Public Policy

A “common sense” solution

December 19, 2012

With all of the discussion the past few days concerning the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut the media and elected officials are emotionally reacting with suggestions that the solution to Newtown and mass shootings in general, is to ban military-style “assault weapons”. This emotional reaction is understandable but nonetheless trampling on the Constitutional Rights of citizens is always wrong and makes for poor public policy.

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More nuclear power plants

June 5, 2011

Everyone talks about how we need to be more energy independent for financial and national security reasons. Politicians and commentators also say that we need a broad-based approach to energy that includes greater domestic development of oil, natural gas and coal; as well as nuclear and alternative energy sources. The economy is largely dependent on [...]

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