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  • Why won't President Obama let the Defense Department face the rare earth security risk?

    By Ron Arnold | 06/19/13 05:55 PM

    Rare earths aren't a celebrity security scandal like blabbermouth Edward Snowden, but these 17 minerals, which are essential for advanced energy technologies, new healthcare tools and cutting-edge strategic weapons systems, are dominated by the Chinese. ‘There is oil in the Middle East; there...

  • Ron Arnold: Meet the little nobody from Texas with big power at EPA

    By Ron Arnold | 06/13/13 05:15 PM

    He dropped out of nowhere and landed with a crash in the director's seat of the Office of Environmental Justice at the Environmental Protection Agency. Matthew S. Tejada, 33, Texas-born Latino, PhD (History, Oxford University, 2006), and five years as a community organizer (like the young...

  • What happens in the backroom of a sue-and-settle lawsuit?

    By Ron Arnold | 06/06/13 02:55 PM

    Is Big Green running things in President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency? Wake up and smell the corruption. A virulent 2009 sue-and-settle lawsuit, WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson (as in Lisa Jackson, former EPA administrator) is an outrageous sweetheart deal rife with collusion and...

  • Ron Arnold: Are backroom sue-and-settle deals actually sweetheart lawsuits?

    By Ron Arnold | 05/30/13 02:30 PM

    An important new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce entitled "Sue-and-Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors," shines a light on the backroom manipulations now common between Big Green activists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- among others -- to impose regulations unlikely...

  • Ron Arnold: Bureaucratic miracle of cooperation saves sturgeon fishery

    By Ron Arnold | 05/23/13 04:05 PM

    Good news is no news, so the cynics say, especially with news cycles hammering President Obama's scandal headaches from migraines into political skull fractures. But this week something came out of the federal bureaucracy so filled with human decency that it deserves some kind of a headline --...

  • Ron Arnold: Obscure White House climate warrior wields vast powers

    By Ron Arnold | 05/16/13 02:05 PM

    Who is Jon Powers? That's not a spoof on "Atlas Shrugged," which begins with "Who is John Galt?" -- but a serious question about one of the more obscure power brokers in the Executive Office of the President. Powers is a former U.S. Army officer who was appointed last year by President Obama...

  • Ron Arnold: Big Green's anti-fracking operatic chorus hits false notes

    By Ron Arnold | 05/09/13 02:50 PM

    Lobbying campaigns aren't usually compared to classical music, but Mark Dowie, former editor of the left-wing Mother Jones magazine, once wrote of Big Green's political battle strategy: "For considerable sums of money, public opinion can be molded, constituents mobilized, issues researched,...



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