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Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants

Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
Commentary

What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?

Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
Business & Economics

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview

Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
Health Care

John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”

John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
Commentary

California Civil Rights Panel Appointed

WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Commentary

Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?

Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
Commentary

Governor Schwarzenegger Creates the California Complete Count Committee

Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the creation of the California Complete Count Committee (Committee) to ensure a complete count for the 2010 Census. “Every Californian counts,” Governor Schwarzenegger said. “The Census determines how the distribution of more than $300 billion in federal funds goes to local, state ...
Health Care

Obama Packs Green Bay with Health-Care Delusions

“The Corner” National Review, June 11, 2009 Speaking at a rally of the faithful in Green Bay, Wisc., President Obama proclaimed that his health reforms would bring the whole country up to the health-care standard of this high-quality, low-spending community. If it were 1959, instead of 2009, he’d have said ...
Commentary

Obama Lies About Health Care

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama is out in Green Bay today, and he’s doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care. The reason he’s out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good. Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is a group that’s stopping Obama, ...
Health Care

Discussing myths about American health care.

Sally C. Pipes is interviewed on her book The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care and the possible government takeover of American health care on North Carolina’s Morning News with Scott Fitzgerald.
Business & Economics

Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants

Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
Commentary

What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?

Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
Business & Economics

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview

Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
Health Care

John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”

John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
Commentary

California Civil Rights Panel Appointed

WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Commentary

Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?

Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
Commentary

Governor Schwarzenegger Creates the California Complete Count Committee

Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the creation of the California Complete Count Committee (Committee) to ensure a complete count for the 2010 Census. “Every Californian counts,” Governor Schwarzenegger said. “The Census determines how the distribution of more than $300 billion in federal funds goes to local, state ...
Health Care

Obama Packs Green Bay with Health-Care Delusions

“The Corner” National Review, June 11, 2009 Speaking at a rally of the faithful in Green Bay, Wisc., President Obama proclaimed that his health reforms would bring the whole country up to the health-care standard of this high-quality, low-spending community. If it were 1959, instead of 2009, he’d have said ...
Commentary

Obama Lies About Health Care

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama is out in Green Bay today, and he’s doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care. The reason he’s out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good. Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is a group that’s stopping Obama, ...
Health Care

Discussing myths about American health care.

Sally C. Pipes is interviewed on her book The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care and the possible government takeover of American health care on North Carolina’s Morning News with Scott Fitzgerald.
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