RFK, Jr. Wants Me Jailed … as a War Criminal!
The “people’s climate march” was notable for the amazing energy, economic and climate illiteracy displayed by the mostly young people parading along New York City streets September 21.
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Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
It’s Time to Stop the Climate Scare Stories
It is time to put an end to climate summits. On the evidence, they are not needed.
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Alarmists Respond to Summer Freeze with Climate March
No major hurricane has struck the Northeast since Hurricane Gloria came ashore on Long Island and then pushed up the Connecticut River Valley in 1985, and Gloria is the only major hurricane to strike the Northeast in the past 50 years.
In Defense of E-cigarettes
He saved his worst ban for last. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s nanny-state policies have left a trail of damage. His defeated soda ban, the ban on food donations to homeless shelters and other antics have cost New Yorkers money, jobs, food choices, and even their freedom to give charity.
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VID: Greg Gutfeld’s EPIC Rant about NYC Ban on E-Cigarettes
Greg Gutfeld is angry, and rightly so, because “vaping” electronic cigarettes is harmless to anyone around them.
The Evolving Urban Form: Greater New York Expands
The term “Greater New York” was applied, unofficially, to the 1898 consolidation that produced the present city of New York, which brought together the present five boroughs (counties). When consolidated, much of the city of New York was agricultural. As time went on, the term “Greater” came to apply to virtually any large city and its environs, not just New York. By 2010, Greater New York had expanded to somewhere between 19 million and 23 million residents, depending on the definition.
Bloomberg’s E-cig Ban Likely to do More Harm Than Good
Mayor Bloomberg’s going out with one last ban. The City Council, with the administration’s strong backing, is rushing through a law to treat the vapor from e-cigarettes like tobacco smoke under the city’s “Smoke-Free Air Act.” The use of e-cigs, a k a “vaping,” would be forbidden in indoor and outdoor locations wherever smoking is banned.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Mike LaFaive- Illinois Could Be Number One in Cigarette Smuggling
In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In[…]
Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
The Nanny State Can Get You Killed
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Move to Restrict Devices that Help Smokers Quit
Education · Featured · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Why Bill De Blasio’s Election Won’t Change NYC Schools
Even if Randi Weingarten isn’t NYC’s next school chancellor, she might as well be.
Featured · Regulation · Taxes
City Hall Legislating in the Shadows
[Mayor] Bloomberg stands accused of not letting the public see how his team made various nanny-state laws and regulations from his (failed) soda ban to his rules against donating food to city-run homeless shelters.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
Underemployment in America
Underemployment in the states is highest in some Western and Midwestern states.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
With Its Soda Tax, Mexico Repeats The Mistakes Of Mayor Bloomberg:If Obesity Could be Outlawed, it Wouldn’t be a Problem
By the middle of October, if everything stays on schedule, Mexico’s legislators may well prove that they haven’t learned a thing from policies that have been tried and failed, from Denmark to New York City.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
Nanny Bloomberg Strikes Again: Wants to Ban Electronic Cigarettes
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s aggressive nanny-state policies — such as his crusades against trans fats and large-size sodas — have been annoying and, at times, unconstitutional. While some of[…]
Environment/Energy · Regulation
Speaking of CFLs and Mindless Mandates to ‘Save the Environment’ …
My latest blog post on the impending ban on the incandescent lightbulb has garnered quite a bit of discussion on Facebook here and here. The Facebook discussion, especially at my[…]
Economics · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
New York City Workers Used Snow to Cripple City
Major news outlets are reporting that some New York City workers have admitted intentionally crippling the city by doing a lousyjob — and sometimes doing nothing — to plow away[…]
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