Our friends over at the Cascade Policy Institute tipped us off to a new short climate change documentary coming out mid-september. The documentary, Climate Chains, specifically targets cap and trade legislation and its possible effects on the economy. The movie is particularly relevant with the Senate moving to debate the Waxman-Markey legislation sometime this fall.
Trailer after the jump.
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Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute (“Feds in the Classroom“) alerts us to a truly disturbing consequence of the federal government’s intervention in education. The U.S. Constitution provides no grant of authority for federal involvement in education. As the founders recognized, a government that has no moral authority to mandate how people worship has no moral authority to indoctrinate people as to how or what to think. The commonality of freedom of religion and freedom of education, blurred by the No Child Left Behind Act, is about to be obliterated by President Obama’s September 8 address to the nation’s school children.
The Tax Day Tea Party organizers are planning another rally at the state capitol on Constitution Day, September 17th. The rally features many prominent speakers from around the state. Bring your friends and family and let your voice be heard. The event will take place from 5pm to 8pm in front of the state capitol [...]
