Year: 2012
Chemical Fight Offers Early Look at Obama’s Second-Term EPA
In an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner, I explain how the second Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency will seek to use sound bites, rather than sound science, to pursue an agenda of more excessive and more costly regulation. And when ...
Conservation Easements and the Anti-Farm Farm Bill, by Dana J. Gattuso
The September 30th deadline has come and gone, and Congress has not passed a new farm bill. And while farm special interests bemoan that Congress fiddled while Rome burns, the outcome is actually good for American taxpayers who would have ...
Welcome to the Doctor’s Office — Your Papers Please, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
I recently took my daughter to our pediatric ophthalmologist — a physician she has seen for several years, and with whom we have a very good relationship. At this appointment, however, the receptionist gave me three new forms to fill ...
Obama, Sharpton and Black America’s Downward Spiral, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin
As a conservative, President Barack Obama's reelection was one of the most disappointing experiences of my life. As a black American, my sorrow was only amplified. Just look at President Obama's economic track record. Look at the unemployment rate during ...
Saving Sarah From the Egyptian Salafis, by Archbishop Council Nedd II & Deacon J.T. Griffin
Almost six months into the reign of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, many people in the West and even Egypt lament the "Arab Spring" overthrow of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak. America and Mubarak shared a concern for anti-Western Muslim fundamentalists seeking ...
Jovan, Jason and Jumping to Conclusions, by Derryck Green
Jason Whitlock started it, and Jason Whitlock can end it. On December 1, the Fox Sports columnist penned a column about what happened earlier that morning when Jovan Belcher — the starting linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs — murdered ...
The Wind Production Tax Credit: Corporate Welfare at its Worst
Americans will soon learn whether the political class in Washington is serious about cleaning up the dirty acts of favoritism and cronyism that are business as usual in the nation's capital. From loan guarantees for the well-connected to subsidies for ...
Life, Liberty and Happiness, by Archbishop Council Nedd II
In an increasingly secular America — where moral absolutes have vanished — it is not surprising that same-sex marriage referendums recently passed in Maryland, Washington and Maine. After all, noted theologian N.T. Wright said, "by itself, human reason can no ...
Rahm Emanuel: He’s Got Moves Like Bloomberg
At the same time as a high-end shopping mall vending machine in Burbank, California is beginning to dispense caviar, truffles and escargot, city employees in Chicago are looking at the possibilities of finding kale smoothies and organic, gluten-free soy crackers ...
2012 Hurricane Season Ends: NOAA Prediction WRONG AGAIN!
Worse: FOIA Documents Revealed Today for the First Time Suggest NOAA May Have Cheated to Win "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" Hurricane Forecast "Bet" Against Elementary School Students in 2011 Washington, D.C. - The 2012 hurricane season officially ...
