15 Surprising Side Effects of Rising College Costs
It’s hard to miss talk about rising college costs these days. It’s plastered all over newspapers and websites, and has been at the center of much political debate over the [...]
View ArticleHigher Education Needs a Complete Overhaul – BY Neil Snyder
In an article for today’s FrontPage Magazine titled “Schools of Education: The Academic Slums,” Walter Williams was right on the money. Speaking about schools of education, he said, “Education...
View ArticleCan Obama Help Make College Affordable?
Written by Matthew C. Keegan President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Jan. 24, 2012, covered a number of topics. Higher education was one of his themes. Obama, who [...]
View ArticleEnergy regulations hurt job creation
My Colorado colleague, Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, recently asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator, Mathy Stanislaus, whether the agency’s economic analysis had...
View ArticleNews analysis: Obama takes bipartisan heat on energy policy
By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – As his re-election campaign heats up, President Obama finds himself in an awkward position trying to defend his environmental policies against Republicans and...
View ArticleNorthwest lawmakers fighting EPA boiler rules
By Rob Hotakainen / McClatchy -Tribune News Service WASHINGTON — Congress is feuding over how quickly the federal government should move in trying to reduce deadly air pollution that comes from...
View ArticleEPA says to Comment soon on Keystone XL pipeline
By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) – The top U.S. environmental regulator on Thursday said her agency would soon comment on the proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, adding she...
View ArticleFree American Energy Now!
Earlier this month, the Texas Public Policy Foundation officially launched the “Free American Energy Now!” campaign, a partnership with Salem Radio Network to increase public awareness of the ways in...
View ArticleManufacturing America’s New Middle Class: Henry R. Nothhaft
By Henry R. Nothhaft Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — Given how desperately the U.S. needs jobs, it’s amazing how little effort Congress and the president devote to revitalizing manufacturing, the most potent of...
View ArticleRick Perry: Obama’s Keystone XL Pipeline Delay Puts ‘Soliders’ Lives In...
By Tyler Kingkade Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s move to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline puts American lives in danger. Perry has made...
View ArticleEnergy and environment issues hot for 2012 presidential race.
Gingrich, Perry, Romney and Cain have all been critics of EPA policy. | AP Photo Close By ERICA MARTINSON The Environmental Protection Agency is likely to play an unusually prominent role in the 2012...
View ArticleObama’s Stratgeic Inaction
Charlie Sykes: Sykes Writes We can’t wait. Except for certain exceptions, such as the 1,700-mile trans-USA Keystone XL pipeline, carrying Alberta oil to Texas refineries, that would have created...
View ArticleFormer EPA policy chief faults White House for tepid response to GOP attacks
Lawrence Hurley, E&E reporter U.S. EPA‘s former policy chief is accusing the Obama administration of failing to mount a forceful defense of environmental regulations in the face of fierce partisan...
View ArticleIs Obama Utterly Focused on Jobs or Just Worried About Reelection?
The administration’s dismissal of new smog rules may show a growing preference for a practical approach to encouraging the economic recovery over progressive priorities Are we just seeing an election...
View ArticleU.S. energy policy: A slow national suicide
With Keystone XL delay, America continues its slow economic strangulation By Charles Campbell In 1969, three unrelated events occurred that have since been combined with political bungling to slowly...
View ArticleObama Losing Support Among Blue Collar Americans
Erika Johnsen Since the Obama administration seems to do everything in its power to stonewall the domestic energy industry, including weak non-decisions like the Keystone pipeline, keeping up a virtual...
View ArticleObama, Congress Begin 2012 In Oil Pipeline Dispute
by The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will...
View ArticleJobs report prompts calls for drilling, green energy support
By Ben Geman When it comes to energy, Friday’s hopeful new data on job creation is prompting lawmakers and interest groups to call for . . . what they were calling for before the new report. House...
View ArticleChamber touts Keystone XL, domestic energy to create jobs
by Puneet Kollipara Energy topped the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual list of priorities for boosting the economy, as the group’s president urged approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and further...
View ArticleAre ‘green energy’ policies thwarting job growth?
MARK J. PERRY Pro:Strategy is sabotaging an economic recovery FLINT, Mich. — Kicking the can down the road, as President Obama did in delaying a decision on construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline...
View ArticleKeystone XL Still Needed to Boost American Economy, Create Jobs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Luke Legate Phone: 512-775-9400 Obama Administration’s Denial of Permit Is Bad News for Manufacturing Sector Austin, TX – The following statement on President Barack...
View ArticleNewt Slams Obama’s radical EPA
At the NBC News/Facebook debate in Concord, NH Newt slams the EPA for its radical and anti-business regulations citing the EPA’s crazy comments on farm dust and dust in the desert. Its too bad we can’t...
View ArticleKeystone XL Pipeline Seen Moving Ahead on Alternative Route
Jim Efstathiou Jr., ©2012 Bloomberg News TransCanada Corp.‘s $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline still will move ahead with an alternate route after President Barack Obama’s decision to deny a permit,...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s job-killing environmental extremism
by Brian H. Darling The job-creating Keystone XL pipeline isn’t going to happen, thanks to President Barack Obama. He intends to use a provision in the law extending the payroll tax cut for two months...
View ArticleOil pipeline is a high-stakes chess game
It is one of the biggest chess pieces imaginable — almost 1,700 miles long — and yet Washington politicians keep moving it around as if it were a mere pawn in their unending game of partisan...
View Article‘Fracking’ gives U.S. lease on energy independence
By Arthur I. Cyr “Fracking” rhymes with “hacking” and is not a friendly term. Other unpleasant words that begin with “f” include “fracture,” “frenzied,” “frustrate” and more. The f-word at issue here,...
View ArticleObama to tout natural gas benefits in State of Union
By Ayesha Rascoe and Richard Cowan, Reuters The president is expected to devote a significant portion of his speech calling for a ‘new era for American energy,’ which will include natural gas. Obama...
View ArticleNatural gas is great, but Nevadans need jobs
by Steve Sebelius President Barack Obama got a fairly good reception Thursday when he showed up in Las Vegas to repeat some of the highlights of his State of the Union speech. But I’d already seen that...
View ArticleNo energy is good to the greens
By NICOLAS LORIS For all of President Obama’s talk Tuesday night of boosting US energy production, he has a huge problem: The American left — a vital part of his political base — seems determined to...
View ArticleState of the Union: Jobs talk slammed the XL pipeline potential – By James Wang
By James Wang Reality has always been a problem for President Barack Obama and State of the Union Addresses. Being a time of grave economic activities, matters are no different. This year, while laced...
View ArticleRejection of oil pipeline costs jobs, energy security
Lawrence S. Katz / Toms River Should our president allow environmental lobbyists to influence or dictate this nation’s energy policy? That occurred when Barack Obama rejected construction of the...
View ArticleRefinery Closures Lead to Rising Gas Prices and Job Losses
by Robert Rapier Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the...
View ArticleKinder Morgan Lapping Enbridge in Canadian Pipeline Race: Energy
By Mike Lee and Jeremy van Loon Kinder Morgan (KMP) Inc., which this year will become the largest U.S. pipeline company after its $20.7 billion purchase of El Paso Corp. (EP) aims to extend its lead...
View ArticleAmericans Gaining Energy Independence
By Rich Miller, Asjylyn Loder and Jim Polson – Bloomberg The U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973...
View ArticleTexans Are Baffled by the Keystone Decision
China will get the oil from Canada that could have come to the U.S. By RICK PERRY Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Beijing recently signing an agreement and touting his country’s growing...
View ArticleFracking is safe, efficient process
By BRIAN “DOUG” DEEKEN Wayne County Young Republicans The economic benefits of extracting natural gas via hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” absolutely outweigh the trumped up environmental concerns....
View ArticleRep. Murphy: US isn’t keeping up with the world on energy
VARNEY: Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Tim Murphy with me now. Congressman, you heard what the president’s got to say, that we’re producing more oil now than we have in at any time in the last...
View ArticleTexas becomes battlefield in Keystone XL pipeline fight
Dave Montgomery The Fort Worth Star-Telegram AUSTIN — The politically volatile Keystone XL pipeline is becoming embroiled in a widening controversy in Texas as supporters tout the promise of jobs and...
View ArticleWhite House Backs Pipeline That Will Ship U.S. Oil Overseas
Jennifer Bendery jen.bendery@huffingtonpost.com – WASHINGTON — The White House is throwing its support behind a decision by TransCanada to build a portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, even though the...
View ArticleGOP Leaders Optimistic on Energy, Jobs After Meeting With Obama
By Siobhan Hughes House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Wednesday sounded an unusually optimistic note after meeting with President Barack Obama,...
View ArticleKing Dollar Will Cut Oil Prices
By: Larry Kudlow – CNBC Anchor No matter how much President Obama protests, the simple fact is that he continues to oppose and mock and disparage oil and gas drilling. He is a prisoner of the...
View ArticleKeystone XL Pipeline: a job-creating win for America
By Former Rep. J.C. Watts, Jr. President Obama recently got a look at what his failed energy policies are doing to America and I hope he fully appreciates that he does have the power to change things...
View ArticleTransCanada Submits Keystone Pipeline Reroute Plan
By EDWARD WELSCH CALGARY, Alberta—TransCanada Corp. TRP -0.58% submitted a reroute of its Keystone XL oil pipeline to the Nebraska state government Wednesday, moving a step closer to reviving the...
View ArticleRomney Vows Immediate Approval of Keystone XL on First Day in White House
Mitt Romney is vowing to approve TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline on his first day on the job if elected U.S. president in November. In a campaign ad unveiled on Friday, the presumptive Republican...
View ArticleCongressmen criticize delay on Keystone pipeline
By Rob Moritz Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK — If work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline does not begin soon jobs could be in jeopardy at a Little Rock plant that makes pipe for the project, two of...
View ArticleObama & Romney: Different Views on Energy
T.V. Program Special Hosts Prominent Washington Insiders to Debate Obama, Romney Energy Plans By Platts Although both claim to favor an “all of the above” strategy for establishing energy policies and...
View ArticleFracking Developed With Decades Of Government Investment
AP | By KEVIN BEGOS PITTSBURGH (AP) — It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the...
View ArticleTempers flare between Obama, Romney on energy
President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hotly debated energy independence and drilling for oil in North America during the town hall style Presidential Debate at Hofstra...
View ArticleFirst Hispanic UT Chancellor receives national honor
by Angela Covo Last week, Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, D-Mercedes, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), announced Dr. Francisco Cigarroa will be the recipient of The Chair’s Award, one...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Lies About Fracking
Ronald Bailey | reason.com Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered. Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox‘s earlier anti-fracking docudrama...
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