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Feds Regulate the Emissions of Others Problem: Natural gas is burned — flared — when oil wells are drilled away from natural gas pipes or, as is commonly the...
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Nationalizing School Standards Through ObamaCore Not thinking critically: Advocates of Common Core accuse detractors of letting partisan beliefs stop needed national standards. Not only do national standards not foretell...
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EPA Edicts: Large Price Tag, Little Value Politicizing his “problems”: While they were at the 2014 Climate Summit at UN headquarters in New York, President Obama gathered representatives from...
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Collaborating With China in Climate Con Game Need for negotiation skills: Under an agreement between President Obama and China to cut CO2 emissions, China will continue building a new...
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Getting Jobbed by the “Green” Government
Item: “The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday pushed back against an inspector general report alleging the White House cut corners in concluding that greenhouse gasses pose a threat to...
One Euro, One Europe, One Mounting Mess
Item: “European Union foreign ministers are debating a tax on financial institutions that could raise money for the EU as well as make banks share the burden of bailout,”...
Playing Down the PLA
Item: The New York Times for August 26 reported that Chinese defense officials had “denounced” a Pentagon “report that called China’s military buildup ‘potentially destabilizing.’” The paper cited a...
The Real School Scandal
Item: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for July 13, in an account on the city’s recent school cheating scandal, reported: “Pressure to meet testing targets was a major reason cheating took...
The All-embracing United Nations
Item: The Associated Press reported on July 15 on the UN’s proposed Arms Trade Treaty to regulate weapons worldwide: The French Ambassador, Eric Danon, “said the treaty aims to...
Regulating Jobs to Death
Item: In the Wall Street Journal for May 26, Cass Sunstein (photo at left), the President’s top regulator, wrote: “A 21st-century regulatory system must promote economic growth, innovation and...
Border Claims and Other Fables
Item: In a speech in El Paso, Texas, on May 10, President Obama mocked those who have resisted his policies on illegal immigration and border security. “They wanted a...
Promoting Pain at the Pump
Item: A letter from President Obama to congressional leaders, dated April 26 and posted on the White House website, urged that they “take immediate action to eliminate unwarranted tax...
Running Amok With “Entitlements”
Item:In The Hill for April 6, Representative Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), the second-ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, wrote an op-ed entitled “Seniors, Say Goodbye to Your Healthcare,” charging...
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ObamaCare’s Annual Check-up: Ailing, to Get Worse Item: “More than 100 health care reform advocates rallied Wednesday near the site of the new Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center to...
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ObamaCare’s Annual Check-up: Ailing; to Get Worse
Item: “More than 100 health care reform advocates rallied Wednesday near the site of the new Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center to celebrate the anniversary of the Affordable Care...