Bad Idea: Tax Credit for Alternative Fuels

International Paper gets $71.6M tax credit

Before they used wood chips as an energy source, add a few gallons of diesel and you get a nice big tax credit.

Paper Companies Gaming the Tax Credit System?

Pulp Nonfiction

"Thanks to an obscure tax provision, the United States government stands to pay out as much as $8 billion this year to the ten largest paper companies"

Obama, like Bush, likes "State Secrets"

The left is upset with Obama breaking his campaign promise.

Obama Silent on Support for ‘State Secrets’ Reform

"The bill was reintroduced in February, just as the Obama administration stepped into the Bush administration’s shoes — and began arguing that “state secrets privilege” required the dismissal of several sensitive cases alleging torture, warrantless wiretapping and other illegal activity by the Bush administration."

Pirates: An Obama Plus

Obama authorized killing the pirates. I support this action. But I have already heard some criticism of this action. Was not this a criminal action, like a robbery, and thus the Somalia's did not deserve the death penalty? Obama just authorized the killing of citizens of a nation we are not at war with. I wonder how the left-leaning media will handle this.