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Monday, June 19

An Energy Field of Dreams (WSJ)
Kevin Hassett: Republicans Have Last, Best Chance to Limit Pork (Bloomberg)
The rocky road to oil riches (BBC)
Charitable giving in U.S. nears record set at end of tech boom (AP)
Bruce Bartlett: The President’s Rotten Record on Trade (Reason)
At its core, capitalism is only way to end poverty (The Business Online)

Friday, June 16

After Heavy Spending, Maybe Congress Sees Light (CNS News)
Trans Fat Lawsuit Against KFC Based on Thin Science (Fox News)
Bill Gates Programs New Life as Donor (LA Times)
China to Cut Tariffs on Imported Cars (Bloomberg)
Josh Hendrickson: Empty Rhetoric (TCS)
Bush warns against protectionism (BBC)

Thursday, June 15

Tom Friedman vs. GM, Round 2 (Times Watch)
Amity Shlaes: Spitzer Damage Control Has a Name -- John Faso (Bloomberg)
John Stossel: Religious fanatics terrorize American farmers (Townhall)
The New Drilling Battle (Wash Post)
If "global warming" is real, what could be causing it? (Junk Science)
Pakistan, Afghanistan vow to improve trade (AP)
Former Fannie Mae execs may face investigation (USA Today)

Wednesday, June 14

Housing boom will not end in a crash, says Harvard (Financial Times)
Ethanol's other shoe starting to drop (Big News Network.com)
Elizabeth M. Whelan: It’s the Food, Stupid (NRO)
Pressure On Fannie, Freddie Increases (Wash Post)
Walter E. Williams: The slippery slope (Townhall)
Herman Cain: Know our enemy (Townhall)

Tuesday, June 13

Buy! Buy! Buy! Sell! Sell! Sell! (Slate)
Ronald Bailey: Has oil peaked?: Not yet (Dallas Morning News)
Bruce Bartlett: Castro's inventor (Townhall)
Talks target No. 10 in trade (Wash Times)
Bush and Congress Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production (Cap Mag)

Monday, June 12

A warming trend (Baltimore Sun)
Larry Kudlow: Hooray for the Death Tax! (NRO)
'Nice job! Now get outta town.' (CS Monitor)
Walter Williams: Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity (Cap Mag)
Feds Were Accomplices to Enron Crooks (Human Events)
Global warming: Some inconvenient glaciers (ESR)
BP CEO Lord Browne says oil price will fall to 40 usd per barrel mid-term (Forbes)

Friday, June 9

Endgame In New London, or, Another Successful Five-Year Plan (Reason)
Canned Tuna Pregnancy Scare Smells Fishy (Fox News)
Death to the Tree-Killing Death Tax (NRO)
U.S. May Seek Bonuses From Fannie Mae Execs (AP)
Misery Index (TCS)
White House lifts US growth forecast to 3.6% (AFP)

Thursday, June 8

Russell Roberts: Incentives Matter (Econ Lib)
Jobless post sharp 35,000 drop (Reuters)
Greenspan Delivers Alert on Energy (AP)
The Pain of Eminent Domain (Cato)
Roy Spencer: Rachel Goreson (TCS)
It's Time to Pull the Plug on Death Tax (Human Events)

Tuesday, June 6

Market Forces Only Cure for Oil Prices (Cato)
Retire rich: Keep out the taxman (Fortune)
U.S., S. Korea working toward a trade accord (Wash Times)
Death to Corporate Welfare (CEI)
US firms raise charity donations (BBC)

Monday, June 5

Larry Kudlow: More than Half Full (NRO)
Going Private (WSJ)
Thomas Sowell: Preserving a Vision--at the Expense of the Facts (Cap Mag)
Chill out over global warming (Denver Post)
Gas fuels new cold war in the Arctic (Scotsman)
GDP Soars and Unemployment Drops; CBS: "Economy is Slowing Down" (MRC)

Thursday, June 1

Bruce Bartlett: Remembering Lloyd Bentsen . . . (NRO)
An Argument Against Oil Price Minimums (Cato)
An Accidental Tax Boon (Wash Post)
Thomas Sowell: Preserving a vision: Part III (Townhall)
APEC ministers in Vietnam to push for global free trade (AFP)
Arnold Kling: Minding the Health Gap (TCS)

Wednesday, May 31

Trial Lawyers, Inc., is an economic disease (NRO)
US, Vietnam sign trade deal to put Hanoi in WTO (Reuters)
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.: Warmed Over (WSJ)
Walter E. Williams: Economics of prices (Townhall)
Bruce Bartlett: Bentsen led to shift in thinking (Townhall)
John Luik: Children and the Fat Police (TCS)
Lies and statistics (World Net Daily)

Friday, May 26

'Ethics messenger' targeted (Baltimore Sun)
First Quarter GDP Growth Revised Up to 5.3% (Reuters)
Global Warming Skeptic Claims Environmental Conversion (Fox News)
Duane D. Freese: The Media's Know-Nothings (TCS)
Gary J. Andres: Americans on the economy (Wash Times)
Phone Tax Laid to Rest at Age 108 (NY Times)

Thursday, May 25

David Pauly: Fannie Mae -- Arrogant, Chastised and Not Reformed (Bloomberg)
John E. Tamny: We’ll Shrug Off a Housing Bust . . . (NRO)
U.S. Concerned By Cuban Oil Drilling Off Coast (Fox News)
Now is the time to tear down the SBA (Fortune)
John Stossel: Mississippi has a place for heroes: jails (Townhall)
Congress Should Let ANWR’s Oil Flow to U.S. Customers (Heritage)
Dr. Roy Spencer: Questions for Al Gore (TCS)
Does Al Gore Need to Go on an Energy Diet? (CEI)

Wednesday, May 24

Study Finds 'Extensive' Fraud at Fannie Mae (Wash Post)
Martin A. Davis Jr: Far-Flung Tutors (NRO)
Congressman Scott Garrett: We need medical tort reform (Townhall)
Walter E. Williams: Click it or ticket (Townhall)
Fannie Mae fined $400 million (Reuters)
Patrick J. Michaels: Gore's inconvenient lie (Wash Times)
Wal-Mart bill hurts state, says Ehrlich (Wash Times)
New trade zone is formed (AFP)

Tuesday, May 23

Monday, May 22

Venezuela says it will pull out of G-3 trade bloc (AP)
Vietnam, U.S. to sign trade deal in June (AP)
Tim Worstall: Euro Trash (TCS)
Constantin Gurdgiev: Less Is More (TCS)
Animal rights camp to export terror (Telegraph)
Humberto Fontova: New offshore drilling = more oil and fish (BrookesNews.Com)

Friday, May 19

Jerry Taylor & Peter Van Doren: Republicans out of gas (NRO)
A contrarian look at whether U.S. chief executives are overpaid (NY Times)
Congress must stop SOX from hurting the little guy (Fox News)
Congress overlooks stem cell fraud and futility (Fox News)
Ethanol: Myths and Realities (Business Week)
Saudi FM says oil market situation is "weird" (AFP)
Global Warming: The other side of the story (Cap Mag)
Polar bear worries unproven, expert says (CBC News)

Thursday, May 18

They'd Sooner Fix Medicaid (WSJ)
U.S. Jobless Claims Probably Fell, Supporting Consumer Spending (Bloomberg)
Polar Bears on Thin Ice, Not Really! (NCPA)
John Luik: Time to Vaccinate a Panic (TCS)
The junk food smugglers (BBC)
Canadian Oil Production Seen Doubling by 2020 (Reuters)
After Dubai Ports Debacle, Congress Debates Role in Foreign Investments (Human Events)

Wednesday, May 17

David Boaz: Parasite Economy Latches onto New Host (Cato)
Walter E. Williams: Restoring liberty in America (Townhall)
Herman Cain: Social Security scam keeps on ticking (Townhall)
Bird-flu pandemic threat seen waning (Wash Times)
U.S. breaks off Ecuador free trade talks (AP)
Free Trade Two-Step (TCS)

Tuesday, May 16

Expensing = MC2 = Economic Growth2 (NRO)
Fed survey boosts forecast for growth (Bloomberg)
'Live free or move' (WSJ)
ASEAN boosts economic clout (AP)
Bruce Bartlett: Shades of grey (Townhall)
Constantin Gurdgiev: Reality of the Leisure Class (TCS)

Monday, May 15

Donald J. Boudreaux: Crystal-ball truths (Pgh. Trib. Review)
Vietnam, U.S. make trade deal to let former enemy into WTO (Wash Post)
H. Sterling Burnett: Polar bears on thin ice? (Wash Times)
The Tax Cut Record (WSJ)
Jerry Taylor: For now, gasoline is our only cheap fuel (Cato)
How gas price controls sparked '70s shortages (Wash Times)
Jonathan Robison: Soda Pop Myopia (TCS)
Ben Lieberman: Lift Tariffs on Foreign Ethanol (Human Events)
We're stuck with the Mortgage Monsters (Wash Post)

Friday, May 12

Senate OKs $70 Billion Tax Cut Bill (AP)
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr: The supply-side miracle continues (Wash Post)
What's Your Real 'Carbon Footprint'? (Fox News)
Larry Elder: The obscene debate of "obscene" profits (Townhall)
Hans H.J. Labohm: Getting Warmer (TCS)
Moonshine Mirage (Reason)
US tax vote halts EU trade threat (BBC)

Thursday, May 11

Walter E. Williams: Caring vs. uncaring (Townhall)
Alan Reynolds: The top one-hundredth of one percent (Townhall)
Iain Murray: Volatile Gases (TCS)
Bird Flu in America: fiction, not fact (Nature)
In U.S. bill, hope for end to EU trade disputes (IHT)
Quin Hillyer: Produce more domestic energy, now! (Am. Spectator)
Al Gore is playing on our fears (Post Chronicle)

Tuesday, May 9

Where the jobs are for graduating college seniors (Fox News)
Sarbanes costs higher than forecast, study says (AP)
Brendan Miniter: Profits of Doom? (WSJ)
Bruce Bartlett: Congress isn't blame-free (Townhall)
Chavez doubles tax for oil firms (BBC)
Ben Stein: Stop the Scapegoating (Am. Spectator)
Economy will benefit if 15% tax rate on dividends, capital gains is extended (Human Events)

Monday, May 8

Neil Cavuto: The Greatest Story Never Told (Fox News)
The supply-side cure to the energy crisis (NRO)
Hawaii gas cap running on fumes (AP)
Bush advisers see fast U.S. growth (BBC)
Job numbers show a strong economic recovery (Heritage)
The next X-Prize: How about a 250-mpg car? (CS Monitor)
Federal recipe for gasoline helped drive up the price (NY Times)

Friday, May 5

Employers Added 200,000 Jobs in U.S. During April, Survey Shows (Bloomberg)
DDT: A Weapon of Mass Survival (Fox News)
Public-Sector Unions Feed 'Vicious Cycle,' Analyst Says (CNS News)
Alan Reynolds: Mixing gasoline and moonshine (Townhall)
Radley Balko: ‘Opposites’ Attack (TCS)
Tim Worstall: An Army of Climate Davids (TCS)

Thursday, May 4

Ozone layer shows signs of recovery: scientists (Reuters)
Susan Estrich: Congress: Up to Its Ears in Earmarks (Fox News)
Prodigal State (WSJ)
WTO nears 'moment of truth' (Wash Times)
Walter E. Williams: Disappearing manufacturing jobs (Townhall)
DW MacKenzie: Mythology of the Minimum Wage (Mises)

Tuesday, May 2

New movie called 'soft core eco-terrorism' for kids (CNS News)
Doug Powers: Governmental viscosity breakdown (Amer Spectator)
Fed president says no level for oil threat (AP)
Tom Bethell: Price of indulgence (Wash Post)
Bruce Bartlett: Snow can be an honest broker in the press room (Townhall)
Lawmakers deal with voter anger over pork (AP)
Ethanol may not be answer to US oil dependence: critics (AFP)
U.S. consumer spending increasing (BBC)

Monday, May 1

Economy rebounds with 4.8% annual growth rate in Q1; inflation weakens (AP)
Leftist trio seals Americas pact (BBC)
The Greatest Story Never Told (NRO)
EU imposes more trade sanctions on U.S. (AP)
Six years later, the Dow is back (CS Monitor)
Ruth Lea: Personal view: The idea everyone agrees on climate change is a fallacy (London Telegraph)
Arnold Kling: Energy Policy for Idiots (TCS)

Friday, April 28

Iraq's Economic Progress Overshadowed by Violence (CNS News)
Cape Cod debates first U.S. offshore wind farm (Reuters)
Charles Krauthammer: Say it with me: Supply and Demand (Wash. Post)
'Green' politicians add to gas price woes (Fox News)
Thomas Sowell: Oily politicians: Part II (Townhall)
The latest reason not to worry about mercury (The Center for Consumer Freedom)
Alan Oxley: WTO is stalled; Europe is to blame (TCS)

Thursday, April 27

Iraq's economic progress overshadowed by violence (CNS News)
Taxpayers lose three more days to big government in 2006 (Human Events)
Peak Oil Panic (Reason)
Dow climbs to six-year high (LA Times)
Thomas Sowell: Oily politicians (Townhall)
Dr. Roy Spencer: So now we're Holocaust deniers (TCS)
Global Warming: Can anything be done? (EcoWorld)

Wednesday, April 26

Consumer Confidence highest in four years (Reuters)
Why gas prices won't go down (LA Times)
Herman Cain: Gas prices and hot air (Townhall)
Bush should stop grandstanding and get serious about high gas prices (CEI)
WTO arrives down on the farm in U.S. (IHT)
George A. Pieler: France's Spring Break Perpetuel (TCS)

Tuesday, April 25

Donald J. Boudreaux: Money isn't all that matters (Pgh Tribune-Review)
Neil Cavuto: Congress blowing hot air at energy crunch (Fox News)
Michael T. Darda: Crude realities (NRO)
Bill Murchison: High gas prices cause more hot air (Townhall)
Steady as she goes (The Economist)
Bruce Bartlett: Is a crack-up coming? (Townhall)
Peter C. Glover: Climate change's gravy train (TCS)

Monday, April 24

Breathe easier (WSJ)
William Reinsch: Potential tax impact at the gas pump (Wash Times)
Vietnam welcomes Bill Gates (CNN)
NASA expert tells alarmists to cool down climate hype (CNS News)
Venezuela notifies Andean Community (AP)
Officials: WTO to miss trade deadline (AP)

Friday, April 21

On Earth Day, hope for the environment (CS Monitor)
Dan Mitchell: Competitiveness means less government, not more (Heritage)
The Greenhouse Myth (Fox News)
Scientists cool outlook on global warming (Wash. Times)
Dr. Robert C. Balling Jr: ‘Too Hot’ Not So Hot
G. Tracy Mehan: Have a sunny Earth Day (Am. Spectator)
The trial of Sarbanes-Oxley (The Economist)

Thursday, April 20

Don't leave health care to the government, business group warns (CNS News)
U.S.-China relations are embraced in store aisles (LA Times)
Larry Kudlow: Waking up to Hillary’s big-government nightmare (NRO)
Global warming alarmists seek 'Circle of Death,' group says (CNS News)
James Dorn: China’s dilemma (Cato)
World economy 'set to accelerate' (BBC)
Stephen Bainbridge: Minimum Behavior (TCS)

Wednesday, April 19

Neil Cavuto: Big Oil's slippery slope? (Fox News)
Walter E. Williams: Is there a federal deficit? (Townhall)
Freddie Mac is fined $3.8 million (AP)
John Stossel: Your tax burden is bigger than Tax Day (Townhall)
Tilting at windmills (Wash. Post)
Pop! goes the planet (Chronicle Herald)
James Pinkerton: Cover me Vanity (TCS)

Tuesday, April 18

States acting to protect private property (LA Times)
Democracy by decree (WSJ)
Bruce Bartlett: Bush: Two-thirds conservative (Townhall)
Patrick Ross: France ignores its own wisdom (TCS)
China to move towards more market-determined exchange rate (AFP)
Tom Bethell: The Fed has lost power (Am. Spectator)

Monday, April 17

Preparing returns too taxing for some members of Congress (Wash Times)
Tom DeWeese: Fidel Castro is a Communist (Cap Mag)
More Yuan Nearsightedness (NRO)
Going Nuclear: A Green Makes the Case (Wash Post)
Media Darling on 'Global Warming' Assailed by Colleagues (CNS News)
Donald Boudreaux: Dobbs's Disciples (TCS)
Joel Schwartz: Of Mice and Men (TCS)

Friday, April 14

Tom Nugent: Graham-Schumer-Push Inflation? (NRO)
Twenty Years After Chernobyl (Fox News)
China Will Let Citizens Begin Investing Abroad (LA Times)
U.S. March Industrial Production Probably Rose, Survey Shows (Bloomberg)
Herman Cain: April Madness Again (Townhall)
A Trade Opportunity for China and America (TCS)
Will Cooler Heads Prevail? (IBD)
Brent Bozell: Character assassination, media-style (Townhall)

Thursday, April 13

Jefferson on his birthday (Am. Spectator)
Jacob Sullum: April 15: America’s 6-billion-hour day (Reason)
Bruce Bartlett: “Our taxes are too high,” Americans say (NRO)
Fat Kids: Fact, fiction and fear (TCS)
America's cutting edge (Wash Times)
U.S., Peru sign free trade agreement
Carol Midgley: Help! We need a new scare (London Times)
Feeling warmer? (WorldNetDaily)

Wednesday, April 12

Cut the corporate cap-gains tax (NRO)
Richard Lindzen: Climate of fear (WSJ)
China eyes billions in U.S. deals (Wash Times)
Steve Muscatello: Exposing government waste (Townhall)
Walter E. Williams: Immigration vs. gate-crashing (Townhall)
Roy Spencer: Americans still cool on warming (TCS)
A little warming, a lot of hysteria (Wash. Times)

Tuesday, April 11

Michael Barone: Slouching toward France (Wash Times)
Sally C. Pipes: Massachusetts will fail (USA Today)
Economists raise U.S. growth forecast, survey shows (Bloomberg)
Sen. Shelby’s takeover poison pill (NRO)
Chris Edwards: The simple (tax) life (Cato)
WTO: Global trade expected to grow in 2006 (AP)
Bruce Bartlett: How much tax is too much (Townhall)
Rep. Ron Paul: Cough Up

Monday, April 10

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 (Telegraph)
New charter school to teach entrepreneurship skills (Fox News)
Sarbox has decreased investor confidence (NRO)
GM, France and Albany (WSJ)
Arnold Kling: Bill of health (Cato)
A Band-Aid for obesity (The Center for Consumer Freedom)
Wasted energy (TCS)
Looking at the free market, and seeing red (NY Times)

Friday, April 7

Top 10 Junk Science stories of the past decade (Fox News)
Michael T. Darda: Global growth inflates . . . (NRO)
Julie Kesselman: Earmarks: Hot, or Not? (Townhall)
Consumer confidence in economy improves (AP)
This money won't buy happiness (Forbes)

Thursday, April 6

Congressional pork includes some real stinkers (MSNBC)
Arnold Kling: If Medicare were a country (Fox News)
John M. Berry: Europe is threatened by politicians (Bloomberg)
Denis Boyles: March of the Lemmings (NRO)
The Anti-Kelo (WSJ)
Europe, US must cut farm subsidies to meet WTO deadline: Lamy (AFP)
Both sides on ethanol (American Conservative Union)

Wednesday, April 5

Dr. Roy Spencer: Global warming hysteria has arrived (TCS)
Florist wins eminent domain round in court (AJC)
Fed leaders see sustainable growth ahead (Reuters)
Larry Kudlow: The economic truths of immigration reform (NRO)
Brandon Arnold: A modest spending proposal (Cato)
Walter E. Williams: What's with George Mason? (Townhall)
Take the money and run (Amer Spectator)
Uganda to use DDT despite EU concerns (The EastAfrican)

Tuesday, April 4

Michael F. Cannon: Medicare musings (Cato)
Bill Emmott: A long goodbye (The Economist)
Some new math on homes (NY Times)
Foes in 'global warming' debate fuss over witness list (CNSNews)
Japan aiming for talks over Asian trade (AP)
Venezuela’s oil field seizures jar giants (AP)
Thomas Sowell: Are facts obsolete? (Townhall)

Monday, April 3

An all-star challenge to Sarbanes-Oxley Act (IHT)
William F. Buckley Jr.: French despair (NRO)
Ben Lieberman: Easing the natural gas crunch (Wash Times)
Sam Kazman: New fuel standards unnecessary (CEI)
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil
Glenn Woiceshyn: Canada’s healthcare system is bad medicine (Cap Mag)
Jay Ambrose: Poisoned atmosphere (Scripps Howard)
George F. Will: Let cooler heads prevail (Wash. Post)

Friday, March 31

Don Boudreaux: Consumption-ability (Pgh. Tribune-Review)
John Tamny: Hike interest rates, lower the gold price? (NRO)
Is global warming to blame for increased hurricane activity and more powerful storms? (PRNewswire)
Something to worry about (TCS)
U.S., Singapore agree to hold talks to speed up tariff cuts (AFP)
Free trade bid for emerging world (BBC)
U.S. softens tone on trade ties with China (IHT)

Thursday, March 30

10 medical myths debunked (Fox News)
Gas prices driven up by ethanol? (CNN)
Yes, a rising tide (Cato)
Failed DP World deal causes concerns (Wash Times)
Cal Thomas: The French job funk (Townhall)
Senate shuts out dissent on greenhouse gas limits (CEI)
Nick Schulz: Free Trade and Folk Marxism
George Mason University, much more than basketball (Fox News)

Wednesday, March 29

Anchor-advocate on immigration wins viewers (NY Times)
Consumer Confidence rebounds in March (AP)
Senate sends in clowns on oil M&As (Cato)
Walter E. Williams: Judicial activism or restraint (Townhall)
Fed raises rates in Bernanke's first meeting (CNN)
U.S. senators postpone anti-China tariffs bill (AFP)
Alan Oxley: Green gold and cargo cults (TCS)
Emirates vows no retaliation (NY Times)

Tuesday, March 28

Pete Du Pont: Kyoto? No go (WSJ)
Alan Reynolds: Going for growth (Cato)
China, India economic rise said no threat (AP)
Vietnam nears finishing deals to join WTO (AP)
David Holman: Schweitzer’s Folly
‘Nanny state’ targets barriers to healthy life (The Scotsman)
Oil sands shift economic power in Canada (NY Times)

Monday, March 27

Globalization may aid Bernanke as productivity did Greenspan (Bloomberg)
Larry Kudlow: Paddle the French fanny (NRO)
Classy economist (WSJ)
Why U.S. business is winning (Wash. Post)
José Enrique Idler: Why Chavez’s days may be numbered (TCS)
China warns trade ties face serious setback if U.S. imposes tariffs (AFP)
Farm Subsidies: Devastating the world’s poor and the environment (NCPA)
Dennis T. Avery: Ice cores show sun, not humans, controlling Earth’s climate (MichNews.com)

Friday, March 24

Scientist alleging Bush censorship helped Gore, Kerry (CNSNews)
James A. Dorn: A capital problem (Cato)
Ford's appeasement backfires (Fox News)
Homeland Security chief says ports deal was safer bet (AP)
U.S. ends trade restrictions on Ukraine (AP)
Desmond Lachman: Europe's Economic Fantasy
Bernanke ponders his course (Economist)

Thursday, March 23

Larry Elder: The economy: the good news keeps getting worse (Townhall)
Frank Timmins: The hard truth behind the health care crisis (Fox News)
Time for “Wise and Frugal” (NRO)
EU to hold talks on widening trade (AP)
US must maintain open economy: WTO (AFP)
Friedman, 93, set to unleash power of choice (NY Sun)
Donald Boudreaux: Triumph of the individual (TCS)
Tim Worstall: Capitalism for Water Day (TCS)

Wednesday, March 22

Federal largesse fails to help state economy (Rio Grande Foundation)
Jack N. Gerar: Toward a rational natural-gas policy (Wash. Times)
Texas skies may finally be set free (NY Times)
How to fight a tax hike (Cato)
Walter E. Williams: CSPI: Busybodies or tyrants?
Wal-Marts of an earlier age (Mises)
Solar warming? (World Climate Report)

Tuesday, March 21

Best Job Market for Grads Since ’01 (Reuters)
Michael Crichton: This essay breaks the law (NY Times)
Myron Ebell: President concedes moral high ground on energy (CEI)
Neil Cavuto: Glass half full? (Fox News)
Bernanke is upbeat about economy (Bloomberg)
WTO praises U.S. for open market (AP)
Ben Stein: Who's to blame for high oil and gas prices? (Yahoo)

Monday, March 20

Larry Kudlow: End budget obesity (NRO)
Conquering cancer with private medicine (Cato)
John Berlau: How Sarbanes-Oxley hinders technology transfer (CEI)
Iain Murray: Careful what you wish for (TCS)
The global warming scam (Lew Rockwell.com)
Fair prices for farmers: Simple idea, complex reality (NY Times)
Cash carries the day (Reason)

Friday, March 17

Analysis: No cause for panic over spread of avian flu (Haaretz)
Honduras makes legal changes for U.S. deal (Reuters)
Hot air hysteria (Fox News)
There's a new tariff in town (Cato)
How rising wages are changing the game in China (BusinessWeek)
Patrick Michaels: Global warming not featured in new hurricane study (TCS)
The cost of environmental initiatives (Bergen Record)
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: A natural fit (TCS)

Thursday, March 16

Ethanol is good, except when it's not (CEI)
Fed: Economy carries momentum into spring (AP)
Phil Kerpen: An end to the Social Security raid? (NRO)
Elizabeth M. Whelan: Are sodas the new cigarettes? (Wash Times)
Dr. Roy Spencer : No news is bad news (TCS)

Wednesday, March 15

Ronald Bailey: Foreign ownership is not a threat (Reason)
John M. Berry: Bet on the Fed to pause at 5 percent (Bloomberg)
Walter E. Williams: Youth indoctrination update (Townhall)
Barroso: EU against economic nationalism (AP)
An ally betrayed (TCS)
Why GM is good for us (Newsweek)
Some would like to build a wall around U.S. economy (USA Today)

Tuesday, March 14

Tim Harford: Why poor countries are poor (Reason)
Survey: 30% of companies to hire more staff (Fox News)
Thomas Sowell: Classroom brainwashing (Townhall)
Toyota, Kia will expand in U.S. (Wash. Post)
Biggest office pet peeves
Pejman Yousefzadeh: A victory for xenophobia (TCS)
McCartney’s seal campaign silly, Inuit say (Canadian Press)
The “Specter” of condemnation hangs over all property (Cap. Mag)

Monday, March 13

Tax revolters demand end to spending madness (Fox News)
Larry Kudlow: Riding the right curve (NRO)
Fannie Mae warnings documented (Wash. Post)
EPA whips up air pollution scare (Fox News)
Rising barriers (Newsweek)
Max Schulz: Running out of oil? History, technology and abundance (TCS)
Trade talks between US and UAE threatened by ports row (CNA)
Without its huge profits, Big Oil can't invest to bring more oil and gas to market (Houston Chronicle)

Friday, March 10

U.S. More Intent on Blocking Chavez (LA Times)
Port deal was killed by politics, not sound policy (San Francisco Chronicle)
Absolution in Your Cup (Reason)
Blue collar hiring: Not so blue (CNN)
Cubicles: The great mistake (Fortune)
Paul Howard: You Get What You Pay For? (TCS)
Dubai Deal's Collapse Prompts Fears Abroad on Trade With U.S. (NY Times)
Cesar Conda: The Best Cap-Gains Tax Rate Is Zero (NRO)

Thursday, March 9

Jonah Goldberg: An economic virus (LA Times)
Michael Judge: The Incredible Shrinking Rain Forest (Opinion Journal)
Skype dials for business dollars (BusinessWeek)
Alan Reynolds: The top 10 percent, again (Townhall)
New FBI smoking guns point to PETA (Cntr. for Consumer Freedom)
US to launch free trade talks with Malaysia (AFP)
J. Henderson: The truth about Dubai (Mises)
Robert M. Green: Still dubious about Dubai? (TCS)

Wednesday, March 8

Dubai diversifies (Wash. Times)
WTO rules against Mexico in soft drink dispute (AP)
Jerry Taylor & Peter Van Doren: Driving Bin Laden? (NRO)
Carrie Lukas: The good life (NRO)
John Luik: Junk taxes (TCS)
High property taxes driving a new revolt (CS Monitor)
Walter E. Williams: Pandering to blacks (Townhall)
Thomas Sowell: Oily politics (Townhall)

Tuesday, March 7

Mideast investment up in U.S. (Wash. Post)
Foreign minister: China exports help U.S. (AP)
No beef in meat packaging controversy (Fox News)
Emeratis count cost of P&O port deal (BBC)
Top US negotiator upbeat about FTA with South Korea (AFP)
Mallory Factor: Warning: Tax hikes loom (NRO)
Michael F. Cannon: VHA Is Not the Way (Cato)

Monday, March 6

The Mythology of Health Care Reform (Fox News)
Trade And the China Card (Wash Post)
Arabian dreams (The Economist)
Canadianizing the Golden State (Reason)
Stephen Johnson: Hugo Chavez, imperialist (Wash Times)
Chuck Muth: The War on Big Soda (CNSNews)
Larry Kudlow: Port Split (NRO)
Joseph Farah: Al Gore – fool, demagogue (World Net Daily)

Friday, March 3

Chevron to spend billions on Alberta oil-sand project (Bloomberg)
Bush: U.S.-India trade will help workers (AP)
Jobless rolls at 5-year low (Bloomberg)
Irresponsible reporting of climate science (Climate Science)
Daniel J. Ikenson: Listing to port (Cato)
Never mind the gap (TCS)
U.N. Global Tax Gets Going (Center for Individual Freedom)

Thursday, March 2

For some, it’s better to give and to receive (LA Times)
U.S.-China trade is a win-win (NRO)
India, U.S. agree on economic cooperation (AP)
Black Flight (Opinion Journal)
Kennedy tries to halt windmills (Wash. Times)
New ethanol gasoline cuts fuel efficiency – expert (Reuters)
Arnold Kling: How to get what we want – better health care (Cato)
Thomas Sowell: Something for nothing: Part III (Townhall)
Alan Reynolds: Wealth and wages (Townhall)
Michael Fumento: Empirically biased (Am. Spectator)

Wednesday, March 1

Beware of official data on inflation (Pitts. Tribune-Rev.)
Ports furor is just protectionism, with a French accent (Wash. Post)
PC malaria programs at the World Bank (Mich. News)
Signs of an economic surge (CS Monitor)
Singapore, Panama sign free trade agreement (CNA)
Walter E. Williams: How to create conflict (Townhall)
Johnny Munkhammar: Hot Swedish models! (TCS)