Op-Eds
The EPA’s Protection Racket
The Environmental Protection Agency is making “significant strides” on issues such as “protecting children’s health” and “confronting climate change,” says a memo from EPA…
Op-Eds
SOS Ballot: An Interview with Ernest Istook
Full document available in PDF Ernest Istook, Chairman of Save Our Secret Ballot (SOS Ballot), was interviewed by former Labor Department official…
Washington Examiner
To Stimulate the Economy, Let it be Free
Lobbying is about the only sector of the economy experiencing a boom right now. This is a predictable effect of the tax-and-spend stimulus model favored…
Washington Examiner
Bad Idea Blowing an Ill Wind for Insured
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has ended up at the brink of insolvency paying Hurricane Ike claims. Insurers operating near the coasts have begun…
Detroit News
Stimulate Economy Through Deregulation
The economy is contracting at a rate of more than 6 percent this year to date. This is hurting the country and especially Michigan, whose…
Detroit News
Legislature’s Continued Reliance on Catastrophe Fund a Disaster for Florida Finances
When it announced recently that it would rely on the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund alone for its reinsurance, Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corp. placed…
Detroit News
Obama Stimulus Shrinks Economy, Kills Jobs
Most of the $800 billion stimulus package has yet to be spent, but it’s already harming the economy, both by triggering trade wars that…
Detroit News
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…
Detroit News
Someone Has to Pay the Piper
As the cliché goes, the piper must be paid. And when the government decides that some folks are paying the piper too much,…
Detroit News
Insurance Plan Won’t Work
James Lee Witt and James Loy are, quite simply, wrong to suggest that a ”national catastrophe backstop” would help reduce homeowners’ insurance rates for…
International Affairs Forum
Climate Smart Aid Is Anything But
International organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations are supposed to help the world’s poor escape poverty, but fully convinced they are doing…
Investors' Business Daily
America’s Hidden Trillion-Dollar Tax
We need a breather to take it all in: TARP, a $787 billion stimulus bill and a projected $1.845 trillion budget deficit. But lost among…
Investors' Business Daily
Beach Plan Fix Requires Higher Insurance Rates on Coast
Full document available in PDF.
Investors' Business Daily
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…
Investors' Business Daily
Supreme Court To Hear Sarbanes-Oxley Challenge
A major government abuse of power is about to get much-needed scrutiny, thanks to the Supreme Court, which this week decided to hear…
Investors' Business Daily
Florida flirting with fiscal hurricane disaster
When it announced last week that it would rely on the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund alone for its reinsurance, Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corporation…
Investors' Business Daily
The way the political winds are blowing, coastal insurance rates could go up
As it girds for hurricane season, Texas has plenty to worry about. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA)—which provides coverage for high risk coastal…
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
Business Will Miss Justice Souter
Your editorial about Justice Souter’s retirement is much too optimistic (“Succeeding Souter,” May 2). It predicts that Supreme Court Justice David Souter…
Detroit News
Green Jobs Lead to More Pink Slips
Repower America, a green energy advocacy organization founded by Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, is running television advertisements in northern Michigan to…
Detroit News
Rather than vilify bottled water, scale back recycling programs
Gov. David A. Paterson has jumped on the anti-bottled water bandwagon by issuing an executive order halting state-agency purchases of bottled water…
Detroit News
Banks Aren’t Bridges
The logic of the recent bank stress tests seems unassailable — bridges may fail, so may banks. But bridges are physical constructs. Centuries of…
Detroit News
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…
Detroit News
Hating the Thought of Hate Crimes
The Washington Times rightly criticized the federal hate-crimes bill, but it left out the the strongest reason for opposing it (“Thought crimes,”…
Detroit News
Double Jeopardy Is Always Unfair
David Bass aptly criticizes the unfairness of the federal hate crimes bill and the false reasoning of the leftwing religious activists who back it.
Washington Examiner
Greenbacks for Green Energy Come from Taxpayer Pockets
President Barack Obama recently named business consultant Jeffrey Zients as head of a new performance office tasked with reducing government waste. The irony…
Washington Examiner
GM Troubles Repeat British Auto Industry Mistakes of the 1970s
General Motors is now co-owned by the American taxpayer and labor unions. As a Briton, I find this development astonishing. It repeats…
Townhall
Green Jobs: All Pain for No Gain
It is said that there is a scientific consensus on global warming. There isn’t, but there is an economic consensus that policies based on…
Townhall
Back from the Dead
The Employee Free Choice Act is dead, long live the Employee Free Choice Act. On Tuesday Sen. Arlen Specter D-PA announced he will be switching…
RealClear Markets
Fix Social Security, Ease the Credit Crisis
Remember the looming Social Security crisis? If you don’t, you’re not alone. The credit crisis and economic downturn have monopolized public attention to…
Financial Times
Fed’s policies contradict each other
Sir, Henry Kaufman frets that “libertarian dogma led the Fed astray” (April 28). Congress, not free-market ideology, is the real culprit. One reason…
Financial Times
GM vs. GGP: Bankruptcy the Way It Ought to Be
On the surface, given the economic turmoil we’ve had, there was nothing that remarkable about the bankruptcy of shopping mall owner General…
Financial Times
Obama Sells Out Union Workers
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised accountability and transparency. Last Tuesday, his administration broke that promise to yet another group. Department of Labor Secretary…
Financial Times
Where Were Liberal Dems During Bush Bailouts
Recent tea party protests targeted wasteful government spending, such as President Barack Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package, which the Congressional Budget Office says will…
Financial Times
The war on mining: Fighting back
Gold has become a safe haven as jittery investors move away from weakened stock markets, and currencies are threatened by inflation. But the allure of…
Financial Times
EPA’s Endangerment Finding: Legislative Hammer or Suicide Note?
The ramifications of the EPA’s just-published endangerment finding, …
Detroit News
Don’t Let Earth Day Rebuke Henry Ford
Earth Day this year seems to be getting less promotion than usual. Al Gore is nowhere to be seen. There are few preening eco-celebs lecturing us about…
Detroit News
Getting a Rise Out of Us
The Washington Times’ front-page story "Rising sea levels in Pacific create wave of migrants" (Page 1, Sunday) outrageously peddles a talking point…
Detroit News
State insurance programs flawed
Re “Insurance assurance,” editorial, April 9 The Times argues that the federal government should provide a "backstop" for state insurance funds like…
Detroit News
Treaty Supported by State Nominee Coddles Pirates
Quin Hillyer is right to criticize Obama’s nomination of Harold Koh to be chief counsel for the State Department. Koh’s appointment would make…
Wall Street Journal
Small Cars Are Dangerous Cars
How Fuel economy zealots can kill you.
Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Energy Tax Hits Louisiana the Hardest
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Wall Street Journal
The Tea Party Protesters are Right
Tea party protests questioned the constitutionality of some of the massive bailouts over the past year, which amount to trillions of dollars. That drew…
Alexandria Town Talk
Obama’s Energy Tax Hits Louisiana Hardest
Candidate Barack Obama promised to give special attention to rebuilding Louisiana while campaigning for the White House. So why is President Obama pushing…
Alexandria Town Talk
Upset Over Offsets
When the President proposed his budget, he tried a gambit aimed atfoisting a new energy tax on the American people without serious debatein Congress. It…
Alexandria Town Talk
1,000,000 Tea Bags Find a Home
After park officials turned away Tea Party protesters' 1 million tea bags, the press conference was moved to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. We were happy…
American Spectator
A Good Time to Start Liquidating
The announcements by Senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) and BlancheLincoln (D-Ark.) that they intend to vote against cloture on theso-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has…
American Spectator
Deregulate to Stimulate
Few Americans are aware of the massive scope of the federal regulatory enterprise. It is hardly common knowledge that 4,004 rules from nearly 70…
American Spectator
Green Job Self-Destruction
In your article “Hopes for climate treaty set back by G20’s weasel words”, 5 April, you refer to a study by the University…
American Spectator
‘Backstop’ idea appears too risky: Catastrophe fund may have opposite effect
Texans have many reasons to worry about hurricanes. Two large storms struck the state last year, insurance rates have risen steadily in most coastal areas,…