Isaac Orr Discusses NY Fracking Ban on Pennsylvania Farm Country Radio
While the ban is considered to be a political success for Governor Cuomo, Orr explains how the state is going to miss out on economic opportunity and tax revenue.
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Elections Have Consequences for Hydraulic Fracturing
The ballots have been counted and the winners declared, but perhaps most important of all, the campaign ads are over. Ads for candidates, ballot measures, and specific issues monopolized commercial slots over the past few months. One of the most important issues this election cycle was energy development, especially as it pertains to hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking.”
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Featured · Government · Legal Affairs · Liberty
The Slow Erosion of the Fourth Amendment
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unlawful and unreasonable search and seizure. Yet that protection is being slowly eroded away. Thanks to the “War of Drugs” and the “War on Terror” government, at the state and federal level, has worked alongside the courts to gradually diminish the range and force of the protections that were meant to be inviolable rights of all citizens.
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Featured · Taxes
Bag the Plastic Bag Tax
Legislators in Harrisburg are considering a proposal from state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Wayne, that would make Pennsylvania the first state to impose a statewide tax on the use of plastic bags.
Sauce for the Goose
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson’s recent ruling lets boys play on high school girls’ sports teams – at least for now.
Fracking Brings Employment
Anti-energy activists promote falsehoods about this vital, safe job-creating technology. They inhabit a callous parallel universe and wage war on cheap energy, jobs, and the poor.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Regulation
Congressman Kelly: Next Phase of IRS Scandal is Abuse of Our Data
“The information that the IRS has on file on people goes pretty deep into personal lives. It is being leaked out and given to people for very specific political reasons. I think this is something that should be the most chilling thing for Americans to understand.”
Downsize the Liberals
Washington state is conservative, except for Seattle, which delivers the entire state’s electoral votes for the most left-wing plausible candidate every four years. The same is true of Oregon, except[…]
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
Green Crusade a Threat to Economic Growth
We are fighting a battle against scientific ignorance and environmental nihilism that we cannot afford to lose.
Education Policy is Not Washington’s Business
By briefly quoting one critic of the national Common Core education standards, which are shaping curricula and tests for schoolchildren in Pennsylvania and across the nation, the Trib at least[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Health Care · Politics · Taxes
Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Debacle
As the gradual implementation of Obamacare continues and debate over the intelligence of socialized medicine mounts, the budgetary malaise of the current Medicaid system should be a red flag to[…]
Environment/Energy · Regulation · Taxes
Natural Gas Impact Fee Principles
In the coming days and weeks, the Pennsylvania legislature will consider the size and scope of an expected impact fee on hydraulically fractured natural gas well operators as part of[…]
Time to Share that Voucher Love
The massive success of voucher program expansion by intrepid legislators this past year in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio has commentators in nearby states begging their own legislators to share the[…]
Pennsylvania Works Toward Privatizing Liquor Sales
Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai is leading the charge to privatize the state’s liquor sales. Pennsylvania can count only Utah in its company in terms of states that retain total control[…]
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- Katz and Gattuso: Government regulations getting out of control
- Climate Cliche Watch, Chapter 1
- Pfeiffer: President's State of the Union Plan Will 'Absolutely Not' Pass
