Tankosphere Today: Oct. 7, 2008
Todd Thurman /
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Energy Independence: Brazil Leads the Way? – Growthology
Everyone seems to be preoccupied with the question of energy independence. It’s a bipartisan issue, heightened ever since the cost of a gallon of gas rose over four dollars this summer..
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Federal Appeals Court OKs San Francisco’s Tax-Mad Healthy Access Plan – Pacific Research Institute
Even If Supreme Court Overturns It, We Need A Better Solution Than ERISAI have written a lot about San Francisco’s Healthy Access Plan. SF HAP taxes small businesses, which cannot afford to provide health benefits, to fund the city’s public health bureaucracy.
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Don’t Mess with Other People’s Money – Adam Smith Institute
What have we learned from the financial crisis? The mainstream media are talking about the greed of Wall Street and wild capitalism as the root cause of the financial mess we are in. Very few of them acknowledge the role of politicians and collectivist government intervention…
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Sri Lanka Takes a Look at Thorium – NEI Nuclear Notes
Why not? They have lots of it. What they don’t have is the technology to use it, but luckily their neighbors to the north, also with piles of the stuff, is trying to make it plausible…
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More Lessons From Our Northern Neighbor – American Issues Project
You may have seen yesterday’s post regarding the Canadian study demonstrating the inadequacies of its universal health care program. Research groups, however, aren’t the only ones calling for privatization…