By Mary Theroux | Thursday May 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM PDT | 1 Comment
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that non-profits are finding the War on Terror a convenient excuse to increase their funding from government. Nor surprising that our friends in Washington have been happy to oblige in adding dependents to the gravy train. In news that could have been taken straight from the pages of...
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Tags: Charity, Corruption, Religion, Terrorism
By Randall Holcombe | at 2:19 PM PDT | 4 Comments
Today President Obama was advocating the renewal of wind energy tax credits to promote green energy. Meanwhile, last week the Obama administration placed a 31% tariff on the importation of solar panels from China. So, is he for green energy, as the wind energy tax credit would suggest, or against it, as his raising...
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Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, Business, China, Corporatism, Economics, Energy, Environment, Free Market, Government subsidies, Natural Resources, Politics, Taxation
By Melancton Smith | at 5:24 AM PDT | 0 Comments
The folks over at SCOTUS Blog have a good story up on a dispute between Rhode Island and the federal government concerning custody of state prisoner. Jason Pleau is in state custody but also under federal indictment for a robbery in which a person was killed. It is possible that Pleau could face the...
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Tags: Constitution, Criminal Justice, Law, Power, The State
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