By Kevin Mooney — Suddenly the concept of “sustainability” is very much in vogue in the run-up to yet another United Nations climate conference scheduled for June. But the idea that life on earth can only be sustained by limiting population growth is not new, it has actually been around for some time. “The power of population is indefinitely greater [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Even if the Obama Administration reverses course on the Keystone XL pipeline prior to the November elections, there are any number of green pressure groups in circulation that could complicate production efforts.  President Obama recently denied the pipeline’s application to cross between the Canadian-U.S. border.  The pipeline itself would extend from Canada to Texas. Transcanada, the Canadian [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Even if Washington D.C. politicians manage to balance the budget and resolve the current fiscal crisis, the economy is not likely to recover within the current regulatory environment, Myron Ebell, the director and of energy and global warming policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) told listeners at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Instead of [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Indiana’s new “right-to-work” could have a transformative impact on the entire Midwest region where organized labor has traditionally held considerable sway and influence, according to policymakers and lawmakers who support the legislation. The law will prohibit union contracts from requiring non-union members to pay representation fees. Not a long ago, it would been unthinkable for a [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Despite an adverse court ruling out of Ecuador, Chevron continues to remain on the offensive against trial lawyers who are suing the company over environmental allegations that have been hotly disputed.  An Ecuadorian appeals court in Lago Agrio  upheld a ruling earlier this month ordering the company to pay $18 billion in damages to plaintiffs who [...]

Go figure. The one group that organized coast to coast during the Obamacare debate to intimidate Americans to support the bill is also the one group getting out of it. According to a report in the Daily Caller, 543,812 workers who are members of labor unions have received waivers from Obamacare. Compare that to the 69,813 employees who work in [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Some state legislatures are taking a stand against abusive litigation practices that drive up costs for consumers and discourage business, according to a new report from the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF). Even as it identified “judicial hellholes” where judges apply the law against defendants in a manner that is considered unfair and unbalanced, ATRF called [...]

By Rick Manning — The incandescent light bulb has a new lease on life as Congress is delaying implementation of the impending January 1, 2012 ban on the sale of traditional 100 watt light bulbs until October 1 of this upcoming year. Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson, whose group has led the charge against banning consumer light bulb [...]

By Robert Romano — Since being introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, the so-called “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) has drawn strong opposition from Internet companies large and small, as well as civil libertarians and grassroots organizations.  One of the major criticisms is that the legislation would give the government power to restrict access to websites that are deemed [...]

By Robert Romano — Do you like interacting with your friends on social networking sites like Facebook, or looking at user-created videos on YouTube? Or simply surfing on Google to find the most up to date news and information? Well, the Internet could get a lot more bumpy in the coming months.  Congress is considering legislation that Americans for Limited [...]