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AEI Proposes Carbon Tax With Brookings and Breakthrough Institute

AEI Proposes Carbon Tax AEI has released a paper titled "Post-Partisan Power" which includes a section discussing a carbon tax: 4. Internalize Cost of Program in Several Ways Including Low Price on Carbon All told, this framework would cost between $15 and $25 billion per year, …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday October 13, 2010

Avlon: Extreme Candidates are Struggling

Avlon: Extreme Candidates are Struggling John Avlon writes: Tonight, political eyes will shift to Delaware where Senate candidates Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons are meeting for their first debate. With control of the senate lagging by one or two seats according to the …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday October 13, 2010

More Women Delaying Childbirth

More Women Delaying Childbirth The National Post reports: Women are delaying childbirth until later and later in life partly because they have an exaggerated belief that fertility treatments will help them get pregnant well into middle age, suggests new Canadian research. …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday October 13, 2010

Chile Begins Rescuing Trapped Miners

Chile Begins Rescuing Miners The New York Times reports: SAN JOSÉ MINE, Chile — The first of 33 miners who had been trapped underground for two months ascended to the surface here early Wednesday morning, the beginning of the end of a rescue operation that has inspired the …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday October 13, 2010

Michelle Rhee to Resign

Michelle Rhee to Resign The Washington Post reports: BALTIMORE -- D.C. schools head Michelle Rhee, whose decision to fire many teachers helped bounce the mayor who appointed her out of office, will announce her resignation on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the situation …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Schwarzenegger Endorses Crist for Senate

Schwarzenegger Endorses Crist Politics Daily reports: Showing that independent-minded governors of sunny coastal states ought to stick together, Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed Charlie Crist for Senate in Florida. The California governor tweeted his backing Tuesday while …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Angle Raised $14 Million

Angle Raises $14 Million in July Talking Points Memo reports: Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle raised $14 million in July, August and September in her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a staggering sum that could dramatically affect a competitive battle. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Reid Has Slight Lead in Polls

Reid Has Slight Lead in Polls The Swing State Project reports: The story today in the Nevada Senate race is Sharron Angle's fundraising total: $14 million for the quarter, a huge amount by anyone's standards (although Scott Brown raised more than that in one month, but that was …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Judge Rejects Challenges to Arizona Lawsuit

Judge Rejects Challenges to Arizona Lawsuit The Huffington Post reports: A federal judge has dismissed challenges to a civil rights lawsuit against Arizona's controversial immigration law, allowing the action against the recently enacted law to proceed. U.S. District Judge Susan …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Raese Supports Eliminating Minimum Wage

Raese Supports Eliminating Minimum Wage The Huffington Post reports: Republican candidate John Raese, who is facing off against Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin for the West Virginia Senate seat long held by the late Sen. Robert Byrd, said in an interview on Tuesday that he favors …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Palin Raises $1.2 Million for her PAC

Palin Raises $1.2 Million for her PAC Politico reports: Sarah Palin had by far her best three months of fundraising since her star turn as the GOP’s 2008 vice presidential candidate, pulling in more than $1.2 million from July through the end of last month. That total — …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

DOJ Files Appeal for DOMA

DOJ Files Appeal for DOMA Talking Points Memo reports: The Justice Department today filed an appeal of the federal court decision that ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as heterosexual, unconstitutional. The notice of appeal says little, other …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Judge Orders DADT Injunction

Judge Orders DADT Injunction Ed O'Keefe reports: Updated 5:36 p.m. ET A California federal judge has issued an injunction stopping the military from enforcing its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in uniform. U.S. District Judge …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Brooks: How the Public Sector Cripples The Nation

Brooks: How the Public Sector Cripples The Nation David Brooks writes: Sometimes a local issue perfectly illuminates a larger national problem. Such is the case with the opposition of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, to construction of a new tunnel between his state and …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Why Public Employees Cost Too Much

Why Public Employees Cost Too Much The Des Moines Register writes: Republican Terry Branstad recently said he wants to cut the cost of state government by 15 percent, if elected. We look forward to Branstad providing a detailed plan for how he'd do that. The state work force is …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Applebaum: Why Does the Tea Party hate "Elites"?

Applebaum: Why Does the Tea Party hate "Elites"? Anne Applebaum writes: In 1958, an English sociologist and Labor Party politician named Michael Young imagined a future in which the British establishment dissolved itself, abolished all forms of hereditary power and created instead a …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Paladino on Holder: "F*** Him"

Paladino on Holder: "F*** Him" Hotline reports: It's already been a rough week for Republican Carl Paladino 's New York gubernatorial campaign and it looks like the hits are going to keep on coming. In a previously unreleased video obtained by Hotline On Call , Paladino has …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Obama Supports Foreclosure Probe

Obama Supports Foreclosure Probe Bloomberg reports: President Barack Obama is throwing his support behind state attorneys general looking into filings of allegedly faulty home foreclosures while rejecting a nationwide freeze on home foreclosures because of potential “unintended …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Iott: Nazis "Thought They Were Right"

Iott: Nazis "Thought They Were Right" Talking Points Memo reports: Ohio Congressional candidate Rich Iott got grilled by Anderson Cooper last night on his rather unusual hobby of dressing up as a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a unit in the German army during World …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010

Offshore Drilling Ban to be Lifted

Offshore Drilling Ban to be Lifted The AP reports: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is lifting a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said Tuesday. The Interior Department scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference in which Interior Secretary Ken …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday October 12, 2010