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Paulson Wall Street Welfare Bill Now the Law of the Land
A short time after Henry Paulson’s Wall Street welfare package received final congressional approval today, President George W. Hoover signed the colossally flawed bill into law, AP reports. Conservatives, as in real, living,…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Greening Hollywood
Groups like the non-profit Environmental Media Association (EMA) are urging Hollywood producers and screenwriters to insert discreet environmentalist messages into popular movies and TV shows. It’s called ‘eco-messaging’—soft-core ideological product…
by Eric Heidenreich on October 3, 2008

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The Ecology of Statism: Horner’s Reflections on Carbon Provisions in Paulson Bailout 2.0
Christopher C. Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, has an interesting take on the strange provisions regarding the taxation of carbon that were apparently inserted…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Paulson Bailout 2.0 Larded with Huge, Disgusting Slabs of Pork many of which are Green
The House of Representatives has approved Henry Paulson’s second try at bailing out Wall Street. Shame on them. It is loaded down with buckets of pork. CNN has a decent summary of…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Veep Debate Transcript
The Commission on Presidential Debates, a nonprofit organization, has conveniently posted a transcript of last night’s debate between the two major party’s vice presidential candidates, Senator Joe Biden (Democrat) and Alaska’s…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Paulson, Congress to California: Drop Dead! (It Probably Won’t Happen.)
Hat in hand, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a pretend conservative Republican, is asking President Bush’s left-wing Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, to lend cash-strapped California $7 billion. Hey, what’s $7…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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GREEN ALERT: Hidden Carbon Tax Provisions in Paulson’s Bailout 2.0
Why is the mainstream media ignoring what might be the most earth-shattering provisions in Treasury…
by Matthew Vadum on October 2, 2008

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Schadenfreude and Sandra Bernhard
Schadenfreude is in order. After the spectacularly unfunny entertainer Sandra Bernhard joked in her routine here last month that if GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin came to Manhattan…
by Matthew Vadum on October 2, 2008

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Paulson’s Wall Street Bailout 2.0 Passes Senate
The Senate has easily approved Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s Wall Street bailout package, but only after it was buried under a mountain of legislative goodies. The House, which rejected…
by Matthew Vadum on October 2, 2008

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Doom List – Listing the Worst Prophecies of Environmental Catastrophe, Part Three
At GreenWatch we now have archived an interactive list of the “worst environmental prophecies of catastrophic doom.” It is a list of eleven of the most interesting and pointed cases of environmental activists raising…
by James Dellinger on October 1, 2008