Energy

Energy Policy

  • September 25, 2007

Governor Ed Rendell has proposed issuing $850 million in new debt to subsidize select “alternative energy” companies and energy conservation efforts, along with a mandate that every gallon of…

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Defend America, Buy More Iranian Oil

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 25, 2007

This Reason Foundation Commentary explains why “Energy independence isn’t a good national security strategy,” in spite of Governor Rendell’s use of the “189 Pennsylvanians killed in Iraq and…

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Steyn: Nurse Hillary knows best

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 24, 2007

Mark Steyn on HillaryCare (and other proposed health insurance mandates)and freedom. From now on, everyone in America will have to have health insurance. Hooray! And,…

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OECD report on Biofuels

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 20, 2007

The recent OECD report on biofuels is a must read for lawmakers consider Governor’s plan to mandate ethanol use and to subsidize ethanol production in PA: The…

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Sick Sob Stories

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 13, 2007

John Stossel in today’s Wall Street Journal on American health care and Michael Moore’s Sicko. When government is in charge of health care, the result…

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Fumo still doesn’t like Turnpike Lease idea

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 9, 2007

Patriot News article cites Vince Fumo as evidence that legislators don’t like the idea of a Turnpike lease. As Fumo put it, the turnpike “is what it is,…

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Socialized Medicine is Already Here

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 7, 2007

Michael Cannon writes that the US health care system is already half socialized (and it is the half-socialized aspects, not the half-free parts, which is to blame of most…

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The Strange Career of Affirmative Action

  • September 1, 2007

Hillsdale College professor Paul Moreno writes in The Wall Street Journal that “This 125th Labor Day, Americans ought to consider one of organized labor’slesser-known contributions to American politics:…

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Road Work

  • August 28, 2007

On the two year anniversary of Hurrican Katrina, Joel Kotkin in today’s Wall Street Journal notes how politicians push aside the more mundane aspects of “governing” for “the ephemeral…

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