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A Hungry World Population? Oh Well, Let Them Eat Ethanol! | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Commentary: "The amount [of ethanol] to be produced is a mandate, not a choice. It’s 13.2 billion gallons this year. Last year we burnt up 40% of our crop. This year, given the expected yield reductions, we could easily destroy over half of our corn."
"Now, the Saudi Arabia of corn burns up half of its supply, instead of selling it to a hungry world. All of this was brought to you by our greener friends and, yes, Republicans, working the political process hand in hand. Later, the environmental community realized—as some of us had been telling them for years—that corn ethanol results in an increase in carbon dioxide emissions, not a decrease.
Of course, there is little chance that the disproportionately influential farm lobby is going to swallow changing the ethanol mandate when its constituents are making money hand-over-fist because of an artificially induced shortage."
Monday, August 13, 2012
Zimmerman defense lawyers won't argue 'stand-your-ground' in Florida shooting case | Fox News
Zimmerman defense lawyers won't argue 'stand-your-ground' in Florida shooting case | Fox News: "the traditional self-defense approach is appropriate because the facts suggest his client couldn't retreat from a beating Martin was giving him."
Obamacare: No Free Lunches | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary
Obamacare: No Free Lunches | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary: "according to the Department of Health and Human Services, the cost of continuing coverage from 18 to 26 could run as high as $3,400 per child per year. Much of that additional cost is passed back to companies that provide insurance coverage to dependents of their employees.
Politicians often act as though government programs are cost free.
The predictable result: Companies are dropping dependent coverage altogether. Among them is one of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York, SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which is now dropping dependent coverage for 30,000 workers. Ironically, the fund had previously covered nearly 6,000 workers’ children, some up to age 23. "
"Lenoir-Rhyne University of Hickory, N.C., the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., and Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, are all dropping school-sponsored plans starting in the fall. The colleges said that Obamacare’s regulations would have driven up students’ premiums tenfold. And, Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., was forced to raise the premium on the plan it offered students from $445 to more than $2,000 to pay for the new level of coverage required by the health-care law.
The Obama administration’s requirement that insurance include contraceptive coverage is also causing Catholic universities to drop student coverage."
"insurers in 20 states have responded by discontinuing “child only” insurance coverage"
"at least 10 percent of employers plan to drop their coverage in the next couple of years as a result of Obamacare"
Politicians often act as though government programs are cost free.
The predictable result: Companies are dropping dependent coverage altogether. Among them is one of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York, SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which is now dropping dependent coverage for 30,000 workers. Ironically, the fund had previously covered nearly 6,000 workers’ children, some up to age 23. "
"Lenoir-Rhyne University of Hickory, N.C., the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., and Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, are all dropping school-sponsored plans starting in the fall. The colleges said that Obamacare’s regulations would have driven up students’ premiums tenfold. And, Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., was forced to raise the premium on the plan it offered students from $445 to more than $2,000 to pay for the new level of coverage required by the health-care law.
The Obama administration’s requirement that insurance include contraceptive coverage is also causing Catholic universities to drop student coverage."
"insurers in 20 states have responded by discontinuing “child only” insurance coverage"
"at least 10 percent of employers plan to drop their coverage in the next couple of years as a result of Obamacare"
Fairness Act a Step Toward a Logical Immigration Policy | Alex Nowrasteh | Cato Institute: Commentary
Fairness Act a Step Toward a Logical Immigration Policy | Alex Nowrasteh | Cato Institute: Commentary: "The current rule allows only 7 percent of employment-based green cards to be allotted to immigrants from any one country — creating an enormous backlog for skilled immigrants from India, China and the Philippines. The Fairness act would eliminate the per-country limit and decrease wait times.
Critics of legal immigration argue that allowing skilled immigrants to come to the United States deprives native-born Americans of job opportunities at a time when unemployment is 8.2 percent. This argument rests on the fallacy that the job market is a fixed pie and that each immigrant hired by a U.S. business means one fewer job is available to a native-born citizen."
Critics of legal immigration argue that allowing skilled immigrants to come to the United States deprives native-born Americans of job opportunities at a time when unemployment is 8.2 percent. This argument rests on the fallacy that the job market is a fixed pie and that each immigrant hired by a U.S. business means one fewer job is available to a native-born citizen."
Treasury: U.S. to lose $25 billion on auto bailout | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com
Treasury: U.S. to lose $25 billion on auto bailout | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com: "The Treasury Department says in a new report the government expects to lose more than $25 billion on the $85 billion auto bailout. That's 15 percent higher than its previous forecast."
"The auto industry rescue helped save more than one million jobs throughout our nation's industrial heartland"
That is only $25,000/job saved -- what a steal!
"The auto industry rescue helped save more than one million jobs throughout our nation's industrial heartland"
That is only $25,000/job saved -- what a steal!
The Daily Caller: Senators: ‘bloated’ government IT departments need to clean house before ‘dictating standards to businesses’ - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin
The Daily Caller: Senators: ‘bloated’ government IT departments need to clean house before ‘dictating standards to businesses’ - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin: "“Before dictating standards to businesses, the government should certify that it meets the same levels of IT security and efficiency that it intends to impose on the private sector.”"
Federal News Radio: Bill would give DoD incentives to audit its books on time - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin
Federal News Radio: Bill would give DoD incentives to audit its books on time - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin: ""When the Pentagon can't tell Congress, or itself, how it is spending money, good programs face cuts along with wasteful programs, which is the situation in which we find ourselves today under sequestration.""
Daily Caller: Ron Johnson: ‘There is way too much political demagoguery out there that sounds good’ - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin
Daily Caller: Ron Johnson: ‘There is way too much political demagoguery out there that sounds good’ - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin: "“It’s like President Obama says he’s all about making the rich pay their fair share,” he added. “Does that imply that I don’t want the rich to pay their fair share? I mean I do, and the fact of the matter is the wealthiest 1 percent paid, in 2007, over 40 percent of the total income tax burden. And the bottom 95 percent paid less than that.”"
Political News.me: Senators Introduce Bipartisan Pay for Printing Act - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin
Political News.me: Senators Introduce Bipartisan Pay for Printing Act - In the News - Newsroom - Ron Johnson, United States Senator for Wisconsin: "the Pay for Printing Act, which would require senators to pay for celebratory or commemorative resolutions out of their own budgets, rather than using taxpayer funds."
"These resolutions incur printing costs of about $1,200 per page. So far in the 112th Congress, simple resolutions may have already cost taxpayers nearly $400,000 in printing costs alone."
"These resolutions incur printing costs of about $1,200 per page. So far in the 112th Congress, simple resolutions may have already cost taxpayers nearly $400,000 in printing costs alone."
Complaints prompt water park to end discounts for church groups | Fox News
Complaints prompt water park to end discounts for church groups | Fox News: "The Freedom from Religion Foundation, a national non-profit dedicated to the separation of church-and-state, got wind of what had happened, and a lawyer from the group fired off a letter to Ratliff, informing him that he'd better not reinstitute the discount for church groups in the future"
"A Pennsylvania atheist filed a grievance with the state's Human Relations Commission this summer after he learned that Prudhomme’s Lost Cajun Kitchen in Columbia was offering a 10 percent discount on meals to people who brought their church bulletin with them."
Why does it matter if a private company provides a discount to a group? Does that mean that senior discounts are age discrimination also?
"A Pennsylvania atheist filed a grievance with the state's Human Relations Commission this summer after he learned that Prudhomme’s Lost Cajun Kitchen in Columbia was offering a 10 percent discount on meals to people who brought their church bulletin with them."
Why does it matter if a private company provides a discount to a group? Does that mean that senior discounts are age discrimination also?
Call for probe in jet ski security breach at New York's Kennedy airport | Fox News
Call for probe in jet ski security breach at New York's Kennedy airport | Fox News: "a swamped jet skier was able to breach Kennedy Airport’s troubled $100 million security system"
"Neither motion sensors nor closed-circuit cameras of the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, or PIDS, detected Casillo [in a bright yellow life vest], who was only busted when he approached a startled Delta Airlines worker near Gate 10."
"Neither motion sensors nor closed-circuit cameras of the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, or PIDS, detected Casillo [in a bright yellow life vest], who was only busted when he approached a startled Delta Airlines worker near Gate 10."
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