American businesses have long practiced what political scientists call regulatory capture. A company that cannot repeal a law takes control of the people the government put in charge of enforcing it. The airlines did it to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which in 40 years never approved a new ...
Roadless Rule. It was controversial a quarter century ago and it appears that it remains so. The “environmental” PACs are coming-out in earnest, no doubt hoping to drum-up memberships with sensationalist boilerplate language that often doesn’t mean much after critical review. First, most of the Roadless Area (a federal designation) lies in a handful of western states, and half of that probably would not be considered as forests, at least from a visual standpoint. Not that unforested lands haven’t ecological and other values. They do. However, if one adopts a forestland ...
Go ahead, President Donald Trump, keep the Kennedy Center closed. Don't give it money for necessary repairs. This is low-hanging fruit for Americans done with your extortion schemes. They don't have to submit to small-bore intimidation like this. They can just shrug at the demand that your ...
In the satirical 1964 anti-war film "Dr. Strangelove," fears of a "Doomsday machine," an automated, unstoppable device programmed to trigger global nuclear annihilation if the Soviet Union is attacked, gripped U.S. leaders and the Soviet ambassador in the American "war room." Predictions of ...
One of the primary tenets of the American legal system is the importance of precedent; the common law doctrine of "stare decisis" means "to stand by things decided." The purpose of law in such a system is to provide stability and predictability, so that people can conform their conduct to the ...
The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons. The First Amendment does not create that right; it prohibits the government from infringing upon it. The ability to think, speak, write, criticize, ...
