Archive for the ‘PPC’ Category
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
The Cato Institute's John Samples, author of The Struggle to Limit Government, offers advice to those affiliated with the Tea Parties: Republicans aren't always your friends. Some tea partiers like big government.* Democrats aren't always your enemies. Smaller government demands restraint abroad. Leave social issues to the states. ...
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Saturday, April 24th, 2010
The Daily Camera reports: Thousands of landlords who rent out homes in Boulder will be forced to invest a combined millions of dollars in upgrades -- costs that could be passed on through higher rent -- if the city approves new energy-efficiency standards. On Thursday, the ...
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
How much would you pay for cleaner air? Surely this depends on its current state, the proposed improvement, and if you could tell the difference. The EPA wants you to pay for cleaner air by mandating pollution limits on power plants. Colorado HB 1365 would legislate ...
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
How free are you? Some food for thought by Robert Nozick, an excerpt from Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 290-292 (1974), winner of the National Book Foundation's National Book Award in 1975. Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
An eye-opening video from Cato:For more, see Cato's Center for Educational Freedom.Cato did a very good job here of communicating research results in a quick and digestible way that appeals to those with either visuals or auditory learning modalities.
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
From Americans for Prosperity: 1. Go to Honkno.com and sign up to take part in the "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover" event at 12 Noon your time [Tuesday]. It's simple and fun. You go to the website, punch in your zip code and up pops the closest congressional district offices ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Big week for health care. The U.S House of Representatives is likely to vote this week in a bill that includes the Senate Health Bill, HR 3590. Paul Hsieh M.D has written an update on the recent political machinations with links to contact information & summary arguments. Remember, ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
I'd like to see a book or long article that describes how organized interests gain at others' expense from political mandates and controls that look benevolent on the surface. (They probably exist, and feel free to suggest any.) For example, consider what Damon Root at Reason magazine writes about "progressive" ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Do you live in either Betsy Markey's district (4th, map) or Diana DeGette's district (1st, map)? If so, contact them (see end of post) and tell them to vote "no" on the Senate health "reform" bill or any scaled down version of it. This reform is terrible from both moral ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Tim Phillips at Americans for Prosperity summarizes the situation and has links to quick ways to contact your Senator and Representatives. An excerpt:
President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a parliamentary trick called ...
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