Rand Paul: Federal Government Has Become ‘Enormous Monster With Tentacles Into Every Aspect of Your Life’

Matthew Boyle Breitbart.com Big Government 21 Feb 2015

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate, fired up a nearly two-thousand-strong crowd with a keynote speech to the Alabama Republican Party’s Winter Dinner on Friday night, right before the White House hopeful makes a swing through South Florida…

…“I have […]

EPA Under Fire for Concealing Controversial Scientific Data, Silencing Skeptics

Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal 2/11/2015

For more than 15 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has resisted releasing data from two key studies to the general public and members of Congress. Government regulators used those studies to craft some of the most expensive environmental rules in U.S. history.

When skeptics within the federal government questioned […]

Obama To States: Shut Down Coal Plants Or Else

Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller 2/3/2015

The Obama administration is taking a page from their health care playbook and setting aside billions of dollars to encourage states to shut down coal-fired power plants and implement policies to fight global warming.

President Obama’s 2016 budget proposal includes $4 billion in payments to “support states exceeding the […]

Chaffetz, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee face big challenges

Sarah Westwood The Washington Examiner 1/4/2014

Protecting whistleblowers from retaliation and bringing hidden government records into the light top the list of challenges facing the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2015.

Under the new leadership of Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the committee will also confront crippling environmental regulations, a lack of inspector general […]

Polar Ice Not Melting, But Global Warming Story Is

Kerry Jackson Investors.com 12/29/2014

Feeling low about the incessant screeching that the ice is catastrophically melting at the poles? A lot of us are, so it’s good to see a researcher buck the narrative.

Ted Maksym, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, has drawn a conclusion that will surely bring him […]

Obama Admin. Crams Over 1,200 New Regulations Just Before The New Year

Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller 12/23/2014

The Obama administration is cramming like a college student trying to study for a final exam, publishing more than 1,200 new regulations in the last 15 days alone,according to data from Regulations.gov.

Energy and environment rules are the biggest category, with 139 published by the federal government in the […]

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