Opinion
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States Should Ignore Clean Power Plant Regulations, McConnell Says
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) proposed in June 2014 has received a considerable pushback from federal and state officials, most recently from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). -
Declining Sin Tax Revenues Cripple Connecticut Budgets
Opinion -As Connecticut lawmakers try to fix a projected annual $1.3 billion deficit, tobacco excise tax revenues in Connecticut continue to decline. Between fiscal year 2012 and fiscal year 2014, tobacco sin tax revenues fell by 15 percent, from $420. -
Study: Banking Deregulation Leads to Increased Business Productivity
Opinion -In the 19th century, national and state regulations restricted intra- and interstate banking, but during the 20th century, many states dismantled these regulations and allowed some forms of interstate banking, such as permitting out-of-state banks to buy -
Panama City Rakes in Bed Tax Cash
Opinion -As the spring break season in Panama City, Florida ends and the summer vacation season begins, a new tourism development tax approved by voters in November 2014 is using vacationers as a fresh revenue stream. -
Michigan Voters Reject ‘Tax and Spend’ Gas Tax Proposal
Opinion -Michigan voters overwhelmingly voted against increasing the state’s gasoline tax and sales tax to fund transportation infrastructure spending. The ballot amendment would have increased gas taxes in the state by either 42 cents per gallon or 14. -
Lawsuits Fight FCC Net Neutrality Power Grab
Opinion -CenturyLink, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, is filing a lawsuit challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality order. -
DHS Seeks Automated License-Plate Tracking Database
Opinion -About one year after abandoning a plan to create an automated national database tracking automobile owners’ license plate data and location, the U.S. -
North Carolina Lawmakers Moo-ve Toward Legalizing Raw Milk Sales
Opinion -North Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill to circumvent the state’s ban on the sale of raw milk. -
Why Government Deficits and Debt Do Matter
Opinion -The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported in early May that for the month of April 2015 the Federal government ran a budget surplus, taking in more in taxes than it laid out in expenditures. -
The Amtrak Crash: When Government is Ideological Instead of Lawful and Logical
Opinion -Last week’s deadly Amtrak crash was absolutely horrendous.For Democrats and their fellow Big Government advocates – it was a serious crisis they are trying desperately to not let go to waste. -
New Mexico Gov. Martinez Reins in Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuse
Opinion -New Mexico Gov. -
Obama Threatens to Pull Federal Funding from States Refusing Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -“Expand Medicaid or else!” That’s the message the Obama administration sent to Florida, Kansas, Tennessee, and Texas. -
Bee Facts Changed – Green Agendas Did Not
Opinion -Activists and White House appear ready to present new justifications for unjustified policiesThe White House finally appears ready to announce conclusions and policy recommendations from the Pollinator Task Force it appointed a year ago. -
Eugene City Council, Uber, Clash over New Ridesharing Regulations
Opinion -Uber, a peer-to-peer transportation company connecting people seeking rides with drivers, is suspending operations in the city of Eugene, Oregon after the town’s city council placed new regulations on the ridesharing company’s operations. -
Louisiana Lawmakers Propose Regressive Tobacco Tax to Fill Budget Hole
Opinion -Louisiana lawmakers are proposing hiking excise taxes on cigarettes to help cover a looming $1.6 billion shortfall in the state budget. -
The EPA Myth of “Clean Power”
Opinion -There are many things I do not like about the Environmental Protection Agency, but what angers me most are the lies that stream forth from it to justify programs that have no basis in fact or science and which threaten the economy. -
Temperature Fibbers Being Investigated
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #172 Switzerland joins a growing list of countries whose temperature measurements have been adjusted to show greater warming than actually measured by its temperature instruments. -
Why Court Very Likely Will Stay FCC’s Title II Reclassification
Opinion -Based on the latest best arguments this week from both the FCC and broadband petitioners, the D.C. -
Climate Alarmist John Kerry Invests Massively In Fossil Fuel Stocks
Opinion -In a March 12 address to the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State John Kerry warned that climate change outranks terrorism, epidemics and poverty as the worst threat facing the world today. -
Pope Francis Should Follow John Paul II’s Lead on Climate Encyclical
Opinion -The words of Pope John Paul II, spoken to the United Nations General Assembly on October 5, 1995, ought to inform Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on climate change and the environment. -
No, Affordable Oil Will Not Cause A New Great Depression
Opinion -By: James M. Taylor and Justin HaskinsDemocratic Party strategist Robert Weiner claims inexpensive domestic oil production via hydraulic fracturing will cause a new Great Depression, yet exactly the opposite is true. -
ObamaCare Is Rapidly Imploding – Will the Republican Congress Finally Do Something About It?
Opinion -How much more ObamaCare failure must mount in a titanic heap – before Congress decides to get more involved?A Congress given in 2014 a bi-cameral, bigger and deeper Republican majority – because of ObamaCare. -
GMO: Gimmicky Marketing Obfuscations
Opinion -By: Julie Kelly and Jeff StierFrom grocery stores to Mexican restaurants to coffee shops, do-gooder retailers are serving up a side of liberal politics with every purchase. -
Dispersion and Concentration in Metropolitan Employment
Opinion -The just released County Business Patterns indicates a general trend of continued employment dispersion to the newer suburbs (principally the outer suburbs) and exurbs but also greater concentration in the central business districts of the 52 major
