Does the Environmental Protection Agency care more about its image than it does about the environment? Its behavior in response to the massive 2015 Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado would suggest a very clear “yes.” The Environmental Protection Agency is hiding its incredible recklessness in the affair by giving official accounts that are clearly … Continue reading Exposing the EPA’s Gold King Mine Cover-Up
With California’s water crisis in full swing, there is one question on the tip of everyone’s tongue. How do we save more water? More specifically, how do we cut back on the water we use to grow our food? This question has implications beyond the current drought. Even if there weren’t water shortages popping up … Continue reading New Indoor Farming Device Can Grow Food With 95% Less Water
Obamacare has failed to deliver the health care reform Americans deserve. The Senate now has an opportunity to reform health care and walk our country back from the single-payer edge. After seven years of Obamacare, it’s important to remember the many ways Obamacare has failed us—and why consumer-friendly, market-driven health care should remain the goal. … Continue reading 5 Ways Obamacare Proves Government-Run Health Care Is a Disaster
In a column from December of 2015, the Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady unveiled an inconvenient fact that poverty warriors on the American left and right would perhaps prefer remain hidden: from 1980 to 2000, when the U.S. economy boomed, the number of Mexican arrivals into the U.S. grew from 2.2 million in 1980 to … Continue reading The Politically Hopeless, Completely Incoherent, and Totally Lame Economic Agenda of the Democratic Party
Defenders of civil liberties have won big victories against gun control in the United States. The fight certainly isn’t over, to be sure, but most Americans have some degree of freedom to own guns, carry guns, and protect themselves with guns. By contrast, the situation in Europe tends to be grim. Many nations strictly limit … Continue reading A Glimmer of Hope for Gun Rights In Europe
According to media reports, President Trump is expected to announce on Friday that his administration will revert some of President Obama’s policies toward Cuba. In particular, it looks like Trump will impose new restrictions on travel, as well as limits on U.S. companies doing business in the island. The alleged justification for the new policy is … Continue reading Who Is Trump Trying to Help on Cuba?
The horrifying scene at a practice field in Alexandria, Virginia, at which Congressman Steve Scalise was shot in a shocking flurry of gunfire, could have been much worse. Rand Paul pointed out that “it would have been a massacre” had a member of the House leadership not been there. His presence guaranteed that the heavily … Continue reading It Would Have Been a Massacre
President Trump and congressional Republicans have a second chance to take a whack at the Obamacare piñata – and the beauty of it is that this time, Democrats may want to take a swing at it, too. “It” being the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a.k.a the death panel that was much in the news during the debate over passage … Continue reading 15 Faceless Bureaucrats Will Decide what Health Care You’re Allowed to Have
If the government is going to engage in food aid, it can't waste taxpayer dollars. Trump's budget would send taxpayer funds overseas, where they would often benefit corrupt and questionable regimes. - Donny -- WASHINGTON, DC -- Earlier this week the House Committee on Agriculture convened a hearing on the FY2018 budget proposal from President … Continue reading Congressional Hearing Slams Proposed Food Aid Cuts
From Chairman's Conaway's opening remarks, Committee on Agriculture Hearing: The Next Farm Bill: The Future of International Food Aid and Agricultural Development, June 7, 2017 ...(T)he administration’s budget proposal...calls for drastic cuts to international food aid programs and the elimination of funding for both the McGovern-Dole and Food for Peace Programs. I know we will … Continue reading Conaway Stands Up For US Farmers In Food Aid Hearing
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