Posts about Stop Cap and Trade as of October 13, 2009

| Sourced From Duluthnewstribune.com |A rift is developing between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and some of its members over how far the nation should go to curb greenhouse gas emissions that most scientists who study the issue say are causing global warming.Computer giant Apple announced last week that it was leaving the chamber because the group is lobbying to defeat legislation to regulate carbon emissions. Nike said earlier that it had resigned from the chamber’s board for the same reason.

By Cliff Kincaid Posted: 10/13 09:38:54/2009 By Cliff Kincaid  |  October 12, 2009 Liberal and conservative Catholics alike would prefer not to discuss how the Catholic Church, here and abroad, functions like a liberal/left-wing political lobby. Some pro-life Catholics are acting shocked that the Vatican warmly greeted the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, who is pro-abortion. They don’t seem to understand that the Vatican and Obama agree on most major international issues.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton You Catholics really have a conundrum. Do you support the principles set forth by the Founding Fathers of these United States or do you follow those who would enslave you?

October 12th, 2009 Upcoming Live Reader Chats: Noon, Tuesday, POLITICO-NAF Live Reader chat, “Cold War Lessons for the Hot War in Afghanistan” with Nicholas Thompson, a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Senior Editor at Wired magazine, and the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War12:30, Weds., Brookings, Isabel Sawhill  Transcripts of Recent Chats New America Foundation, Lisa Margonelli Carnegie Endowment, Karim Sajadpour and Deepti Choubey on

The hits keep coming for the embattled United States Chamber of Commerce. On Saturday, I wrote about the Chamber’s overwhelming hypocrisy on climate legislation: While the Chamber claims it “continues to support Federal climate legislation” , it is actually continuing its 17-year old campaign against it . Representative Ed Markey on Thursday issued a point-by-point explanation of how his legislation, which the House passed in June, meets all of the Chamber’s criteria for successful legislation.

Red Country: President Obama’s energy “czar” Carol Browner hinted today that the EPA might implement a cap and trade plan for carbon dioxide emissions even if that type of plan fails in the Senate. In other words, if our elected leaders recognize that enough Americans oppose a cap and trade system and the energy tax is defeated, the government is preparing to impose it on us anyway.

By: Andrew McKillop MarketOracle.com In a Yang-Yin world where only two paradigms, models or states are possible – obviously not the real world – commodity boom should replace financial crash, like day follows night. To some, including Jim Rogers, this is already in the works. Speaking from Singapore in interview with the UK Daily Telegraph on 8 October, he forecast a commodities boom able to last 20 years. He said: “Commodities are the best place to be, if you ask me, based on supply and demand”.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a short article about the heath care debate and the effect of medical malpractice tort reform on the costs of health care. The gist of the article is that the entire cost of medical malpractice lawsuits is less than ½% of total health care spending. Here are excerpts: A look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: Would restrictions on medical malpractice lawsuits mean cheaper health insurance? THE POLITICS: Republicans rally around the idea that the health system would save substantial money if limits were placed on frivolous lawsuits by patients or their families, and on the size of awards paid out when medical mistakes are made.