Regulation - Blogs & Blog Posts

Citizen lawsuits won’t enhance chemical safety by Voice For Liberty in Wichita on Nov 5, 2009Legislation currently under consideration in Congress will allow citizens to sue the Department of Homeland Security if they believe that chemical plants are not in compliance with new regulations. The new regulations -- IST, or Inherently Safer T...

Chemical plant security should be based on technology, not politics by Voice For Liberty in Wichita on Nov 4, 2009As Congress considers legislation that would force our nation's chemical plants to make expensive changes in their processes and technologies, we need to make sure that we don't cripple our economy just to appease a small group of environmental activ...

‘Political capitalism’ explained in Wichita by Voice For Liberty in Wichita on Oct 29, 2009In Wichita this Monday, Robert L. Bradley, Jr. explained the state of capitalism in America today, using his experience working in a high-level position at the failed energy conglomerate Enron as a backdrop. Bradley asked: What happened to busines...

MGM: CityCenter worth $4.88 billion by Stiffs & Georges on Oct 20, 2009MGM Mirage has announced that it's writing off approximately $1.3 billion (i.e., taking an "impairment charge") against CityCenter, with $348 million of that chalked up to falling real estate values. (Some $174 million of that will apparent...

Is outsmarting a slot machine not a crime? by Stiffs & Georges on Oct 17, 2009... as even Pennsylvania racinos face hard times. It was inevitable that the American appetite for casinos would achieve a saturation point. We've not only reached it, the ongoing depression has pushed us well beyond the point of inelasticity.

Great O'Day in the morning by Stiffs & Georges on Oct 16, 2009Peepshow star/trainwreck-in-progress Aubrey O'Day likes to speak her mind, for whatever it's worth. Evidently the recklessly candid utterances of Ms. O'Day were worth not one, not two but, yes, three dispatches by Richard Abowitz. The fascination is...

Chemical security bill passes committee by Voice For Liberty in Wichita on Oct 15, 2009On Tuesday, the United States House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee passed H.R.2868, the "Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009." This bill contains provisions for Inherently Safer Technology (IST). The...