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Newsom Pointing Finger in the Wrong Direction for Gas Prices
by Ronald Stein May 18, 2020As America recovers from the COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates, California cannot rid itself from the continuing and state-prescribed high costs of energy that other states are not shackled with.
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Government
Will Utility Bills on Low-Income Citizens Increase During the Pandemic?
by Timothy Benson May 14, 2020At the end of April, Illinois utility regulators issued a call to repeal a pro-consumer federal order, called the Minimum Price Order Rule. Here’s what this means.
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Climate ChangeFeaturedScience
Fauci-Birx Climate Models?
by Paul Driessen and David Legates April 13, 2020Honest, evidence-based climate models could avoid trillions of dollars in policy blunders.
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Fear of litigation delayed delivery of millions of N95 masks for healthcare workers. Should the law be slowing our emergency response?
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EconomicsFeaturedHealth Care
To Kill Markets Is the Worst Possible Plan
by Richard Ebeling March 17, 2020The Coronavirus outbreak will bring long-lasting lessons to all people of Earth. The one message we must fight is that big government solved the crisis.
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Illinois state representative Camille Lilly recently sponsored a bill to restrict self-service gasoline stations. New Jersey and Oregon already ban self-service gas, although Oregon exempts rural counties. Would creating jobs for gas station attendants be good economics?
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Some might recall searching for “pirate treasure” in their youth, hoping to come across an abandoned gold mine brimming with wealth, or even finding a path to candy land.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomRegulation
One Year Later, The Left’s Net Neutrality Lies Look Even Dumber
by Seton Motley December 18, 2018For those who don’t pay particularly close attention to politics – those on the Left lie. A LOT.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyRegulation
Trump’s Right, Poor Policies Driving Severe Wildfires, Not Climate Change
by H. Sterling Burnett December 4, 2018The wildfires devastating California are terrible, but they are not a new phenomenon.
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Internet/Telecom
A Brief History Of The Left’s Attempts To (Over-)Regulate The Internet
by Seton Motley October 29, 2018The relatively brief history of the Internet – is a quarter-century visual aide of how the Left looks to over-regulate things.
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In the era of self-driving cars, big data and increasingly sophisticated bio-medical advances, the age-old question of how regulation can keep up with technology is more relevant than ever.
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Over 35 years ago during the 1981-82 recession, Billy Joel released “Allentown” about the plight of this Pennsylvania town.
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FeaturedRegulationTobacco
FDA Creates Cigarette Confusion – Calls for Science to Back up Policy
by Jeff Stier March 17, 2018The FDA recently announced a plan to move forward to develop a regulation that would mandate a reduction in nicotine in combustible cigarettes to a very low level. The FDA justified the move by stating that such a mandate could help current smokers quit, and prevent experimental users from becoming regular smokers.