A Nation of Moochers
Please join us for a presentation and book signing with Charlie Sykes Sykes is a radio talk show host at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Senior Fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and author of number books including: A Nation of Victims, Dumbing Down Our Kids, and The End of Privacy. Sykes will be […]
Baker out at PUC
Public Utilities Commissioner Matt Baker is leaving the PUC to join the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a left-leaning non-profit, as “an officer in its Environment Program” foundation officials announced yesterday. Former Governor Bill Ritter appointed the environmental activist Baker in 2008, and his term had expired without current Governor John Hickenlooper acting to reappoint […]
PACE Teachers Weigh In on Pensions, Open Negotiations, Funding, and Literacy
The Professional Association of Colorado Educators (PACE) — a young, small, but growing (Hey, sounds like me!) non-union teacher membership organization — this week released the results of a member survey on some key education policy issues facing our state. With a Spring Break Friday sailing me away into lazy oblivion, today seemed like the […]
Congress Extends Transportation Bill 90 Days
The Senate reluctantly agreed to a 90-day extension of the 2005 transportation bill. This means the federal government will continue to spend more money on transit and highways than it collects in gas taxes and other highway fees. Senate Democrats rancorously blamed the 90-day extension, as opposed to the two-year extension passed by the Senate, […]
Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading
Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading
Many Colo. Parents Aren’t Buying SB 130’s Early Childhood Bureaucratic Change
Look, I’m still young, but I’m learning that there are some different major philosophies out there about what government can and should do. My friends around this place believe that government’s role should be limited and tend to be very skeptical when proposals come forward to expand the government’s role. This one issue is a […]
Confiscating your water rights
This column appeared originally in the Greeley Tribune on Thursday, March 29. Colorado Ballot Proposal Would Confiscate Water Rights by J. Craig Green, PE In this November’s election, voters may be asked to destroy Colorado’s system of water rights. A pair of ballot proposals would confiscate the water rights of cities, water districts, farmers, and […]
3 Reasons to End Obamacare Before it Begins
1. It Represents the End of Limited Government. 2. Its Price Tag is Already Ballooning. 3. Obamacare Won’t Make Us Healthier. Continue reading
Brinkmanship
Having failed to pass a reauthorization bill, Congress has only a few hours to extend the current law, which expires on Saturday. On Tuesday, however, the House failed to pass a 90-day extension to the law. On Wednesday, it failed to pass a 60-day extension to the law. Supporters of an extension are are making […]
The fatuous "uniqueness" argument for the constitutionality of Obamacare
Obamacare’s supporters argue that the individual mandate is justified because the health care market is unique—it’s something that everyone uses, and a great deal of cost-shifting now occurs in health care. The argument is fatuous for two reasons. First, the cost-shifting is, for the most part, created by Congress itself—through, for example, mandates on hospitals […]
Hiding in the Bills
One of the special-interest provisions in the transportation bill that passed the Senate a couple of weeks ago is a requirement that operators of passenger trains be licensed by the Surface Transportation Board. There is one and only one exception: Amtrak. Supposedly, this could give Amtrak an edge when it competes with other companies for […]
