Environmentalist icon James Lovelock thinks carbon trading is a scam. Meanwhile, the American public doesn’t give a damn about global warming. Perhaps someone should tell Al Gore.
U.S. terrorist and would-be mass murderer William Ayers tried to visit Canada and was refused entry, reports the Toronto Star. Ayers had been on his way to give a speech…
Now we learn that Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from consideration for appointment to the vacant U.S. Senate seat in New York largely because of tax problems, according to the…
No one quite knows the full contents of the proposal, which is emerging in two and three hundred billion dollar dribs and drabs. But according to Tim Carney, the…
The Senate Finance Committee has voted 18 to 5 to approve the nomination of tax cheat Timothy Geithner as secretary of the Treasury, the New York Times reports. It…
A new website called ReadTheStimulus.org has gone online. The site, co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, Americans for Prosperity, and other organizations offers…
President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts agree with your humble narrator that the presidential oath of office matters. (See blog post from yesterday) During the inaugural ceremony…
The Senate has overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) to be secretary of state, Fox News reports. Mrs. Clinton will presumably resign as a senator…
Jonathan Tolman at the Competitive Enterprise Institute writes that the current stimulus package under consideration is incredibly wasteful: Not all stimulus programs are created equal. If the goal of…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst Inauguration Day drop ever yesterday as Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, Bloomberg reports. Markets seem…