IBD: No, Americans Don’t Want Higher Taxes
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IBD: No, Americans Don’t Want Higher Taxes
The Justice Department’s effort to contain the Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal is crumbling. Members of Congress are demanding full disclosure regarding the bizarre scheme to funnel guns to Mexican drug cartels, supposedly to help sniff out the higher-level bad guys. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. isn’t helping …
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EDITORIAL: Too fast, too furious
At least it doesn’t involve a mandate. The Obama White House has launched something called “ The President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge ,” the point of which is to advance “Interfaith Cooperation and Community Service in Higher Education.” The White House is “encouraging” American colleges, community colleges, universities, seminaries and rabbinical schools to “commit” to a year of what is calls “interfaith service.”
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White House Pushes Interfaith Cooperation for 2012
…but the rate of OSHA recordable incidents in the oil and gas extraction industry is considerably less than most industries, including retailing, libraries and tortilla manufacturing. [As an aside, yesterday's fire on Mariner's Vermilion Block 380 A Platform sparked renewed calls for the higher levels of government regulation of the rigs (it wasn't a rig), with some calling for an outright end to offshore drilling (it wasn't drilling). It seems that there is a correlation between industry knowledge and holding the industry in a positive light . The industry's biggest detractors mainly traffic in fear, ignorance and misinformation.] Before you discount it, be aware that the source of the data this analysis is based on is not the API or some other oil industry lobbying group, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics .
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Sorry to confuse the hysteria with, you know, facts…
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