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Daily Archives: April 3, 2012

Carpe Diem

How the Administration’s Energy Strategy Has Contributed to Price Increases

Mark J. Perry | April 3, 2012, 11:06 pm

Administration Oil Strategy Contributes to Price Increases

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Carpe Diem

Markets in Everything: $300 Hearing Aids

Mark J. Perry | April 3, 2012, 10:30 pm

Tech Crunch — “Of the 27 million Americans who qualify for a hearing aid, 75 percent choose not to purchase one — only one in seven Americans over 50 years old who need a hearing aid actually wear one. The … read more >

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Carpe Diem

U.S. Emerges As A Main Engine of Global Growth

Mark J. Perry | April 3, 2012, 6:36 pm

America is now a “standout economy” BLOOMBERG – “The U.S. once again may be emerging as a main engine for global growth — and at an opportune time, as Europe slides into recession and China’s economy decelerates. An improving job … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy

Harry Reid, tough on Iran

Danielle Pletka | April 3, 2012, 6:12 pm

Once upon a time, Congress led the nation’s foreign policy on Iran, forcing one after another recalcitrant president to use our nation’s economic might to derail Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Once upon a time, even recalcitrant presidents looked better than … read more >

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Economics

Obama slams Ryan’s vision as he hides his own

James Pethokoukis | April 3, 2012, 2:50 pm

We’ve gone from hope and change to slash and burn. In a campaign speech to the Associated Press today, President Obama just went on and on and on: “… Trojan horse  … radical vision … thinly veiled Social Darwinism … antithetical … read more >

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Economics, Energy and the Environment

Energy Fact of the Week: Will gas triumph over coal?

Steven F. Hayward | April 3, 2012, 1:35 pm

This week the EPA released its long-promised new source performance standards for coal-fired power plants. They appear aimed to effectively ban the construction of any new coal power plants, unless they can implement carbon capture and sequestration—an extremely expensive proposition.  … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy

Ryan Crocker on the state of al Qaeda: ‘We’ve killed the slow and stupid ones’

Marc Thiessen | April 3, 2012, 12:24 pm

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently declared that al Qaeda’s “leadership is decimated” and “doesn’t have the ability to put command and control together to make the kind of plans for the kind of attacks we saw on 9/11.” Not so … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion

Obama’s electoral Achilles’ heel: While the jobs picture slowly improves, incomes are flat

James Pethokoukis | April 3, 2012, 11:26 am

My pal Dan Clifton of the indispensable Strategas Research: The best predictor of whether a President is re-elected is the metric real per capita disposable income. As we noted above, there is no doubt employment is a significant indicator for … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion, Law and the Constitution

Going over the constitutional speed limit? Or is timing everything on the regulatory radar gun? (Part III)

Thomas P. Miller | April 3, 2012, 11:05 am

Is it all over but for the waiting (and then the wailing) over the Supreme Court’s decision later this June on whether the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional?  Sifting through the Evidence In ancient times, soothsayers … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Matt Ridley’s 17 Reasons to Be Cheerful

Mark J. Perry | April 3, 2012, 11:04 am

The world has never been a better place to live in and it will keep getting better, says Matt Ridley, and he provides 17 reasons to be cheerful, here’s a sample: 1. We’re better off now Compared with 50 years … read more >

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