Category Archives: Talking Points
Democrats to reintroduce DREAM Act
Original Politico article here By SCOTT WONG | 5/10/11 7:26 PM EDT Senate Democrats will re-introduce the long-stalled DREAM Act, hoping to tap into momentum from President Barack Obama’s speech along the border Tuesday about America’s need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Bob […]
Continue readingHow Choice Can Detoxify Taxes
How Choice Can Detoxify Taxes (excerpted from Your Money, Your Choice Rethinking Taxes: Proud to Pay by Cait Lamberton) According to experimental research I’ve conducted looking into the efficacy of tax choice, permitting taxpayers to allocate even a small percentage of their income tax to the programs of their choice generates significant increases […]
Continue readingProtecting the Affordable Care Act
Talking Points: Protecting the Affordable Care Act * Instead of working to find bipartisan solutions to create jobs, grow the economy, and make America more competitive, Republicans in Congress are spending all of their time re-fighting the political wars of the last two years by trying to repeal health reform and give control over your […]
Continue readingGabrielle Giffords Attack
President Obama’s Tucson Memorial Speech Original Huffington Post article Will We Heed President Obama’s Call for a More Empathic Society? In a memorial service held in Tucson, Arizona for victims of the recent tragedy, President Obama called on Americans to “sharpen our instincts for empathy” so that we can become a more civil people. The President’s […]
Continue readingRenewable Energy Map
Note the abundance of sunshine in Arizona and then note that the only two production-size solar power plants are both in California.
Continue readingEnergy Subsidies
Note the absurd amount of money the government spends subsidizing dirty fuels like coal and oil vs the amount spent on renewable sources.
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