Businesses Strike Back
In an op-ed in the Charleston Daily Mail Tuesday, David Ridenour writes about a business that is fighting back against unfair lawsuits in a creative way: West Virginia isn't "almost Heaven," but "almost Hell" where its judicial climate is concerned.But finally, there's some good news on the horizon. After years ...
Businesses Strike Back
In an op-ed in the Charleston Daily Mail Tuesday, David Ridenour writes about a business that is fighting back against unfair lawsuits in a creative way: West Virginia isn't "almost Heaven," but "almost Hell" where its judicial climate is concerned. But finally, there's some good news on the horizon. After ...
Cap and Trade Carbon Policies Could Increase Emissions, Says Justin Danhof
Cap and trade policies ostensibly designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could have the opposite effect, says the National Center for Public Policy Research's Justin Danhof in an op-ed published today by the Christian Science Monitor. That's because of an established principle of behavioral law and economics explaining that when ...
Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie on the Death of Tony Snow
Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie asked that we pass along his comments on behalf of Project 21 on the passing of former White House press secretary, columnist and Fox News Channel host Tony Snow this past Saturday: America has lost a true patriot and is the poorer for it.Tony Snow ...
Jackson’s Obama Comments: Should Fox Have Broadcast Them?
Matea Gold's Los Angeles Times story today lets readers know what a close call it was that Jesse Jackson's off-color comments made it on the air yesterday. But for an alert overnight transcriber, Jackson's comments, meant to be private, almost stayed that way. What a loss to the public interest ...
Congress Investigates EPA for Following the Rules on Clean Water Act Enforcement
Nick Loris has it right in this Foundry post. Do Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and James Oberstar (D-MN) really want the EPA to ignore a Supreme Court decision? I believe acting outside of proper channels is the kind of thing that could get EPA administrators hauled before Waxman's committee. Oops ...
Just Say “Drill”
To burst the oil bubble, just use a drill. If Congress has the political will to stand up to special interests and develop domestic sources of energy, oil prices will come tumbling down. The U.S. has ample reserves of oil. For more than a decade, environmentalists have prevented the U.S ...
On Climate, A Little More Washington Post Bias
I believe the Washington Post knows perfectly well that the word "censor" does not belong in the lead of today's Juliet Eilperin story, but the editors left it in (or inserted it?) anyway. The story, "Cheney Aides Altered EPA Testimony, Agency Official Says Ex-Administrator Says Official From Vice President's Office ...
Congressman Paul Broun Fights for Property Rights
A note on the fight to protect property rights from National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow R.J. Smith: To all -- Once again freshman Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia's 10th is on the House floor fighting for property rights. Congress has been sending lots of bad Green Federal ...
Frying Fish While Rome Burns
Keriann Hopkins is reporting for CNS News that the current gap between what's been allocated to pay Medicare and Social Security benefits and what's needed is $41 trillion. With the number that high, one would expect the relevant Capitol Hill committees to be working this issue almost full-time (House Ways ...
Results and Implications
Steve McIntyre is lampooning the current state of climate science. Read the comments for extra digs at scientists who cry "consensus" but won't release their (often public-funded) data, plus the usual good discussion. P.S. Dittos to Indur Goklany's comment #10 ...
In Making Hurricane Predictions, NOAA Aims for Broadside of a Barn
With the news today of the formation of the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2008 season, David Ridenour comments on NOAA's 2008 Atlantic hurricane forecast: NOAA may have finally figured out a way to get its Atlantic hurricane forecast right. It's predicting that the 2008 season, which began June 1, ...
Washington Post & Other Papers Lose 27th Amendment to the Constitution
Nearly two years ago on Newsbusters, I floated a proposal that newspapers require their editorial and other writers to police themselves for accuracy by requiring them to turn in footnotes with their copy. The process would force writers to check information they think they know that isn't so. Had editors ...
He Joins the Military, Then Refuses to Deploy
David Ridenour writes this about Army sergeant Matthis Chiroux, a six-day Afghanistan veteran and current activist with Iraq Veterans Against the War who for political reasons has refused an order to be recalled to active duty, instead calling a press conference to denounce the war in Iraq: From the AFP ...
Drill
To burst the oil bubble, just use a drill, says David Ridenour, in an op-ed piece at least two dozen newspapers (another example here and here) have now run on their commentary pages. A version of the piece (various papers have edited it differently) follows: To burst the oil bubble, ...
Global Warming Computer Models Lead to Rise in Insurance Rates
If the global warming theory doesn't pan out, do you suppose the companies in this story will refund the extra premiums they collected? Hat tip: Benny Peiser ...
Congressional Liberals Having Their Cake and Eating It Too, by Kevin Martin
"Let them eat cake." It's a phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette, the excess-addicted wife of French King Louis XVI, after being told the poor didn't have enough bread to eat. While some scholars think someone else said it, there is no disputing that it highlights a disconnect found between the ...
Secure Their Livelihoods, Secure Their Votes, by Reece Epstein
Imagine not having a bank account. Imagine all your money is hidden in a sock drawer. Imagine arriving home one day to find the door ajar. You've been robbed! You run to the sock drawer, but your savings are gone. An estimated 22 million U.S. households - 22 percent of ...
The Civil Rights Shakedown: Myth or Reality? by Deneen Borelli
Al Sharpton is making headlines again, but it's not for one of his crusades. Instead, Sharpton, his National Action Network (NAN), and several major corporations that have donated to NAN have been subpoenaed in recent months by federal investigators. While Sharpton's attorneys reported Tuesday that the criminal probe over millions ...
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