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Reuters | Yamani: Oil Could Hit $200-$300 on Saudi Unrest Oil prices could rocket to $200- $300 a barrel if the world’s top crude exporter Saudi Arabia is hit by serious political unrest, former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani told Reuters on Tuesday. Yamani said he saw no immediate sign of further trouble following [...]

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Time | Taxing Cow Flatulence Key to Saving Planet Farmers who blanch at the expense and inconvenience of such barnyard menu reform might think differently when they consider the alternative — and that alternative is not just a steadily warming world. In 2010, the U.N. proposed a global levy on livestock’s methane emissions, a measure [...]

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Ed Lasky | Soros Wins Under Obama’s Energy Policies Are Barack Obama’s energy policies influenced by hedge fund billionaire and political patron, George Soros? Abby Wisse Schacter, in the New York Post, notes that the Obama administration is clamping down on oil and gas development in America (both onshore and offshore) but is hell-bent on [...]

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Ed Morrissey | Durbin Claims Social Security ‘Doesn’t Add a Penny to the Deficit”. In order to solve the budget impasse, Dick Durbin says that everything has to be on the table. In almost literally the next breath, Durbin then says Social Security reform will kill any budget deal, because even though budget talks can’t [...]

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John Zogby | Romney Standing Still As I look at how Mitt Romney is doing in our Republican presidential horserace poll, it seems like (as Yogi Berra said) “déjà vu all over again.” In a phone poll we conducted in late February 2007, Republican primary and caucus voters placed Romney third at 9% in a [...]

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Hilarious: Allen West Imitates Harry Reid If in a hurry, fast forward to the 1:30 mark.

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Glenn Harlan Reynolds | Uncivil Disobedience: Media Ignores Union Thuggery Just a couple of months ago, in the wake of Jared Loughner’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, simple talk of “targeting” a political opponent for defeat was treated as beyond the pale. But let’s look at some more recent language — and conduct — that [...]

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Sam Kazman | How Washington Ruined Your Washing Machine It might not have been the most stylish, but for decades the top-loading laundry machine was the most affordable and dependable. Now it’s ruined—and Americans have politics to thank. In 1996, top-loaders were pretty much the only type of washer around, and they were uniformly high [...]

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Politico | Mitt Romney Snags Coveted Meghan McCain Endorsement Meghan McCain has been very vocal about her 2012 GOP pick, saying time and again that she’s “team Romney.” She expressed her admiration for Mitt Romney again on Monday when she addressed students at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.  According to the Marietta Daily Journal, McCain [...]

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Patrick Ishmael | How Fox News is in Sarah Palin’s Way On the one hand, Palin has a $1 million annual salary with the network that no one would want to leave. On the other hand, she made the equivalent of about $1 million a month during a one year period ending in 2010; she [...]

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Politico | David Axelrod: Romneycare Was ‘Template’ for Obamacare David Axelrod is singing the praises of “Romneycare” – yet again. The former White House senior adviser smiled and laughed as he twisted the knife in Mitt Romney on Friday, saying that the ex-Massachusetts governor’s health plan “inspired” President Obama and was a “template” for the [...]

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John Melloy | Welfate State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement. Even as [...]

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Politico | Democrat Senator Joe Manchin: Obama Has ‘Failed to Lead” on Budget West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is planning to rip President Barack Obama on his budget proposals in a Senate floor speech Tuesday, a rare rebuke from a freshman Democrat who’s clearly worried about the politics of deficit spending as he faces a [...]

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Michael Kinsley | Of Course Mitt Romney’s a Phony We’re all for transparency these days, and if anything is transparently clear about American politics, it is that Mitt Romney will do or say anything to become president. The best guess is that at heart he is an old-fashioned, business-oriented Republican. But there’s no knowing for [...]

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CNN | Mitt Romney: Romneycare Could Serve as Model for the Country In an interview with CNN in 2009, as Washington was debating President Barack Obama’s health care proposal, Romney said portions of the Massachusetts law could serve as a model for the country. “I think there are a number of features in the Massachusetts [...]

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Iowahawk Destroys Paul Krugman’s Latest Union BS Please pardon this brief departure from my normal folderol, but every so often a member of the chattering class issues a nugget of stupidity so egregious that no amount of mockery will suffice. Particularly when the issuer of said stupidity holds a Nobel Prize. Case in point: Paul [...]

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Paul West | Romney’s Latest Reinvention Strategy: Skinny Jeans The early Republican favorite is wearing Gap skinny jeans and going tieless on network TV. But despite his makeover, he still has a hard time connecting with voters. Defying his reputation as a 1950s square, the new, more casual Mitt Romney is popping up around the [...]

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Allahpundit | Sherrod Brown: You Know Who Else Didn’t Like Unions? Hitler and Stalin Via Breitbart, I’m trying to decide if this is more or less stupid than the left’s 2008 historical talking point that Jesus/Obama was a community organizer whereas Pilate/Palin was a governor. (That one made it all the way to the House [...]

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Phil Boehmke | Wisconsin Democrat’s Union Contract Conspiracy Revealed Knowing that Governor Walker’s budget repair bill was a virtual lock to be passed by the legislature and signed into law, an ugly conspiracy to push new union contracts in Madison was set in motion by the mayor and a senate ally. WITI-TV reports that Mayor [...]

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James Taylor | Global Warming Alarmists Flip-Flop On Snowfall Sitting in on a March 1 Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) press conference regarding global warming and heavy snowfalls, I couldn’t help feeling like the chairman of the Senate committee questioning mafia capo Frank Pentangeli in Godfather II. The chairman, listening incredulously as Pentangeli contradicts a [...]

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Sebastian Blanco | Government Motors Only Sells 281 Chevy Volts in February Peruse Chevrolet‘s February sales release, and you’ll notice one number that’s blatantly missing: the number of Chevy Volts sold. The number – a very modest 281 – is available in the company’s detailed data (PDF), but it certainly isn’t something that GM wants [...]

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Susanna Kim | The Sarah Palin Effect As the key household decision makers, women are increasingly the target of marketing efforts from the food, clothing and health industries. The gun and hunting industry, formerly a man’s domain, is no longer the exception. More women than men took up hunting in the United States in 2009, [...]

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Doug Adams | Sarah Palin Looks Prophetic Now With the price of gas skyrocketing and turmoil in the Middle East (again), former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s calls for energy independence and to “drill, baby, drill” right here in our own country during the 2008 presidential campaign are sounding prophetic. As President Obama restricts drilling efforts [...]

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The Betfair Contrarian | Why Sarah Palin Will Win the 2012 Republican Presidential Nomination The Contrarian has proven in the past that he’s even more adept at making money out of politics than an expense-fiddling MP, his latest triumph coming when opposing David Miliband at 1.43 in last year’s Labour leadership battle. He’s spotted another [...]

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Steve Forbes | Barack Obama Repeating Jimmy Carter’s Mistakes You need to watch only a few minutes of cable news analysis to realize just how ludicrous our national energy policies have become. As escalating tensions and chaos unfold in Egypt, Libya and other Middle Eastern nations, one energy analyst suggested that if Libyan oil supplies [...]

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Jay Cost | Is Obama in Better Shape for 2012? My reaction is twofold: first, Obama looks no more or less beatable now than he did four months ago; second, he looks fairly vulnerable. Let’s look at each claim in turn. First, what has changed in the last four months? Is it the fundamentals? I’d [...]

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Deroy Murdock | May We Drill Now, Please? Petroleum futures Thursday reached $103.41 per barrel, their highest price since September 2008. Unleaded gasoline averages $3.35 per gallon – up 66 cents, year-on-year. Summer road trips may push prices higher. Amid all of this, the Obama administration treats America’s domestic-petroleum supply like the Smithsonian’s Hope Diamond: [...]

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Steven Greenhut | Could Wisconsin Happen in California? If a real battle over union reform can take place in Wisconsin and spread to other liberal rust-belt, union-dominated states, then it could perhaps happen in California – although it might take some time, given the political dynamic here and the “marches to its own drummer” ethic [...]

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The Telegraph | David Cameron Proposes No-Fly Zone in Libya The Prime Minister repeated his earlier call for Col Gaddafi to step down and said that all measures would be considered to increase pressure on him to go. “We do not in any way rule out the use of military assets,” Mr Cameron said. “We [...]

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Michael Barone | Why Middle America is Rejecting Big Government The recoil in 2010 against the Obama Democrats’ vast expansion of the size and scope of government seems to have a cultural or a moral dimension as well. It was a vote, as my Washington Examiner colleague Timothy P. Carney wrote last week, expressing “anger [...]

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