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  • Hot-Car Deaths Are Heartbreaking, but Shouldn’t Be an Excuse for More Regulation

    Hot-Car Deaths Are Heartbreaking, but Shouldn’t Be an Excuse for More Regulation0

    Congress is analyzing two proposed pieces of legislation drafted to help prevent car-related child deaths from heatstroke. The Senate’s version of the bill would require carmakers to add systems that would remind drivers to look in the back seat once the engine is turned off while the House bill would require manufacturers to add an alert system to warn

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  • What Will and Kate Teach Us About Earning Respect

    What Will and Kate Teach Us About Earning Respect0

    In recent days, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (aka Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) have been under fire for blatant hypocrisy. After lecturing the populace about being environmentally friendly, the pair rode a private jet to their summer vacation destination, making their carbon footprint equal to that of Bigfoot’s. Their decision didn’t really surprise

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  • Spreading Their Wings: How to Help Young People Succeed in College

    Spreading Their Wings: How to Help Young People Succeed in College3

    It’s that time of year and that time of life. You pack your car or van full of clothes, electronic devices, a lamp or two, sheets, blankets, and a pillow, some basic food supplies, and all the rest of the paraphernalia necessary for your 18-year-old to survive a first semester of college. On the drive

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  • Solar Roads: Another Government-Funded Energy Failure

    Solar Roads: Another Government-Funded Energy Failure0

    • August 23, 2019

    Surprise – solar panels don’t make great roads. The French government recently learned this the hard way after debuting a $6 million solar road in Normandy in 2016. The road generated about half as much power as expected, and costs exceeded any reasonable expectation for a road…or even a solar panel. An American experiment in solar roads fared similarly.

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  • Airport’s Ban on Plastic Water Bottles a Flight of Fancy

    Airport’s Ban on Plastic Water Bottles a Flight of Fancy0

    • August 23, 2019

    Politicians in California like to show how much they care about making the world a better place by banning things. Making the world a better place isn’t something they seem to care much about, however, because if they did, they would be doing very different things. As Exhibit A, please consider San Francisco’s new ban

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  • 50 Years Later, the Spirit of ’69 Feels Like a Hangover

    50 Years Later, the Spirit of ’69 Feels Like a Hangover0

    The August 16 death of actor Peter Fonda comes as a jolt to Baby Boomers, including this one. Most of us will always think of Fonda as the young and vigorous star of the 1969 film Easy Rider. Perhaps Fonda, dying of lung cancer, willed himself to live long enough to see the golden anniversary of

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