From Heritage: For instance, the unfair tax break that makes up nearly half of what Obama calls \u201csubsidies\u201d is the manufacturing tax credit. All manufacturers except the oil and gas industry get to deduct 9 percent of their revenues before calculating their tax bills. (It\u2019s worth noting that \u201cmanufacturing\u201d is so broadly defined that it […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Patrician Heaton remembers Andrew Breitbart. I think a lot of conservative bloggers are going to discover their Inner Breitbart, now that he’s not around to be Breitbart for them.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The annual AIPAC Policy Conference is the first part of next week, and things with Iran may be coming to head around the same time. \u00a0Purim has never seemed so timely. \u00a0So a roundup of articles on the subject: Times of Israel: Netanyahu Warns International Community of Iran Trap The New Republic:\u00a0Can Israel Trust the […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Rules the DC District Court: Jackson faulted the plaintiffs for trying to “shoehorn” the recess appointment into a case about an NLRB rule. … The NFIB and other groups had asked the court to consider appointments as part of a legal challenge to an NLRB rule requiring employers to display a poster explaining workers’ rights […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Rally planned for Monday in support of NYPD: On Monday, March 5, Muslim activist M.Zuhdi Jasser will lead a coalition of American Muslims and their supporters at One Police Plaza in\u00a0New York\u00a0as they demonstrate their support of the NYPD against accusations by such organizations as CAIR,\u00a0The New York Times, and radical Islamic groups that they […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Says the appropriately-named Pincher, Tory MP: If this is a blinking Contest the international community, committed to free trade and opposed to nuclear proliferation, must face Iran with its eyes wide open. Any lack of resolve at the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz\u00a0will send a message to every ambitious state at every international choke point in the world […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Not doing so well w\/o government subsidies. \u00a0 “Since the subsidy ended Dec. 31, ethanol profit margins have declined sharply, even slipping into negative territory. Experts see no quick turnaround in sight.” \u00a0Looks as though even requiring purchases isn’t enough to keep their heads above water. \u00a0Of course, to some, this will just be evidence […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Same religion, people: William H. King concluded his Senate service in 1941 and returned to Utah having failed to open America’s doors to European Jewish refugees — but not for lack of trying. His state had few Jewish voters, and his party was largely against more immigration, but King was driven by his Mormon faith […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

No matter what you’re heard.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The connection between the two.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

A cash binge that’s not quite doing what was hoped: Two extremely disconcerting features undermine the effectiveness of such an approach, however. Firstly, the ECB needs banks to reduce their leverage positions so as to reduce the impact of sovereign defaults on financial markets over the next several years. The current liquidity operations have forestalled […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Well, they’re a lot closer than we are: Japan has similarly welcomed the North\u2019s pledged moratorium, but has taken a more critical tone than the Obama administration. Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba stressed that while the gesture is welcome the \u201cgoal remains completely the same \u2013 we want Pyongyang to suspend all of its nuclear […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

GM Volt sales still slow: According to sales figures released today, GM is still far short of the pace needed to sell its previously stated goal of 30,000 Chevrolet Volt\u2019s this year. GM delivered 1,023 Volts in February, up from 603 sold in January, and just 281 a year ago; but this is still short […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n