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Author: Daniel Himebaugh Washington Governor Christine Gregoire recently issued an executive order instructing state agencies to suspend non-critical rulemaking activities until January 1, 2012.  Chief among her reasons for the order: Businesses need a break from new regulation during the current economic recession. The ban on new rules is su ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Yesterday, a federal judge Norman Moon in Virginia dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration’s health insurance law. This makes the sixth decision rendered (after federal judges in Florida, Virginia, and Ohio, denied motions to dismiss, and judges in California and Michigan granted motions to dismiss). ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Update (June, 2011): See here for the June 16, 2011 update. I have prepared this memo describing the current status of the 20 pending federal lawsuits challenging the Obama Administration’s health care law. I updated it this morning to cover yesterday’s decision in the Liberty University case. … ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur I will be speaking to the Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs about The Right to Earn A Living on Thursday, Dec. 9th at 6pm at the Advance Food Complex, 5110 Enterprise Blvd., in Enid. Dinner will be provided. Hope to see you there–or in Kansas City, Lawrence, or Topeka! … ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Today's Wall Street Journal has an oped by Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, celebrating the agency's 40-year history of enforcement of federal environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.  I'm sure that one can find any number of "s ...

Author: Reed Hopper When I started college in the early 70's, the student mantra was "Question authority!" This was code for "Reject authority!" I couldn’t quite get behind this approach because uncritical rejection of authority involves the same sheep mentality as uncritical acceptance of authority. So, I adopted my o ...

Author: Reed Hopper The USGS issued a press release yesterday with this heading: Many Coastal Wetlands Likely to Disappear this Century. The press release touts a new study on sea level predictions, but leave it to the government to emphasize the negative rather than the positive. The import of the new study is not that … ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Here's a forthright piece from the environmentalist camp giving ten reasons why the recently begun climate talks in Cancun will achieve nothing.  I found particularly interesting the author's discussion of the economic pros and cons of greenhouse gas regulation: 3. Environmentalists have been disingenuo ...

Author: Luke A. Wake Evidently someone has begun selling titles to prime real-estate on the moon. Seriously, Popular Mechanics ran a story on this a while ago. All of this raises the question, can anyone actually own the moon? I could try selling a quitclaim deed to the Golden Gate Bridge, but that doesn't mean the buyer ...