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Busting the Myths About Article V Conventions 0
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - Article V
- October 23, 2024
During the 1970s, a handful of liberal writers with privileged media access spread disinformation about the amendment process, apparently to protect an activist Supreme Court.
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Direct Taxes and the Founders’ Originalism 0
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - Supreme Court
- August 29, 2024
If the Framers had believed the Constitution would be construed by any rules other than those then prevailing, they would have worded it very differently.
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Colorado Energy Office’s Economic Hindenburg: The Ballooning Costs of the Hydrogen Transition 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Issue Papers
- June 29, 2024
In October 2023, the Biden Administration awarded $7 billion of taxpayer dollars to kickstart the development of regional hydrogen hubs. These hydrogen hubs will independently explore new ways to lower the cost of producing so-called clean hydrogen and find new and innovative uses for hydrogen fuel. While Colorado’s proposal for a Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub
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Responding to Professor Bowman’s “Immigration Is Not An Invasion”0
- Constitution
- February 1, 2024
The effect of this constitutional provision . . . is only to allow a state to defend itself fully—and without congressional consent—when invaded or about to be invaded.
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Colorado PUC Trims Xcel’s Unprecedented Renewables Plan 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies
- December 21, 2023
Ratepayer interests received a small win from Colorado regulators overseeing Xcel Energy’s latest resource plan. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) pared back Xcel’s $15 billion request to build wind, solar, batteries, and new transmission lines by around $3 billion last week. The PUC’s trimming of Xcel’s request came as it approved an alternative resource
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Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Clean Energy Transition 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- December 8, 2023
Independence Institute has a long track record of warning against the unhealthy incentives that can arise from the relationship between monopoly electric utilities and green policymakers. Once viewed as rivals of one another, the two sides realized a few years back that coexisting as fellow travelers on the road to the so-called clean energy transition
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