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Coal Meets Markets

By Jerry Taylor February 6, 2013

While Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign fades in the rear-view mirror, the issues he ran on — particularly, his charge that President Obama is engaged in an economically disastrous “war ...

Politics & Policy

Why Are the Kochs after Cato?

By Gene Healy & Jerry Taylor April 9, 2012

Five weeks ago, Charles and David Koch filed suit against the Cato Institute, seeking to gain majority control of the institute under a shareholders’ agreement that had lain dormant for ...

Politics & Policy

Obama’s Green-Energy Mirage

By Jerry Taylor February 3, 2012

President Obama is obsessed with green energy as a terrier is obsessed with a bone. He digs the issue up time and time again with a single-mindedness that is remarkable ...

Politics & Policy

Ethanol: Let Protectionism Expire

By Harry de Gorter & Jerry Taylor December 8, 2010

After more than three decades, the U.S. ethanol blenders’ tax credit and the ethanol-import tariff that was put in place to offset it are set to expire at the end ...

Politics & Policy

Plug-In Pablum

By Jerry Taylor May 25, 2010

When politicians and environmental activists hammer the table about the need to break our so-called “addiction to oil” — as they are doing with increased fervor in response to the ...

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Market Power

By Jerry Taylor & Peter Van Doren October 15, 2009

The mistake of subsidizing pet energy causes.

Chumps for Clunkers

By Jerry Taylor August 7, 2009

Suppose we came to your house one day and said, “Look over there at Ted — the guy with the Toyota Tundra in the driveway.” You look — yup, that’s ...

Re: Immigration is the Health of the State

By Jerry Taylor June 17, 2009

Mark, do you have some regression analyses to back up this claim of yours that dense population = bigger and more intrusive government? Like John Derbyshire, I can think of ...

Re: Spreading the Wealth Around

By Jerry Taylor June 15, 2009

Mark, not to get too deep into the politics of immigration, but I think it’s fair to say that the harsh anti-immigration message from many Republicans helpd to scare away ...

Re: Three Men and a Baby

By Jerry Taylor May 22, 2009

I am all for freedom of conscience, Kathryn. That’s why I don’t want to force men (or women) to get married or force churches to recognize gay marriages. Nor do ...