Environment
Agriculture
Documentary ‘Modified’ peddles falsehoods about GMOs, pesticides and ‘corporate control’ of food
Propaganda has been manufactured and promulgated through the ages, and in modern times it flourished during the Great Depression and World War II when useful lies became preferred to harmful truths. That still rings true today, with the explosion of propaganda wars aided by the Internet, texting, social media, and the ...
Commentary
Mayor Pete’s Medicare for All Who Want It plan as flawed as Medicare for All
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in hot water with progressives. At last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, he attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren for refusing to say whether her preferred brand of health reform, Medicare for All, would require middle-class tax hikes. Soon after, a year-old tweet from the South Bend, ...
Blog
California Needs More Bans Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
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Commentary
The Senate’s New Drug Bill Is Socialism Lite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a radical new plan to let the federal government set drug prices. In the hopes of combating this bill, many Republicans are holding up Senator Chuck Grassley’s Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act as a more moderate alternative. That’s a mistake. While Grassley’s bill isn’t as ...
Agriculture
Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ is poking at corporate activists
Many of America’s largest public corporations recently made a commitment in principle to their “stakeholders,” which included working with their communities and “protect[ing] the environment by embracing sustainable practices.” Leaders of 181 of the 193 member companies of the prominent Business Roundtable promised to “deliver value.” It gave us a sense of ...
Agriculture
What Does the Governor’s Veto of SB 1 Mean?
California’s state government has embraced a policy of resisting nearly every federal government policy pursued by the Trump Administration. Legislation, executive orders, and lawsuits serve the dual purpose of forwarding the state’s progressive agenda and pushing back against federal policies from Washington D.C. Many have expressed surprise over Governor Newsom’s ...
Blackouts
Why Are California Gas Prices So High These Days? Thank Sacramento.
Benjamin Franklin was right that “nothing is certain but death and taxes,” though he could have added a third certainty in California – paying significantly more than the national average for gasoline. California drivers are living a real life version of the movie “Groundhog Day”, more than $4 per gallon ...
Climate Change
Policies Should Address Global Climate Change By Incenting Innovation
Amidst all of the rhetoric and dire predictions surrounding global climate change, it is easy to lose one’s perspective. But, we will not successfully minimize the risks created by global climate change without perspective. Fundamental to this perspective, U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been declining for more than a ...
Blog
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF California lawmakers won’t give up on their crusade to force everyone in the state into electric cars (before eventually removing us out of our cars altogether). That electric vehicles neither sell nor perform up to reasonable expectations is irrelevant to the anti-car movement in Sacramento. It’s almost ...
Commentary
Much Of The Buzz About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Is Wrong
Genetic engineering has delivered monumental scientific, technological, and humanitarian achievements – from producing human insulin in bacteria and gene therapy to treat genetic diseases to increasing food security and reducing malnutrition in developing countries. But it continues to face brickbats, sometimes from unexpected directions. The most recent were directed at ...
Documentary ‘Modified’ peddles falsehoods about GMOs, pesticides and ‘corporate control’ of food
Propaganda has been manufactured and promulgated through the ages, and in modern times it flourished during the Great Depression and World War II when useful lies became preferred to harmful truths. That still rings true today, with the explosion of propaganda wars aided by the Internet, texting, social media, and the ...
Mayor Pete’s Medicare for All Who Want It plan as flawed as Medicare for All
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in hot water with progressives. At last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, he attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren for refusing to say whether her preferred brand of health reform, Medicare for All, would require middle-class tax hikes. Soon after, a year-old tweet from the South Bend, ...
California Needs More Bans Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
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The Senate’s New Drug Bill Is Socialism Lite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a radical new plan to let the federal government set drug prices. In the hopes of combating this bill, many Republicans are holding up Senator Chuck Grassley’s Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act as a more moderate alternative. That’s a mistake. While Grassley’s bill isn’t as ...
Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ is poking at corporate activists
Many of America’s largest public corporations recently made a commitment in principle to their “stakeholders,” which included working with their communities and “protect[ing] the environment by embracing sustainable practices.” Leaders of 181 of the 193 member companies of the prominent Business Roundtable promised to “deliver value.” It gave us a sense of ...
What Does the Governor’s Veto of SB 1 Mean?
California’s state government has embraced a policy of resisting nearly every federal government policy pursued by the Trump Administration. Legislation, executive orders, and lawsuits serve the dual purpose of forwarding the state’s progressive agenda and pushing back against federal policies from Washington D.C. Many have expressed surprise over Governor Newsom’s ...
Why Are California Gas Prices So High These Days? Thank Sacramento.
Benjamin Franklin was right that “nothing is certain but death and taxes,” though he could have added a third certainty in California – paying significantly more than the national average for gasoline. California drivers are living a real life version of the movie “Groundhog Day”, more than $4 per gallon ...
Policies Should Address Global Climate Change By Incenting Innovation
Amidst all of the rhetoric and dire predictions surrounding global climate change, it is easy to lose one’s perspective. But, we will not successfully minimize the risks created by global climate change without perspective. Fundamental to this perspective, U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been declining for more than a ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF California lawmakers won’t give up on their crusade to force everyone in the state into electric cars (before eventually removing us out of our cars altogether). That electric vehicles neither sell nor perform up to reasonable expectations is irrelevant to the anti-car movement in Sacramento. It’s almost ...
Much Of The Buzz About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Is Wrong
Genetic engineering has delivered monumental scientific, technological, and humanitarian achievements – from producing human insulin in bacteria and gene therapy to treat genetic diseases to increasing food security and reducing malnutrition in developing countries. But it continues to face brickbats, sometimes from unexpected directions. The most recent were directed at ...
