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One global-warming alarmist's effort to equate apartheid with investing in traditional energy companies is both bad economics and morally offensive.  Apartheid was a government-backed effort to keep certain people economically depressed; the energy industry is a private sector endeavor that spurs economic growth and the standard of living-for everyone.

The Orange County Register editorial board writes that vast welfare expansion adds to the looming fiscal catastrophe posed by general entitlement spending. According to IPI's Merrill Matthews and Mark E. Litow, chairman of the Social Insurance Public Finance Section of the Society of Actuaries, "the coming entitlements cliff" is substantially greater than the end-of-the-year fiscal cliff, a combination of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and automatic spending cuts.

Now that the election is over and President Obama can no longer be held accountable by the voters, liberals are claiming the country needs entitlement reform.

Election returns show that big government is back, and with so many people depending on it, it may be here to stay.

Privacy advocates and concerned citizens should be far more concerned about governments as potential abusers of privacy than the private sector because of government's unique powers, says a new IPI publication by Jim Harper.

The 2010 election was one for the history books, and voters across the country couldn't wait to cast their vote against President Obama's policies. But this time, the president's actually on the ballot, and the "I can't wait to vote" sentiment is even stronger.

Heading into a presidential election, many technology policy observers and participants do their best to make a pitch for which candidate will be best for technology, software, hardware, Internet, services, consumer electronics and communications industries.

The US is not only facing a fiscal cliff, but also an entitlements cliff and, thanks to ObamaCare, a health care cliff.  Those three cliffs aren't separate; they're intertwined.  Go over one and we will be pulled over the other two.

Gregory King told authorities he made a living selling pirated music for seven years. According to an IPI study, music piracy worldwide causes more than $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy, more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages among American workers.