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EPA Turns 40

This week the EPA celebrates its 40th birthday. In honor of the occasion, they’ve launched a dedicated website called EPA@40, and it’s head, Lisa Jackson, will take off on a week-long party circuit designed to “highlight the impact of [the

Sudan: Anti-Slavery Fight at a Critical Stage

[youtube HHT1XGv3wSE nolink] Editor’s note: the following with written with Sasha Giller Sudan, Africa’s largest country, is at a tipping point. In the next 60 days, it may split into two countries, or it may devolve into a mass killing

Thank Heaven for Victor Davis Hanson

In coming days, legislators on Capitol Hill will begin thrashing out a new Continuing Resolution needed to provide “stop-gap” funding for the government in the absence of the annual appropriations bills. Perhaps in that context – and certainly in the

Hope You Had a Nice Thanksgiving, Now Get Shopping

Each year the Christmas season seems to come earlier and earlier. This is no doubt the product of retailers eager to encourage Americans to spend their hard earned dollars, or more likely borrowed funds they do not have, on consumer

Lefty Millionaires: 'Tax Us More'

From AFP: With the US Congress hurtling toward a deadline on expiring tax cuts, a growing number of wealthy people are calling for higher taxes on the rich to help restore America’s fiscal health. One effort gathered over 45 millionaires

Thankful for Regulatory Reform

On this Thanksgiving holiday, the economy itself might be thankful if Congress would take a machete to the regulations strangling business and job creation. From transportation to trade, from communications to banking and from telecommunications to technology policy, policy makers

Now it Is 63: NY Rep. Maffei Concedes Election

From Syracuse.com: Ann Marie Buerkle will be Syracuse’s next representative in Congress, its first woman in the U.S. House. U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, the Democrat, called Buerkle today to concede, ending three weeks of ballot inspections, recounting and court wrangling.

Expel Rangel from Congress

On Election Day, voters sent a clear message to Washington politicians: No more corruption. No more secrecy. And no more backroom deals that enable shady politicians to remain in power. But did that message reach Congress? If we are to

The Failing Promise of Public Education

We, the American public, hold it as an article of faith that those responsible for devising and implementing public policy have our best interests at heart. Our best minds are hard at work, striving to make the world a better

How EPA Could Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs

Environmental Protection Agency officials Wednesday provided power companies and states with new guidance on EPA’s plans to regulate greenhouse gases. A D.C. lobbyist for two major power companies told Bloomberg News that “the energy and manufacturing sectors will essentially be

Big Dupes at Big Peace: Big 'Fascists'

This is the latest in a series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor at Grove City College, on his latest work, Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century, which is based on a remarkable volume

NPR Says Lack of Government Funding = Government Control

“Good judgment prevailed as Congress rejected a move to assert government control over the content of news.” – National Public Radio So spoke the government financed news of the failed efforts to sever government ties. Good god, how Orwellian can