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Scare-mongering films are not evidence

We’ve had enough of this nonsense. Let’s put the kibosh on emotional appeals and re-embrace reason. Give us the unadulterated facts and let us analyze them. Then we can determine if there is a problem, and what to do about it.

By The West Virginia Record | Feb 12, 2020

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The insanity is over: ‘navigable’ now means ‘navigable’ again

Let that be the end of the nightmarish, Humpty-Dumpty world where words can mean whatever any meddling, overzealous bureaucrat says they mean.

By The West Virginia Record | Feb 4, 2020

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Everyone else has an intermediate appellate court!

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 28, 2020

Maybe 2020 will be the year we finally establish an intermediate court for West Virginia – not because most other states have one, but because it’s a good thing to have.

Why the opioid crisis is being blamed on big pharmacy chains

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 22, 2020

The plaintiffs don’t seem interested in going after smaller outfits.

When so-called solutions are worse than alleged problems

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 14, 2020

It behooves us to ask who’s benefiting from all the activism, and who always gets stuck with the bill.

Right-to-work, if you can get it

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 7, 2020

Four years ago, West Virginia became the 26th right-to-work state in the nation when our Legislature overrode former Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s veto of a bill prohibiting workers from being required to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment.

On the watch list once again

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 3, 2020

Four years ago, West Virginia managed to climb out of the judicial hellhole we had wallowed in for more than a decade, but we’ve remained on the American Tort Reform Association’s “Watch List” ever since, perilously close to the hole’s edge and perpetually in danger of slipping back in.

Let’s make energy and pipelines great again

By The West Virginia Record | Dec 17, 2019

Message to all the green bullies: Oil is good, pipelines are good, and we’re not giving them up.

If you don’t give the quid, you don’t get the quo

By The West Virginia Record | Dec 11, 2019

The phrase “quid pro quo” has been bandied about lately, what with Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives charging that President Trump offered one to the president of Ukraine. Trump, they claim, promised substantial foreign aid in return for the promise of an investigation into the possibly corrupt activities of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, while “serving” on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.

Are we the only ones who can still be ridiculed?

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 27, 2019

Hoosiers, hillbillies, rednecks, and crackers – we’ve all been treated with contempt by our self-proclaimed superiors, and we’ve had enough. They think they’re so smart and we’re so dumb, but they overestimate themselves and underestimate us.

Moviegoers pay to be propagandized

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 19, 2019

We weren’t there for the pitch for "Dark Waters," but we do recognize a cheesy, fast-buck formula when we see one.

You can't blame Kroger for a pre-existing condition

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 13, 2019

If insurance companies won’t cover pre-existing conditions, why should supermarkets? You didn’t know supermarkets cover pre-existing conditions? Well, they don’t, actually, but someone needs to explain that to Jennifer Thompson and Carolyn Foster.

Brenda Miller, do your job or find another one!

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 6, 2019

You wouldn’t think you’d need to explain to someone who’s been an Ohio County Circuit Clerk for 20 years that attorneys deserve the respect and cooperation of court employees. Brenda Miller may be just a clerk, but she seems to fancy herself a queen, with the power and authority to do as she pleases.

What’s not to like about a Judge Richard Neely?

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 30, 2019

“No one wants to bring back the bad old days of jackpot justice, including when Richard Neely was on the court. West Virginians don’t want more runaway verdicts and embarrassing actions and rhetoric from greedy personal injury lawyers like Richard Neely.”

It’s time for green revolutionaries to admit defeat

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 23, 2019

You can’t accuse the facile foes of fossil fuels of lacking energy. Knowledge or logic or honesty, yes. Energy, no. Whether it’s generated by lots of wind or the product of biomass hysteria, they’ve got plenty of energy. They never give up.

We’re enjoying Richard Neely’s retirement, and so should he

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 16, 2019

The problem with Richard Neely’s “real experience” is the same as Darrell McGraw’s: we had to live through it, too. We’re old enough to remember it, not old enough to have forgotten.

Scaremongering lawyers should be disciplined

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 8, 2019

Lawyers running anti-drug commercials should be held accountable for their claims. If they can’t substantiate those claims, they should be forced to compensate the companies whose sales they’ve depressed and the drug users whose health they’ve impaired.

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