The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Rich Lowry: The Great Regulatory Rollback
• Cal Thomas: Why Criticize Harvey Weinstein?
• Peggy Noonan: Partisanship Is Breaking Both Parties
• Dennis Prager: Dogs, Strangers and God
• Byron York: 10 Reasons to Stay Calm About Those Russia Facebook Ads

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Opinion in Brief

Rich Lowry: “One by one, the artifacts of President Barack Obama’s rule by administrative fiat are tumbling. The latest is his signature Clean Power Plan that Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt says he will begin the arduous process of unwinding. … If Congress had authorized the EPA to remake the nation’s energy economy, we would presumably be aware of it and recall an impassioned congressional debate over this radical and costly change. In fact, the opposite is true. Congress has declined to enact laws limiting carbon emissions, including when Democrats held both houses of Congress under President Obama. If the future of the planet is at stake and it requires a generational effort to save it, surely it is not too much to ask that a statute or two be enacted by Congress explicitly committing the country to the task. Yes, this requires winning elections and gaining democratic assent, but such are the challenges of living in a republic and a nation of laws.”