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How Did You Celebrate Earth Day?
Iain raises an interesting question over at Planet Gore, and it's a good idea to follow up with it here. Yesterday was Earth Day,…
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Commercial Broadcast Radio with…No Commercials?
The New York Times Business section has an interesting story this morning on how one of Clear Channel’s stations in Dallas is eliminating all…
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Africans in DC: Kick Bob Mugabe to the Curb
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CEI Alumnus Superstar
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The Year’s Worst Use of a Figure of Speech by a Bureaucrat?
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Cranky Geek Against SarbOx
John C. Dvorak, long time columnist for PC Magazine and head Crank on Cranky Geeks, a popular podcast, has come out against…
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Regulated to Death
The New York Times has an interesting story on how federal privacy and disability-rights regulations may have helped pave the way for the Virginia…
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I Do
Surfing around, I just came upon AT&T’s “You Will” advertising campaign from the early 1990s. The ads are well-produced and, almost fifteen years after…
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Capitalizing on Patriotism
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Flooded homes vs. stranded fish
In the New York Times today, there was a photo of a submerged subdivision near Wayne, N.J. as a consequence of torrential rain and…
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In Antitrust They Trust
Satellite radio pioneers XM and Sirius are finally going down the long-expected merger path, but not without a fight from the usual suspects. Mel…
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The Collapse of Private Insurance: Part XXVII
A federal jury verdict yesterday in Lousiana requiring Allstate to pay several million dollars it didn’t expect to further underlines the inherent problem with…
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Greening of the Pentagon?
Eleven former generals have just published a report warning that global warming poses a "serious threat" to U.S. national security" via increased severity…
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China at the U.N. — on climate change
In a meeting on Tuesday China told the United Nations Security Council it doesn’t have the competence to deal with climate change issues: The…
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Ethanol may cause more smog, deaths?
Does use of ethanol fuel generate more smog and health problems than use of carbon-based fuels? Check out the new study by a Stanford University…
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In search of “dystopia”
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Re: Guns in Virginia
Following up on Eli’s post below, the blog Classically Liberal (linked to from Freedom News Daily) notes that not only is…
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Guns in Virginia
I wrote about the tragedy at Virginia Tech in National Review Online. My piece, which I wrote really quickly, went up yesterday and, as…
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Redundant Regulation Preempted
In a 5-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court just ruled in Watters v. Wachovia Bank that state regulators can’t impose certain regulations on national banks’…
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Senators warn — no new “concessions” in trade round
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Earth Day Prep II
In a release announcing its Earth Day preparations, the Earth Day Network urges people to “Register and Find Earth Day Events & Sermons.” [Emphasis…
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Earth Day Prep
With Earth Day coming up, will winter-like temperatures take some steam out of the recently invigorated climate alarmist train? That may be a fear among…
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Ethanol jacking up fertilizer prices
Ethanolics never tire of telling us that the current ethanol mandate, President Bush's 20/10 program (requiring 20% or 35 billion gallons of the nation's motor…
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Free At Last
In case you were wondering why tax day isn’t until tomorrow, allow me to introduce you to D.C. Emancipation Day. This recently minted…
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Attack of the Killer Bee Killers
We know cell phones don’t give you cancer, but according to some people quoted by The Independent in the UK, they are messing…
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Sallie Mae’s suitors are accepted
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Food prices rising – ethanol push a major culprit
It’s becoming a refrain now — ethanol boom adds to rising food prices. Today the Wall Street Journal focuses (subscription required) on higher food…
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One good journalist early on — on the Duke debacle
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Poorest countries need duty-free, quota-free trade access, say nonprofits
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Fred Talks Executive Compensation on CNBC
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More on Muir
John, yes. . .but I mentioned Pinchot because I knew you had good things to say about him. Personally, I would likely be on the…
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A child’s idyllic laundry scene
Richard — I enjoyed your laundry post. It’s my birthday today — so I’ll be indulgent in adding to it. When I was a…
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Muir’s Meanness and Pinchot’s practicality
Eli, I do indeed praise Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt’s forestry chief, in Eco-Freaks. I point out, however, that he was at sword’s ends with…
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“Make mine freedom” — still holds true
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In defense of Muir
John– Good post. I agree that a lot of environmentalists are wackos. But I think that Muir actually deserves some due as an environmental…
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Regress to the Future: Laundry Edition
Welcome back to Al Gore’s America, where modern conveniences give way to anachronistic annoyances, all in the name of shrinking one’s carbon footprint. Today’s backward…
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Kurt Vonnegut, RIP
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How Business Rates
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A socialist interpretation of biofuels issue
Among the many articles on biofuels proliferating recently, I came across this April 11 article in the magazine In These Times. While the…
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Gore’s new book will be “a visionary analysis”
Just saw on Amazon that former Vice President Al Gore has another book coming out soon. The new book, titled The Assault on Reason…
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The Don Imuses of Environmentalism
Here are some outrageous and racist comments by environmentalists. These are compiled and documented in my book Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health.
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Smearing Coal
Readers of the Wall Street Journal this morning will have noticed several really expensive ads depicting pretty faces smeared with coal dust and the headline…
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Save the World by Cooking
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More from Monbiot today
The Guardian columnist George Monbiot today has yet another article attacking global warming deniers — to wit: “There is climate change censorship – and…
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Jogging with Laurie David
On the Huffington Post today, global warming campaigner Laurie David opines about the weather in Dallas as she takes her morning run: Time magazine…
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Homilies against trade don’t put food on the table
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Golf Carts and Safety
A front page article in today’s New York Times comments on the rise of electric carts around the country. Particularly in retirement communities, they’ve…
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Not Good Enough
One of the baffling things about the IPCC Working Group II document released on Friday is how much it ignores mankind’s ability to progress. Time…
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Misguided ethanol policy helps drive up food prices
Here’s another article — front-page Wall Street Journal (subscription needed) — that notes the shift from food to fuel production (e.g., corn-based ethanol) is…
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Hurricane forecaster calls Gore “gross alarmist”
In an article posted on WWL-TV in New Orleans on April 6, Dr. William Gray, the prominent hurricane forecaster, took aim at Al Gore’s…