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We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 2012
According to a new announcement from WWF, the governments of the world only have five years left to stave off global catastrophe from climate…
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BBC: Global Warming Alarmism Counterproductive
Fark picks up on this interesting story from the Beeb: Alarmist messages about global warming are counter-productive, the head of a leading climate…
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Send Your Underwear to the Undersecretary
Sam‘s latest obsession has produced glorious YouTube offspring. Inspired by the current issue of Consumer Reports, he’s been drawing our attention to the fact…
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Market Signal
It is a tenet of free market environmentalism that market signals provide information about the environment and its value. Therefore, when people stop buying beachfront…
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Sell the Elephant to Save It
The International Fund for Animal Welfare is complaining about people selling items made from elephant ivory on eBay, arguing that such sales hurt elephant…
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Jerry Falwell, RIP
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Preview – Myron Ebell on Penn & Teller
The next episode of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!” on Showtime will feature CEI’s Myron Ebell on nuclear power. For a preview, check out the…
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Climate change — and the push for biofuels — will create a billion refugees, says Christian Aid
A report just released by Christian Aid says that global warming will displace 1 billion people by 2050, and rich countries that are…
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CAFE klatsch
President Bush is set to address the nation this afternoon on plans to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, reports the Greenwire news service.
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Hate Crimes and Equality
The Washington Post has just published a very ironic editorial supporting the federal hate crimes bill (“Protection from Hate,” May 14). Its editorial is…
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“Bipartisan trade deal” serves special interest, not the public interest
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Chrysler For Sale. Sold.
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Rupert Murdoch’s Gas-Guzzling Hybrid
Rupert Murdoch, a hate figure for much of the Left, especially in Britain, has declared that he is proud to go green. One of…
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Bureaucrash’s Blaze of Glory
When it rains anti-anti-smoking indignation, it pours. In addition to Brooke’s press statement, Jason reminds me that Bureaucrash was hot on this MPAA/smoking tip…
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These Foolish Things Remind Me of the MPAA
As Eli informed us this morning, the MPAA has caved into Big (anti-)Tobacco and decided to rate movies that include smoking by adults more…
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More on Unsustainable Policies
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Special interests win with Peru and Panama FTAs
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Sustain This
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Butt Out!
The Washington Post reports that the The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will now give higher, more restrictive ratings to films that “that…
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Hate Crimes Addendum
In an earlier blog post, I cited the ACLU's recent decision to support the federal hate-crimes bill which recently passed the House. The ACLU…
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Colombia’s president gets cold shoulder on the Hill
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Don’t Count Your Cobs Before They’re Grown
Corn growers are riding high these days, as ethanol moves into place as the default alternative fuel for automobiles. Lots of money is pouring into…
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Typesetting and technology
Today the BBC’s website has an article that caught my eye, “Helvetica at 50.” No, Helvetica’s not a movie star or a rock…
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Opposing Murder = Discrimination, Lawyer Says
Truth is stranger than fiction. A restaurant owner told O.J. Simpson to get out of his restaurant, exercising his right not to associate with murderers on his own property. …
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Eliot Spitzer Rebuffed
In a 3-to-2 decision, New York’s intermediate appeals court dismissed most of former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer’s lawsuit against former New York…
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The Present State of America’s Future
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UN on biofuels — implications and tradeoffs
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Gas Prices a-Go-Go No More
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You, too, can be a Concerned Scientist for $35
Today, Human Events reprints Iain’s, Myron’s, and my article on the Union of Concerned Scientists (which was first published in Capital Research…
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Gas Prices a-Go-Go
Tomorrow is the exhaustively-named House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming’s hearing on high gas prices. According to Chairman Ed Markey, it…