Utah Treasurer Marlo Oaks: SEC ‘financializing Mother Nature’ with Natural Asset Company rule

Utah Treasurer Marlo Oaks equated the SEC rule to list natural asset companies on the NYSE to "financializing Mother Nature."

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|2024-01-16T10:15:12-05:00January 16th, 2024|Comments Off on Utah Treasurer Marlo Oaks: SEC ‘financializing Mother Nature’ with Natural Asset Company rule

Mike Fahner RIP: Unsung hero of Supreme Court property rights victory

As the year draws to a close, let us mark the passing of a scrappy, blue-collar California farmer and businessman who stood up to Big Government and Big Labor -- and took them down.

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|2021-12-26T17:45:42-05:00December 29th, 2021|Comments Off on Mike Fahner RIP: Unsung hero of Supreme Court property rights victory

Property rights of growers vs. unions at the Supreme Court

A 46-year-old California regulation that requires farmers and packers of agricultural goods to allow union organizers on their property three hours a day for 120 days each year is being challenged.

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|2021-03-29T09:26:23-04:00March 29th, 2021|Comments Off on Property rights of growers vs. unions at the Supreme Court

WW ll fighter pilot’s widow determined to keep her husband’s plane

He constructed a plane on his property as a labor of love. Now busybodies want it hauled away as garbage.

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|2020-09-17T08:12:52-04:00September 16th, 2020|Comments Off on WW ll fighter pilot’s widow determined to keep her husband’s plane

Hudson Valley couple takes Green cabal to court to save their land

The cabal coveting their land took a piece-meal approach, using lawsuits and harassment to gobble up chunks of their dream.

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|2020-05-14T18:17:11-04:00May 5th, 2020|Comments Off on Hudson Valley couple takes Green cabal to court to save their land

Case dropped against Montana Senator who favors transferring federal land to states

Giving local communities throughout the rural West a greater voice over how millions of acres of federal lands are used drew the ire of a left-leaning, Washington, D.C.-based pressure group.

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|2019-01-31T18:44:19-05:00February 3rd, 2019|Comments Off on Case dropped against Montana Senator who favors transferring federal land to states

EPA reins in murky “WOTUS” rule

Gabriella Hoffman: President Obama’s EPA deemed all bodies of water—including puddles and ditches— as “navigable waters” subject to regulation under the WOTUS rule.

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|2018-12-21T16:58:04-05:00December 19th, 2018|Comments Off on EPA reins in murky “WOTUS” rule

Dear Lord, what were you thinking?

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen sings an ode to the benefits of federalism and other gifts from the founders in an article inspired by a jazz combo. He reports that the 2016 election was swung in "flyover country" out of a growing frustration with an ever-expanding federal government that had largely discarded the concept of federalism and was dictating too many aspects of our lives.

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|2018-02-14T00:35:05-05:00February 14th, 2018|3 Comments

Florida Keys “takings” property rights case before Supreme Court

The children of a Korean War veteran and his wife are hoping to realize the dream of their late parents and build a home in the Florida Keys, thereby undoing a government “taking” of the family’s property.

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|2018-01-30T22:16:52-05:00January 30th, 2018|Comments Off on Florida Keys “takings” property rights case before Supreme Court

Keystone is anti-hydrocarbon zealotry in microcosm

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen laments the long, arduous battle to open the Keystone XL pipeline -- an action that would eliminate the need for 1,225 railroad tanker cars per day (450,000 per year) or 3,500 semi-trailer tanker trucks daily (1,275,000 annually) that currently transport oil to refineries, saving lives and costs and creating jobs in rural America. Driessen also recounts the many ways that fossil fuels enrich humanity -- from feed stocks for paints, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and other products to powering the manufacturing centers that create computers, smart phones, healthcare technologies, vehicles, and batteries.

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|2017-12-15T11:28:28-05:00December 10th, 2017|1 Comment

Trumping the State Department

Former Reagan Administration official Scot Faulkner lauds President Trump's and Secretary of State Tillerson's plans to overhaul the U.S. State Department, which he calls not only one of the most bloated bureaucracies but also one of the least effective -- largely because of the internationalist -- almost anti-American -- attitude that prevails among senior officials. USAID alone has wasted over a trillion dollars on enriching dictators and useless projects that have not produced lasting results. It is way past time to clean house.

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|2017-03-27T01:36:08-04:00March 27th, 2017|Comments Off on Trumping the State Department

Virginia judge Jeffrey Parker tramples property rights

Martha Boneta: "It is my hope and prayer that no American citizen ever has to suffer the way we have on our family farm.”

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|2017-01-06T12:46:08-05:00January 5th, 2017|50 Comments

Antiquities Act, eminent domain threaten American families

Some 500 families were relocated 80 years ago when the federal government used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Shenandoah National Park. Today, a private company is seeking to use eminent domain (despite having an alternate route) to destroy farmland and displace or negatively impact about 2,700 families. There is a better way.

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|2016-09-18T09:35:27-04:00September 17th, 2016|Comments Off on Antiquities Act, eminent domain threaten American families

Fracturing common sense

Wealthy anti-fracking zealots created a petition campaign to try to shut down the entire oil and gas industry in Colorado -- but say little about the costs of their extreme proposals.

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|2016-08-22T13:14:24-04:00August 22nd, 2016|4 Comments

North Carolina town grabs beachfront property without compensation

The joy of owning beachfront property has become a nightmare for a North Carolina family embroiled in a nasty dispute with a local government intent on engaging is some old-fashioned land-grabbing.

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|2016-07-29T11:49:20-04:00July 29th, 2016|Comments Off on North Carolina town grabs beachfront property without compensation
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