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The Economist argues in Really Big Oil that national oil companies controlling 90% of the world’s reserves are to blame for high prices.  It has an interesting suggestion to those who do not like oil for various reasons; thank the national companies for their inefficiencies and for restricting world supply.

Many opponents of TABOR laws, like the Stop Overspending ballot initiative in Nebraska, claim that it will starve necessary government programs.  If these programs are necessary, it should be easy to convince voters that they are necessary as well.  However, a lawsuit to strike the Nebraska Stop Overspending initiative from the ballot seems like a [...]

An editorial on the Opinion Journal website demonstrates bounty hunting by environmental groups.  From 1995-2002 there were 4,438 notices of intent to sue under four environmental statutes.  Here is the heart of it.
Many of the violations are trivial and technical. Defendants who have not even minimally harmed the environment are roped in. One commentator points [...]

From an article in Parade magazine on eminent domain battles comes a brief explanation of what the furor is all about.
“It’s a blatant example of reverse Robin Hood—taking homes from the poor and the middle-income and giving them to the rich,” says Scott Bullock, the IJ attorney who argued (and lost) Kelo.

This is from the editorial page of the Washington Post this morning.
The major outstanding question about global warming is not whether adding large amounts of new carbon to the atmosphere will tend to increase temperatures further. It is how sensitive the climate will be to what mass of additional carbon over time — and how [...]

Yesterday the Senate approved a bill to open Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling, while natural gas prices soar 14% amidst this summer’s heat wave.  Although increased domestic production of oil will do little to change prices as barrels are sold in a global market of producers and consumers, opening up drilling [...]

An op-ed in the Washington Times this morning points out the inconsistency of climate change doomsayers who act as if they are the embodiment of scientific truth concerning the matter and accusing all others of being “deniers” of the consensus of scientists.  The latest complete Assessment Report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

The Economist has an article illustrating how policy success breeds envy and eventually trumps ideology.  Seeing how welfare reform in the U.S. has cut welfare rolls in half while poverty has fallen, European nations have started to implement reforms modeled on the U.S.  According to the Economist
Welfare reform was once regarded as a harsh, right-wing, [...]

This Week has an article which provides a real world example of what school choice might mean for American families; an education which meets their child’s needs. Columbus Public Schools, now that they are facing competition have decided that it is time to start responding to parent concerns.
Saying it’s time to take a direct role in [...]

An editorial by Washington Post editorial by Robert J. Samuelson argues that there is no speculative bubble for oil, only speculation about a significant shortage in the supply in the near future.  As future prices for oil barrels rise and exceed spot prices, there is an incentive for companies to build up inventory and sell [...]