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Weed Control has Caused Skylark’s Decline (Letter to the Editor)
From Mr Gregory Conko. Sir, Your article “Bird numbers `under threat’ from GM crops” (September 1) reported on a study in the current issue of…
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Effects of GM Confused with Those of Farming Practices: Conko Letter to Financial Times
Published in The Financial Times Published in The Financial Times September 6, 2000, Wednesday London Edition 1 …
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Dana Joel Gattuso Brownfields Op-Ed in Washington Times
If egotism is “the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see,” Vice President Al Gore is a master. He is…
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Clearing the National Forests’ Underbrush: Freeman/Simmons Op-Ed in Raleigh N-O
Published in the News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News…
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Resistance Dropping to Biotech Foods: Kemp Op-Ed in Chicago Tribune
Published in the Chicago Tribune Published in the Chicago Tribune August 25, 2000 In spite of an ill-considered,…
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Resistance Dropping Toward Biotech Foods
In spite of an ill-considered, anti-progress publicity campaign from left wing self-appointed consumer and environmental groups, the New Green Revolution based on genetic engineering is…
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Stick to the Facts, Mr. President: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 23, 2000, Wednesday Vice…
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Class Clash and Fabrication
Vice President Al Gore and President Clinton not only took sole credit for today’s splendid economy in their speeches last week at the Democratic National Convention,…
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Privacy Precepts Learned the Hard Way: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
For recently bankrupt Toysmart.com, trying to liquidate its customer information database has been more like playing with matches than children’s toys. Last week’s…
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Don’t be too Quick to Condemn Lifesaving Pesticides (Letter to the Editor)
Dear Editor: People certainly should be concerned about the declining lobster population in New York, (“A deadly mosquito cure,” Aug. 1) But we should not…
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Internet, EPA and Terrorism? Logomasini Op-Ed in Washington Times
You know things are seriously wrong when taxpayers underwrite the costs of collecting and disseminating information that will Published in the Washington…
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Lieberman Makes Good Republican: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 16, 2000 A couple of weeks ago in this…
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Is Your Washer Politically Incorrect
The federal government thinks your clothes washer is contributing to global warming and is going to make you do something about it. Over the past few…
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Republicans Reclaiming Blacks: Kemp Op-Ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
…And The Party Is Doing It By Reclaiming The Legacy The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln …And The Party Is Doing It By…
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Blood Supply Besieged: Logomasini Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times Published in the Washington Times August 10, 2000 In a recent letter to the…
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On Importance of Vector Control: Zambone Letter to the Editor on the West Nile Virus
Published in The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Published in The Record (Bergen County, NJ) August 10, 2000 …
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Fires By Design: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in Washington Post
Published in the Washington Post Published in the Washington Post August 9, 2000 This year's forest fire season in the West may…
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Congress Supports EPA’s Biased and Politicized Environmental Education: Sanera Op-Ed
Published in various regional papers Published in various regional papers August 2000 Do you know that your children…
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Swap New For Old: Congress Shouldn’t Impose Tired Rules On OTC Derivatives — Sheehan in IBD
Published in Investor’s Business Daily Published in Investor’s Business Daily August 9, 2000 America's continued financial leadership…
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Opening Supply Side Doors: Kemp on Dick Cheney
Published in The Washington Times Published in The Washington Times August 3, 2000 Richard B. Cheney, George…
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With Cheney, Smart Economics in Supply
Richard Cheney, George W. Bush’s choice for running mate, understands that this marvelous “new” economy we enjoy today began with the across-the-board tax-rate reductions…
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Double-Click For Consumers: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> August 1, 2000 “We…
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Free Money: Campaign Finance “Loopholes” are the Best Part of the System: DeLong Article in Reason Magazine
Published in Reason Magazine Published in Reason Magazine August 2000 Once again we are preparing to choose federal, state,…
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Aren’t High Gas Prices Part of What Gore Believes In?–Kemp in IBD
Published in Investor's Business Daily Published in Investor’s Business Daily July 26, 2000 Surging oil prices, combined with new Environmental Protection…
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Lessons From the Western Fires: Colorado Can Learn From Los Alamos — Nelson Op-Ed in Denver Post
Published in the Denver Post Published in the Denver Post June 25, 2000 You may have seen the…
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Canada Misses a Fat Chance: Henry Miller Op-Ed in the National Post
Published in the National Post (Canada) July 25, 2000 Canadian regulators’ decision to ban the fat substitute olestra runs against both…
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Child Online Protection Act Won’t Protect Our Children: Alban Op-Ed in Idaho Statesman
Published in The Idaho Statesman July 20, 2000 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Who could be…
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Protecting Privacy on the Internet: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> July 5, 2000 The…
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Smokey Bear’s Bad Adventure: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in Sacramento Bee
Copyright 2000 McClatchy Newspapers, Inc Published in the Sacramento Bee July 12, 2000 Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News…
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Apocalypse Soon: Climate Assessment is Based on Fear
“Many statements in the Overview Document have a rather extreme/alarmist tone and do not appear to fairly reflect the scientific literature, the historical record, or…
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Gas Price Scapegoating: Lieberman in the Chicago Sun Times
Published in the Chicago Sun Times Published in the Chicago Sun Times June 25, 2000 The White House…
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Gas Price Scapegoating in Washington
Federal regulators held an emergency meeting Monday, June 12, in an effort to find out who is behind the recent surge in gasoline prices, particularly…
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Lawmakers Should Consider Outcomes When Micromanaging Fuel Supplies
Federal regulators held an emergency meeting last week in an effort to find out who is behind the recent surge in gasoline prices, particularly in…
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Uncle Sam Gets Burned Out West
Some say the world will end in fire,” wrote the poet Robert Frost, “some say in ice.” But after the wildfires U.S. westerners recently witnessed…
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Death By Caution: Fuel Economy Standards Cost Lives
The Precautionary Principle has become the rhetorical war-horse of the global warming movement. With the Earth's survival at issue, environmentalists claim, it's surely…
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Labelling And Risk: The Case Of Bioengineered Foods
More and more, consumers are basing their food purchases on individual preferences about food content. For many consumers this means a focus on nutrition or…
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Introduction to ‘Ecology, Liberty, and Property’
The book "Ecology, Liberty, and Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader," edited by Jonathan H. Adler, was published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2000.
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Pollution Lawsuit Overkill
Nearly every day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces a new lawsuit or administrative action against an alleged industrial polluter. Many people, especially those…
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James Gattuso Reviews “Winners, Losers and Microsoft”
Artemus Ward once remarked that the problem with the world isn’t what we don’t know: “It’s the things we know that just ain’t…
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Monomania
While on a recent trip to Seattle, I was tempted to ride on the local religious icon – the monorail relic from the…
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The Peaceable Kingdom
A recent meeting between Christian Right leader, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, and gay rights activists, the Reverend Mel White, suggests that America may…
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Free Trade Is Green Trade
Environmentalist objections to trade and proposals for the “greening” of trade are a fundamental assault on free trade principles. They also threaten environmental quality. Free…
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The Risks of Risk Regulation
Portions of the following are adapted from “Deadly Fallout of Too Many Rules” and “Regulated…Out of this World” in the Washington Times, June 2 and…
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The Forest Service Plays With Fire: Riggs/Simmons Op-Ed in OC Register
Published in the Orange County Register May 21, 2000<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Do…
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Stock Market Roulette or Fiscal Snobbery?
One of the great debates of our time is whether it is possible for America to become a shareholder democracy, in which all workers can own assets and…
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EPA’s Gas Price Contribution
Last December, when the Environmental Protection Agency announced a tough new standard for sulfur content in gasoline, few seemed concerned that the supposedly cleaner-burning fuel…
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Global Warming Petition Project (Letter to the Editor)
To THE EDITORS: John B. Judis attacks as “patently false” the statement in our radio ads that “thousands of scientists agree that there’s no solid…
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Show of Force vs Law
Reasonable people might be able to disagree on whether 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be granted asylum in the United States or placed in the sole custody…
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Unwisdom From the Academy
A long-awaited report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of recombinant DNA-manipulated plants that was released last month…
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Break up Microsoft? (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: Of course Paul Krugman is right, that, along with the loss of a uniform standard that allows many kinds of software to…