Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Democrats in Congress have finally found a federal program they want to eliminate. And wouldn’t you know, it’s one that actually works and helps thousands of poor children.

We’re speaking of the four-year-old Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program that provides vouchers to about 2,000 low-income children so they can attend religious or other […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
It’s been all about prices lately, and it’ll continue to be about prices for some time.
The update du jour on that front is import prices, which have surged higher by nearly 18% for the year through May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. On a monthly basis, the trend looks a […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
The housing downturn and rising gasoline prices are each exerting a significant contractionary influence on U.S. GDP. There is also an interactive effect between the two.

Temecula is a community in southern California some 60 miles from downtown San Diego and not a whole lot closer to anywhere else. And yet I’ve known people […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Anyone wondering why U.S. energy policy is so dysfunctional need only review Congress’s recent antics. Members have debated ideas ranging from suing OPEC to the Senate’s carbon tax-and-regulation monstrosity, to a windfall profits tax on oil companies, to new punishments for “price gouging” – everything except expanding domestic energy supplies.

Amid $135 oil, […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
One thing Brazil and the U.S. have in common is that each country has vast oil reserves in waters off their coastlines. Here we may draw a line in the waves between the serious and the unserious.
Brazil discovered in November that billions of barrels of oil sit in difficult water beneath a […]

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