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  • Opinion:More Than 1,000 Federal Regulations May be Void Because of Oversight

    By Heritage Foundation January 20, 2010

    By James Gattuso According to a report recently submitted to Congress by the Congressional Research Service over 1,000 regulations written by federal agencies over the past decade may be invalid. The reason: copies of the rules were never given to congressional oversight committees as required...

  • Opinion:So Now That We're Regulating Tobacco, Why Not Guns?

    By Freedom States Alliance June 15, 2009

    With the Senate’s vote earlier this week to regulate tobacco, a giant step has been made towards better regulating tobacco for health and safety standards. If as anticipated the House approves the updated version and President Obama signs it , we will all have much to celebrate as...

  • Opinion:Geithner and Summers Plan to Overhaul Financial Regulations

    By Reason Foundation June 15, 2009

    Fresh off their victories in raising mortgage interest rates , pulling hundreds of billions of dollars in investment out of the private sector and failing to make sneaky end-runs around the president , Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers...

  • Opinion:Calif. Panel Votes to Not to List BPA As Harmful

    By Natural Resources Defense Council July 16, 2009

    By Sarah Janssen What does "known to cause" mean to you? Does it mean "beyond a reasonable doubt"? Or "clear and convincing"? To a scientist like me, this type of legal -speak is baffling, yet we were hearing a lot of it from the industry lawyers in California today. It clearly tripped up...

  • Opinion:Did Regulations Cause Economic Crisis?

    By The Cato Institute August 10, 2009

    by Leon T. Hader The intellectual starting point for much of the conventional wisdom regarding the origins of the current financial crisis is that it was brought about by capitalism gone wrong and that it combined with the failure of the US government to prevent it through effective regulation of...

  • Opinion:Schwarzenegger Delivers Huge Victory for Gun Control Advocates

    By The Brady Campaign October 22, 2009

    Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law that requires handgun ammunition to be treated by retailers in much the same way that cigarettes , some cold medicines and even spray paint are treated. As already shown in some California cities, this common sense measure will...

  • Opinion:Should FCC Regulate the Internet? Debating "Net Neutrality"

    By Heritage Foundation September 21, 2009

    Declaring access to the Internet to be like “running water or the light bulb,” FCC chairman Julius Genachowski declared today that it should be regulated. Specifically, he announced that the Commission will be voting next month on a proposal to impose so-called “ net neutrality ”...

  • Opinion:FTC to Regulate Bloggers' Relationships With Advertisers

    By Heritage Foundation October 06, 2009

    by James Gattuso Should the federal government regulate what blogger’s blog? Yes, said the Federal Trade Commission yesterday — at least when it comes to product endorsements. At issue were the FTC’s guidelines concerning the use of endorsements in advertising. These guidelines...

  • Opinion:Congress Wastes Time Talking About Bottled Water

    By Competitive Enterprise Institute July 12, 2009

    Dana Milbank has a great piece in the Washington Post this week about recent congressional hearings on bottled water . He notes: “The nation is entangled in two wars, a deep recession and a flu pandemic, and the people’s representatives are hard at work investigating the menace of . .

  • Article:Why This When We Want That?

    By Dr Robert Owens March 01, 2010

    Now that the Health Care Summit is over could we have a Jobs Summit or an Economy Summit?  And what a Health Summit it was.  When Mitch McConnell the leader of the Senate Republicans pointed out a two for one disparity between the time given to the Democrats and the Republicans Mr.

  • News:FCC Takes First Step Toward Net Neutrality Rules

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff October 22, 2009

    The Federal Communications Commission Thursday started a process that could end with the first formal regulations of the Internet. The Commission voted to open its rulemaking process, and begin hearing comments on a proposal to create net neutrality rules. The proposal is designed to keep the...

  • News:Are Government Regulations Out of Control?

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff September 28, 2009

    Every day we see a new story about how the government is "intruding into our private lives." This so-called "nanny state" that libertarians detest so much has our leaders telling us what we can and cannot eat (trans fat, soda tax), where we can smoke (no public buildings) and what we can't do in...