Costly regulations produce crude, unrefined results. Can we expect to see lots of Washington EPA bureaucrats on bicycles this summer? An estimated 50% of East Coast refinery capacity is predicted to shut down in June thanks to EPA regulatory restrictions on new refinery plant construction and upgrades, along with others that discourage ... MORELarry Bell: EPA Has Petroleum Processors Over A Barrel
Costly regulations produce crude, unrefined results. Can we expect to see lots of Washington EPA bureaucrats on bicycles this summer? An estimated 50% of East Coast refinery capacity is predicted to shut down in June thanks to EPA regulatory restrictions on new refinery plant construction and upgrades, along with others that discourage ... MOREThomas Sowell: A Cynical Process
Power brokers with a narrow cause. Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being — not by what they actually are or what they actually do. Many people, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still think of labor unions as protectors of working people from their employers. And ... MOREJacob Sullum: Twenty Years For Standing Her Own Ground
A harsh penalty for non-submission. "I got five baby mammas, and I put my hands on every last one of them except for one," Rico Gray confessed during a November 2010 deposition. "The way I was with women ... they had to walk on eggshells around me." He recalled punching women in the face, shoving them, choking them and tossing them out the door ... MOREDebra J Saunders: S.F.'s Political Correctness Runs Amok
Common sense again bruised in the city by the bay. Former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Brown is appalled. He didn't vote for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and he isn't his biggest fan. But when he considers the prosecution of Mirkarimi for bruising his wife's arm during a New Year's Eve argument, he is appalled. People lose sight of what types of cases ... MOREGary Johnson And The End Of Marijuana As A Fringe Issue
from the Atlantic. Nominated for a Supreme Court seat in 1987, Douglas H. Ginsburg withdrew from consideration when it was revealed that he'd tried marijuana decades earlier as a student. Five years later, America elected Bill Clinton to the presidency despite his admission that he tried marijuana. The taboo against the drug was still powerful enough that he hedged his ... MOREArthur Brooks: A Moral Case For Free Enterprise
Excerpted and adapted from "The Road to Freedom." Liberals often accuse conservatives of being obsessed by morality. But the truth is, many conservatives are reluctant to talk about morals or make a moral case for anything in politics and policy. They're willing to talk about principles, perhaps. Values, maybe. But morals? That evokes unpleasant ... MOREStephen Lendman: Police State Harshness
The unleashing of unchecked police powers. On April 26, the House passed HR 3523: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) of 2011 248 - 168. A companion S. 2105: Cybersecurity Act of 2012 awaits Senate consideration. Obama promised a veto if passes. He lied. He does it repeatedly. The Senate will pass or defeat what he wants. ... MOREJacob Sullum: Every Move You Make
How new surveillance technologies threaten privacy. “If you win this case,” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told the Obama administration’s lawyer during oral argument in U.S. v. Jones last fall, “there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United ... MOREWalter E. Williams: America's Two-Faced Liberals
Behind the facade. President Barack Obama and Wall Street occupiers, along with their allies in the mainstream media and on college campuses, have maintained an ongoing attack on high-income earners, people they call 1 percenters. Listening to their deceitful demagoguery, you would naturally think of them as 99 percenters, but you'd be dead-wrong. Last week, ... MOREJessica Meyers/Jonathan Allen: TSA's Groping Problem
Embattled TSA takes one hit after another. TSA’s got a groping problem — physically and philosophically. In the past year, a former Miss America, a wrinkled Texas congressman and an angel-faced 4-year-old have accused Transportation Security Administration agents of harassing them. As if that wasn’t enough, the agency’s damaged brand took another ... MORELA Times: Police Wait For FAA Clearance To Use Drones
Law enforcement salivates over prying eyes in the sky. Police departments across the country have bought inexpensive small drone aircraft with cameras to help track drug dealers, find missing children and locate wandering Alzheimer's patients, but federal rules designed to protect the nation's airspace have kept them grounded. That is about to change ... MORE
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