www.americanprogress .org/issues/2008/09/ fair_effective_graph ic.html www.americanprog ress.org/issues/2008 /09/handle_with_care .html An animated overview of the proper way to make an economic bailout work for taxpayers and Main Street from the Center for American Progress.

Secretary Rice addresses U.S.-Russia relations to members and guests of The German Marshall Fund at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 2008

1)The proper measure is the total debt and not yearly deficits. 2)The national debt is actually below the post-WWII average. 3)The debt is not large enough to raise interest rates. 4)The main concern is future debt. 5)And, economic growth reduces the debt burden.

Statist politicians and international bureaucracies such as the OECD and UN routinely attack tax havens, claiming that they lead to "harmful tax competition." Yet at no point do critics bother to provide any evidence for this claim. This mini-documentary from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity looks at the empirical data and scholarly research and reports that tax havens actually have a very positive impact on the global economy. For more info: www.freedomandprospe rity.org

Brian Darling, a Capitol Hill insider for more than 10 years and director of U.S. Senate relations at The Heritage Foundation, previews some major weekly events in Washington this week.

Few people understand what really happened in New Orleans or what caused it. Fewer still realize that they too may be living under a similar or an even greater threat. This video exposes the key myths and misunderstandings about the New Orleans flood.