The Rationale for Wind Power Won’t Fly
Physical limitations will keep this energy source a niche provider of U.S. electricity needs. by Jay Lehr To understand the folly that drives too much of the nation’s energy policies,…
Environmental Protection Agency: Constantly Leaping Before It Looks
by Kerri Toloczko The stated mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is protecting America from “significant risks to human health and the environment.” This was previously driven by…
More Evidence That ObamaCare Is Costing Jobs
‘It’s about jobs.” That was how then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described ObamaCare shortly before President Obama signed it into law. Turns out she was right, although not in the way…
Why the IRS IG Stopped with an Audit
by Gerald Walpin Among all the unanswered questions about the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative organizations, one is most crucial: Who ordered this extreme scrutiny? Amazingly, IRS inspector general J. Russell…
The Regulated States of America
by Niall Ferguson In “Democracy in America,” published in 1833, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the way Americans preferred voluntary association to government regulation. “The inhabitant of the United States,”…
Cash the biggest crop in this farm bill
We find remarkable that the Senate approved Monday a so-called “farm bill” that calls for nearly $1 trillion in questionable spending and hardly a discouraging word has been heard on…
Wind power has failed to deliver what it promised
The wind-power industry is expensive, passes costs on to the consumer and does not create many jobs in return. The claims of the green lobby that wind farms will generate abundant…
Gas engine stands the test of time
by Mark J. Perry The automobile stands as an enduring symbol of mobility and opportunity in America — and of innovation that’s at the core of our nation’s economic strength…
Ronald Reagan, “You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.”
Ronald Reagan said to conservatives, “You’re the troops. You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.” A young soldier stands guard in the cold, looking out over no-man’s-land through to…
Public Lands States: Promise and… Promise
by Gordon S. Jones The recent arguments before the Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act raised questions about whether some states are not being treated on an “equal…
Lady Thatcher taught me self-reliance
“Baroness Thatcher’s influence on my development as an entrepreneur goes far deeper than that, to my most fundamental beliefs. . . Baroness Thatcher’s lesson was clear: you get out what…
Lady Thatcher restored self-reliance
“Margaret Thatcher transcended identity politics — it was her ideas not her gender that mattered” by Cal Thomas There is a story about Margaret Thatcher, which is probably apocryphal, but…
Tax day reminds Americans that federal spending and taxes are too high
George Landrith, president of Frontiers of Freedom, made the following statement on tax day, April 15th: Will Rogers once said, “It is a good thing that we do not…
Obama Energy Policy Prevents Economic Growth
by U.S. Representative Tom Cole If only President Obama would take his approach to energy production and apply it to the national debt, we’d be down to 2007 levels…
[Flashback Interview] The Iron Lady on Individual Self-Reliance (“There is no such thing as society.”)
“All too often the ills of this country are passed off as those of society. Similarly, when action is required, society is called upon to act. But society as such…