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Barron’s: Potomac River Blindness (2012)

On this day in 2012, Barron’s published my guest editorial on “Potomac River Blindness” –  Washington’s bipartisan conspiracy against prosperity and freedom. In the subsequent 14 years, politicians and the federal government have become far more wasteful & ruinous. “Washingtonians view each billion dollars of government spending as magic beans that automatically sow blessings across […]

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New York Times: Bankrupt Environmentalism (1985)

On this date in 1985, the New York Times published my “Bankrupt Environmentalism” op-ed. That piece raised a ruckus and was reprinted in the Times’ 20th Anniversary round-up of epic-or-memorabe-or-whatever Op-eds in 1990.  The pervasive waste of the Superfund program foreshadowed the far more ruinous disasters of Biden’s Green New Deal. Robert Semple was a […]

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