http://www.insideronline.orgRSS feed for the InsiderOnline.org Blogen-US Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:45:00 ESThttp://www.heritage.org/ui/icons/thflogo.gifhttp://www.insideronline.orginsideronline.org http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=B3AE80DB-E1F8-7040-2761C1235B3EFA84 Some might think that Audi "Green Police" commercial foretells the development an environmental police state. Others might think it an outlandish caricature. But judging from some of the environmental ordinances that have been either passed or proposed in the past... Insider The Insider Online Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:02 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=B3AE80DB-E1F8-7040-2761C1235B3EFA84 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9F19A91D-9168-251E-D9919B973ED0E71C A common objection to the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which struck down limits on political speech by corporations, is that corporations do not deserve First Amendment protection because they are not people. Cato Institute fellow Ilya Shapiro explains why... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:07 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9F19A91D-9168-251E-D9919B973ED0E71C http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9F0C531C-CA49-344E-3467A2260C554A7D Although Barack Obama promised lobbyists would not serve in his White House, and issued executive orders restricting former lobbyists, more than 40 ex-lobbyists now populate top jobs in the Obama administration, including three Cabinet secretaries, the Director of Central Intelligence,... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:53 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9F0C531C-CA49-344E-3467A2260C554A7D http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9F023F08-98DE-69FB-1D28B216B797F326 • How do we let financial firms fail without threatening the rest of the economy? Nicole Gelinas, author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street-and Washington, will take up that topic at a breakfast forum at the National... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:42 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9F023F08-98DE-69FB-1D28B216B797F326 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9C4DC489-C183-AA90-02C90C91E25F5729 U.S. gross domestic product grew 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, which sounds pretty good. But wait: Kevin Hassett points out that more than half of that increase in output (3.4 percentage points) went to increasing inventories. That can't continue:... Insider The Insider Online Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:05 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9C4DC489-C183-AA90-02C90C91E25F5729 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9B44699A-AA3A-BE16-9C50FF578A2447C6 Penn State University has cleared Michael Mann on three out of four counts of professional misconduct. Last fall, a cache of e-mails came to light showing that Mann and climatologists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit had... Insider The Insider Online Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:16 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9B44699A-AA3A-BE16-9C50FF578A2447C6 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=962420C9-B6DE-75E4-47B77E399882D7AA When the stimulus was debated last year, many folks pointed out that the extra $87 billion for Medicaid in the package could not reasonably be described as merely a temporary stop-gap for state budgets. What would states do when the... Insider The Insider Online Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:22 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=962420C9-B6DE-75E4-47B77E399882D7AA http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=952E06A0-EB98-C7B5-4EDD9DB55898ADD6 The White House's 2011 federal budget includes $3.99 billion for Community Development Block Grant programs, and one of the groups likely to get a chunk of that funding is ACORN-the group that was caught on video giving advice on how... Insider The Insider Online Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:53 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=952E06A0-EB98-C7B5-4EDD9DB55898ADD6 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=910A0EAB-BA95-B917-A06D979ECA382CD0 What more does one need to say about school choice other than that it is good for students? According to the authors of a new paper published by Environmental Science & Technology, school choice policies can contribute to global warming... Insider The Insider Online Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:36 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=910A0EAB-BA95-B917-A06D979ECA382CD0 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=901F8C10-0EDC-BFCB-D6E5474886277A0A "[M]edian growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP are roughly one percent lower than otherwise; average (mean) growth rates are several percent lower." That finding comes from a new paper by economists Carmen Reinhart and... Insider The Insider Online Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:20 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=901F8C10-0EDC-BFCB-D6E5474886277A0A