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The U.S. should remain adamant in its opposition to binding emissions caps and insist that any agreement be flexible and focus on solutions that do not unduly constrain economic growth.

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To address high gas prices, Congress should reduce restrictions on domestic oil production.

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Listing the polar bear as a threatened species would harm the economy and possibly the bears as well.

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The United States should follow a pro-market approach that avoids mandatory targets and focuses on technological development.

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Ethanol mandates come at a steep price and will not solve energy and environmental problems.

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The Center for Union Facts just rolled out a national campaign yesterday highlighting one of the primary functions of teachers unions; protecting bad teachers and keeping good ones down. From the AP: Critics who say unions block education reforms and make it virtually impossible to fire bad teachers will offer 10 instructors it deems the [...]

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Move over, George Clooney. Libertarianism is the hottest new thing among serious artists. One of our greatest living playwrights, David Mamet, has just announced that he has given up “brain-dead liberalism” for a new appreciation of capitalism and constitutionalism. As a child of the ’60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is [...]

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A site for community review of police officers called RateMyCop.com gets the benefit of the “Streisand effect” today. For a period of time, it was shut down by its web registrar, GoDaddy.com, most likely because of law enforcement complaints about being subject to public oversight. (The “Streisand effect” is the phenomenon where an attempt to [...]

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At his Iconoclast blog, Declan McCullagh has a very good write-up of the broad sweep of NSA surveillance and the resurrection of the Total Information Awareness program in a new guise.

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Another dispatch from my (fictitious) anonymous correspondent on the (faux) campaign trail: LANCASTER, Pa. — Sen. Barack Obama told a crowd of enthusiastic supporters here that the North Korean concept of “Juche,” its stated policy of complete economic and social independence and isolation, is “intriguing” and worthy of further study as a possible antidote to [...]

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