Government Corporate Stupidity By Michael Hintze And just why should US corporations be punished for being successful? This is economic stupidity of the most blatant kind. If you want US corporations to stop keeping their offshore profits offshore, lower the US tax rates to something in line with other countries, and those corporations won’t have…
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GovernorWalker Unveils Sportsmen Budget Package at State NRA Banquet
Today Governor Scott Walker released details on the upcoming biennium budget dealing with DNR issues. Deer management issues are among the top priorities. In 2011 Governor Walker commissioned Dr. James Kroll Wisconsin whitetail deer trustee to review our states deer management plan. Dr. Kroll had 62 recommendations in his report. Included in the budget funding…
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Wisconsin Tea Party Groups Urge Passage of Mining Bill
(Sun Prairie, WI) – Northern Wisconsin is one of the hardest hit areas of the state with respect to joblessness. Recent labor statistics indicate that the unemployment rate in Iron county is 11.9%, the second highest in the state. AB1/SB1, the mining bill currently being considered by the Wisconsin State Legislature, is a pathway to…
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Note the lethality of Non – Firearm Homicides ….. like baseball bats.
Let’s see here, between tobacco and alcohol, there are 636,000 deaths per year, or 55 times as many as with firearms. Motor vehicles are 3 times as many as firearms. Seems to me we need to have special licenses for smokes and booze, with classes required, and background checks. That should occur at least every…
Paul Driessen
Real sustainability versus activist sustainability
Activist sustainability concepts don’t meet environmental, humanitarian or sustainability tests By Paul Driessen Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or isn’t – sustainable? Former…
Kelvin Kemm
The carbon trading money tree
If the carbon trading business seems too good to be true, maybe there’s a good reason By Kelvin Kemm The COP-18 environmental conference held in Doha has come and gone. In the wake of high expectations for a successor treaty, the Kyoto Protocol was extended, but only after bitter debate – and several countries have…