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Fixed Labor Game is Ending in Wisconsin
Across the nation, public-sector unions realize the game is up, and they aren’t happy about it. They’re doing everything in their considerable power to stop…
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TSA Union Power Grab
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for taxpayers and airport travelers – but a good one for government employee unions. As if the…
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Leviathan
How many Americans work in government? That’s a difficult question to answer. Officially, as of 2009, the federal government employed 2.8 million individuals out of…
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Politicized Science Costs Us All
After a 21-month delay, White House science adviser John Holdrenhas finally issued a four-page memo on scientific integrity in government. The guidelines demonstrate an intractable…
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For the TSA, all risks are created equal
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, recently told The Atlantic in an interview that “we’ll never eliminate risk” of terrorist attacks on…
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Global Warming Goes Gaga
It’s the coldest winter on record in Great Britain. Great Britain also has experienced its heaviest snowfalls since the 1920s. The mayor of London, who…
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The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
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Alternative Energy and the Academy at Lagado
A lot of otherwise sensible people have been calling recently for massive government investment in alternative energy research, arguing that it is the only solution…
Hot Air
Why the feds are selling GM stock at a loss
First, the government is what is known as a “motivated seller.” By offering such a low stock price, the administration is essentially admitting that it…
Hot Air
GM selling at a loss should tell you something
When a government sells stock in a company, it is usually trying to maximize short-term revenue. Therefore, the share price is normally pegged at what…
Trib Live
High-speed train wreck
Appeared in: The Bellingham Herald, Lexington Herald-Leader, Athens Banner-Herald, The Sacramento Bee, Great Falls Tribune, Fort Worth…
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Big Government’s Final Frontier
There’s something about space policy that makes conservatives forget their principles. Just one mention of NASA, and conservatives are quite happy to check their small-government…
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Fishy Business
Last week, I critiqued Ron Arnold’s story about the “catch share” program being instituted in New England, saying that free-market environmentalists should support Individual…
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Burn Baby Burn?
The recent case in Olbion County, Tennessee, where municipal firefighters watched a house burn to the ground because the residents had not paid a…
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Fish Enough for All
Ron Arnold alleged yesterday that Jane Lubchenco and the bureaucrats at NOAA are killing the New England fishing industry. Averse as I am to…
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Climategate Inquiry Glosses Over the Facts
When the Climategate e-mails were released last year, the evidence of misconduct by the scientists involved was so strong that the climate establishment was forced…
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Just Another Liberal Advocacy Group
Friends of the Earth has a reputation of being a principled, if misguided, single-issue group. Yet in its latest email action alert, it reveals…
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We Need a Mexican Standoff on Cap and Trade
Despite claims to the contrary, the energy tax known as cap and trade is still alive. Although Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has supposedly pulled…
National Review
Brownback’s Mountains
It looked like we had dodged a bullet. With an election looming, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) decided that a provision requiring…
National Review
He Auto Know Better
President Obama is telling people today that the Auto Bailouts worked. He’s claiming that the auto industries are showing a profit and hiring thousands…
National Review
Offsets Are Crucial in Cap and Trade (Letter to the Editor)
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency implies (“Cap and Trade Will Work Well Again,” Letters, July 20) that because cap and trade worked…
National Review
Let Congress Sweat It Out
Many of the so-called solutions the green movement proposes consist of turning back the clock and relying on technology we left behind decades, even…
National Review
Regulatory Flights of Fancy
In Washington, D.C., everything old is new again. Keynes is back as the defunct economist our politicians are in thrall to, wind and solar…
National Review
The Senate’s Global-Warming Circus
The Senate undermined its constitutional role last week with a vote that allows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean…
National Review
Action Needed Now to Stop EPA Power Grab
I wrote this morning in the American Spectator about how tight the vote is on Senator Murkowski’s bid to stop the…
National Review
America’s Nuclear Future Must Involve the Public
Things have not looked so good for nuclear power since the dawn of the Atomic Age. The public is more accepting of the potential…
National Review
Tapping the Well of Freedom
When the Deepwater Horizon first started gushing oil, many considered the incident an example of private enterprise having no regard for the environment. However,…
National Review
Peekaboo! I See You…Acting Unconstitutionally
During the next two weeks, the Supreme Court will rule on a case that, if decided correctly, will bring relief to small businesses all…
National Review
Time to set Amtrak free
For almost 40 years, Amtrak has been a burden on American taxpayers. It has a record of inefficiency, incompetence and overspending. Now we can…
National Review
Climategate and the Scientific Elite
The news that Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who popularized the idea of a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine and autism, has…
National Review
Liberate to stimulate – Live in the UK!
When the financial crisis hit, across the world there were two main reactions. First, regulate industry more “to prevent this sort of thing happening…
National Review
Fly the Free Skies
When the United States and European Union first signed their Open Skies aviation agreement in 2007, the U.S. airlines got the better of the…
National Review
EPA’s Ginormous Power Grab
It’s a sure sign that a government agency has become overmighty when it vastly increases its budget, grabs power unconstitutionally and treats Congress with…
National Review
God Bless The People Of Coal Country
I was raised among British coal folk. My grandfather was a coal miner who hacked at the coal seam with a pickaxe for much…
National Review
Don’t Be Afraid To Drink The Water
On Thursday, April 1, Time published a list of the "ten most common household toxins," focused on plastics. It claimed, "Chemicals in…
National Review
The BPA Myth
On Thursday, April 1, Time published a list of the “ten most common household toxins,” focused on plastics. It claimed, “Chemicals in plastics and…
National Review
Cap and Tax
A tripartisan trio of senators — John Kerry (D., Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.), and the New York Times’s favorite Republican environmentalist, Lindsey Graham (S.C.)…
National Review
Climategate: This Time It’s NASA
The "Climategate" scandal, which broke in November 2009, revealed what many skeptics had privately suspected. Prominent climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s…
National Review
The Real Climate Confusion
Over at HuffPo, the founder of DeSmogBlog tries to divert attention from the collapsing "consensus" on global warming by saying that it’s all the…
National Review
An EPA Power Grab
Environmental Protec tion Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson yesterday an nounced that the EPA has determined that global warming, allegedly caused by mankind’s…
National Review
Health Care is Not a Right
President Obama argues that his party’s health care reform proposals are about “bending the price curve” However, the Democrats’ health care agenda is really…
National Review
A Century Behind: Our Electricity Regulations Are Stuck in Progressive Era
It's the seemingly intractable problem of modern civilization: Americans need more electricity, they want lower greenhouse-gas emissions, and they want to get rid of ugly…
National Review
The Military-Industrial-Environmental Complex
President Obama, speaking to the United Nations this week, cast climate change unequivocally as a threat to national security. He told the General Assembly,…
National Review
Global-Warming Policies Are the Real National-Security Threat
Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) is trying to win Senate support for the ruinously expensive cap-and-tax global-warming bill, claiming it will prevent threats to…
National Review
Why Solar Power is Looking Dim
If the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which passed narrowly in the House of Representatives this week, also passes the Senate, does this…
National Review
Will Congress Switch Off the Lights?
When running for president, then-Sen. Barack Obama promised that his election would be "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow…
National Review
Regulators Fail Chemistry Test
Just how dangerous are modern chemicals? According to experts, not as much as regulators or the media would have you think. That’s the finding…
National Review
I’m All Right, Barack: The Perils of a Nationalized Car Maker
President Obama’s takeover of General Motors is a disaster in the making. Not only is it bad for GM, it also sets terrible legal…
Fox News Opinion
California’s Sorry State Points to America’s Future
As goes California, so goes the nation. Nowhere is this adage truer than in environmental policy, thanks to Democrats’ eagerness to impose the Golden State’s…
Fox News Opinion
Just What Is Waxman-Markey For?
As the House of Representatives girds to debate the Waxman-Markey energy and global warming bill, no one seems to be asking the most…