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Daily Archives: February 8, 2012

Carpe Diem

North Dakota Oil Production Sets Another Record in December, Will Likely Pass CA and AK In Months

Mark J. Perry | February 8, 2012, 10:21 pm

At the current rate of monthly increases, North Dakota could be the No. 2 oil producing state within months. The “Economic Miracle State” of North Dakota pumped another record amount of oil during the month of December at a daily rate … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel

Mark J. Perry | February 8, 2012, 4:21 pm

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Politics and Public Opinion

The real significance of Obama’s reversal on super PACs

Peter J. Wallison | February 8, 2012, 3:11 pm

It’s somewhat amazing that the media, and even the Republicans, have failed to comment on what might be the real significance of the Obama campaign’s reversal on the use of a super PAC. When the campaign began many months ago, … read more >

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America’s Amazing Shovel-Ready Energy Stimulus; And It’s Happening Despite U.S. Energy Policy

Mark J. Perry | February 8, 2012, 2:29 pm

From the WSJ article “Oil and Gas Boom Lifts U.S. Economy”: “An energy boom is revving up the U.S. economy. The use of new drilling techniques to tap oil and gas in shale rocks far underground helped add about 158,500 … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Europe and Russia

Why Europe isn’t Hamiltonian

Daniel Hanson | February 8, 2012, 2:14 pm

As Europe continues to careen off the fiscal cliff, technocrats are trying to find ways to write-down Europe’s debt without it being considered a technical default. There is actually a strong parallel here to the United States in the early … read more >

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Economics

U.S. manufacturing is already doing remarkably well without taxpayer help

Mark J. Perry | February 8, 2012, 2:12 pm

In his State of the Union address, President Obama said “If you’re an American manufacturer, you should get a bigger tax cut. If you’re a high-tech manufacturer, we should double the tax deduction you get for making products here.” A … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion

How Romney can start to energize conservatives

James Pethokoukis | February 8, 2012, 2:06 pm

Mitt Romney wants to be the next president of a country in need of serious and sweeping economic reform. And here are the first two points in his 59-point economic plan: 1. Maintain current tax rates on personal income 2. … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion

Skiers and Mormons for Mitt

Henry Olsen | February 8, 2012, 12:55 pm

Mitt Romney never has bad hair days, but yesterday was truly a bad political one. How bad? Consider this: •    Romney did not win a single county in either Missouri or Minnesota. •    He won the Minnesota caucus by 19 … read more >

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Economics, U.S. Economy

Dependency index up 23 percent under Obama

Marc Thiessen | February 8, 2012, 11:13 am

In this week’s Washington Post, I criticized Mitt Romney for his comments that he would help the very poor by “strengthening” the social safety net as president. The liberal project is to strengthen the social safety net and grow the … read more >

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Economics

These two charts show just how phony Obama’s ‘Buffett Rule’ really is

James Pethokoukis | February 8, 2012, 10:48 am

President Obama’s Buffett Rule is an almost perfect example of a) a solution in search of a problem, and b) politics masquerading as policy. A great pair of graphics from the Council on Foreign Relations illustrates both these points by … read more >

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