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Khosting on Fumes
Our old friend Vinod Khosla is back in the news, this time with something to show for his efforts: the world’s first commercial-scale…
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By His Enemies Shall You Know Him?
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Tune into the Space Angels Network
Kerry Howley is covering the latest developments in private exploration in space exploration today over at Hit & Run. Also, the July/August ’07 issue…
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Do We Want Cuba and Burma Regulating our Naval Operations?
George Mason University Professor (and CEI Adjunct Scholar) Jeremy Rabkin has an important op-ed in the Washington Post today on that ole devil,…
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Bureaucrash Does Dallas (Morning News)
Congratulations to Jason and our friends at Americans for Prosperity and the Moving Picture Institute for their recent anti-Sicko demonstration here in DC. Photos…
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LOST at Sea
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media quotes our beloved Fred in his column today about the Law of the Sea Treaty, and the debate…
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George H.W. Bush Only Feared One Opponent Enough to Put Him in Jail
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Every Day is Christmas When You’re an Ethanol Producer
Our good friend Tim Carney has an excellent op-ed today in the Examiner on who’s getting screwed and who’s getting rich off of the energy…
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You Know You Need to Get a Life When…
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Racist School Policies Get the Supreme Smackdown
The Associated Press is reporting on the latest SCOTUS opinion from this morning, and as it turns out it’s one on which we filed…
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Gouged by the Government
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Radio Frequency Your Way to Good Health
AFP reports on a new study by the American Medical Association recommending the implantation of RFID tags to carry medical information in case of…
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All Real Crimes in Hot Springs Now Solved
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Meet Marc “Brass Knuckles” Morano
Our good friend Marc Morano, communications director for the minority staff at Senate EPW, is treated to a “Hill People” profile (sub. req’d.) in…
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Dave Barry for Candidate!
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Pantless Judge Goes Home Empty Handed
In more legal news, DC administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson has lost his case against his local dry cleaner, whom he was suing…
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The Supreme Court Rulez
The Supreme Court today struck a small chunk out of the mountain of unconstitutionality that is the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. From the Mark…
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Michael Moore’s “Sicko” – Diagnosis: PWNED
Michael Moore’s new attack-umentary on the American health care system, Sicko, seems to be having viral problems of its own. A mysterious source has…
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Reasonable Energy Policy Blown Away in House
The Industrial Wind Action Group just sent along a press release on the emerging monster of a House energy bill and a recent change…
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Open Letter to Caterpillar on Cap-and-Trade
This week heavy-machine manufacturer Caterpillar held its annual shareholders meeting, and we and 70 or so of our good friends weighed in on one…
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The New Rationale for Central Planning
Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus writes in today’s Financial Times on climate change: As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I…
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100 Million is Enough
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eHarmony Critics Tone Deaf on ‘Discrimination’
Eli – You make an excellent point about the sexual-orientation discrimination lawsuit against eHarmony. Even if one takes a fairly statist view of…
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Environmentalism: Not Just for Dirty Hippies
Our old friend Tim Carney has a great piece up on the presumed conflict with being a conservative (or libertarian) and being an environmentalist.
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Thanks for the Cheap Diesel – Yours Truly, Europe
There are plenty of reason to dislike the tangled array of subsidies and mandates woven through the market for alternative fuels in the U.S., and…
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Jann Wenner is Insufficiently Green
The New York Times reports today that despite switching to what it calls “carbon neutral” paper for printing, Rolling Stone magazine is still getting…
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Warmer Winters Are Good for You
The front page of the Washington Post has an astonishing article by foreign correspondent Doug Struck on the positive – yes, positive –…
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Greens Gouging Gas Prices up North
The Canadian Green Party is calling for a $0.12 per liter (about $0.45 per gallon) gas tax to combat the threat of climate change.
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USA Today: Full Medical Coverage or Nothing at All?
A write-up in USA Today by reporter Julie Appleby about health insurance gets some attention from our friends at the Business…
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A Two-Pronged Triumph for Science
Iain – Thanks for noting the triumph of unreason in the EU, where they’re banning barometers because of the presence of that ole…