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Daily Archives: January 3, 2013

Carpe Diem

The truth about all those ‘subsidies’ for ‘Big Oil’

Mark J. Perry | January 3, 2013, 5:22 pm

Do a Google search for the term “subsidies for oil companies” and you’ll get more than 600,000 results.  Try a search for “subsidies for Big Oil” and you’ll get almost 700,000 results.  The term “tax breaks for Big Oil” has almost … read more >

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Economics, U.S. Economy

Double taxation of dividends: Going in the wrong direction

Alex J. Pollock | January 3, 2013, 1:28 pm

From an economic and financial perspective, one of the worst things about Washington’s “fiscal cliff” tax deal is that it increases the double taxation of corporate dividends. Adding to the 35% that dividends are first taxed at the corporate level, … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Terrorism

Al-Awlaki gets his day in court

Gary Schmitt | January 3, 2013, 11:18 am

On Wednesday, Judge Colleen McMahon of the Manhattan federal court rejected an effort by the New York Times and the ACLU to use the Freedom of Information Act to compel the Obama administration to fork over its classified legal opinion … read more >

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Economics, U.S. Economy

Geography and inequality

Andrew Biggs | January 3, 2013, 11:14 am

In a new paper published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Enrico Moretti of UC Berkeley finds that much of the increase in income inequality seen in recent decades is offset by changes in the cost of living for … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, International Organizations

World Health Organization obfuscation harms action against dangerous medicines

Roger Bate | January 3, 2013, 11:02 am

In my book Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines, I stress the difference between substandard medical products and deliberately falsified ones. The latter are made by criminal enterprises that have no interest in the contents of their … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Terrorism

How Obama preserved rendition

Marc Thiessen | January 3, 2013, 10:50 am

Under Obama, not only are we killing rather than capturing most of the terrorists we find –when we do actually capture someone, we hand them over to foreign governments for interrogations whose “harshness” we cannot control. read more >

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Carpe Diem

Thursday morning links

Mark J. Perry | January 3, 2013, 10:21 am

1. Ward’s Auto predicts that December SAAR car sales will be 15.7 million; if so, it will be the best sales month since December 2007. 2. CoreLogic reports that foreclosures declined nationally in November by 23%, as the U.S. housing … read more >

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