Recent Opeds & Letters to the Editor

Other People’s Children

David L. Applegate
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April 16, 2013
If the states are laboratories of democracy, then what does that make our cities? Showcases of the experiments’ results? If so, then we are in for a terrible time.

The Price of Cheap Beer

Alexander R. Cohen
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April 15, 2013
America's top beer-ocrat goes to the Senate tomorrow.

Absolute Rights – and Wrongs: Is It Really All About the Kids?

David L. Applegate
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April 15, 2013
In the wake of the celebrated shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and the streets of Chicago, both parties have fallen over themselves to act “serious” about the problem of gun vio

Three Ways ObamaCare Is Failing

Benjamin Domenech
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April 13, 2013
As I’ve noted before, there were three opportunities for those who oppose  Obamacare to repeal and replace it. One path was at the ballot box, where  opponents failed.

Lawsuit and a Congressional Hearing as Fisker Bankruptcy Nears

Paul Chesser
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April 13, 2013
As green energy stimulus recipients raked in billions of dollars the last few years, with

Resentencing Skilling: Reading Between The Lines

James L. Johnston
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April 12, 2013
The Wall Street Journal reported on April 5

BP Finds Sustainability in Oil and Gas, Sells Off Wind

Paul Chesser
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April 12, 2013
Only a month ago BP – which not long ago promoted itself as “Beyond Petroleum” –

Mother Nature Takes Pre-Emptive Shot at Alarmists on Eve of IPCC V Release

Paul Crovo
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April 12, 2013
How is it that every time environmentally supercharged politicians ring the alarmist bell, Mother Nature has a way of mocking their efforts?

Pacific Export Terminals: The Raging War on Coal

Steve Goreham
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April 12, 2013
Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal.

The Back-Room Medicaid Debate

Benjamin Domenech
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April 11, 2013
States across the country are making a fateful decision that will determine the future tax burden on their citizens, the size of the largest line item in virtually every state’s budget, and the nat