Monthly Archives: November 2010

Voice of Jerusalem

This week Obama told Israel that if  Israel ended construction of Jewish  housing in Jerusalem for 90 days, the U.S.  government would oppose international  efforts to impose a political solution on  Israel in the peace process or to  “delegitimize” the country, Obama would  ask Congress to approve the sale of 20  advanced fighter planes to…

Another Israel-Hezbollah War Looming?

By Jessica Hredzak Pax Americana Institute Four years after the Hezbollah terrorist organization and the state of Israel waged war against one another, Hezbollah’s strength – militarily and politically – has never looked better. In 2006, Hezbollah captured two Israeli border patrolmen and initiated strategic rocket attacks on Israeli towns, provoking a war with Israel.…

Special State of the Family Report:

Wisconsin Provides $38,000 per year in Tax-Free Benefits to Single Mothers Choosing Not to Marry the Fathers of Their Children By Glenn Grothman America’s Biggest Problem: The Breakdown of the Family We are all grateful when children are not aborted. Nevertheless, out-of-wedlock births have grown from 10.7 percent in 1970 to 41 percent last year.…

MacIver Institute to Push for Fiscal Responsibility in Wisconsin

Free Market Think Tank Releases the “MacIver Principles to Guide Wisconsin’s Budget” Madison, Wis. – The Free Market Voice for Wisconsin has unveiled their framework to repair Wisconsin’s broken budget. On Nov. 12, the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy released its “MacIver Principles to Guide Wisconsin’s Budget.” a series of policy and process…

The Energy Advocate

Solar Follies Spain has provided an object lesson in how not to do things. Ben Sills, writing in The Guardian, says Solar investors were lured by a 2007 law passed by the government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero that guaranteed producers a so-called solar tariff of as much as 44 cents per kilowatt-hour…

The Week That Was November 11, 2010

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT Quote of the Week “…but OMB and Treasury found severe problems with ‘the economic integrity of government support for renewables.'” – WSJ Report on an internal White House Memo Number of the Week 65.8 GWe to 0.7 GWe This Week By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy…