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Congress hands ethanol one more break

The people who make ethanol in this country get a lot of breaks, and the U.S. House just handed them another.

The new cap-and-trade climate bill says the Environmental Protection Agency can't even look at whether putting land into corn production for ethanol creates more greenhouse gases.

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Obama should try meddling more

As I reflect upon this Independence Day, I find myself troubled by the realization that while liberty was once this nation's greatest export, today we fear even to advocate it, encourage it or extol its virtues. Over the last few years, liberating oppressed peoples has been disparaged as "imposing our values" on others. In just the last few months, our elites have re-defined patriotism as submission to higher taxes. And opposition to the job-killing cap-and-trade carbon tax bill has been denounced as treason. On CNN, host Rick Sanchez ridiculed a Republican congressman for saying that his party stood in defense of liberty.

I think back two decades when people trapped behind the Soviet Union's Iron Curtain were demanding their liberty after decades of tyranny.

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