The four-year saga of the Keystone XL pipeline is a textbook case of the game Washington politicians play. To avoid making decisions that might anger one constituency or another, they appoint a committee or commission a study and then sit…
Author: Marita Noon
Imagine Tax Revenues That Exceed The Cost Of Running The Government
The sequester happened. Nothing happened—though we all understand there will be impacts down the road. But, it didn’t have to happen. “Sequester,” a word foreign to most of us, “is a term used to describe the practice of using mandatory…
Can Global Warmists Get Their Story Straight?
Two of catastrophic climate change’s staunchest supporters have been out on the stump promoting their cause—with conflicting statements. On February 20, Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first speech, as Secretary, at the University of Virginia where he offered…
Wall Street Walks All Over The White House
The nomination of Jack Lew for Treasury Secretary has uncovered a lot of dirt about the man, but it also has a lot of dust swirling, regarding the incestuous relationship between the Obama administration and Wall Street that the White…
Obama’s Energy Plans: Triumph Or Tragedy
The State of the Union Address (SOTUA) is now last week’s history. Nearly every aspect of it has been fully dissected. For example, the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) has done a line-by-line analysis of what they call the “most expensive…
Government Playing “Chicken” With Business, Farmers, Ranchers And Jobs
No one wants to send a species to extinction, but when a chicken that can be hunted and cooked for dinner is proposed as an endangered species, one has to question the entire program. When that proposed endangered species listing…
Cellulosic Ethanol: The Dream Doesn’t Match Reality
Requiring the citizens of the kingdom to purchase something that doesn’t exist, and then fining them for not doing it sounds more like the behavior of a tinhorn dictator than the actions of a global superpower—but then, maybe the “superpower”…
