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I would be interested on your comments/thoughts on this article. Thanks.

His criticisms appear to be fairly lucid. What he hasn't acknowledged (and may not understand) is the way these regulations are so often used to enrich the few and well connected. Further, he offers no plan to fix it other than going back to the same system that grew into the mess we have today, only "less of it."

It's government fix thyself, as if the politicians in charge could do anything about crooked courts and scads of NGO lawyers in cahoots with entrenched agency bureaucrats.

It is thus a well informed, but typically clueless Republican approach.

...It is thus a well informed, but typically clueless Republican approach.
Well, you got THAT part right... :o)

From www.chapman.edu:

Hugh Hewitt Associate Professor of Law

Areas of Expertise
Constitutional Law, Administrative Law
Education
A.B., cum laude, Harvard College; J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School
Experience
Professor Hugh Hewitt is a major player nationally as an advocate for property owners and development interests subject to environmental regulation. He is a partner in Hewitt & McGuire, representing businesses and developers on endangered species, wetlands, and other environmental issues. He also served for several years as a Board Member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Professor Hewitt's involvement in public affairs is not limited to environmental matters. He advised President Ronald Reagan as Assistant White House Counsel, served as Deputy Director and General Counsel of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was Director of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, and clerked for the Honorable George MacKinnon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Professor Hewitt is currently co-host of the television news and public affairs show "Life and Times" on PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET-TV, and is a member of the California Arts Council.