“Shrinking U.S. Labor Force Keeps Unemployment Rate from Rising” (Business Week, 1/8/10) <link error>
FFS: Despite a growing population and more families needing two earners to make ends meet, bureaucrats decide that our labor force is shrinking.
Posts
Partisan Politics Slow Socialized Medicine Drive
“Obama, Republicans Square Off at Health Care Summit” (CQ Politics, 2/26/10)
FFS: With congressional elections just around the corner, Washington is responding to voter wariness over Democratic plans to “fix” health care. Article reports on latest partisan exchanges.
The War Against U.S. Industrial Capacity
“How they are turning off the lights in America” (Climate Physics, November 9, 2009) <link error>
Alternate link: “How they are turning off the lights in America”
Last year’s news, but significant!
Unconstitutional Mandate 1
“That rock in the health-care road? It’s called the Constitution.” (George Will, The Washington Post, 1/14/10)
FFS: “Leans” toward a principled defense, but no mandate for action.
Where’s Global Warming When We Need It?
“Snow in Florida: Big chill culling unwanted iguanas and pythons” (The Christian Science Monitor, 1/9/10)
Unconstitutional Mandate 2
“Mandate to buy health insurance might not be constitutional” (The Seattle Times, 1/19/10)
FFS: Offers a weak defense of limited Republican government, but raises provocative arguments.
Glaciergate
“New Documents Show IPCC Ignored Doubts About Himalayan Glacier Scare” (Global Warming Policy Foundation, 1/24/10)
Unconstitutional Federal Power Grab
“Texas AG threatens lawsuit over health insurance” (Dallas Morning News 01/06/2010) <link error>
Health Care Non-reform: Much, Much More of the Same
“Fasten Your Seatbelts: Bumpy Ride Ahead” (Chicago Tribune, January 5, 2010)
FFS: A realistic, but unfortunately not principle-based analysis of the legislation being steamrolled through Congress.
In the News
Climategate. “Climategate puts all global-warming research under a cloud” (Nashua Telegraph12/13/2009)
Hypocrisy In Copenhagen. “Dominic Lawson: Roll up, roll up for the great Copenhagen emissions-fest” (The Independent 12/08/09)
British op-ed questions sincerity of world leaders meeting in Copenhagen
Carbon Trading Scams Reveal Potential for Massive Corruption. “Copenhagen climate summit: Carbon trading fraudsters in Europe pocket €5bn” (London Telegraph 12/10/2009)
A British Lord Raises Serious Questions about the Science of Climate Change and His Government’s Response. “Lord Turnbull Questions UK Climate Policy in the House of Lords” (GWPF12/10/2009) <link error>
EPA Brands Carbon Dioxide a Pollutant.”EPA Determines that Greenhouse Gases Threaten Public” (CQ Today 12/07/2009) <link error>
FFS: Responding to “a 2007 Supreme Court Ruling that greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants” the EPA action is timed to support the Obama administration in Copenhagen. But global-warming skeptics abound.
Socialized Medicine: Are Payoffs to Politicians Preventing Tort Reform? See “The President’s Tort Two-Step” (WSJ 09/11/2009)
Destructive Politics in Implementing Socialized Medicine: Taxes on Healthcare Innovation Would Subsidize More Expensive Health Care and Discourage Advances. “The Innovation Tax” (WSJ09/18/2009)