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Months ago, Colorado town resisted EPA tests that caused toxic disaster Five months before the Animas River toxic spill disaster, leaders from the tiny Colorado mining town of Silverton pleaded with EPA officials to not perform tests that would declare the area a Superfund site. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency was intent on ferreting out “widespread soil contamination” from historic…

Clint Eastwood’s iconic Dirty Harry Callahan uttered one of the greatest movie lines of all time: “A man’s got to know his limitations.” It would appear no one in Washington, D.C. has ever heard of Harry or his weighty wisdom. No one in our nation’s capitol seems to think they are limited in any way. Not by any personal shortcomings…

When politicians propose a new policy, such as Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s plans to outlaw one third of US CO2 emissions in the next 15 years, it is always worth asking: Has this been tried before? And what happened when it was? The answer is: a much, much milder version of the Obama-Clinton plan has been tried in Germany—and…

Greenpeace International is seeking help from President Obama during the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Lima, Peru that concludes on December 12. Greenpeace wants him to “lead the international community to a strong, legally binding climate agreement.” After all, he made the commitment last November 12, in Beijing, China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 28% below…

Part 7 in a series on the differences between Left and Right. How can we determine what is morally right? The answer to this question — the most important question that human beings need to answer — is a major difference between Left and Right. For conservatives, the answer is, and has always been, that there are moral truths —…

Without a congressional majority vote and public backing, next president can just abandon it. The Framers of our constitution probably would have regarded the nuclear deal with Iran as a “treaty,” subject to a two thirds ratification by the Senate. At the very least they would have required Congress to approve the agreement by a majority vote. It is unlikely that…

What does the future hold? Will Iran obtain a nuclear arsenal? If so, when? Will it become a “game changer?” If so, how will things change? “Predicting is hazardous, especially about the future,” says a quote attributed to various wise men. But prediction is essential to policy choices, despite the hazards of making a mistake. Some predictive mistakes, however, are…

A police officer in Birmingham, Ala., was beaten unconscious by a suspect during a traffic stop last week because the officer did not want to be pilloried in the media as a racist for using force against a black man. Last Friday, a Birmingham plainclothes detective pulled over a car being driven erratically. The officer, who has chosen to remain…

Pop music’s wild child wants to know why violence is deemed so much more acceptable than sex. Miley Cyrus, who recently posed nude with a pig for Paper magazine, is absolutely pro-sex. In a new interview with Marie Claire, Cyrus, 22, wondered why she gets scolded and Taylor Swift does not. “I don’t get the violence revenge thing,” Cyrus said,…

That’s the question du jour this week, it seems. Headlines from The Washington Post, ABC News, and People, among others, talk about Miley Cyrus’ comments about sex and violence in entertainment, questioning why one seems to get more attention than the other. Great questions, Miley. We’re glad you brought that up. Our long-standing mission at the Parents Television Council has…

Don’t fall for the myth that courts have expelled religion from public schools.  They have not!  Courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—have granted broad religious freedom in public schools.  So has the U.S. Department of Education. To help people of faith know and exercise those rights, the legal experts at Liberty Institute created free, easy-to-understand back-to-school resources for students and teachers…