A video from a David Horowitz retreat several months back has already cost one person a job. The video shows Patrick Caddell, former pollster to Jimmy Carter, lament that “the whole idea of the environmental movement isn’t to clean up the environment” but rather to “basically deconstruct capitalism. They are against capitalism.” A little later Caddell continues, “I happen to believe this country needs a good dose of what it believes in: real democracy and real free enterprise.” While embarrassing to those on the left who promote the sort of policies Caddell refers to, the remark …
California, the land of sunshine, surfing, soaring unemployment and ballooning deficits, may be making moves to strip itself of one of its most costly and draconian environmental regulations: the cap-and-trade carbon tax. Meanwhile, the City of Los Angeles is turning to private industry for help in digging out of a financial hole. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, California Assemblyman Dan Logue started a campaign to suspend the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act, which The New York Times calls the “nation’s furthest-reaching global-warming law.” It was designed to reduce …
