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Biography

Duggan Flanakin is director of policy research for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and a former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Arkansas Public Policy Foundation. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Regent University, for many years published a popular trade newsletter on environmental regulation in Texas, and previously was the lead science editor for the now-defunct U.S. Bureau of Mines.

Articles

Killing the Dream of the Abundant Life

By Duggan Flanakin

“I am come that you might have life … abundantly” – John 10:10The principal message of the American Declaration of ...

October 01, 2022

Russian Lobbyists Still Hover in Washington

By Duggan Flanakin

Editor's note: This column has been updated. An interesting new YouTube video is floating around online that indicates, despite the U.S. ...

July 29, 2022

The Revivalist Manifesto Is a Blueprint for America

By Duggan Flanakin

Last October when I had lunch in Baton Rouge with Scott McKay, the first of his op-eds championing an American ...

July 09, 2022

Africa’s and America’s Forgotten Need Access to Capital

By Duggan Flanakin

Both supporters and detractors of the 1619 Project can recognize that focusing solely on the struggles of those brought to the American ...

July 01, 2022

Biden-Maduro Dialogue Frees Two Americans

By Duggan Flanakin

The Venezuelan government announced on March 7 that it would be releasing two jailed American citizens, including Gustavo Cardenas, one ...

March 29, 2022

Biden and Boris: The Bad News Bears

By Duggan Flanakin

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is comfortable working with Joe Biden on climate change. Johnson recently praised Biden’s ...

October 01, 2021

Afghanistan Asunder - The Afghan Hounds Renew Their War on Women

By Duggan Flanakin

President Joe Biden is about to do what President Donald Trump had proposed to do a year earlier – end ...

July 19, 2021

New Opportunities for a Rural American Renaissance

By Duggan Flanakin

Many argue rural America has been in steady decline for decades. It was particularly hard hit by the “Great Recession ...

July 03, 2021

Bankers, Insurers and Activists Assault Our Freedoms

By Duggan Flanakin

Oil giant ExxonMobil’s 12-member board of directors reportedly has two new members who are climate activists backed by investor “Engine ...

June 10, 2021

A Viable Alternative to Chinese Minerals Hegemony

By Duggan Flanakin

Prompted by a worldwide chip shortage already impacting automobile production, President Biden in February signed an executive order directing a ...

May 26, 2021

When 'A Little Corruption' in Mexico Goes Too Far

By Duggan Flanakin

“Corruption is not a disagreeable characteristic of the Mexican political system,” Gabriel Zaid observed in La economia presidencial. “It is ...

May 06, 2021

China’s Strange Endorsement of ‘Net Zero’

By Duggan Flanakin

You have to hand it to Xi Jinping. The Chinese “president for life” schmoozed United Nations royalty last September with ...

April 22, 2021

Africans Deflect Biden’s Demand to End Fossil Fuel Use

By Duggan Flanakin

As the merger of climate change and COVID panic materializes before us, “global leaders” have found developing world voices to ...

April 16, 2021

India Ignores Media Preaching on ‘Net Zero Carbon’

By Duggan Flanakin

India is just one of an increasing number of “developing” nation which have recognized that the mad rush toward a ...

April 09, 2021

EPA’s Totalitarian Frontal Assault on America

By Duggan Flanakin

Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan is clearly on a mission. He has “bold aspirations, and a long to-do ...

April 01, 2021

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