Commentary by James Shott The number of notable people who behave as if they are endowed with special insight about the environment is an interesting element in the ongoing saga.The most recent example of this is Secretary of State John Kerry, who fell off the diplomatic wagon and insulted millions of Americans he represents to the world who don’t agree with his narrow view of environmental issues by calling them members...
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Government is a poor mechanism for correcting societal problems
Commentary by James Shott Most Americans think that helping truly needy people, whether they live here or in some other country, is a worthy objective. Looking at charitable contributions as a benchmark, Americans are the most generous people in the world, giving $316.23 billion to charitable organizations in 2012, about 2 percent of GDP, according to Charity Navigator, and preliminary figures for 2013 indicate a significant...
Going Rogue, Part X: Americans just don’t properly appreciate the EPA
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Federal government willfully breaches constitutional protections
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As the New Year begins, government’s policies are still failing us
Commentary by James Shott As the economic non-recovery crawls into 2014, the “good news” on the jobs front – that the unemployment rate dropped .3 percent in December to 6.7 percent – is far less impressive when you look beneath the surface.The reason the unemployment rate dropped was not that a strengthening economy produced a sharply higher number of new jobs, as should be expected in a true recovery. December showed...
What do minimum wage demographics say about raising the wage?
There has been a lot of uproar in the media lately about raising the minimum wage so that those people earning it would earn a “living wage.” But what do demographics about those earning the minimum wage tell us?According to the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is a joint effort of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, 3.7 million workers reported earning the minimum wage of $7.25 or less per hour....
Obama and taxing the rich, and another deadly school shooting
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Do Social Security and Medicare show that Obamacare can be successful?
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