Opinion
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More Job-killing Rules from the EPA
Opinion -Having already done yeoman’s work stifling economic growth and job creation, President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down again.The United States created a paltry 38,000 new jobs in May: one for every 8,000 Americans. -
FCC Privacy Regulation Claims: “Believe it or not!”
Opinion -With due credit to "Ripley's Believe it or Not!®,"so much odd and bizarre is happening at the FCC in the "name" of “privacy” that the topic calls for its own collection of: "Believe it or Not!®" oddities. -
Arizona Gov. Ducey Signs Bill Blocking Local Airbnb Bans
Opinion -Arizona lawmakers have signed into law a bill preventing local governments from banning Airbnb and other peer-to-peer economy companies that connect tourists seeking short-term housing and hosts providing places to stay on their property. Gov. -
Peter Thiel Should Learn A Broader Litigation Lesson From His Gawker Lawsuit
Opinion -Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel is a pretty smart guy. As partial evidence, I give you his self-made net worth of $2.7 billion. He co-founded online payment mega-company PayPal - which was in 2002 sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. -
Explaining the Myths and Dangers of Anti-Humanism
Opinion -Review of Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, Robert Zubrin (Encounter Books, 2013), 312 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1594034763; $11.93. -
Illinois Lawmakers Reject Proposed State Tax Hikes
Opinion -By refusing to allow two bills to receive hearings while the state’s General Assembly was in session, Illinois lawmakers rejected proposals to change the state’s income tax structure from a flat tax to a progressive one that would impose higher tax rates -
Economics and the Pretense of Knowledge
Opinion -Last week, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen was awarded the Radcliffe Medal at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. -
Lawmaker’s Effort to Block HUD Community Central Planning Defeated
Opinion -The U.S. Senate tabled a legislative amendment filed by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) intended to block funding for a program requiring federal government central planning of local communities. -
American Forefathers Were Not Paternalistic
Opinion -America! For more than 250 years the word has represented hope, opportunity, a second chance, and freedom. In America the accident of a man's birth did not have to serve as an inescapable weight that dictated a person's fate or that of his family. -
Open Letter to Attorneys General about Climate Change
Opinion -[FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE CORNWALL ALLIANCE FOR THE STEWARDSHIP OF CREATION.]Dear Attorneys General,You’re not stupid. Stupid people don’t graduate from law school.Neither are you generally ignorant. You know lots of law. -
The Foolishness of Moving Illinois’ Tobacco-Use Age to 21
Opinion -Editorial -Despite the current fiscal crisis facing Illinois, state lawmakers want to decrease tax revenues. -
Austin, Texas Voters Send Uber Packing
Opinion -Voters in Austin, Texas rejected a ballot initiative proposing to roll back the city’s tough regulations on popular peer-to-peer economy transportation network companies (TNC) connecting drivers and riders, such as Uber. -
ESA Delisting Process is Failing According to Testimony
Opinion -Witnesses at a U.S. -
Legislative Reapportionment: The Supreme Court Steps Back
Opinion -Justice Clarence Thomas contended the Constitution does not tell the states how to apportion their legislatures at all. -
New Florida Law Protects Patients from Surprise Out-of-Network Bills
Opinion -Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has signed legislation protecting patients from receiving bills with higher-than-expected charges from providers outside their insurance networks. -
Give Vision Patients Protection, not ‘Eye of Newt’
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #508 Federal and state lawmakers have provided Americans a surplus of legislation cleverly titled to convey promises to protect patients’ interests. This boom has a bust. -
Christian Musicians Rocked by Oklahoma Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws
Opinion -After using the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws to confiscate charitable donations from a Burmese Christian rock band touring the state, Oklahoma law enforcement agencies returned the seized cash and dropped charges filed against the band’s manager. -
The Incompetent, Pathetically Slow Government Has Placed Itself Between You and the Economy
Opinion -Behold “Mother May I?” government. Where the private sector can’t do a thing, make a move, invent or innovate – until after the incompetent, pathetically slow government finally gets around to granting permission to do so. -
Attorney General Delegates Powers to Tort Lawyer in Exxon Climate Case
Opinion -At a press conference held on March 29, 2016, a coalition of 16 Democratic state attorneys general, the attorney general for the U.S. -
Lawmakers Pass Bill Prohibiting FCC Pricing Power Grab
Opinion -The U.S. Senate is considering a bill to prevent federal bureaucrats from using expanded internet regulation to set prices for internet access. In April, the U.S. -
Congress Votes to Block New Broker Regulations
Opinion -Congress has approved a resolution to block the Obama administration’s restrictions on retirement investment planners. The U.S. -
Study: Obama Administration Repeatedly Ignored Rulemaking Requirements
Opinion -A new study finds federal regulators in the Obama administration have repeatedly failed to follow requirements for rulemaking, enabling them to bypass public scrutiny of policy decisions. -
Alaska Legislature Passes Bill to Suspend Statewide Standardized Testing Until 2020
Opinion -The Alaska legislature passed legislation to put a hold on all statewide standardized testing, to give the state time to reassess how closely it wants to align with federal standards. -
States Prepare for Grizzly Bear Hunt
Opinion -Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are making plans to manage grizzly bear populations within their borders, including possibly allowing legal hunting of the bears for the first time on four decades.
