Senator Glenn Grothman Receives Exemplar Award Award Recognizes Exemplary Public Policy Initiative in Support of Manufacturing Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) received the WMC “Exemplar Award” for spearheading the most exemplary public policy initiative in support of manufacturing in more than 35 years – the establishment of a manufacturers income tax credit. Senator Grothman developed…
Government Circus
Government Circus
History Lesson on Your Social Security Card Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed. Our…
Government Circus
Government Circus
NObamaCare in Wisconsin By David Craig Over the past decade, Wisconsin businesses have been bombarded by government with tax and fee increases as well as over-regulation. This has led to a slowing or outright stoppage of their efforts to expand their businesses or to hire employees. This past year, in contrast, the legislature has been…
Craig Rucker
EPA Has Lost Its Way On Warming
EPA’s carbon dioxide rules endanger human health and welfare . . . . By Craig Rucker Legal challenges by states and industry groups over the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could and should be decided in the challengers’ favor. Whether that will happen in this highly politicized, semi-scientific…
Gary Wickert
Why Our President Loves High Gas Prices
By Gary L. Wickert Gasoline prices are high because our president and the Democrats in Congress want them that way. Supporters of the Fundamental-Transformer-in-Chief will hear those words and roll their eyes. But the proof comes from the Democrats’ own actions and our president’s own words. When President Barack Obama took office the price of…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was March 10, 2012 Quote of the Week As [Supreme Court Justice] Scalia observed in his dissent [to the Supreme Court Decision that carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act], the statutory definition is so broad that it covers “everything from frisbees to flatulence.” If you emit air into…