Author: David Ridenour

Does President Obama Have a Mandate For His Pledge to Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions?

National Policy Analysis #578 /
Barack Obama doesn't have a mandate for his global warming policies. He doesn't even have a mandate from his most fervent supporters. President Obama has repeatedly reiterated his support for an aggressive effort to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases ...
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Just Say "Drill"

Just Say “Drill”

National Policy Analysis #573 /
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 ...
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Ethanol: The Fuel to Nowhere

National Policy Analysis #571 /
Move over "bridge to nowhere," there's a new poster child of congressional waste and avarice - ethanol, the "fuel to nowhere."  Ethanol leads only to higher food prices and greater greenhouse gas emissions. Anytime Congress can find an excuse for ...
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Ethanol: A Burden on the Poor

National Policy Analysis #572 /
The red-hot Congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol is starting to leave many supermarket customers feeling mighty blue these days as they pay inflated prices for grocery staples. Even worse, it's likely to dramatically increase the cases of ...
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An Earmark + “K Street” Lobbyist = Massive Federal Land Grab

National Policy Analysis #568 /
George Bush is now the last remaining hurdle to the establishment of de facto federal zoning along a 175-mile corridor running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia.  It’s one of the largest federal land grabs in history. On April 29, ...
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Wayne Gilchrest Finds It’s Not Easy Being Green

Press Release /
Statement of David A. Ridenour, Vice President, The National Center for Public Policy Research on the election loss of Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), a "green" Republican, in Tuesday's primary in Maryland: Politicians who have been cowering ever since Rep. Richard ...
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Hurricane Forecasters’ 0 for 2 Record Reveals Limits of Climate Science

National Policy Analysis #565 /
With the 2007 hurricane season officially over, we now have a better idea of what 85%-95% forecast certainty means: Wrong 100% of the time.  That, at least, has been the case over the past two years. In August, the National ...
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Things the Nobel Committee Doesn’t Want You to Know

National Policy Analysis #562 /
Poor Al Gore. He's been in a downward spiral all year long. First, he received an Oscar for his documentary (or was it a "mockumentary"?), An Inconvenient Truth, from the out-of-touch motion picture industry. Then he received an International Emmy ...
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Maybe It’s Time for A Law Against Price-Gouging After All

National Policy Analysis #559 /
A Personal Reflection Free market advocates have long opposed price gouging laws on the grounds that such laws interfere with market forces and ultimately lead to shortages.  But I'm now rethinking this position. It is getting increasingly difficult to ignore ...
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Ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty: A Not-So-Innocent Passage

National Policy Analysis #542 /
The "right of innocent passage" is the right of any nation's ships to traverse continuously and expeditiously through the territorial waters of a coastal nation, subject to certain conditions.1  Under the Law of the Sea Treaty, such passage is conditioned ...
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