Yesterday's budget added £1.4 billion to energy bills owing to its massive increase in subsidies for renewables, including £800m for offshore wind. If wind power is so cheap, why does it need so much subsidy?
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Jeremy Hunt told the Commons that "the NHS is, rightly, the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British". What extraordinary nonsense, says James Bartholomew. It is our national shame.
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New York Post, May 31, 2023 Get them rewrite! Debt-ceiling deal fails to fix DC by James Bovard The biggest peril of the Biden-McCarthy budget deal is spawning the illusion federal spending is under control. Both President Joe Biden and Republican congressional leaders can claim victory and lull Americans into believing rising national debt is […]
Olivia Dufour a été juriste dans un cabinet d’avocats avant de devenir journaliste. Spécialisée en droit et en finance, chroniqueuse judiciaire, elle est actuellement responsable du développement éditorial du site d’information Actu-Juridique. Elle est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont « Justice, une faillite française ? », « La justice en voie de déshumanisation » et […]
Thanks very much to Objektiiv for translating my AIER piece on Biden’s Budget Buncombe into Estonian. I hope the humor worked better in translation. James Bovard: sõna sai Vikatimees 4. mai 2021 James Bovard Majandusteadlane, filosoof ja kirjanik James Boward annab mõttekoja Ameerika Majandusuuringute Instituudi (American Institute for Economic Research) portaalis ülevaate Joe Bideni Ameerika […]
According to a new poll from the University of Chicago's General Social Survey, 54% of Democrats describe themselves as liberals. In 1974, when GSS first asked that question, only 32% did, most of the rest describing themselves as moderates or conservatives. Harvard's Co-operative Congressional Election Study released this year, show that even Dems who identify as conservative, support progressive policies.
If the budget is a statement of values, the Democrats' presumed inability to unite behind one, speaks volumes about a party whose tent is too big to be functional. Trump's DOA budget will never get a vote but his intention of a high increase for the Pentagon and paying for his vanity wall by cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is all anyone needs to know about his values and his party's values.
In our series of articles on the State of the Russian Federation speech given last week by President Vladimir Putin, we covered the objectives and situation reports on the Russian military, her international relations not related to military matters, as in trade, and her top domestic priority – the support and
