By Bonner R. Cohen China is substantially cutting back its rare-earth export quotas to Western nations, a move that promises to drive up prices and reduce the feasibility of renewable energy production in the United States. Long known to geologists for their unique properties, rare earths, unevenly deposited around the world, have become essential to…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was December 18, 2010 Quote of the Week “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles MacKay (1814-1889), Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds [H/t John…
Joe Dobbs
Campus Chatter
Dependency on the Government Must Stop By Joe Dobbs Joseph.dobbs@mu.edu There’s a cancer running through our nation right now. Well, two cancers. One is, you know, cancer. The other one, the one that this article is about, is dependence. This is a word that gets thrown about a bit – people are co-dependent and inter-dependent…
Heartland Institute
Consumer Driven Plans Continued to Grow in 2010
By Kenneth Artz Some 22 million people were enrolled in either a consumer-driven health plan or a high-deductible health plan in 2010, according to an end-of-year survey of businesses in the United States by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Health savings accounts (HSAs), health reimbursement accounts (HRAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and similar plans typically…
Steve's Say...
Steve’s Say . . .
Where Do We go From Here? The year 2010 will be remembered by Conservatives for a very long time. The unprecedented level of freedom protests and activism in the name of constitutionally strict and smaller government, which began in the spring of 2009 at the April 15 tax rallies, culminated with the landslide electoral shake…
Gary Wickert
Obama’s George Bush Impersonation
By Gary Wickert “It’s not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies,” Barack Obama said when he attacked John McCain at a June 3, 2008 campaign speech in St. Paul Minnesota. “The American people can’t take four more years of John McCain’s Bush policies,” Obama said to voters in Indiana on…