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Unhappy Birthday
This week marks the first anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol's coming into force. It's an unhappy birthday. The one-year-old has been badly treated by…
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Beware False Profits
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,…
The American Spectator
What Are Op-Eds For?
Ever since the Cato Institute fired syndicated columnist Doug Bandow over the revelation that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had asked and paid him to…
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I’m Proud to Be a Coal Miner’s Grandson
To hear Senators Byrd and Rockefeller speak, one would think that the coal mining industry in this country is one of the major sources…
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No Future in Kyoto Dreaming
In 1977, the punk rock band the Sex Pistols shocked England with their nihilist anthem “God Save the Queen,” where they declared there was “No…
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PETA: Cruel and Unusual
The FBI recently declared environmental and animal rights extremism its top domestic terrorism priority. The bureau is currently investigating over 150 cases of…
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Cruel and Unusual: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
On January 9, two employees of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will appear in court to answer felony…
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Caveat Emptor: No, Really
One of the oldest maxims in commerce is caveat emptor: let the buyer beware. Sadly, this is often interpreted as a condemnation of businessmen, a…
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Climate Policy Needs a Stern Review
Tony Blair's admission that any international climate change treaty to follow <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Kyoto is unlikely to be based on the same model…
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Do-It-Yourself Legislation
The aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita have proved a massive breeding ground for what former OECD Chief Economist David Henderson has termed…
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Between the stacks – Google book engine needs ingenuity
What bookworm doesn’t love the idea of Google’s new project, Google Library? The ability to search the entire contents of the world’s greatest libraries online…
Ideas in Action
LordD have MerCIe Vpon Vs
In some places in London, you can find scratched on old walls the imprecation, LorD haVe MerCIe Vpon Vs. The curious arrangement of the capital…
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Gouging? No Such Thing
For various reasons, I took a lot of trips to the local hardware store on Sunday. On my route there were two gas…
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How Government Can Help: By Getting Out of the Way
When the initial rescue efforts wind down in the ravaged <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Gulf Coast area, the much longer…
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The New Face of Organized Labor
Any student of socialism will recognize that organized labor and leftist politics have marched hand in hand since their inception. Early labor union organizers saw their…
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Questioning the Authority of Scientific Journals
A Tufts University School of Medicine reporter has realized that a pretty large amount of scientific findings are, well, wrong. This work…
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Nationalizing Science
It seems as if you can’t turn anywhere without hearing that industry is destroying science these days. Former editors of the New England Journal of…
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Spaceship Earth: An Astronaut is up above the Clouds
Astronaut Eileen Collins is concerned about the environmental degradation she sees from space. On board the fragile spaceship Discovery, she lamented from her unique…
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PETA’s Cruelty to Humans and Animals
THE FBI recently declared environmental and animal rights extremism its top domestic terrorism priority. The bureau is currently investigating over 150 cases of…
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Don’t Throw Money at Overheated Issue, by Iain Murray
The suggestion that <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. senators are considering inflicting severe damage on the U.S. economy to mitigate…
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Bureaucrats Can’t Run A Railroad
Given its recent troubles, Amtrak's flagship Northeast corridor high-speed Acela train might as well be renamed “Decela.” Amtrak officials suspended the service and acknowledged that…
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Bureaucrats Can’t Run A Railroad
Given its recent troubles, Amtrak's flagship Northeast corridor high-speed Acela train might as well be renamed “Decela.” Amtrak officials suspended the service and acknowledged that…
Ideas in Action
Short Term Memory (Letter to the Editor)
An unwitting yet hideous ex ample of the politically correct, can’t-we-move-on short memories of the elites exposed in Tony Blankley’s spot-on analysis “Short memories, politically…
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Chirac vs. the Anglosphere: At the G8 Summit, Chirac will again beat a dead horse, by Iain Murray
When French voters rejected the draft European Union constitution drawn up by former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, his successor Jacques Chirac reverted…
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Spice Up G8 with No Regrets, by Iain Murray
The suggestion that the Spice Girls are about to re-form may not seem like major international development news, but the upcoming Live 8…
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A Congressional Waste of Energy, by Iain Murray
If it seems it has been a long time since Congress embarked upon comprehensive energy legislation, that’s because it has. It was early in President…
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Surrender Monkeys in the Senate: Senate Republicans follow the French president’s lead on global warming, by Iain Murray
When British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced to the world that he was going to make global warming a focus of his G8 chairmanship,…
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Privatize Amtrak the Right Way, Avoiding Pitfalls of British Experience, by Iain Murray
WASHINGTON – Given its recent troubles, Amtrak’s flagship Northeast corridor high-speed Acela train might as well be renamed “Decela.” Amtrak officials suspended the service and…
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The Pickett’s Charge of Climate Alarmism
The release on June 8 of a statement signed by 11 separate national science Academies on global warming represents the Pickett's charge of…
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Unbearable Legislation
The decision by the Secretary of the Interior to list the polar bear as “threatened” removes all doubt that the Endangered Species Act…
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Europe Adds Headache to Blair’s Post-Election Hangover
When Tony Blair was reelected British Prime Minister last Thursday, he was entitled to a celebratory glass of champagne. Despite all the sound…
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Quaky Nutritionists Cross the Line
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine recently celebrated its 20th birthday at a star-studded gala (and vegan dinner) attended by Alec Baldwin, Alicia…
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Hybrid Hubris?
<?xml:namespace prefix = u1 />The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Commonwealth of Virginia is faced with an unpleasant problem with its…
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Nation Descends into Mercury Madness
Mercury is all over the news these days, which is appropriate for an element named after the messenger of the gods. At some Maryland high…
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Science Goes Tabloid: In scientific journals, if it bleeds, it leads
In the United Kingdom, most of the respected broadsheet newspapers have cut costs and increased circulation by adding a tabloid edition. Some argue that…
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Kyoto Protocol Simply Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which comes into force this week, represents a massive act of folly by many of the…
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New Agenda Fails to Address Problems
George Bernard Shaw once observed that: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the…
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The Bill That Wouldn’t Die
You may hear the creak of a coffin-lid today as the alarmists' favorite domestic energy suppression measure rises from the grave. This particularly…
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Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Letter to the Editor)
Sir, Anatole Kaletsky (Comment, January 27) suggests that Tony Blair’s agreement to support the US in Iraq should have been made conditional on American support…
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Consensus, Truisms and Straw Men
In a recent op-ed published in the Washington Post, science historian Naomi Oreskes, elaborating on her essay for Science magazine, argued…
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Science Fiction: Michael Crichton Takes a Novel Approach to Global Warming Alarmism
Michael Crichton's new blockbuster novel, State of Fear, begins with sex, violence, and oceanography. It's that sort of book all the way through,…
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Coal Is The New Gold
A report in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United States has found that coal is becoming ever more important as…
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It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid: Amtrak, derailed
The news that the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General is deeply concerned about the dangerous state of Amtrak’s railroad infrastructure should come as…
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Abusive Behavior
Recent months have seen some regrettable lapses by prestigious scientific journals. Some highly questionable claims have been made, but have been published anyway.
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Margaret Thatcher: A Free Market Environmentalist
Full document available in pdf format <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Tracy Mehan’s account of Margaret…
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Cooling Blair’s Climate Crusade
Tony Blair is, in a way, as polarizing a figure in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United Kingdom as President…
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Science Loses Some Friends
The scientific world lost three important figures in recent weeks, as Francis Crick, Thomas Gold and Philip Abelson have all passed away. In…
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Ford Motor Plans for Energy-Poor Future
According to The New York Times (Oct. 4), “Ford's goal, according to its own internal projections, would require an improvement of about 80…
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The One Percent Solution
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Many of the scientific papers that have contributed to global warming alarmism over…
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Missing in Action
In a <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />US election campaign that has seen the presidential candidates attack each other with great…