reason.com - 5/21/2009
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With Supreme Court Justice David Souter set to retire next month at the end of the Court's current term, President Barack Obama faces one of the most important decisions of his tenure. Reason.com asked a panel of leading legal scholars and commentators for their views on what sort of justice ...
bloomberg.com - 5/15/2009
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bloomberg.com —
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama ,
calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest...
rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries. “We can’t keep on just ...
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Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’ ...
baselinescenario.com - 5/21/2009
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baselinescenario.com —
CAFE stands for Corporate Average Fuel Economy –
the average fuel efficiency that is calculated annually for...
every manufacturer that sells cars or light trucks in the U.S. and compared to standards set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of ...
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The Economics of CAFE
content.usatoday.com - 5/28/2009
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content.usatoday.com —
Good morning from The Oval. It's Day 128
of the Obama presidency, and the president will spend...
most of it in Las Vegas. And who can consider Sin City without thinking of a certain Elvis Presley movie and song: "A...
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Obama's Day: Viva Las Vegas
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Symposium: “Replacing Justice Souter”
Overlawyered —
... I’m one of the participants in an online symposium at Reason on who can, should or will serve as President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. I have kind words for Walter Dellinger III, mixed views on “empathy”, and predict that the current surge of activist federal economic policy will contribute to the Court’s docket in coming years. The full list of participants: Radley Balko, Alan Gura, Wendy Kaminer, Manuel Klausner, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Walter Olson, Roger Pilon, Glenn Reynolds, Damon W. Root, Ilya Shapiro, Harvey Silverglate, Ilya Somin, and ...
Brown Won't Deliver On Property Rights
Mises Economics Blog —
The conservative and Beltway libertarian crowds are appalled by the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The early commentary has focused on Sotomayor's role in Ricci v. DeStefano, a federal Civil Rights Act lawsuit brought by New Haven, Connecticut, firefighters against the city. The plaintiffs, who are white, said the city broke the law when it refused to certify the results of a promotion exam because, well, no blacks passed. Sotomayor was part of a Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel that upheld a lower court's decision to grant summary judgment to the city. The Supreme Court is now reviewing the ...
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