Everybody hates cronyism and the U.S. farm bill is chuck-full of it. This is going to be a big issue and we need to be screaming this from the mountain tops. Here are just two examples: Do farmers need more crop insurances? Senate rejects amendments to reform the sugar program
This Foundation’s weekly commentaries usually focus on Georgia-specific issues, but May has been a month for wake-up calls from Washington to all liberty-minded Americans. Government employees testified they were punished for speaking out about the U.S. Embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya. The Internal Revenue Service admitted unfairly targeting conservative groups. The FBI is investigating the [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved legislation that would clear a number of bureaucratic hurdles for the Keystone Pipeline which has been stuck in the review process for nearly five years. This may be an exercise in futility, but this is about jobs and North American energy sources. Many of President Obama’s union [...]
I have been studying solar power since the early 1970s when environmental groups urged the abandonment of nuclear power and the use of solar energy as its replacement. Back then, solar energy was not economical and it still has problems today. You might say the environmental groups were successful–all new nuclear power plant sales stopped [...]
Campaigning in San Francisco during the Democrat Party primaries in January 2008, Presidential Candidate Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s [...]
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