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Unions Grasp for Influence Over Private Equity
Mention the names of certain large corporations, and many people think bad things—from ExxonMobil gouging drivers with high gas prices to Wal-Mart destroying city…
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Law of the Sea Meets ‘Legacy Time’
As the Bush Administration spends more and more time creating its legacy, the worst collection of initiatives are those that whittle away at American…
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Hey Al Gore, We Want a Refund!
A British judge ruled on the eve of Al Gore co-winning the Nobel Peace Prize that students forced to watch…
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Why America Doesn’t Ratify Treaties
One of the leading sources of anti-Americanism relates to America's supposed arrogance in failing to sign or ratify international treaties that the rest of…
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Partners in spin win Nobel Peace Prize
In its collective wisdom, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year jointly to former Vice President Al Gore and…
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The Subprime FHA
After two months of economic jitters over bad lending decisions, it looks as if the credit markets may have turned a corner. The stock…
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Algore’s Nobel Prize for Globaloney
So, former Vice President Al Gore is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded every year with a nice bag of money “to the…
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Big Sea Treaty Would Crush Entrepreneurs
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DDT Backlash Continues
Ever since the World Health Organization reversed the environmentalist-promoted ban on DDT in 2006, eco-activists have scrambled to devise new ways to malign the…
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Al Gore and the Mission of the Nobel Prizes
In just a few hours following publication of this article, at approximately 9AM Eastern time this morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce its selection…
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Bushwhacked: Europe, Media Can’t Handle the Truth
A strange, almost funny thing recently happened at the State Department. This was unusual not solely because proceedings at Foggy Bottom generally prompt fits…
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Global Warming’s Trillion-Dollar Turkey
A trillion dollars doesn’t buy what it used to — at least when it comes to global warming, according to a new analysis from…
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Economic Reality
Scott Cleland’s Sunday Commentary column, "Ultimate Internet gatekeeper?" described the potential Google acquisition of DoubleClick as a dire situation that would offer "no real…
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Unions Grasp for Influence Over Private Equity
Summary: When private equity firms buy up companies they expect to avoid shareholder pressure campaigns—especially those devised by labor unions. Or so they hope.
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Crist’s insurance ‘fix’ might leave you broke
When former Gov. Jeb Bush recently said his successor's insurance reforms were “as bad as the natural disasters themselves,” he understated his case. As…
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The Break-Up: Time for a Green Divorce
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, environmental groups saw an opening. They realized that national-security hawks would be open to proposals to…
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The Long Petard: The New York Times and Sarbox
Having dug itself into a hole with inept handling of the MoveOn.org ad and its aftermath, the New York Times Company may…
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Painting the Court Green
A specter is haunting the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. economy — the specter of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
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A Pardoner’s Tale
Are you a carbon-using Christian? Feeling guilty about all that carbon dioxide (CO2) you pump into the atmosphere by such awful things as breathing, heating…
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Biofueling Disorder
Would you believe that the weather in Indiana could trigger popular unrest in China? Global demand for fuel made out of food is growing…
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Al Gore’s Unbeatable Deal!
Just imagine the infomercial: Have I got a deal for you! You may not know it, but your house is leaking energy, which means…
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Tax hike ahead
USA TODAY's debate on private equity taxation raised important points but overlooked a key fact (“Decoy on tax fairness,” Our view; “…
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Europeans Use Antitrust to Thwart Competition
The European Union’s highly politicized business environment increasingly threatens competitiveness and consumer welfare across the continent. The Court of First Instance upheld…
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Osborne is wrong about green taxes
Sir, There are several problems with George Osborne's call for higher green taxes (“A strong case for switching to green taxation”, September 13).
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Bush’s Credit Issues
In the midst of what’s called the subprime mortgage “contagion,” President Bush seems to have caught a virus of his own: Potomac paternalism syndrome.
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Cooking Up Global Warming
A very embarrassing chapter in the history of our nation's scientific establishment has been unfolding thanks to a creative new website www.SurfaceStations.org set…
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The Energy Bill That Wasn’t
HUMAN EVENTS' readers are understandably difficult to shock these days with new examples of Congress’ political arrogance. Yet, as the House of Representatives was putting the…
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Blackboard economics at FTC
Antitrust regulators are at it again. The Federal Trade Commission remains under the sway of what Nobel Prize-winner Ronald Coase referred to as “blackboard economists,”…
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Ethanol and Arkansas
Arkansas corn farmers have rarely had it so good. I should know. Due to surging corn prices, our family farm in Independence County has been…
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Runaway Climate Captured?
Runaway global warming, the climate alarmist fantasy let loose on the public, has not yet been captured, but it certainly appears to have at…
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Congress’ Energy Legislation Would Impair Alabama
Major industrial firms like <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Toyota and Boeing continue to pour investment into Alabama, which now boasts…
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Ripples Make Waves: We shouldn’t tax our credit unions
When last week’s credit-related market slump started reversing the stock market’s 2007 gains, it seemed clear that the Bush Administration would act quickly…
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Why WiFi? City Governments Should Stay Out
Back when Saturday Night Live was still funny, Lily Tomlin’s character Ernestine, the ill-mannered telephone operator, deftly parodied all that was wrong with the…
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Bankrupting Florida
If a catastrophic Katrina-like hurricane sweeps through the state of Florida, it may leave behind more than wrecked houses, damaged shops, and ruined roads:…
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CEOs, Like Athletes, Compensated For Their Successful Performances
I am by no means a sports fanatic, but there are times I wish that typical business stories would be more like sports…
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Argument is all wet
Why would lawmakers deny firefighters bottled water? And why would churches feel the need to condemn this commodity?…
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Beckham bends it like a CEO
I don't get it. Where is the outrage? Politicians and pundits love to “bend it” when it comes to stoking resentment about…
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Junk Science: How Now Brown Cloud?
A new study in the Aug. 2 issue of the British science journal Nature found that the solid particles suspended in the atmosphere (called…
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Anti-Energy Bill
Speaker Pelosi says that HR 3221, the New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security and Consumer Protection Act "puts us on a path towards…
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Barriers to more effective US disaster insurance
Sir, You are right about the need for much greater purchase of disaster insurance but, perhaps, say verylittle about how difficult it might be…
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No free lunch on emissions
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is on a snake oil sales tour. To much fanfare, the Governator is traveling the country promoting his “California model”…
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Pork Farm
Congress is beginning debate on the new farm bill, which is, as usual, larded with subsidies and pork. So now is a good time…
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Free trade agreements win-win for U.S.
Support for free trade long has transcended party politics in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. But that era officially ended with…
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The Biofuel Fad
William Saletan argued in favor of biofuels on humanitarian and environmental grounds [“A Corny Cold War,” Outlook, July 8]. He was wrong on both…
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Kyoto Anniversary: What it Means Today
Ten years ago today the U.S. Senate did something that at the time seemed significant and now seems remarkably foresightful. By a vote of…
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War Over The War
When Ken Burns releases a documentary, America watches. This is partly because of his uniquely compelling style, but also partly because his stories are those…
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Short on Storm Coverage
So long as hurricanes continue to sweep through Florida's landscape, Floridians will have to find ways to repair the damage. As the Sentinel…
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Ignorance Is Strength, Dissent Is Treason
At last weekend’s Live Earth concert in New Jersey, Robert Kennedy, Jr., a spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), charged ExxonMobil and Southern…
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Al Gore’s Whine: What Really Happened on the Mall
Now it's official. Global warming alarmism has indeed “jumped the shark“, as revealed by the dismal failure of the Live Earth concerts to galvanize…
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The Biofuel Fad
William Saletan argued in favor of biofuels on humanitarian and environmental grounds ["A Corny Cold War," Outlook, July 8]. He was wrong on both…
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Nothing Sweet about It
"It’s an outrage!" That’s the usual cry of Washington politicians when they chastise the world outside their chambers for their profligate ways, which they…
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Farmers are Shuckers, Too
It is not surprising that National Corn Growers Association President Ken McCauley uses the term “free market” pejoratively (“Reusable fuels: Good goal, good policy,”…
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Hanging Onto the Trash
One would think we were dealing with a major national security issue considering how worked up New York politicians get about garbage. But that's…
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Economic Climate Changes
Congress is considering global warming legislation to require substantial cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the inescapable byproduct of the fossil fuels —…
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Private Public Matters
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The Road to Health Care Reform
When they buy automobile insurance, Americans enjoy a market that provides many choices, lots of competition, and, in most places, reasonable rates. Residents of…
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Junk Science: Live Earth’s Gross Groupies
Why is NBC airing Al Gore’s Live Earth concert this weekend? Why are Democrats, who claim to support the Fairness Doctrine, not objecting to…
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Seeking to Expand Ranks and Increase Salaries, Not Improve Education
With Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, the nation’s teachers unions are certain to make major demands on their Capitol Hill…
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Do Something for Other People by Getting Very, Very Rich
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It’s Miller Time
Union organizers never, ever intimidate workers whom they are trying to recruit. Believe me? Great! I've got a bridge to sell you. Sound…
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Washington’s Ten Thousand Commandments
Congress is currently considering the president's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget. While federal spending consumes an awesome 20% of nation's GDP, the budget process at…
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Charleston’s Uncommon Tragedy: Fires do less damage today than ever before
Nine firefighters perished as a terrible inferno swept through <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Charleston’s Sofa Super Store this past Monday…
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Junk Science: Climate Activists’ Credibility Gap
Organic yogurt king and Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg may have thought that he avoided the buzzsaw this week by ducking a TV appearance…
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Hold the Line on Global Warming
What should conservatives do about global warming? Jim Manzi suggests in his June 25 National Review cover story (“Game Plan”) that conservatives embrace junk…
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Chuck Schumer Thinks You’re Stupid
In his new book, entitled “Positively American,” Chuck Schumer wants you to know that he has a vision. Yes, in between leading efforts…
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Junk Science: Military Suicide Mystery
Researchers and the media did their best this week to scare military personnel and their families with the widely reported headline, “Military Service Doubles…
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Teens, Beer and a Party’s Consequences (Letter to the Editor)
The June 9 edition of The Post left me disillusioned with our criminal justice system. The front page told the story of a Virginia mother…
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Food Before Fuel
Feel like you’re getting squeezed by prices at the gas pump? Get ready to experience that same feeling at the grocery store. As ABC News…
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Hurricane Eye on Insurers
Throughout the hurricane zone that follows <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's Atlantic coastline from Texas to North Carolina, a populist…
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Al Gore: The Edge of Reason
Review: THE ASSAULT ON REASON by Al Gore, Penguin Press, $25.95, 320 pages Al Gore may be the most frustrated man in…
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Crime’s Up
During the late 1990s, police superintendent Edward F. Davis III presided over epic crime reductions in Lowell, Massachusetts. Under his leadership, the city's crime…
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Letter to the Editor: EU talk no match for US action on emissions
Sir, Your editorial “A big step forward on climate change” (June 9) uncharacteristically falls into the typical chattering class mistake…
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Stubborn FDA harms arthritis sufferers
Helvetia, W.Va. – The Food And Drug Administration’s (FDA) safety alert for the popular diabetes drug Avandia has gotten headlines recently, but its…
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The Church of Rachel Carson
One hundred years after her birth in May of 1907, it’s difficult to underestimate Rachel Carson’s influence. Unfortunately, it’s all bad. That hasn’t stopped…
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The Details Of Kyoto
The June 5 World News article “China Outlines Modest Environmental Goals” asserted that the “Bush administration has refused to ratify” the Kyoto Protocol.
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Silent Alarmism: A Centennial We Could Do Without
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, the 1962 book that launched the modern environmental movement, was born a century…
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Rachel Carson’s Deadly Legacy
This week, the world celebrates the 100th birthday of environmental icon Rachel Carson, author of the 1962 book, Silent Spring . To mark the…
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Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize
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Rachel Carson’s legacy nothing to celebrate
Today is the centenary of Rachel Carson’s birth, which has been noted by many environmentalists who cherish her legacy. However, what has been little…
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Campus Web Cops?
The Recording Industry Association of America has sent out waves of letters telling college administrators that some of their students are pirates. No, not…
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The Kelo Five Go Green
Early on an otherwise beautiful April Monday in Washington the United States Supreme Court issued its eagerly awaited “global warming” opinion, in Massachusetts v.
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Why data retention legislation would do more harm than good
Do you remember every Web site you visited, every email you sent, and every word you Googled during the last two years? Probably…
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Caring for Vets: A Healthy Plan
If it wants to fix the appalling mess that medical care has become at Washington D.C.’s Walter Reed hospital, the Department of the Army might…
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Don’t let Uncle Sam Become a Computer Hacker and Identity Thief’s Best Friend
Do you remember every Web site you visited, every email you sent, and every word you Googled during the last two years? Probably not,…
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CPAC World
Washington – Lines to see speeches at this year's CPAC were as long as the wait for Disneyland's Magic Mountain ride at the…
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Federal Regulators Are Risky “Designers”
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In “Biological and Chemical Safety Nets” (editorial…
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Lights Out
California has an energy problem. Electricity rates skyrocketed in San Diego where prices were free to fluctuate; and brownout/blackout risks are mounting in much of…
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The Union of Concerned Scientists: Its Jihad against Climate Skeptics
Full document available in pdf Among the activist groups seeking to stifle dissent in the global warming debate, none has been more…
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Markets, no Mandates, for Net
The battle over Internet freedom is heating up again. The spark this time is the proposed Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007, recently…
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Solving the Safe Sledding Crisis
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington – In response to the ice storm which recently swept through…
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Saving Starving Children Should Trump Global Warming Concerns
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” said famed 18th century British lexicographer Samuel Johnson. To update the quote for our current era…
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Land of the Fake Free
Item (a): Officials in Prince George’s County, Maryland, have proposed cracking down on truancy by strapping ankle bracelets on…
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Lead-Pipe Rip-Off
California recently lifted its silly and expensive state ban on residential use of vinyl plumbing pipes. New York City should follow suit. In 2004,…
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Review of “Calvin Coolidge” by David Greenberg
On Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1919, Boston policemen voted to strike. They wanted to unionize; management wouldn't allow it. That evening more than 1,100…
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Unsustainable Environmentalism
Environmental activists use the term “sustainable development” to convey the notion that they’re not merely knee-jerk anti-business zealots and that they are all in…
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Free the Eagle: The bird will do fine off the endangered list
T he bald eagle was supposed to be taken off the Endangered Species list in 48 states on February 16, but environmental pressure groups and…
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What’s up with Nation’s 10 Worst Attorneys General?
WASHINGTON - In recent years, state attorneys general have become increasingly powerful. Using lawsuits as a weapon, they have transferred billions of dollars from businesses…
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Congressional Cures?
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The Harmful Side Effect We Never Hear About
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Wrath of the Regulators: The Burdens of Big Government
Last month, the National Research Council (NRC) — an affiliate of the National Academies of Sciences — rebuked the White House for trying to…