Media Should Ask How “Cap and Trade” Ties in with Oil Spill, Energy Needs

With the political class using the oil spill has cover for costly schemes that have no relevance to America's energy needs, the fourth-estate has thus far failed to ask policymakers how new regulations will help resolve the current crisis and alleviate future challenges. What is the connection between the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and the stated need for anti-emissions regulations and higher energy prices? This question goes unexplored in the front page coverage the New York Times devote...

Sen. Kennedy Offered to Collaborate With Soviets Against Reagan, KGB Documents Show

With public attention now turned onto the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's just released FBI file, now would be an appropriate moment to investigate his confidential correspondence with the KGB, which is well-documented, but under-reported. Paul Kengor, a Grove City College professor, has preserved documents that have now been resealed in Moscow. He is an excellent source and a good starting point for the NYT and others... Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered to work in close concert with high level S...

Sen. Graham Admits Legislation is Not About Climate

They're not giving up on more government control of the private sector through "cap and trade" legislation. This much can be derived from recent news coverage.  Remarkably, Sen. Lindsey Graham admits that "energy" legislation has nothing to do with the environment; a crucial point that goes missing in coverage. President Obama is using the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a new rationale for energy legislation that has been stalled on Capitol Hill. The New York Times comes oh, so close to prope...

Antitrust Rules, Damage Caps Should Be Reviewed

The symbiotic relationship that exists between big government and big business is a byproduct of regulatory policies that are widely favored in the news media. But they should be revisited. Even as the New York Times does an effective job of probing into BP's negligence, it overlooks perverse public policy... Standing behind the after affects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an incestuous relationship between big business and big government that grew out of regulatory stipulations libera...

Government Restrictions that Force Companies Offshore Overlooked in Coverage

There's long history here concerning government regulations that force companies into compromising positions offshore. Unfortunately, The New York Times and other media outlets continue to overlook and discount flawed decision making in Washington D.C. that complicated exploratory efforts. BP, the company responsible for the oil leak, has been called out for negligence and rightly so. But the political class is far from innocent... Researchers inside and outside of government are concerned th...