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Excuses, Excuses
The IRS today acknowledged that it had wrongfully targeted Tea Party groups for heightened scrutiny. In trying to explain the agency’s mistake, IRS spokeswoman…
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Government Files Motion To Dismiss Dodd-Frank Lawsuit
Dodd-Frank’s destructive economic impact continues to grow week by week. Last June, CEI and two other plaintiffs, the State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas,…
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Remembering Jack Calfee
The sad news of Jack Calfee’s death came out of the blue yesterday morning. I first met Jack about two decades…
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Today’s the Day
Today is National Donut Day. Ordinarily, this would be just another cute calendar event. But nowadays we’re bombarded by government proposals…
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EPA Considers Closing NCEE – Dr. Alan Carlin’s Unit
Dr. Carlin is the senior EPA analyst who authored a 100-page study last March, which severely criticized the scientific basis for the agency’s position on…
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Obama CAFE kills
President Obama unveiled Tuesday a plan to sharply increase federal gas mileage rules for vehicles sold in the United States, eventually bringing the requirement up…
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Obama’s New Appliance Efficiency Mandates, Consumers Better Run For Cover
President Obama today announced that he is pressuring the Department of Energy (DoE) to speed up some long-delayed efficiency standards for appliances. His move…
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Clinton: World “Exhaling” Under Obama?
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HIGH NOON PASSES–Global Warming Doesn’t Show Up At The Inaugural
Well, the noon temperature in Washington DC at the President Obama’s swearing-in was 28 degrees F., eight degrees colder than when Bush…
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HIGH NOON–Inauguration Global Warming Temperature Watch
When President Bush leaves office today, will the capital be warmer or colder than when he was sworn in eight years ago? It’s not scientifically…
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Vladimir Putin: Chevron’s Man of the Year?
What does Chevron think of Vladimir Putin's recent cut-off of Russian gas to the Ukraine and beyond? Looking at their recent ad campaign, it seems…
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“Cruising in Loving Memory of Cheap Gas”
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The Rhetorical Impact of the Global Warming Bandwagon
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Regarldess of whether you believe it’s a crisis or not, it’s called Global Warming, not California Warming
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My Green Rosh Hashanah
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1998’s Lowered Status, and the Supreme Court’s Global Warming Decision
NASA’s recent downgrading of 1998 as the warmest recorded year in the US should automatically overturn the Supreme Court’s global warming decision, no? …
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The Year’s Worst Use of a Figure of Speech by a Bureaucrat?
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An Idea So Good, It Must Be Mandated
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Toronto Ice Sheet Decimated by Global Warming
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The Duke of Wellington, Climatologist
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Let Them Use Solar
It’s a heart-warming ad, literally. A poverty-striken mother and daughter sit freezing in their unheated home in the dead of winter, trying to warm themselves…
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The Global Warming Case–the cataclysm question
One comment from yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing that’s getting a lot of press is Justice Scalia’s question to the attorney for the petitioning states about…
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Global Warming Hearings & Hurricanes
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard argument in the global warming case. Today is the last day of the 2006 hurricane season, the quietest…
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