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May 2008
05/17/08: Engler on Lieberman-Warner
05/17/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Nissley Winery
05/16/08: A Small Business Surcharge, II
05/16/08: Vodcast: Sen. Ron Wyden on Infrastructure
05/16/08: This Week on "America's Business" Radio
05/16/08: FISA Meets the Media Shield
05/16/08: The Lead Paint Litigation
05/16/08: A Small Business Surcharge
05/16/08: Brazil Says Yes to Energy, U.S. Senate Says No
05/16/08: Good News on Housing
05/16/08: Stop Stereotyping Industrialists, Please
05/16/08: Friday Follies: Every Simpson Couch Gag Ever
05/15/08: Card Check: Do They Hear Themselves Talking?
05/15/08: Colombia is an Ally
05/15/08: On Obama's Manufacturing Agenda
05/15/08: The Polar Bears Are Fine; the Law, Not So Much
05/15/08: Saying No to Forced Unionization and Card Check
05/15/08: Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate
05/15/08: Roundabout, Legally
05/15/08: Happy 60th, Israel -- and to Your Manufacturers, Too
05/14/08: Splitting the Difference on Polar Bears
05/14/08: Polar Bear: Interior Says Threatened
05/14/08: Sec. Kempthorne to Announce Polar Bear Status
05/14/08: Export Controls: Modernize for Competition, Security
05/14/08: The President's Statement on the Farm Bill: Veto
05/14/08: Hanging In There
05/14/08: Colombia: Will the Unions Criticize Uribe's Action?
05/14/08: Colombia: Organized Labor Will Stop At Nothing
05/14/08: For Jobs and Growth, Legal Reform
05/13/08: Prescience
05/13/08: Calling the Shots
05/13/08: The Consequences of Lieberman-Warner
05/13/08: McConnell Energy Amendment Defeated, 42-56
05/13/08: Presidential Candidates United on Energy
05/13/08: Congratulations and Good Work, Secretary Chao
05/13/08: Card Check: A Risk for Candidates Who Support It
05/13/08: Tort Reform Works...So Far...In One Specific Area
05/13/08: Perambulating the Energy Grounds
05/12/08: Supreme Court Recuses, Lawsuits Proceed
05/12/08: And, It's a Shield Against Full Coverage!
05/12/08: In Other Labor News
05/12/08: Transparency for Labor, a Good Thing
05/12/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of May 12
05/12/08: Can't You Hear the Cubs Crying? Send Us Money!
05/12/08: Slumgullion
05/11/08: The USS Stockdale Commissioned
05/11/08: Cap-and-Trade: The Public Recognizes Failure
05/11/08: The Way It Was: Charles E. Drew
05/10/08: Circumnavigation
05/10/08: Asbestos: The Economy Feels the Heat
05/10/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Quality Custom Cabinetry
05/10/08: Card Check: Hypocrisy
05/09/08: This Week On "America's Business" Radio
05/09/08: Card Check: Sort of Proves the Point, Doesn't It?
05/09/08: Don't Make Rex Morgan Angry
05/09/08: Health Care Costs, A Competitive Disadvantage
05/09/08: Sunder and Sundry
05/09/08: Friday Follies: Vote Cobra '08
05/09/08: Why Not a Brooklyn Project?
05/08/08: From Central America's Ambassadors
05/08/08: Protecting Intellectual Property
05/08/08: A List of Typhoon, Cyclone and Hurricane Disasters
05/08/08: From the NEI's Nuclear Assembly
05/08/08: Those Who Do Not Learn from the Past
05/08/08: Blood Outta Stone
05/08/08: Let Canada Create the Jobs, Sell the Wheat
05/08/08: How About Those Hearings, Now?
05/08/08: Full Employment for Engineers, Scientists
05/07/08: Exports, Keeping Economy In the Black
05/07/08: Card Check: Unions Will Give Congress No Choice
05/07/08: Colombia FTA: Inaction A Billion-Dollar Mistake
05/07/08: Solidarity This, Fellow Union Workers
05/07/08: Asbestos: Trial Lawyers Inc. Rolls On
05/07/08: Is There Any Catastrophe He Won't Politicize?
05/07/08: CO Trial Lawyers Climb Back Down Pike's Pique
05/07/08: Meet the Jetsam
05/06/08: India Needs to Get Serious on Doha
05/06/08: A Role Model on Global Warming
05/06/08: Does anyone see a correlation here?
05/06/08: A Sista Souljah Moment on Energy
05/06/08: Other SF News: Higher Costs, More Government
05/06/08: A Blogging Utility
05/06/08: Pike's Pique
05/06/08: Flotsam and Dross
05/06/08: Something to Consider on Primary Day
05/05/08: Bakken Formation: Hoily, Moily
05/05/08: Dubai on the Prairies or Buffalo Commons?
05/05/08: Media Shield, A Weapon against Business
05/05/08: Pella, Iowa Celebrates
05/05/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of May 5
05/05/08: Manufacturing Edges Out Overall Economy in 2007
05/04/08: Tax Repatriotism
05/04/08: Judicial Questionnaires: Why Not?
05/04/08: Florida Trial Lawyers Kick John Henry's Patoot
05/04/08: The Case for the Longshoremen's Strike
05/04/08: The Way It Was: Michael Ruettgers
05/03/08: Today's Weather in Lewiston
05/03/08: Flash! Breaking News! Food Prices Up!
05/03/08: Answer, Wind, Blowin' -- But Not in Maryland
05/03/08: Feel Like an Old Railroad Man
05/02/08: This Week on "America's Business" Radio
05/02/08: It's Time for Hearings into the Trial Bar's Crimes
05/02/08: Cap-and-Trade: Cap the Economy, Trade the Jobs
05/02/08: Litigation Everywhere
05/02/08: The Polar Bear: Heck of a Marketing Device
05/02/08: Class Action Advertising
05/02/08: When a $54 Million Lawsuit Goes Poof.....
05/01/08: Longshoremen Strike on West Coast
05/01/08: War is Peace, Growth is Recession
05/01/08: Oh, is it May Day?
05/01/08: Polar Bears: Dangerous, But Not Endangered
05/01/08: Mixed Messages
05/01/08: Polar Bear as a Stalking Horse...Or Red Herring
05/01/08: Iron Man, a Pro-Manufacturing Movie?
05/01/08: Teacher of the Year: Congrats and Good Speech
April 2008
04/30/08: Four out of Four: Legislation COSTS
04/30/08: $54 Million Lawsuit Against Best Buy? Poof, Gone
04/30/08: We're Not in a Recession
04/30/08: The Hot Air Tour Launches
04/30/08: Further Evidence of the Importance of Exports
04/30/08: Card Check: But What Does It Do? (We Ask Again)
04/30/08: Is it the Carbonation? Is that Why You Hate Us?
04/30/08: Making New Jersey More Expensive for Employers
04/30/08: Samuelson on Energy: Start Drilling
04/29/08: Bush on Energy, Inaction on ANWR
04/29/08: On Energy, the Right Message
04/29/08: The Costs of Junk Science, Hyped Risk, Litigation
04/29/08: Environmentalists Hate Solar Energy, Too
04/28/08: Safe, Environmentally Responsible Energy
04/28/08: Just a Regulator, Just a Scientific Report
04/28/08: Foreign Investment, Some Clarity Please
04/28/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: KME Fire Apparatus
04/28/08: Rex Morgan, M.D., Diagnoses the Zeitgeist
04/28/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of April 28
04/28/08: Hard to Find Good Engineers These Days
04/27/08: The Real Agenda
04/26/08: Ledbetter Act: It Wasn't Meant to Pass
04/26/08: Four Key Lessons from the Nation at Risk
04/25/08: Vodcast: Chester Finn on Nation at Risk
04/25/08: Gas Prices: Deja Vu-Doo Economics
04/25/08: This Week on 'America's Business' radio
04/25/08: USTR Issues Annual IPR Report
04/25/08: Help New Orleans, Approve Colombia Trade Deal
04/25/08: Card Check: That's Johnny Sac in the Ad
04/25/08: Complaining Doesn't a Scandal Make
04/25/08: Take a Fresh Look at Export Promotion
04/25/08: Friday Follies: Radar Love
04/25/08: Just a Street Scene in D.C.
04/24/08: Oh, Yeah, Canada!
04/24/08: NYT: Free Speech for Some, Not Others
04/24/08: Still, STILL, Waiting for Those Hearings
04/24/08: Anatomy of a Beltway Takedown
04/24/08: Tennessee Innovators
04/24/08: Card Check: Secret Ballot? Not Any More, It Ain't
04/23/08: Ledbetter: Cloture Fails
04/23/08: Blurring the Issue of Free Trade
04/23/08: Card Check, Colombia: Unions Running the Show
04/23/08: Dark and Cold, the World Without Coal
04/23/08: Fair Pay, Fair Play and Fair Limitations
04/23/08: Lobbying Lawsuit Update
04/23/08: White House: Expect a Veto on Ledbetter Pay Act
04/23/08: Ledbetter: Scheduling as a Political Tactic
04/22/08: Earth Day: They Might be Giants?
04/22/08: From Today's Diane Rehm Show
04/22/08: Ledbetter: Really Helping the Employee
04/22/08: Flash! Ozone Rules Hit Hard
04/22/08: Let the Lawsuits Flow, Forever and Ever
04/22/08: Where the NAM Now Stands on Lobbying Lawsuit
04/22/08: Over at PointofLaw.com
04/21/08: 1st Quarter NAM Survey: Softening Business
04/21/08: Court Rejects NAM's Appeal on Lobbying Law
04/21/08: Polar Bears Also Ambivalent
04/21/08: So What Newspaper is Opposed to Colombia FTA?
04/21/08: Export Promotion Hearing; NAM's Vargo to Testify
04/21/08: What NAFTA Trade Deficit?
04/21/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of April 21
04/20/08: Colombia's Uribe to Speaker Pelosi: Please Visit
04/20/08: On the Manufacturing Economy
04/20/08: Exports, Construction, Manufacturing
04/20/08: Maybe it Was Fidel's Responsibility
04/20/08: Hype It Up, Shut It Down, but Truth Will Out
04/20/08: The Military-Industrial Complex Marches On
04/20/08: À la Recherche du Woodstock Perdu
04/19/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: BWP Bats
04/18/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
04/18/08: Vodcast: Scared to Death
04/18/08: Sounds Like a Winning Campaign Platform to Us
04/18/08: Not Such a Winning Platform
04/18/08: Some Good News on Trade
04/18/08: Literally Chicken
04/18/08: President Bush's Principles on Global Warming
04/18/08: Visiting Colombia: Some Secret
04/18/08: Former Democratic Officials Back Colombia FTA
04/18/08: Friday Follies: Cat Got Your Theremin?
04/17/08: Engler: Optimistic About Colombia FTA
04/17/08: The Candidates and Capital Gains Taxes
04/17/08: Trial Lawyers Politicize Science
04/17/08: Senator Hatch at the NAM on R&D Today
04/17/08: Bakken: Don't Let this Triceratops Go Unsold
04/16/08: A Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil, Now!
04/16/08: The President on Global Warming Principles
04/16/08: While America Pauses, Times Out and Dozes
04/16/08: Anticipating the White House on Global Warming
04/16/08: Not a Good Headline for Business Recruiters in NJ
04/16/08: Washington, D.C., Needs a Community College
04/16/08: Is that a Puddle I Spy? A Damp Patch of Turf?
04/16/08: States Prevent Expansion of 'Jackpot Justice'
04/16/08: One Year Ago
04/15/08: For Jobs Creators, Some Good News on Taxes
04/15/08: Tax Day
04/15/08: Correcting Harold Meyerson
04/15/08: Say No to LNG, Expect Higher Prices
04/15/08: Attack on Property Rights Restoration Act
04/15/08: Bakken, Good; Now, Can We Get Serious?
04/15/08: Tax Day: No George Harrison, Eric Idle Instead
04/14/08: Lonely Planet Trade Policy?
04/14/08: Card Check: In Hawaii, a Veto
04/14/08: Defending the First Amendment
04/14/08: Maryland, Using New Jersey as a Model
04/14/08: Does Anyone Take Energy Security Seriously?
04/14/08: Another Trial Lawyer on Trial: Geoffrey Fieger
04/14/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of April 14
04/13/08: Political Correctness, Circa 1959
04/13/08: Bakken Formation Oil: Yee-Haw, Etc.
04/13/08: The War Against Carbon Dioxide Goes Too Far
04/13/08: Colombia FTA: How the Colombians See It
04/13/08: MD: Making Renewable Energy Not a Reality
04/12/08: Making Trade Work Today
04/12/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Asher's Chocolate
04/11/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
04/11/08: Vodcast: Secretary Gutierrez on Colombia, Taxes
04/11/08: CBO Confirms: Lieberman-Warner, Expensive
04/11/08: Reaction from Hugo Chavez
04/11/08: More Reaction from Colombia, Etc.
04/11/08: Accountability on FISA, Colombia
04/11/08: A Reaction from the White House
04/11/08: A Reaction from Colombia
04/11/08: If the Environmentalists Had Their Way ...
04/11/08: Friday Follies: Tom the Dancing Bug
04/10/08: 4.3 Billion Barrels of Oil is a LOT of Oil
04/10/08: Greenblatt: Small Business Can Save Economy
04/10/08: House: 224-195 to Dodge Colombia Vote
04/10/08: Cuba Si, Colombia, No?
04/10/08: NAM Key Vote Letter on U.S.-Colombia Free Trade
04/10/08: Colombia FTA Resources, Links
04/10/08: Drop Dead, Colombia
04/10/08: More Good Energy News: Natural Gas and Pipelines
04/10/08: From USGS and North Dakota, Big News
04/10/08: For a N.J. Manufacturer & Survivor, Honors
04/10/08: Are the Days of Cheap Chinese Imports Ending?
04/10/08: Colombia, Balancing the Scales
04/09/08: Colombia's Vice President: It Would be a Slap
04/09/08: Cabinent Secretaries on Colombia FTA
04/09/08: Senator Baucus on House Colombia Move
04/09/08: Sharp Poke in the Eye of ALL Trade Negotiations
04/09/08: If By Restoration, You Mean Shut Everything Down
04/09/08: The North American Marketplace
04/09/08: Global Warming: The Power Hungry's Perfect Tool
04/09/08: Clinton (Bill) Supports Colombia FTA
04/09/08: Colombia and Caterpillar
04/09/08: Energy Costs Make Rutabagas More Expensive
04/09/08: Tort Reform, The Washington Post Says OK
04/09/08: Small Business, Feeling the Squeeze at the Pump
04/08/08: Key Vote Letter For Clean Energy Incentives
04/08/08: On Trade and Colombia, Consequences
04/08/08: Maryland Legislature, Regulate Away...
04/08/08: Maryland: But We Really Have to Tax Somebody!
04/08/08: Liberals Who Embrace Tax Incentives, Free Trade
04/08/08: Tax Incentives: Helping Grow the Goetta
04/08/08: A Crisis in Power -- First the U.K., then the U.S.
04/07/08: Congrats to Michael Ramirez on the Pulitzer!
04/07/08: New Jersey, a Big Vote, a Bad Vote
04/07/08: NAM President John Engler on U.S.-Colombia FTA
04/07/08: President's Remarks on U.S.-Colombia FTA
04/07/08: Bush Sends U.S.-Colombia FTA to Congress
04/07/08: The Worst Places to Get Sued
04/07/08: President to Speak on Colombia FTA
04/07/08: New Jersey, a Big Vote
04/07/08: Energy Costs: Now It's Personal
04/07/08: Condoleezza Rice on the Colombia FTA
04/07/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of April 7th
04/07/08: FISA Update: Do Not Let it Walk with the Zombie
04/06/08: Movement Afoot to Ban Oil Sands Import
04/06/08: Employers: This Could Be Coming Your Way
04/06/08: Card Check Stops Employers from Killing You
04/06/08: Five Myths about NAFTA
04/06/08: The Way It Was: J. Brandenberger, Cellophane
04/05/08: Depends on Who's Doing the Intimidation
04/05/08: On the Jobs Report
04/05/08: Cause, Effect....Still
04/05/08: Coming to the NAM, Ambassador Donnelly
04/04/08: A Therapeutic Bit of Retraction
04/04/08: Vodcast: Rep. Roscoe Bartlett on Alternative Energy
04/04/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
04/04/08: Trained Professionals are Trained Professionals?
04/04/08: Gutierrez on Trade
04/04/08: Brrrr....
04/04/08: The Best Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Page Ever!
04/04/08: The Weatherman Has It Right
04/04/08: Unemployment Rises, Jobs Lost in March
04/04/08: Friday Follies: The Ninja Parade
04/04/08: A Bipartisan Consensus for Trade
04/04/08: Card Check: What Does it Do?
04/04/08: How Bad Does Big Labor Want This?
04/03/08: Sec. Gutierrez at NAM on Jobs, Taxes, Trade
04/03/08: Making New Jersey Less Attractive for Jobs
04/03/08: Meanwhile, Back in the Jungle
04/03/08: Card Check Survey Says, Protect the Secret Ballot
04/03/08: Colombia Developments...
04/03/08: Washington Post: Wrong on Relief
04/03/08: On, Wisconsin...Supreme Court
04/03/08: More on Gas Price Hearings, API Call, Chevron
04/03/08: Dollar Valuation and the Price of Oil
04/03/08: Maryland: But We Have to Tax Somebody!
04/03/08: Card Check: Incremental Strategy at Work
04/03/08: Lou Dobbs and Susan Schwab: Clear Winner
04/03/08: AG Brown: For a Clean Environment, Drive Old Cars
04/02/08: Lou Dobbs, What a Class Act
04/02/08: Calling for Better Health Care Through Technology
04/02/08: Giving the People a Voice in Judicial Elections
04/02/08: Dream It, Do It in San Antonio
04/02/08: Visa Lottery, Gambling on Competitiveness
04/02/08: Cause and Effect
04/02/08: We Abhor/Endorse Higher Energy Prices
04/02/08: Gas Prices are High! Protect the Polar Bear!
04/02/08: Rule-of-Law Judge Wins Spot on Wisconsin Court
04/01/08: Card Check: Will Work Against Supporters in Fall
04/01/08: Domestic Oil: Let's Access It, Encourage It
04/01/08: That House Hearing on Oil Prices
04/01/08: First: Do Now Harm -- The S.F. Health Ordinance
04/01/08: This is What Energy Security Involves, II
04/01/08: This is What Energy Security Involves
04/01/08: Yeah, Why Isn't It the Law Already?
04/01/08: April Foolscap in Wisconsin
04/01/08: Comeback of the Blue-Collar Guys: Echt!
04/01/08: H-1B Visa Application Day: Sorry, All Out!
04/01/08: More Hearings!
March 2008
03/31/08: Good Luck With That Hearing
03/31/08: Rubber Ducky, You're No Fun
03/31/08: FISA Update: Getting Less Safe As Time Goes By
03/31/08: Secretary Paulson on Regulatory Reform
03/31/08: Suing Best Buy for $54 Million...Attention Wanes
03/31/08: AG Jerry Brown, Suing His Way to the Governorship
03/31/08: WaPo Sees a Path to OK Colombia Trade Deal
03/31/08: San Francisco's Employer Insecurity Ordinance
03/31/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of March 31st
03/30/08: The Way It Was: George Hearst
03/30/08: Senator Hillary Clinton on Tort Reform
03/29/08: FISA Update: Mukasey and 'One Missed Call'
03/29/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery
03/28/08: Enjoy the New Surroundings, CMTA
03/28/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
03/28/08: A Jaundiced Shade of Green
03/28/08: Getting Overtaken on R&D Incentives
03/28/08: Scalia Knocks Media Coverage of Court Decisions
03/28/08: NAM's John Engler on CNBC: Energy, Labor, Trade
03/28/08: Based at the Turks & Caicos, No Doubt
03/28/08: Al Gore: Arguments Fail, Will Insults Succeed?
03/28/08: Charles Schumer: Rethink Financial Regulation
03/28/08: Manufacturing Certificates: More, Please...
03/28/08: H-1B Visas: 65,000 Heidi Klums
03/28/08: Lieberman-Warner: Intended Consequences
03/28/08: Friday Follies: The First Song Played on MTV
03/27/08: Tax Freedom Day, a Little Sooner, But Still Late
03/27/08: Pessimism, Unrestrained by Economic Reality
03/27/08: Susan Schwab on U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement
03/27/08: Doha: The Trade Round That Blooms in the Spring?
03/27/08: Infrastructure as Economic Stimulus
03/27/08: The President's Visit to a Manufacturer
03/26/08: Honor U.S. Commitment on Cross-Border Trucking
03/26/08: How to be Excused from a D.C. Murder Trial
03/26/08: The President, Off to Colorcraft of Virginia
03/26/08: Hillary Clinton, Tort Reformer?
03/26/08: Lots of Developments on the Energy Front
03/26/08: Red Tape Rising: The Regulatory State
03/25/08: Another Presidential Visit to a Manufacturer
03/25/08: It's Slanted Against Us!
03/25/08: Guess That Leaves Virginia
03/25/08: The Costs of the Plaintiff's Bar
03/25/08: An Enriched Renaissance
03/25/08: Upton Sinclair!
03/25/08: Creating New Global Warming Policy Via Regulation
03/25/08: March Madness: Must Everything be Politicized?
03/25/08: Card Check: Schwarzenegger Vetoes
03/24/08: Sneaking In Radical Policy Via Regulation
03/24/08: Wash Post Highlights Rising Health-Care Costs
03/24/08: Commentary Inspired by Weiss, Lerach, Scruggs
03/24/08: Blogging the Issues at Johnson & Johnson
03/24/08: Energy Security, Literally
03/24/08: Longshoremen to Celebrate May Day with Strike
03/24/08: Betting on the Bakken
03/24/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of March 24
03/23/08: The Way it Was: John Wanamaker
03/23/08: Down the Memory Hole for Melvyn Weiss
03/22/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: We Need Your Footage!
03/21/08: Another Trial Lawyer Falls, Zach Scruggs
03/21/08: Not to Pick on New Jersey, But ...
03/21/08: Milberg Weiss: Motivations, Money and More
03/21/08: FISA: Another Week of Inaction Passes
03/21/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
03/21/08: Forced Unionization, Under Environmental Garb
03/21/08: Card Check: Now That's Confidence....or Hubris
03/21/08: Congressman Wamp on Energy: A Broad Strategy
03/21/08: Energy Dependence, One NIMBY Lawsuit at a Time
03/21/08: Why No Congressional Oversight of Plaintiff's Bar?
03/21/08: Friday Follies: When Collapsing Collapses
03/20/08: Check Out the Mote, Right There, Yeah, That Eye
03/20/08: …But Not In My Gas Tank
03/20/08: This is an Argument?
03/20/08: Older but Milberg-Weisser
03/20/08: Robbing Peter to Rob Paul, Maryland
03/20/08: A Guilty Plea and $10 Million Fine for 'Legal Giant'
03/20/08: A Remembrance of Arthur C. Clarke
03/20/08: Coal Exports: Global Demand for Energy Rises
03/20/08: Mel Weiss: Another Guilty Plea from a Trial Lawyer
03/20/08: More Spurious Claims About NAFTA
03/20/08: The Not So Innocent Man, Not So Much Appeal
03/20/08: If Only We'd Thought of That
03/19/08: No Mud for Oil!
03/19/08: In Michigan, Support for R&D Tax Credit
03/19/08: Whither New Jersey? Or is it Wither New Jersey?
03/19/08: Now, If We Convert the Tata Nano to Run on Coal...
03/19/08: Adam Smith (D-WA), an Advocate for Trade
03/19/08: Bill Gates and the WSJ: More Visas, More Jobs
03/19/08: Global Warming Reality: India's Model T
03/19/08: States, Taxing Their Way to Recession
03/19/08: Oh, It's a Full Day of Nonsense Here in Washington
03/18/08: An Opening Toward a Deal on U.S.-Colombia FTA
03/18/08: The Things You Learn from Speeches
03/18/08: President Bush in Jacksonville: Pass Colombia FTA
03/18/08: Innovation, a Kansas City Focus
03/18/08: Quick! Pass Legislation, or We'll Melt Away!
03/18/08: Lobbying: Resisting the Chilling Effect
03/18/08: What Does that Employee Free Choice Act Do?
03/18/08: New Jersey, Too, Harms its Competitiveness
03/18/08: Taxing Choice: Goodbye Maryland, Hello Delaware
03/17/08: Communities Pondering New EPA Ozone Rule
03/17/08: Card Check: Creeping in, Bit by Bit
03/17/08: Washington Post: A Shaggy, Snowy Dog Story
03/17/08: From Canada and Beyond: More Trade Benefits All
03/17/08: Advancing Employee Training in San Antonio
03/17/08: Dickie Scruggs, a Hero to Michigan Tourism
03/17/08: On the Tort Reform Angle, Too Bad about Spitzer
03/17/08: Another Vote Against Law & Order
03/17/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of March 17th
03/16/08: The Way it Was: Ransome Olds
03/15/08: A Report from San Diego
03/15/08: Spurring Investment, Growth in Louisiana
03/15/08: Larry Kudlow Interviews President Bush
03/15/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Violin Makers Limited
03/14/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
03/14/08: A Thought After Lerach, Spitzer, Scruggs
03/14/08: House FISA Bill Passes, 213-197
03/14/08: For Scruggs, Prison, Fines, Loss of Law License
03/14/08: Dickie Scruggs Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Bribe
03/14/08: FISA: Debate Starts on Inadequate House Bill
03/14/08: Tort Reform: Beating Back the Beating Back
03/14/08: Ozone: What 'Moving the Goalposts' Means
03/14/08: We Compete in a Global Economy
03/14/08: Friday Follies: Food Fight
03/13/08: The Steep Costs of Lieberman-Warner
03/13/08: Learn from History: Lower Tax Rates to Compete
03/13/08: President Bush on House FISA Bill
03/13/08: Washington Post to Employees: Skew You
03/13/08: EPA Ozone Rule: A Few Consequences
03/13/08: Manufacturing Careers in Manufacturing
03/13/08: FISA: Feints, Tricks and Political Games
03/12/08: Bill Gates: For Innovation, Education and Visas
03/12/08: Engler: Ozone Ruling Wrong Move At Wrong Time
03/12/08: NAM President Engler Responds to Ozone Rule
03/12/08: Reaction to the Ozone Rule
03/12/08: EPA Ozone Rule Issued, 0.075 ppm
03/12/08: AFL-CIO: On Behalf of All Working Men and Women
03/12/08: Man, What a Day
03/12/08: FISA Canards
03/12/08: Increasingly Opulent Doublethink from the AFL-CIO
03/12/08: In Support of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Pact
03/12/08: Productivity Gains, Costly Progress
03/12/08: Trade, a Closer Look
03/12/08: Anticipating the Ozone Rule
03/11/08: FISA: Latest 'Compromise' is No Compromise
03/11/08: CBS, Blogging the Manufacturing Skills Gap
03/11/08: Legal Costs, Driving Out Economic Growth
03/11/08: EPA Announces Ozone Rule 1 p.m. Wednesday
03/11/08: John Fund on Eliot Spitzer
03/11/08: FISA: No Immunity from Trial Lawyers
03/11/08: Communities Bracing for EPA's Ozone Rule
03/11/08: Eliot Spitzer, the Newspaper Headlines
03/11/08: H-1B Visas, Creating More Jobs for Americans
03/11/08: The Global Race for R&D
03/10/08: Orrin Hatch on Counterfeiting, Piracy
03/10/08: On that New York Scandal
03/10/08: Enough with this 'Fear-Mongering' Already
03/10/08: Keep on Trucking
03/10/08: Every Breath You Take
03/10/08: Anticipating the Ozone Rule in Atlanta
03/10/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of March 10
03/10/08: Card Check: Let's Have the Campaign Debate
03/09/08: More Manufacturing Mindfulness in Minnesota
03/09/08: Speaking of Transmission Lines
03/09/08: Campaign Lines, Transmission Lines
03/09/08: Is a recession brewing? Trade Flows May Help
03/09/08: The Way it Was: Ida Rosenthal
03/08/08: W.R. Grace Under Pressure: Asbestos Justice?
03/08/08: Bill Gates on Competitiveness, Innovation
03/08/08: NYT Reporter, Peter S. Goodman, on Trade
03/08/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Laran Bronze
03/08/08: DST: Think of the Energy You Save, Sleepy Heads
03/07/08: FISA: From the Obama Camp, Support for Immunity
03/07/08: A Different Take on the Jobless Figures
03/07/08: Once an Apprentice, now a Political Technomage
03/07/08: 'This Week on America's Business"
03/07/08: Not a Good Jobs Report
03/07/08: Minnesota Manufacturers: Looking for Workers
03/07/08: Ergonomics: Had the Courts Ruled Otherwise
03/07/08: Cogito, Ergo Nonsense and Insults
03/07/08: Friday Follies: Used First in Teapot Dome Hearings
03/06/08: CPSC Bill Passes, 79-13
03/06/08: FISA: Letting Surveillance Authority Hang in Limbo
03/06/08: Innovation och Manufacturing
03/06/08: How Dare Industry Express Its Views on Ozone
03/06/08: Is It OK at This Point to Say, Go Fred?
03/06/08: Sierra Club Says, More Domestic Natural Gas!
03/06/08: Labor Union Accountability: Good Work, OLMS
03/06/08: More Pro-NAFTA Sentiment, Even in North Dakota
03/06/08: Holding Organized Labor Accountable
03/06/08: Nothing's Certain Except for ....
03/05/08: The Trial Lawyer Protection Safety Act
03/05/08: Card Check: We've Dropped the Ball
03/05/08: FISA: Priorities
03/05/08: Little Plastic Bags Promote Drug Sales
03/05/08: Letting Tax Cuts Expire -- What it Actually Means
03/05/08: After Traveling to Colombia, Free-Trade Sentiment
03/05/08: A District that Needs a Community College
03/05/08: CPSC: A Database With Bad Data for Consumers
03/05/08: FISA: Where Surveillance Now Stands in Congress
03/05/08: What Other Countries Learn About Our Elections
03/05/08: Defending Our Members' First Amendment Rights
03/04/08: Good Ideas for Manufacturing (Sorta)
03/04/08: CPSC Update: A Better Approach
03/04/08: Obfuscating, Sabotaging, Specious, and Ill-founded
03/04/08: FISA Update: Movement, Process, Progress
03/04/08: BizCentral.org, Lowering Barriers to Blogging Entry
03/04/08: McCain Reinforces Unfounded Autism Claims
03/04/08: Sen. Judd Gregg on Budget Reconciliation
03/04/08: Minnesota to Industry: Move to South Dakota
03/04/08: Consumer Safety, Taking a Back Seat to Litigation
03/03/08: Senator Judd Gregg on Entitlement Spending
03/03/08: CSPC: The Administration Objects to Provisions
03/03/08: FISA: President to Address Attorneys General
03/03/08: Hope for Resolving the Energy Dilemma
03/03/08: North American Free Trade Agreement
03/03/08: CPSC: Fifty AGs, 50 State Standards
03/03/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of March 3
03/03/08: Trial Lawyers Beating Back Medical Tort Reform
03/03/08: Ohio v. Texas the Day before the Primaries
03/03/08: A License to Smear Companies
03/02/08: FISA: Yeah, Looks Like Movement in the House
03/02/08: Alaska Energy: A Consensus?
03/02/08: FISA: Surveillance Bill Moves in House?
03/02/08: The Way It Was: Henry Miller Shreve
03/02/08: Endangering the Public for Animal Rights Activism
03/01/08: Supreme Court Be Sensible? How Dare They!
03/01/08: She Says Canada is Better than the United States
03/01/08: Going Dafta over NAFTA
03/01/08: Health IT: The View from the West Coast
03/01/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Musselman's Apple Sauce
February 2008
02/29/08: EPA Career Staff Overrule Administrator
02/29/08: 'This Week On America's Business Radio"
02/29/08: John Engler: Trade is Good for Ohio
02/29/08: An Oil Boom, Where Allowed
02/29/08: Health IT: The Governors Take Charge
02/29/08: Mitch Daniels on Ozone: Don't Move the Goalposts
02/29/08: R&D Tax Credit: If Not Now, When?
02/29/08: Ticking Off Neighbors, Allies and Trade Partners
02/29/08: FISA: Money as Motivator
02/29/08: Friday Follies: Anchorman 300
02/28/08: FISA Update: Progress?
02/28/08: Marlin Wire's Congressional Show-And-Tell
02/28/08: FISA Update: President Bush's News Conference
02/28/08: Unilateralism
02/28/08: The Framing of a Story
02/28/08: Leading the Nation in Exports...and Protectionism?
02/28/08: An Imbalance in Trade Barriers
02/28/08: Well, Hugo's Happy
02/28/08: Wall Street Journal on Anti-Trade Bullying
02/27/08: Net Regulation Means Less Competition
02/27/08: House Passes Tax Increase on Oil and Gas
02/27/08: Administration Would Veto Energy Tax Increase
02/27/08: William F. Buckley, RIP
02/27/08: EPA Smog Plan Upsets Tennessee Officials
02/27/08: Where is that Daylight Saving Time Study?
02/27/08: A Bit More on Profits
02/27/08: Raising Taxes on Energy, a Key Vote
02/27/08: What It Takes to be 'A Patriot'
02/27/08: Reality Versus Rhetoric on Trade
02/27/08: Work Smart, Tax Smart -- The R&D Tax Credit
02/26/08: Conflicting Signals on Energy and Taxes
02/26/08: Heritage: Ozone Rules Costly, Counterproductive
02/26/08: Surrendering the Playing Field on Trade
02/26/08: Overselling a Recession
02/26/08: On Trade and NAFTA, a Few Facts, Please
02/26/08: FISA: We Are Less Safe
02/26/08: Mitch Daniels on Infrastructure at AEI
02/25/08: Indiana, Mitch Daniels, Manufacturing and Trade
02/25/08: Today's Surveillance Developments...
02/25/08: FISA: This Seems About Right
02/25/08: Tired Trade Tirades
02/25/08: Exxon Shipping v. Baker: What's at Stake
02/25/08: Health Care Syndicalism, a Sick Idea
02/25/08: Because They Want to Be Governors, That's Why
02/25/08: Concerns about Product Safety Legislation
02/25/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of February 25
02/24/08: WaPo and Standards for Anonymous Quotes
02/24/08: Rich States, Poor States and New Jersey
02/24/08: Rich States, Poor States and California
02/24/08: Gov. Sanford on Taxes and Competitiveness
02/24/08: Labor Unions and Global Warming
02/24/08: Nader Declares Candidacy for President
02/24/08: The Way It Was: George Bissell
02/23/08: FISA: President Bush's Radio Address
02/23/08: Maryland Solves Global Warming, Destroys Jobs
02/23/08: FISA: The Consequence of Delay
02/23/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Conestoga Log Cabins
02/22/08: It Plays in Peoria...And Worldwide
02/22/08: Speaking of Energy
02/22/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
02/22/08: FDA Pre-Market Approval and Medtronic
02/22/08: What Ruling Did the New York Times Read?
02/22/08: Here Come the Governors
02/22/08: NAM Event with EPA in Kentucky Postponed
02/22/08: Patents, Innovation and U.S. Leadership
02/22/08: Telecom Immunity: Hanging Up on Trial Lawyers
02/22/08: Friday Follies: Jaws, Done By Cartoon Bunnies
02/21/08: Kudlow's Money Politics
02/21/08: Claiming Public Interest, Really Special Interest
02/21/08: Shooting Down a Satellite
02/21/08: Question for Washington Post's Editorial Writers
02/21/08: An Israeli Perspective on Patent Reform
02/21/08: An Agreement for Energy Efficiency
02/20/08: What is It With These 'Law & Order' Writers?
02/20/08: Going Green in Cali, Cali...
02/20/08: A Carbon Tax Comes to British Columbia
02/20/08: A Sensible Standard for Medical Devices
02/20/08: Meanwhile, in Other Global Warming News
02/20/08: The Anti-Business Rhetoric Turns Uglier
02/20/08: Infrastructure: An Investment Priority
02/20/08: Maryland and O'Malley: There IS a Choice
02/20/08: Business Responds to Md. Regulatory Scheme
02/20/08: Just a Little Media Analysis on FISA
02/19/08: The Politics Risks of Anti-Business Rhetoric
02/19/08: FISA: The Plaintiff's Bar as Policymakers
02/19/08: Popular Mechanics: Made in the USA
02/19/08: With All the News Coverage of Castro
02/19/08: Maryland: Adding Regulations on top of Taxes
02/19/08: Maryland, As the Lights Grow Dim
02/19/08: Maryland Tells Private Sector: Go Away!
02/19/08: Ski Your Way to Record Damage Awards
02/19/08: Infrastructure: As Competitors Upgrade
02/18/08: Cold, So Very Cold
02/18/08: FISA: Half-Immunity No Answer
02/18/08: Ratcheting up the Anti-Business Rhetoric
02/18/08: Starting off 2008 in Low Gear
02/18/08: A Stand-Up Manufacturer and the President
02/18/08: Robert Novak: Torts, Trial Lawyers and Terrorism
02/18/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of February 18
02/17/08: A New Revolution in Human Capital
02/17/08: $54 Million or Fight? Bah
02/17/08: Rojo y Verde in Cuba
02/17/08: On Candidates' Voting Records: Yes, But...
02/17/08: Intelligence Director McConnell and FISA
02/17/08: The Way It Was: George Eastman
02/16/08: President's Radio Address on FISA
02/16/08: FISA Reality
02/16/08: Fact, Fiction and Flat-Out FISA Falsehoods
02/16/08: Product Litigation Safety Act
02/16/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Send Us Your Videos!
02/15/08: Larry Kudlow Says No Recession
02/15/08: Manufacturing Summit in Illinois
02/15/08: On Energy, Another Hurray for Labor
02/15/08: FISA: This is Why They Want to Sue
02/15/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
02/15/08: Sen. Jay Rockefeller on Lapsed Surveillance
02/15/08: Lerach: Kickbacks and Campaign Cash
02/15/08: President Bush on House FISA Failure
02/15/08: Americans for Prosperity Weighs in on Ozone
02/15/08: Senator Clinton's Manufacturing Speech
02/15/08: Mel Weiss: They Took His Drum Away
02/15/08: You Might As Well Double Down
02/15/08: The Infrastructure of Class-Action Abuses
02/15/08: The American Dream, It IS Possible
02/15/08: Friday Follies: Weezer and the Muppets
02/14/08: Obama in Janesville, Wisconsin
02/14/08: Patriot Corporations Becoming Campaign Theme
02/14/08: President Bush on Foreign Intelligence Legislation
02/14/08: 2007 -- The Year of the Shrinking Trade Deficit
02/14/08: Small Business Speaks Out on Unfair Taxation
02/14/08: FISA: High Noon at Midnight Friday
02/14/08: From South Dakota, A Good View of Manufacturing
02/14/08: Dictating Patriotism
02/14/08: Another $54 Million Lawsuit? Maybe It's Satire
02/14/08: First Campaign: From the Author
02/14/08: Immunity for Telecoms and Pizza Parlors, Both
02/14/08: Public-Private Partnership, Paving the Way
02/13/08: No More Delays
02/13/08: Roll Call Vote on Protect America Act Extension
02/13/08: Priorities
02/13/08: What the Stimulus Plan Means for Business
02/13/08: House Debating a 21-Day FISA Extension
02/13/08: Betting on higher taxes?
02/13/08: Sherrod Brown at EPI
02/13/08: House Democrats Introduce Energy Tax Increase
02/13/08: President Bush on S. 2248, Foreign Surveillance
02/13/08: Patriot Corporations in the House, Very PC
02/13/08: Retail Sales Dampen Fear of Recession
02/13/08: Health IT, Keeping Costs Down, Quality Up
02/13/08: Made in the USA: Quality, Speed and Innovation
02/13/08: A Two-Year Budgeting Process
02/13/08: As Long as They Don't Whistle Dixie
02/13/08: FISA's Political Facts
02/12/08: The FISA Roll Call Vote
02/12/08: FISA Bill, S. 2248, Passes 68-29
02/12/08: To the Labor Unions, Applause on Patent Reform
02/12/08: FISA and Retroactive Immunity
02/12/08: FISA Telecom Amendment Rejected
02/12/08: Government-Defined Patriotism
02/12/08: Fuel-ler....? Fuel-ler....?
02/12/08: Now, Congress, Investigate the Plaintiff's Bar
02/12/08: Lerach Points the Finger
02/12/08: Reversing FOIA Reforms a Step Backwards
02/12/08: Journalistic Hagiography
02/11/08: Lerach Gets Two Years for Perverting Justice
02/11/08: California's Politicians Should Step Up on Trade
02/11/08: Reaction to New FMLA Regulations
02/11/08: Global Value Chain: Financing
02/11/08: Nader Urges Mercy for White Collar Criminal
02/11/08: OK, Now We've Stimulated, Let's Destimulate
02/11/08: The Appeal: Not So Appealing, or Accurate
02/11/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of February 11
02/11/08: Wiretap Showdown
02/10/08: At the Chicago Auto Show: Communications
02/10/08: President Bush on Stimulus, FISA
02/10/08: The Way It Was: Mason and Dixon
02/09/08: Calling on Candidates to Talk Manufacturing
02/09/08: Would These Laws Stimulate the Economy?
02/09/08: Reassessing Ethanol, Gaseously Speaking
02/09/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Mead School & Office
02/08/08: China Shows Us the Way on Global Warming
02/08/08: Tennessee Mayors Protest Proposed Smog Rule
02/08/08: Vodcast: Representative Zach Wamp
02/08/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
02/08/08: At the Chicago Auto Show: Iowahawk
02/08/08: Disagree on Warming? To the Prison Cell!
02/08/08: Congratulations, Mark
02/08/08: Not Unalloyed Good News, But Still
02/08/08: The Business Provisions in the Tax Stimulus Plan
02/08/08: Friday Follies: The Year of the Rat
02/07/08: Stimulus Plan Passes Senate, 81-16
02/07/08: At the Chicago Auto Show: Tschotkes
02/07/08: Senate Stimulus Agreement Reached
02/07/08: Falling Behind While Standing Still
02/07/08: Attorney General Mukasey on FISA
02/07/08: Context...on the Economy, Some Context, Please
02/07/08: Ozone Regs: Crushing the Economy in Michigan
02/07/08: Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Taxation Pain
02/07/08: A Positive Step Toward Energy Security
02/07/08: Global Value Chain: Skilled Workforce
02/07/08: Lobbying Law: Reforming the First Amendment
02/06/08: At the Chicago Auto Show: The Family Vehicle
02/06/08: FISA Update: Debate Resumes
02/06/08: At the Chicago Auto Show, Selling
02/06/08: Defending the First Amendment
02/06/08: Not Interested in Returning to Judicial Hellhole
02/06/08: To Infinity..... and Beyond
02/06/08: FISA Update
02/06/08: Don't Let the Deal Go Sour
02/05/08: On a Cold and Snowy Night in Chicago
02/05/08: Improving the Family and Medical Leave Act
02/05/08: NAM News Conference, the Legal Buzz
02/05/08: If the Ozone Rule Isn't Broke, Why Fix It?
02/05/08: On LNG, Officials Should Get in Touch with Reality
02/05/08: They Pump the Oil Back into the Ground
02/05/08: Other Votes on Super Tuesday, II
02/05/08: Capital Gains, Boosting Competitiveness
02/05/08: Other Votes on Super Tuesday, I
02/04/08: Even More on the Capital Gains Forum
02/04/08: Colombians Want Peace, Prosperity and Freedom
02/04/08: EPA Waivers and the Meaning of Extraordinary
02/04/08: FISA...Just a Little More Delay for National Security
02/04/08: Recalling More Weiss Moments at DMI
02/04/08: FY09 Budget: Making Tax Cuts Permanent
02/04/08: Meanwhile, Senator Obama on Capital Gains
02/04/08: More on the Capital Gains Forum
02/04/08: Beating the Drum for the Middle Class? Not Really
02/04/08: Let's Unlock Those Capital Assets
02/04/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of February 4
02/03/08: When Economies Grow, Power Demand Increases
02/03/08: Cheap and Easy Populism on the Campaign Trail
02/03/08: 'There Will Be Blood' & Modern Drilling Technology
02/03/08: The Way It Was: Alfred Sloan, General Motors
02/02/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Community Loudspeakers
02/02/08: Stimulus, Growth and Confidence
02/01/08: Proposed Smog Rule Casts Economic Pall
02/01/08: NAM Executive Gets Manufacturing Award
02/01/08: 'This Week on America's Business'
02/01/08: Vodcast: Rep. Melissa Bean, John McLaughlin
02/01/08: FISA Updated: Authority Extended 15 Days
02/01/08: Why the Abuses by Trial Lawyers Matter
02/01/08: Bill Lerach for Attorney General
02/01/08: R&D Spending Pays Off in Minneapolis
02/01/08: Friday Follies: Stairway to Gilligan's Island
January 2008
01/31/08: Transformational Diplomacy
01/31/08: Carbon Absolution or Carbon Accountability?
01/31/08: Congratulations to the Smithsonian
01/31/08: Hope this TV Show is Soon Pushing Daisies
01/31/08: Global Value Chain: Innovation
01/31/08: Are You Aware of the Improving Trade Balance?
01/30/08: Vive le France, Maintenant
01/30/08: The President at Robinson Helicopter
01/30/08: A Manufacturer Hosts the President
01/30/08: Ozone Regs: Crushing the Economy in Atlanta
01/30/08: But the Two Americas Will Live On
01/30/08: Profits: The Keys to the Cures
01/30/08: Durable Truths and Exports
01/29/08: FISA Authority Extended 14 Days
01/29/08: House Passes Stimulus
01/29/08: Taking Carbon Offsets Way Too Far
01/29/08: Barton Questions U.S. House's Carbon Offsets
01/29/08: Trade, Growth, Energy, Health Care
01/29/08: Candidates Say: Better Cuba and China
01/29/08: FISA: Stick to Your Guns, Mr. President
01/28/08: A Worthy Emphasis on Trade
01/28/08: State of the Union on The Economy
01/28/08: The State of the Union on FISA
01/28/08: A Manufacturer in the First Lady's Box
01/28/08: Don't Tase Me, Bro! I'll Sue!
01/28/08: FISA Cloture, FISA Fictions
01/28/08: Congratulations, Secretary Schafer
01/28/08: FISA and the Good Corporate Citizen
01/28/08: FISA Update: A Mess
01/28/08: Legal Quote of the Day
01/28/08: Carbon Sacrifices? Sign Me Up!
01/28/08: A Review of the Progress on Tort Reform
01/28/08: The Week Ahead: The Week of January 28
01/28/08: For Tonight's Speech, Some Requests
01/27/08: Michigan AG Argues Against CA Waiver Request
01/27/08: Comparing the Telecoms to Nazi War Criminals
01/27/08: The Way It Was: Min Kao
01/27/08: What's in Store for the Economy 2008
01/26/08: Organized Labor: Taking Us Down With Them
01/26/08: Cool Stuff Being Made: Baker Ballistics
01/25/08: Vodcast: Anticipating the State of the |
