WISTAX Uses Official Financial Statements to Measure Fiscal Health During 2002-15MADISON—The state’s announced restructuring of more than $100 million of debt to shift expenditures into the future raises a question asked often over the past 15 years: How fiscally healthy is Wisconsin? There is no need for the debt push-off if the state has adequate…
Government Circus
Dept. Of Transportation
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration FR 81 31529-31531 49 CFR Part 175 Hazardous Materials: Carriage of Battery-Powered Electronic Smoking Devices in Passenger Baggage FINAL RULE Summary: The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is issuing a final rule to prohibit passengers and crewmembers from carrying battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices (e.g., ecigarettes, e-cigs,…
Matthew K. Burke
Clarence Thomas to Hillsdale Grads: Liberty Doesn’t Grow on Trees
“I admit to being unapologetically Catholic, unapologetically patriotic, and unapologetically a constitutionalist.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave the 164th commencement address at Hillsdale College on Saturday, blasted political correctness and entitled social justice warriors, while remembering recently passed Antonin Scalia, saying that serving in the Supreme Court in this present term is extremely difficult…
Riley J. Hood
The Pursuit of Happiness
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord;”-Psalms 33:12Milwaukee County Constitution Party “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The Milwaukee County Constitution Party takes the…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was June 4th, 2016
The Sun & Clouds: The UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), and its followers such as the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) largely ignore Svensmark’s hypothesis that incoming high-energy cosmic rays, modulated by the sun, influence global climate by changing cloudiness. When the sun is active, the envelope of highenergy charged particles making…
Marita Noon
Why waste food to replace something we already have too much of?
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)–also known as the ethanol mandate–was passed by Congress in 2005 and expanded in 2007. Regardless of market conditions, it required ever-increasing quantities of biofuel be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply–though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does have the flexibility to make some adjustments based on conditions, such as availability…