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Oh, the Humanity!
Perhaps the most amusing moment of last night’s election coverage came from Chris Matthews, while he was interviewing congressional has-been Dick Gephardt. Let’s go…
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Mixed Signals from the Grand Canyon State
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Two Victories for Taxpayers
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It’s a Landslide!
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Midterm Nailbiting
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Kyoto Conference Reveals Disagreements
For all the supposed consensus on global warming, every time the Kyoto parties get together, there are disagreement s about what to do. The latest…
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Talking Back to the ‘Environmental Headbangers’
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is legendary for telling it like he sees it, rhetorical propriety be damned. He’s now reacting to the Stern report…
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Staying Cool
The National Climatic Data Center reports that in October, “All regions [were] near to or below normal temperature (first time since February 2003…
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When Your Home Is Not Your Castle
Craig Bannister emails this morning with more debate over the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision on the power of eminent domain. It…
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Schumer’s Sarbanes-Oxley Surprise and Frank’s Frankness
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Fighting Racism with Super Powers
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Saving Antiquities by Selling Them
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Empowering Green Bureaucrats
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America Works
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Bastiat Lives!
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New Scientist: Skeptics are Meanies
The current issue of New Scientist magazine has a truly strange article on the impending release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest…
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Lomborg on the Stern Review: “…selective…flawed…sloppy…one-sided…”
Our friend Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (subscription only) today taking on…
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Trans-Fatty Criminals
Elizabeth Whelan of ACSH has a great article on National Review Online today about the stupidity of banning trans-fats, as New York City and…
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So the Government Dictating Broadcast Content is ‘Fair’?
Fans of free expression should hit up a piece in Human Events, by our very own John Berlau, on those misguided souls who…
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The Future: Filthy Rich or Stinking Rich?
The New York Sun has an editorial on the Stern review on the economics of global warming which includes a mention of our very…
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The ADA Meets Cyberspace
BNA is covering the recent district court ruling that Target can be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind: In this class…
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Taking Tobacco to Court
In case you missed it, the Supremes are tackling a major tobacco/tort reform liability case this week. AP’s Mark Sherman has the story: The…
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Turning Free Speech Upside Down
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that “to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and…
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The Sweetest Urban Legend of All
Keeping the holiday theme going, we now turn to the perennial Halloween boogieman, the anonymous candy poisoner. For decades, parents have been warned to…
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What Is All the Hyperventilating About?
If you haven’t read it already, treat yourself to a radically reasonable op-ed by Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT on why global warming is…
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Better Halloween Through Science
It turns out that Monsanto, the occasionally controversial biotech company, is hard at work on more than just wheat and maize. They’re also experimenting with…
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What balance?
When a journalist publicly declares he doesn’t believe in balance on a particular issue, you know things are really bad. When I was a journalist,…
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Kazman vs. Cupcake
CEI’s Sam Kazman had the quote of the day. It happened during a debate on CNBC’s Morning Call over whether NYC should ban restaurants from…
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The world will not end tomorrow
Or in a hundred year’s time, for that matter. Today’s Stern Review from the British government has been marketed as saying global warming means…
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The U.S. Secretary of Shady Land Deals
Judith Burns of Dow Jones’ MarketWatch reports on the latest shareholder activism from our friends Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli over at the…