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FOXNews.com OpinionAlaska Primary Shows That Energy Taxes Can Be ToxicEnergy | FOXNews.com OpinionJoe Miller has a narrow lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski in a surprising Alaska Senate primary. If the absentee ballots break hard for Murkowski she may narrowly escape, but at the moment it looks at least as likely that Miller will pull the upset. If he does, Murkowski’s support for energy taxes may be one of the major reasons. Read the rest at FOX Forum. Will New Jersey Do the Right Thing On Cap-and-Trade?Energy | FOXNews.com Opinion | State Taxes and SpendingBy Phil Kerpen Cap-and-trade is stalled in Congress but it’s already up and running in 10 Northeastern states – and it isn’t pretty. With a drumbeat building in New Jersey for repeal of the state cap-and-trade legislation and attention in the global warming debate being increasingly focuses on the states, this could be a key turning point in the state-level fight over global warming taxes. Mark Lagerkvist of New Jersey Watchdog has blown the lid off the secretive – and possibly corrupt – working of the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced like the name Reggie), the nation’s only currently-operating cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gases and the model for a the proposed national program. Read the rest at FOX Forum. Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast here. Obama's Sneaky MoveFOXNews.com OpinionBy Phil Kerpen Published July 09, 2010 | FoxNews.com President Obama has circumvented the Senate and the American public by using a recess appointment to install Dr. Donald Berwick at the helm of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It not only confirms the president's disregard for the legitimate legislative process, but also exposes the frightening big government extremism of the president’s health care agenda. The same president who, throughout the health care debate, dismissed concerns about rationing of care as a crazy right-wing “death panels” claim, has now bypassed the Senate to appoint a man who is a strong proponent not just of rationing care, but of politicizing all health care decisions. Read the rest at FOX Forum. Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast here. Is the EPA In Charge of Our Economic Future?Energy | FOXNews.com OpinionBy Phil Kerpen A crucial vote to block the EPA’s global warming power grab scheme is coming up in the Senate this afternoon. It's called "Senate Joint Resolution 26" ("SJ Res 26," is also called the Murkowski Resolution for its lead sponsor) and it would block and overturn the EPA’s global warming regulations. Despite the Democratic majority in the Senate, the White House and Majority Leader Harry Reid have been in a desperate scramble to stop the resolution. The White House issued a veto threat and has dispatched top officials to the Hill to pressure Democratic senators. In the end, even if the extraordinary efforts of the White House prevail, this vote will, like health care, have devastating political consequences for senators on the wrong side of their constituents. Read the rest on FOX Forum. Time to Fight Back Against the EPA's Global Warming Power GrabEnergy | FOXNews.com OpinionBy Phil Kerpen President Obama has been very made clear that his top domestic priorities are health care and global warming. We all know what happened on health care. Now the date is set for the key Senate showdown on global warming: June 10. That’s when the Senate will vote on a resolution introduced by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (S.J. Res. 26) that would overturn the EPA’s global warming regulations. It’s not subject to filibuster. There is no place for weak-kneed senators to hide. In just two weeks we’ll know where every member of the Senate stands. Read the rest on FOX Forum. Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast on this issue. Learn more and take action on www.RegulationReality.com. Did They Really Think We Wouldn't Fight to Keep the Internet Free?FOXNews.com Opinion | TechnologyDo we think the Internet should be designed and managed by Washington bureaucrats? Or do we want to continue with a privately-owned, competitive Internet? Updated May 14, 2010 The Obama administration and its friends at the Federal Communications Commission thought they could impose sweeping new Internet regulations without anybody other than far-left, Netroots activists like the fringe group Free Press noticing. They failed. Americans for Prosperity and many free-market allies have blown the whistle and are now educating the vast majority of Americans -- who are happy with the unregulated Internet as it is -- about the threat posed by regulation. Read the rest at FOX Forum. Fight back at www.NoInternetTakeover.com.  |