Governor Mitt Romney today delivers remarks to the National Rifle Association’s Annual Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.


Governor Mitt Romney today delivers remarks to the National Rifle Association’s Annual Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.


Vice President Biden was right that the new president would be tested early in his administration. What the world learned was not good news for freedom and democracy.
Recently, Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced that his nation has successfully mastered every step necessary to enrich uranium, violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed. And North Korea's Kim Jong Il launched a long-range missile on the very day President Obama addressed the world about the peril of nuclear proliferation.
In both instances the world's equation for peace and security was altered, and the Obama administration chose inaction.
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Today Governor Romney is in Virginia with Eric Cantor speaking to a small group of citizens and the press about the launch of a new group the "National Council for a New America."
The group will send party leaders across the country for a series of town halls on health care, the economy, energy and national security.

GM's new proposal, clearly produced under government duress, is worse than virtually any of the alternatives. It would give GM to the UAW and the U.S. government and make taxpayers pick up the bills. Of course, billions more from government would be drawn down right away. But the UAW could also depend on the Obama administration to keep up the subsidy for years and years to come. Government and Union co-ownership: It would be as ineffective as it is un-American.
The right course for GM is an out-of-court restructuring or bankruptcy. Either would keep the company in business and rid it of burdensome costs, work rules and obligations. The government could backstop the post-restructuring debt, helping the company get on its feet. GM must not fail: If its costs are brought in line with its competition, it can ultimately thrive and grow jobs. What is proposed is even worse than bankruptcy—it would make GM the living dead.
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As President Barack Obama pushes for a national cap-and-trade system, results are starting to come in from the nation’s first mandatory program to limit carbon emissions and they foreshadow higher electricity prices for all.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), got under way on Jan. 1 and covers power plant operators in
At the center of it is the concept of selling to power plants the right to discharge CO2 into the air, something they previously did for free, turning it into a lucrative revenue source for government.
The “cost to pollute” is expressed as the price to emit a ton of carbon. The first auction of permits was held last September, when the price was set at $3.07 per ton, more than 50 percent higher than the $2 predicted by the
The price increased to $3.38 in a second auction in December. It went up to $3.51 in a third auction in March.
Through this nifty scheme, states so far have pocketed $262 million from the power-producing sector, which can only come from one place: electricity users. Auctions are held quarterly, and the per-ton price will rise as the carbon caps are lowered over time and speculators get in on the game.
Not wasting any time, the Public Service Company of
Aside from punishing polluters, one of the ideas behind RGGI and cap-and-trade in general is to make alternative energy sources economically viable. The easiest way to do that is to make fossil fuel-powered energy more expensive. If consumers get hurt, so be it.
What cap-and-trade ignores is the mobility of companies that want to avoid the taxing effects of RGGI. Energy-intensive industries will simply migrate to where there are no caps. The result is the same amount of pollution, just fewer jobs where cap-and-trade is in effect.
There are other problems. A natural gas plant in
One unsympathetic environmentalist dismissed the complaint by noting that higher costs are the price “for dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”
But that’s not how cap-and-trade was sold. Back in 2005, the sweet-talking Conservation Law Foundation hyped dubious studies to claim that RGGI “could cut electric bills for most businesses and residential users.”
Not even the president believes that propaganda. Obama is eying RGGI as a national model. In a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, then-candidate Obama was honest about what cap-and-trade would mean for the nation.
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” he said. “You know, regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money onto consumers.”
In line with Obama’s prediction, RGGI is raising costs and forcing energy producers to “pass that money onto consumers.” It couldn’t come at a worse time for a struggling economy.
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