The Anti-Energy President

Pete Du Pont, Wall Street Journal
Our America today is very different from the America of some years ago. Government spending is greatly increased, as is the regulation of our economy. The growing size and reach of our government is sapping our nation's strength and independence. And our current president's policies have been quite different from our leaders of some years ago.One of the best examples of these public policy changes is the huge increase in government regulation in how we generate and use energy, with its negative impact on supply, its focus on financing new and inefficient energy industries, and the...

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Mitt Romney’s experience argument is working

Mitt Romney spent the week following his back-to-back defeats in Alabama and Mississippi emphasizing his economic experience while hammering Rick Santorum as an “economic lightweight”.

Exit polling conducted in tonight’s Illinois primary — where Romney is currently leading — suggest Romney’s experience strategy worked.

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In Alabama and Mississippi, Romney aims for one-third of delegates

Romney sets the bar in the South; AFL-CIO backs Obama; Christie pulls in big bucks for Menendez challenger; and new ads in the Arizona and Nebraska Senate races.

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Rep. Tim Scott gets resort trip with company — and a bill to pay

Earlier this month, Rep. Tim Scott traveled to picturesque Sea Island, Ga., for a forum sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute on AEI’s dime. And as lovely as the scenery is surrounding the Cloister Beach Club, where the event was held — think white-sand beaches, pools and palm trees — the South Carolina Republican apparently needed to improve the view.

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Trayvon Martin: Guilty of Being Black

Melissa Harris-Perry, The Nation
Trayvon Martin was not innocent. He was guilty of being black in presumably restricted public space. For decades, Jim Crow laws made this crime statutory. They codified the spaces into which black bodies could not pass without encountering legal punishment. They made public blackness a punishable offense. The 1964 Civil Rights Act removed the legal barriers but not the social sanctions and potentially violent consequences of this “crime.” George Zimmerman’s slaying of Trayvon Martin—and the subsequent campaign to smear Martin—is the latest and...

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GOP blocks Obama’s effort to end tax breaks for Big Oil

President Obama on Thursday called on Congress to end tax breaks for oil companies in a populist speech that sought to turn the blame for gas prices nearing $4 a gallon back onto his Republican critics.

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