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WaPost columnist George Will covers the highlights of former Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s road to economic recovery. This is exactly the kind of fiscal agenda that would have ensured a victory for John McCain — already popular with moderates, he just needed to energize the Republican base. Will the moderates ever learn?
Ryan would eliminate taxes [...]

Here’s Skeptical Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg on the folly of trying to reduce carbon emissions:
Two points underlie the issue of global warming: First, developing nations have no intention of letting the developed world force them to stop using carbon-emitting fuels. They are understandably wary of any policy that might curtail the domestic economic growth that is [...]

It’s already a problem in Europe, but it could be crossing the Atlantic soon, if Congressional leaders like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have their way. Some Democrats are now promoting the European-style value-added tax (or VAT) to collect revenue. After all, Democrats never found a tax they didn’t like. But it has the unintended [...]

Tom Friedman’s most recent column (Going Cheney on Climate) seeks to champion action on (alleged) global warming on the basis of the “precautionary principle.” The idea behind precautionary principle is basically insurance — you make the investment not on the certainty of something adverse occurring, at least not right away, but on the likelihood that [...]

Best summary yet. This is from the UK’s Christopher Monckton. Note his point about “an unelected government.” He’s not kidding either. And worse, right now, assisting this unelected body who champion worldwide regulation and taxation of carbon, are scores of international corporations proposing a $10 trillion treaty and “one-world” climate tax. Were something like this [...]