Blog Post
May 24, 2013
As an insurance guy who has been on both sides of the climate change debate (I’ve worked for organizations full of climate change skeptics and now head one that believes it’s an important public policy issue) I’ve heard just about every claim about what “insurers say” about climate change. Plenty of people who want to [...]
Op Ed
Huffington Post • May 21, 2013
Rachel Ryan is a good blogger; I respect her opinions. But, well, D.C. just isn’t Paris. Sorry. I’ve lived in the D.C. metro area continuously since I graduated from college and I like it here. But I also know that D.C. is a second-rate, second-tier city that will never be Paris or, indeed, the equivalent [...]
Op Ed
Huffington Post • May 20, 2013
With good reason, the Obama administration’s Internal Revenue Service has come under fire for targeting conservative and tea party groups. As Kimberly Strassel demonstrates in The Wall Street Journal, Obama and other top officials themselves created the environment that resulted in the corrupt and abusive practices. Heads should continue to roll at the IRS. That [...]
Op Ed
Huffington Post • May 9, 2013
Buried deep inside the $950 billion farm bill soon to come before the House and Senate agriculture committees is a policy proposal that easily ranks among the most misbegotten welfare-for-the-wealthy efforts ever to spring from the banks of the Potomac. The proposed new program, something called “Agricultural Risk Coverage” or “Shallow Loss,” literally offers something [...]
Op Ed
Eli Lehrer • May 3, 2013
Buried deep in the recesses of President Obama’s budget are two items that could have vast and potentially devastating consequences for millions of Americans involved with dozens of different risk markets. Though their names are more likely to induce slumber than tea party rage, these proposals serve as important reminders of the ways that misguided [...]
Op Ed
Huffington Post • April 26, 2013
There’s no shortage of pundits, left and right, who cite the $85 billion sequester as evidence that Washington just doesn’t work. And at first blush, the facts appear to be on their side. Making across-the-board cuts that threaten obviously necessary air traffic controllers and meat inspectors while simply shaving wasteful farm subsidies does seem to [...]
Op Ed
The Weekly Standard • April 22, 2013
American farmers did well in 2012, to say the least. They benefited from record-high commodity prices, burgeoning organic produce markets and high sale prices for farmland. As they have for two decades, farm families took home more annual income—about $20,000 more on average—than non-farm families. And they could count on many friends in Congress: While [...]
Op Ed
Huffington Post • April 17, 2013
If they want to get serious about doing away with job-killing government regulations, congressional Republicans need to get practical about the battles they choose. Last session, Congress’ deregulatory agenda consisted mostly of incessant failed efforts to repeal President Barack Obama’s health-care law (33 of them in all). Whatever political dividends this may have delivered, the [...]
Op Ed
I’m a conservative Republican, a married father, and a strong supporter of everyone’s freedom to marry. And it strikes me that the Huffington Post is being hugely unfair in alleging that Republicans are waging a war on sex. A close look at the Huffington Post’s recent slide show reveals little more than a collection of [...]
Op Ed
The Daily Beast • April 12, 2013
The 2014 White House budget includes some real cuts in farm subsidies, including to the absolutely absurd Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program. As Justin Green points out, this is a good thing. But it’s also long overdue. Direct payments came into being in 1996, originally as an effort to wean farmers off of direct government [...]
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