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Now that “private jet” is the new “welfare queen,” how about making them pay market prices to take off and land at major airports?
Archive for January, 2009
January 26th, 2009
Category: Climate change, India
A new development in northern India sheds some light on how to engage developing countries on climate policy.
January 26th, 2009
Category: Blogging, Climate change
Very early this morning, the good folks at the Northwestern Law Review published my article suggesting that the US Trade Representative serve as the lead agency for subsequent international climate change negotiation. A few hours later, President Obama announced that Todd Stern will serve as his international climate change representative, and work under Hillary Clinton [...]
January 25th, 2009
And there was much rejoicing…
January 25th, 2009
Perhaps Israel can acknowledge responsibility for the Palestinian refugee problem without acknowledging guilt.
January 25th, 2009
Category: Torture
They’ll need a Special Counsel. How about William Howard Taft IV?
January 24th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
The material on the Whitehouse.gov website doesn’t suggest that drugs and crime will be on the front burner. But there’s scope here for an Administration dedicated to helping the dispossessed and committed to making policy based on science and common sense rather than ideology.
January 23rd, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspiracy asks his conservative brethren to consider whether they are willing to attribute to Barack Hussein Obama the same near-dictatorial powers they claimed for George Walker Bush.