The Obama administration may be softening its stance on fracking. The Interior Department has just released long-awaited revisions to proposed rules governing fracking on federal land. The new rules are meant to replace a thirty-year-old set of regulations that are now hopelessly out of step with current technology. The administration’s first round of proposed updates last [...]

“There is no evidence that government scientists and engineers are better at forecasting the future and know how the future will play out better than the scientists and engineers in private companies. ” The technocracy movement that arose in the early part of twentieth century advocated turning over the reins of governmental decision making to [...]

Greensburg Daily Tribune - Dec 14, 1950 Real Science 12 May 2013

While the shale boom lifts Texas, California sits on vast resources. Texas and California have been competing for years as U.S. growth models, and one of the less discussed comparisons is on energy. The Golden State has long been one of America’s big three oil producing states, along with Texas and Alaska, but last year [...]

The venture capital firm behind some of the most prominent recent green tech flops, led by major Dem donors and advised by Al Gore, is in big trouble as the green bubble bursts and one highly touted green investment after another goes belly up. A good, in-depth article in NYT Dealbook shows how Kleiner Perkins, the firm most famous [...]

R. Mark Musser is a Christian with a Master of Divinity degree from Oregon’s Western Seminary and several years’ experience as a missionary in Eastern Europe. He is currently a pastor in Olympia, Washington. Not only is Musser a Christian, he is given to a rather literalist interpretation of the Bible. Fortunately, this is a [...]

The U.S. government has claimed over the years one and one reason only for government intrusion into markets: Market failure. As a Carter administration document put it: The first assumption for any commercialization activity by the government is that the market either has failed or will fail to make the optimum choice … [and] that the government [...]

You would think university professors would have some respect for books regardless of their content. Apparently that’s not the case for two San Jose State University professors who actually published a picture at their department’s website of the two of them burning a book skeptical of anthropogenic global warming. The Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely reported Friday that [...]