Category archive: Regulation
EPA’s Ozone Charade Chokes Industry for No Health Benefit
By Chuck Roger • August 4th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Environmentalist ideologues in the Obama administration are making up more reasons to wipe out more jobs. The story is a sordid one. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson calls a tightening in the ozone standard during George W. Bush’s presidency “not legally defensible.” Why? Not because the lower threshold is [...]
Food Totalitarians on Parade – Part Deux
By Chuck Roger • July 29th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday, in a post discussing a New York Times op-ed that called for heavy taxation on “unhealthy” foods, I asked, “How long before some starry-eyed but angry-faced Democrat proposes legislation to force ‘healthy food’ advertising?” Now The Daily Caller reports that food producers [...]
Food Totalitarians on Parade
By Chuck Roger • July 28th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Within the last few years, we have been treated to attempts by government to control our food intake with regulatory “nudges” and legislative edicts. Sugar, salt, trans-fats, fats in general, fast foods, and school lunches are just a few ingredients and food types which have come under assault [...]
Programming Scientists to Perform Social Engineering
By Chuck Roger • June 14th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at National Association of Scholars By Chuck Rogér An Arizona State University professor wants to train physical scientists to be social engineers. Political science professor David Guston contends that “stakeholders” in academia and industry should work with consumers and the feds to manage the “societal implications” of “environmental health and safety issues” surrounding certain technological [...]
The Sierra Club’s Mission
By Chuck Roger • January 10th, 2011 12:30 am
Originally in American Thinker, December 24, 2010. “Don’t you care about global warming?” asked a sign carried by a Sierra Club demonstrator. The preachy admonishment packs the same intellectual weightiness as “Free the color purple!” Well-adjusted people “care” about neither purple nor global warming. Colors and recurring natural climate phenomena fly below the radars of emotionally [...]
Tom Vilsack: deacon in the Church of Global Warming, Agriculture Secretary, and waster of taxpayer money
By Chuck Roger • December 17th, 2010 5:39 am
When CNSNews.com informed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack of the scientific fact that there has been no global warming since 1995, the man said: Well, all I can say is the vast majority of scientists and researchers believe that there has been a significant climate change, which has occurred. There are some indications that this decade [...]
FCC Commissioner Wants to Control the Content of Broadcast Media
By Chuck Roger • December 8th, 2010 6:12 am
Originally in American Thinker, December 7, 2010. The First Amendment forbids Congress from infringing on Americans’ right to free speech. But the Federal Communications Commission is not Congress. And Michael Copps, one of four FCC commissioners reporting to Chairman Julius Genachowski, seems intent on ignoring that pesky part of the First Amendment about “abridging the [...]
Can’t make this stuff up: the ‘Office of Minority and Women Inclusion’
By Chuck Roger • July 19th, 2010 8:50 pm
Thought that the federal agencies aimed at legislating “fairness” in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, were far-fetched? Well how about the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion? According to CNSNews.com, the financial regulation package passed by the House calls for the OMWI to perform “diversity” oversight at major federal financial regulatory agencies. The new office [...]
The FCC’s Covert Mission to ‘Balance’ Broadcast Media Ownership
By Chuck Roger • June 30th, 2010 3:25 am
Originally in American Thinker, May 27, 2010. Should Americans be concerned about a Federal Communications Commission official having once suggested that if government doesn’t help minorities reduprint\fcc-covert-print.htmce white ownership of broadcast media, then only violence would assure the protection of minorities’ civil rights?1In the little-noticed 2007 publication “The Erosion of Civil Rights,” Mark Lloyd attempted [...]
Inside the mind of a control-every-aspect-of-everyone’s-life nanny-state progressive
By Chuck Roger • April 21st, 2010 9:40 pm
People are getting larger–horizontally. In “We need bold action to slow obesity’s march,” Michael Skapinker at Financial Times writes: Modern life… with its sedentary jobs and ubiquitous food offerings, conspired to make us fat. People’s behaviors don’t make them large, “modern life” does–through a conspiracy, no less. But Skapinker isn’t the story here. The story [...]
Mark this down: I agree with a liberal
By Chuck Roger • January 6th, 2010 12:09 am
I usually vehemently disagree with Financial Times writer John Kay — a flaming liberal UK economist. It is with more than a little alarm that I find myself amenable to his call for more financial market intervention by government. More than anything else he writes in this article, it is the following statement that strikes [...]
Oh-oh, there goes Intel again, being ‘successful’
By Chuck Roger • December 20th, 2009 12:22 am
Competition: state of affairs existing among rival producers in which said producers strive to outdo one another in quality, delivery, features, and prices in order to gain larger share of the market. Now that that’s out of the way… The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) accuses Intel Corporation — arguably the most influential company in driving [...]
