by Iain Murray
September 17, 2009 @ 10:00 am
In his update to his post, Declan McCullagh notes an objection by the Center for American Progress:
The fourth objection is the most compelling. The Center for American Progress writes: “The potential benefits of clean energy legislation far outweigh the modest costs.” That’s a reasonable cost vs. benefit calculation, and it includes the claim that even with the extra taxes, cap and trade is so vital to America, it’s still worth it.
That’s the right approach to take: it would be a…
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by Hans Bader
September 11, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
Many falsehoods were uttered by the President in his health care speech, as even liberal newspapers and Obama advisers have made clear. But the inept, George Soros-funded liberal lobbyists at the Center for American Progress (CAP) attempted to demonize ObamaCare’s critics anyway.
CAP recently shot itself in the foot by refuting its own claims in its September 11 “Progress Report.”
For example, it wrote that critics of big government and ObamaCare “include the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, corporate front groups that…
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by Ivan Osorio
March 09, 2009 @ 10:38 am
Rumors of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) being introduced in the current Congress have come and gone — and will come again. Yet the Washington rumor mill being so active on this shows just how big an issue this is. For the unions, it is their number one priority, since they see it as a tool to reverse decades of membership decline. For the business community, it would impose yet another dead-weight cost in the middle of a…
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by William Yeatman
February 24, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
“A Matter of Fact,” a new report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, challenges the Washington Post to correct George F. Will’s “Dark Green Doomsayers” column, published February 15th. The report, by CAP’s Brad Johnson, asserts that George Will made three factual errors:
Current “global sea ice levels” equals those of 1979
There hasn’t been warming in “more than a decade”
“Global cooling” joins a list of well publicized “planetary calamities that did not happen.”
Will’s column is not perfect,…
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by Ivan Osorio
October 06, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
Few things are as exasperating as watching two sides argue — and neither rise above being half-right, at best. Still, the resulting exchange in this case is thought-provoking.
Today, the left-liberal Center for American Progress responded to a Washington Post editorial calling for a tougher stance on the part of Washington against Latin American autocrats like Hugo Chavez and his cronies in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Ecuador. While the Post editorial is right on more counts than is the CAP piece, they both seem…
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