Regulation

Gov. Jerry Brown is foisting very high prices on Californians by pushing an all-renewable-energy dream, even as he tries to hide the state’s reliance on fossil fuels.

Leftists are pressuring businesses to adopt progressive policies through organized shareholder activism.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has never run a business, is lecturing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos how to run his. The real issue is that Sanders thinks he and like-minded socialists, not capitalists, should decide how Amazon spends its profits.

Abbott says he’s about had it with red-light cameras.

Elizabeth Warren has new legislation that would let politicians and bureaucrats, not CEOs and shareholders, decide how large companies spend their profits—for the betterment of Democrats, not those companies.

Increasing the blend wall to E15 means more demand for corn, which means higher prices and more money in farmers’ pockets — or maybe it just offsets some of their tariff-related losses.

Conservatives in Texas are applauding their attorney general for efforts involving plastic bag bans.

In his presentation, titled “Trumponomics: How and Why It’s Working,” Moore said that the heart of “Trumponomics” is growing the economy as rapidly as possible and that many of the major issues facing our country today — including poverty, the national debt, income inequality and education — will be easier to solve if the economy is growing faster.

Any notion that the Senate is the more deliberate and prudent of the two bodies of Congress should be discarded after today’s vote to misuse the Congressional Review Act to re-impose 1930s-era federal regulations on internet providers. 

The U.S. Senate will shortly face an attempt by Democrats to misuse the Congressional Review Act  to re-impose Title II regulations on internet service providers (ISPs).  And while this divisive, grandstanding approach will likely fail and even backfire, the ploy shows proponents’ determination to put the federal government back in charge of micromanaging the Internet.