links for 2008-05-14
14
May
2008
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President Bush has threatened to veto a mortgage crisis “relief” bill that the House passed Thursday, 266-155, in the face of that threat. If the Senate doesn’t change the bill substantially ‚Äì and perhaps even if it does ‚Äì he should carry through on t
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Of all of the current Congress’s attempts to manage the U.S. economy — housing bailouts, “stimulus” packages, an energy bill that bans light bulbs — the farm bill is probably the most exasperating.
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For John McCain, global warming is the magic silver bullet, the issue that will unite liberals, moderates and evangelical conservatives into a powerful electoral force that will push him into the White House.
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John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that there will be no presidential candidate this year willing to question the assertion that global warming (a.k.a. “climate change”) is manmade, or the assertion that we can fix global wa