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Food for Fuel Is No Laughing Matter
Cliff May begins his NRO column, “The Hunger,” by retelling an old joke about astronomers discovering a giant…
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Ensuring Disaster
Congress may put taxpayers on the hook for what could easily top $100 billion in liabilities before Memorial Day…
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Legislature can set tone to save Florida
Florida’s state government easily could end up bankrupt unless the Legislature abruptly changes course. Minor insurance law changes approved Wednesday don’t change much at…
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Treehuggers Against Trees
With wildfires burning, it is useful to turn to the wisdom of the ancients. When the pioneers first entered the great forests of America,…
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Don’t be fooled – horses are risky
Regarding the April 18 story, “Bridgeton woman’s horses make insurance company skittish”: Cordelia Ashton believes that it’s unfair for her insurance company…
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The Great Global Warming Race
Can global warming’s vested interests close the deal on greenhouse gas regulation before the public wises up to their scam?…
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How a minor storm could bankrupt Florida
Here’s one scary Halloween scenario that could easily come true: By trick-or-treat time, just past the hurricane season’s peak, Florida’s state government…
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Let Them Burn Ethanol
American grocery stores are starting to introduce food rationing. Wal Mart is restricting the amount of rice customers can buy. In Mexico and Yemen,…
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Suing Over Pay Discrimination
“Pass the Fair Pay Act” (editorial, April 23) seemed unaware of the existence of the Equal Pay Act, which already gives employees ample time to…
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Anatomy of a Chemical Murder
Wal-Mart announced last week that it would stop selling baby bottles made with the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA.
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Is environmentalism the opiate of the liberals?
Religion plays a vitally important role in human life. This is especially true in America, and America’s religion has always been Christianity.
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European Railroads Not a Model for U.S. April 23
RAIL Solution’s David Foster (Letters, April 21) claims Europe’s transport system is increasingly “beyond petroleum” because Europe uses high gas taxes not only to discourage…
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Cementing Ecuador’s Poverty by Decree
During my pro-mining mission to Ecuador weeks ago, I visited the Tres Chorreras exploration project and witnessed how a single company can…
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The Truths Shall Set You Free
Preview of "The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About."…
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The Pill as Pollutant
In 2002, thanks to soccer star David Beckham, the world was introduced to the “metrosexual.” Two years later, and with less mainstream-media…
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Ethanol’s Adding to Hunger in U.S.
Subsidies for ethanol production helps inflate the price of food, making it harder for poor families to eat.
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Do Germans Fear Russia More Than Rising Temperatures?
Seventeen years ago, post-Soviet Russia was a geopolitical doormat, too poor and weak to exert much influence beyond its borders. This month,…
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The whole truth about plastic bags
Starting this Earth Day, the supermarket Whole Foods will no longer offer plastic bags, but the alleged benefits of paper bags over plastic are not…
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The Catch-22 of Immigration Reform
The SAVE Act and the New Employment Verification Act pose threats to American workers and to nationsl security.
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Junk Science: A New ‘Green’ Body Count Begins
Food riots caused by rising food prices have erupted around the world. Five people died in uprisings in Haiti, perhaps the first of…
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Police Those Credit Cards
The burdensome, patronizing, new credit card regulations proposed in the wildly misnamed “Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights” will hurt just about every…
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No right to impose carbon tariffs
A new argument has emerged among policymakers, economists and trade activists seeking regulatory or direct taxes on Canadians in the name of "global warming." The…
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Will Greenery Promote Growth, and Save the World (and Money)?
In Europe, consumers pay up to $9 a gallon for gasoline, in part because European Union governments tax gasoline at rates of $2 to $3…
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Why Isn’t Gore Hounding Olympic Torch?
Tibetan protesters aren’t the only ones who ought to be dogging the Olympic torch relay. When Al Gore received his Nobel Peace prize he said…
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Green jobs law an empty promise
If lawmakers in Olympia are serious about global warming, there is a simple solution that economists agree is the easiest, most efficient…
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CEI Fights Sierra Club Demands for CO2
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and more than a dozen other conservative groups filed an amicus brief March 21 against a Sierra Club…
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Bush Beats Gore on Climate?
George Bush appears to have beaten Al Gore again.
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Re: “Maryland’s Diversity Police Trample Basic Freedoms”
The Examiner was right to criticize Maryland legislators for passing a bill that would force private and public colleges to report on what…
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A Maverick Climate Policy
Republican nominee for president John McCain recently returned from a whirlwind tour of Europe meant to promote his global statesmanship. In Europe,…
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Bear Fire Sale Leaves Owners Without A Say
Bear Stearns shareholders, the true owners, are being denied a voice in the fate of the firm.
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Freedom and its Digital Discontents
Read John Berlau's closing statement in the Economist.com debate "Proposition: By intervening to regulate business and financial risks, governments have made things worse."…
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Global Smearing
By any standard, atmospheric physicist Dr. S. Fred Singer is a remarkably accomplished scientist. But his outspoken questioning of global warming alarmism has just earned…
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No Dice
Anybody who has spent time in Washington knows that Congress often passes bad laws. But even the most widely derided laws — think…
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The Global Warming Bubble
You didn’t have to be a rocket scientist in the 1990s to figure out that speculative investment in dot-coms with no revenues would be disastrous.
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Less is More
Wayne Crews tells us that while we need control of the fiscal state–but just as badly we need to rein in the regulatory state.
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Freedom and its Digital Discontents
John Berlau, director of CEI's Center for Entrepreneurship, debates Sarbanes-Oxley in the Economist…
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The Empower Eliot Spitzer Bill
Eliot Spitzer announced his resignation yesterday because of his alleged involvement in a prostitution ring. But this is far from his real scandal.
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The Television Writers Strike: Was It Worth It?
This winter’s strike by television writers interrupted the TV-watching habits of millions of people worldwide. But why did it happen, and did the…
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The Washington Post-er Child for Climate Bias
Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin leads the pack in this year’s contest for biased climate journalism.
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Breath Is Toxic Waste?
The federal government soon may declare your very breath to be toxic regardless of its minty freshness.
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Cirque de Solar Power: New York Conference Puts Lie to ‘Consensus’
A strange thing happened last year Down Under. A shark ate a kangaroo. That wasn’t the odd part. Inexplicably, the media found themselves unable to…
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Energy Dollars and Sense
Rising energy costs threaten the U.S. economy, and the GOP doesn’t seem to care. Last December, Congressional Republicans joined a Republican president in support of…
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Candidates Fail Energy Independence Test
All the presidential candidates say they’re for energy independence. So why didn’t they do something about it when they had the chance?…
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Sexual Harassment: A Strange, Vague ‘Tort’
On Wednesday, I discussed how the courts can be downright hostile to employers in sexual harassment cases, playing a game of bait-and-switch regarding whether…
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Sexual Harassment Bait and Switch
In sexual harassment cases, many courts play a game of bait and switch with employers. When they want to hold the employer liable, they…
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Prejudice and Double Standards in Sexual Harassment Cases
Earlier, I discussed how judges in the New York area, such as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, enforce discriminatory double standards in sexual…
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Double Standards at Duke—and in the Courts
Recently, Stuart Taylor wrote about sexual double standards at Duke University. Duke paid $3,500 to finance a performance by strippers and prostitutes…
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Looming Lightbulb Liability
The speeding freight train carrying toxic waste liability for makers, sellers and purchasers of compact fluorescent lightbulbs, or CFLs, was only faintly audible in the…
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Hungarian Original
On a hot June day beneath a searing sun, California Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, who passed away this week, joined President Bush and others,…
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Stay Poor
It's bad enough when European and American politicians desperate to "do something" about global warming appear willing to sacrifice economic growth in their own…