in a video produced by the committee for the opening of the convention, “is the only thing we all belong to.” The Obama campaign quickly disavowed the video. But it captured all ... MORE
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