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    Top 10 Reads: July 14, 2011

    Catching you up on clips, commentary and news of the day. Sign up for the daily email update from Scribe. FOX and the Sharks – Mike Gonzalez Are the Rich Undertaxed? – Michael G. Franc In wake of Mumbai attacks, Pak could help save dialogue with India – Lisa Curtis A subsidy by any other name – David Kreutzer U.N. sea treaty still a bad deal for U.S. – Kim R. Holmes Politics has overtaken science at the EPA – Dr. Gilbert Ross White House Defends Net Neutrality Rules, Disses Defunding … More

    Free Trade Fact of the Day

    Writing on agriculture’s role in the collapse of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson summarizes the past 70 years of U.S. farm policy in the New York Times: Here at home Congress recently overrode President Bush’s veto to approve a $300 billion, multiyear farm bill awash in subsidy payments regardless of current commodity prices. Yet we all know the tired refrain each time these indefensible farm bills come up for enactment. First, they are transparent election-cycle harvests for farm-state politicians, who have … More