Al Gore spoke in favor of the Waxman-Markey climate bill recently passed by the House, saying it will help bring about “global governance.” He’s right about that. Regardless of how you evaluate the threat of global warming, the threat of global governance is good reason to be skeptical of climate change agreements. I won’t go into...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Monday July 13, 2009 at 4:29 PM PDT
Jonathan Bean | Sunday July 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM PDT
“Lawmakers, read the bills before you vote,” by Jeff Jacoby (Boston Globe) This “Read the Bills” movement has finally cut through political pretensions to reveal that there is no “deliberative democracy” in the USA. Apparently, members of Congress are simply asked to “react” or express “feelings” or channel interest-group concerns about broad notions like...
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