Ron Arnold

Incandescent light bulb wars focus on US freedom of choice

By: Ron Arnold 07/21/11 10:49 PM

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a measure last week to block the ban on ordinary incandescent light bulbs that’s scheduled to begin next year. Odd that a common, inexpensive household item could start a white-hot political war, but tea did that once, and last week’s vote has become a symbol of American freedom of choice — and a big election-year issue. Read More

Ron Arnold: Here's the simple but arduous way to get rid of ruinous regulations

By: Ron Arnold 03/17/11 8:05 PM

James Madison, whose birthday we celebrated Wednesday, wrote in an 1822 letter: "religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together." Today, science and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together. Read More

Ron Arnold: Federally funded faked science behind Fish & Wildlife's Mousegate

By: Ron Arnold 03/10/11 10:05 PM

"Government science" is an oxymoron like "military intelligence," but the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is the exemplar. Read More

Ron Arnold: Obama's 'starve America first' energy policy creates a backlash

By: Ron Arnold 03/06/11 9:05 PM

"Energy is the capacity to do work." That simple truth from Physics 101 has everything to do with gas prices spiking at the pump as Moammar Gadhafi's war planes bomb Libya's rebel-held oil district and the whole Middle East seethes in unrest. With shaky foreign energy supplies threatening to deepen the worst recession since World War II, why doesn't America protect its capacity to do work by drilling for more oil and gas here at home? Read More

Ron Arnold: Wal-Mart surrenders to Big Green with Big Labor's help

By: Ron Arnold 02/03/11 9:05 PM

Headlines last week gloated that America's biggest retailer, Wal-Mart, had surrendered after two years of siege by Big Green forces, and dropped its approved plan to build a superstore in Virginia's Orange County -- on a commercially zoned site on a road leading to a national military park. The park was the 1864 Civil War Battle of the Wilderness National Memorial. Wal-Mart spokesman William C. Read More

Regulatory window dressing versus real reform

By: Ron Arnold 01/30/11 9:10 PM

By now, most of us have sized up President Barack Obama’s executive order to reform government regulation as an empty gesture. As he bragged in his State of the Union speech, Obama has commanded his legions of unelected bureaucrats to examine all their rules, sift them through a cost-benefit test, and then remove all “outdated regulations that stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive.” Read More

EPA shutdown of working mine sends industry wrong message

By: Ron Arnold 01/23/11 10:48 PM

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency revoked the permit — approved and functioning — of one of the nation’s largest coal mines for unacceptable environmental impact, calling it “mountaintop removal.” It’s the EPA’s first-ever ex-post-facto shutdown of an in-work industrial operation with a valid permit. Read More

Ron Arnold Test File

By: Ron Arnold 01/06/11 9:05 PM

This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Read More