How your tax dollars help radicals attack our energy, industries, jobs and living standards By Nick Nichols If you believe future IRS abuses will be prevented by putting Lois Learner and her merry band of political hacks in the hoosegow, stop drinking Potomac River Kool-Aid and start partaking in a dose of reality. The most…
Mary Kay Barton
The New York State Wind Wars
Production tax credit lets Invenergy hide the facts and desecrate rural America By Mary Kay Barton Congress’s last minute extension of the PTC or Production Tax Credit (aka: “Pork To Cronies”) within the December 31, 2012 fiscal cliff deal was good news for Big Wind corporate welfare profiteers, like Michael Polsky’s Invenergy. It was very…
Marita Noon
Obamacare And Ethanol — Hand-In-Hand
By Marita Noon Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of Obamacare. If it were front and center of the newscycle, as Obamacare is, most would also have the same repeal-or-revise attitude regarding ethanol mandates as the two are marching hand-in-hand. In addition to the odd collection of opponents–conservatives…
Gary Wickert
The Problem With Gun Control
By Gary L. Wickert The problem with America’s efforts to control gun violence is that we’re trying to control the wrong variable. Modern American liberalism rests on two fundamental tenets: that utopia is possible and truth is relative. The unattainable utopia sought by liberal philosophy includes a world without war, violence, crime, or inter-human aggression.…
Paul Driessen
Fallacious Claims Prop Up Ethanol
How can members of Congress still support rising renewable fuel mandates? By Paul Driessen Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves – leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustainable energy. These and other renewable energy programs may have originated for…
General
Letter to the Editor
Crosstalk, VCY America recently held an interview with Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America. This is an organization that is dedicated to promoting the 2nd Amendment’s freedom to keep and bear arms. The program focused on the US shooting tragedy at a Washington Navy Yard where 13 people were shot and…