HELP AMERICANS FOR A BETTER ECONOMY DEFEAT THE LIBERAL GREEN AGENDA! SIGN YOUR PETITION TO CONGRESS! TELL THEM TO PASS THE REINS ACT NOW! Draining the swamp doesn’t just mean shrinking the size of federal bureaucracies. It means reducing the role of government throughout our society—including its ability to seize land. A good place to … Continue reading Federal Land Grabs Have Gotten Out of Control. Why Trump’s Executive Order Is a Positive Sign.
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HELP AMERICANS FOR A BETTER ECONOMY DEFEAT THE LIBERAL GREEN AGENDA! SIGN YOUR PETITION TO CONGRESS! TELL THEM TO PASS THE REINS ACT NOW! Many years ago, I wrote an article on the research of Cornell University professor David Pimentel. Pimentel, a geneticist and evolutionary biologist, claimed it takes more energy to produce ethanol … Continue reading How the Ethanol Mandate is Destroying America’s Prairies
Despite a lifetime of fishing off the New England coast, Eric Reid was like a fish out of water when President Barack Obama grabbed a piece of his livelihood. “I’m just a fish guy but I learned a lot about politics in a big hurry,” said Reid, general manager of Seafreeze Shoreside Inc., a seafood … Continue reading Is the ocean ‘land owned or controlled’ by feds? Antiquities Act lawsuit aims to find out
MADISON, Wis. – Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of the day an army of Democratic prosecutors unveiled a coordinated campaign to hunt down so-called “climate change deniers.” Constitutional experts have described the initiative as one of the more egregious attacks on the First Amendment in U.S. history. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, caught in the crosshairs of … Continue reading First Amendment rights still in peril following climate-change probes
Liberals claimed construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline would result in toxic spills. They didn't mention they would be the ones trying to intentionally stage the accidents. Who will save the Earth from environmentalists? - DF By Timothy Mclaughlin (Reuters) - South Dakota authorities are investigating an act of vandalism at the Dakota Access pipeline, … Continue reading Liberals stage new terrorist attacks on Dakota Pipeline
As Joseph Schumpeter noted, free markets had a good first century (the 1750s to 1850s). A market economy produced massive improvements in the quality of life, and that gained it general legitimacy. But, as he also warned, as wealth increased, increasingly markets and the prerequisite institutions for markets to exist (specifically property rights) came under … Continue reading The State Can’t Protect the Environment – Markets Can
President Donald Trump will soon issue an executive order calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind the Clean Power Plan, a key component of the Obama administration’s Paris climate agreement. Reports have also surfaced that top officials in the Trump administration are divided on whether to pull out of the Paris protocol. Trump should … Continue reading Time to Say Au Revoir to Paris Climate Deal
There were mixed signals from the White House on Tuesday about whether spending cuts or economic growth will fund the boost in defense spending that President Donald Trump reportedly will seek from Congress. Either way, this is an opportune time to dramatically reduce excessive regulatory budgets—that of the Environmental Protection Agency foremost among them. The … Continue reading How Trump Can Clean Up the EPA’s Budget
I don’t have strong views on global warming. Or climate change, or whatever it’s being called today. But I’ve generally been skeptical about government action for the simple reason that the people making the most noise are statists who would use any excuse to increase the size and power of government. To be blunt, I … Continue reading Crossing the Welfare State With the Carbon Tax
Guest post from Americans for a Better Economy - America's most effective grassroots opponent of liberal environmentalists These 16 Senate Republicans have NOT co-sponsored Rand Paul's REINS Act. That’s a problem. The REINS Act is a simple, but Swamp Draining reform. It takes away the power of unelected bureaucrats to make up and enforce their own … Continue reading Which of these 16 Republicans will stab you in the back?
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