The language surrounding these various environmental disasters sounds much like Wednesday night’s town hall, and yet each thesis has faded from public consciousness, and the fear-mongers faced no accountability for their misplaced alarmism.

The brainchild of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, they are a substantial step toward enabling students to pursue higher education without taking on the debt.

Unintended consequences happen so often that economists call them “Cobra Problems,” after a famous historic example. In colonial India, Delhi suffered a proliferation of cobras. To cut the number of cobras, the local government placed a bounty on them. Can you guess what happened?

In their book, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson have startling facts for those who believe the population will continue to explode.

Don't we all wonder what it would be like to live in the sunny golden state? Well, according to recent reports, it's not all it's chalked up to be. California is now the poorest state in the US, primarily because of how over-regulated and over-taxed their economy is.