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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…
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The Tip of the Iceberg
I have a piece in today’s National Review Online about the new bill that would provide optional federal chartering (OFC) for insurance companies. OFC,…
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Re: “Vanity, vanity”…
Regarding Fran’s post earlier today on Vanity Fair‘s new “Green Issue” — I haven’t read it yet, but I’m sure it’s all very…
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Adapting to the IPCC
The IPCC’s second summary report of the year is out. Working Group II’s report on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability predicts a world…
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Now I wanna be a Stooge
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Rhode Island Lead Paint Verdict Ethically Tainted
In Rhode Island, a jury recently returned a verdict holding out-of-state paint manufacturers liable to the state for potentially billions of dollars, under the theory…
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Examiner Columnist Antrim on The Great Global Warming Swindle
Washington Examiner columnist Kathleen Antrim endorses the film The Great Global Warming Swindle: As “The Great Global Warming Swindle” points out, “global warming…
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Bailey on “Consensus”
Another former Brookes Fellow, Ron Bailey, writes in Reason today on green activists’ speaking out of both sides of their mouth when they say…
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Carney and Schulz on Supremes’ CO2 Ruling
Two CEI veterans weigh on on this week's Supreme Court decision reversing the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to not regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from…
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YouTube on fire with “Cigarette” song
These days even expressing ambiguity about cigarettes can put you in danger of the anti-smoking thought police. Conversing about the pleasure of smoking or the…
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Is Bad Regulatory Competition Better than No Regulatory Competition?
I had an interesting conversation about regulatory competition in the context of insurance. A lawyer I was speaking with argued that any regulatory competition structure—even…
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“Vanity, vanity . . .” Myron Ebell featured in Vanity Fair’s “Green Issue”
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“Give me land, lots of land . . . “
An editorial today in the New York Times focused on one of the negative consequences of the corn ethanol boom — a boom fueled…
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Foreign Courts Target U.S. Business for Plunder
The Supreme Court of Canada has just given the green light for British Columbia to force American tobacco companies to pay for smokers’ past…
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Baptists and Bootleggers in the Tropics
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“Take me out to the partido de beisbol”
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Apple, EMI Test DRM-Free
In the wake of the announcement by EMI (along with Apple) that its catalog will now be available on iTunes DRM-free and at…
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Koch on Management
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The Kelo Five Go Green
Our very own Chris Horner is in Human Events today on this week’s Massachusetts v. EPA SCOTUS decision on the regulation of carbon dioxide…
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