Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Will Green Policies Bankrupt America?
By Phyllis Schlafly You may have heard that environmental policies are camouflage for raising taxes and seizing political power. Christopher Horner presents the research to prove this in his new book called Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. Horner provides a relentless series of facts that [...]
Major Newspapers Urge an End to Ethanol Subsidy
By Alan Caruba On Friday, July 23, the Chicago Tribune published an editorial titled “Enough Ethanol” and on Saturday, July 24, The Washington Post editorial said, “It’s time to end the excessive subsidies for corn ethanol.” On Monday, July 26, The Wall Street Journal joined the chorus. “The best refutation of the theory of [...]
The Union of Concerned Propagandists
By Alan Caruba On July 11, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced that it had launched “a national advertising campaign as part of a broader effort to showcase the dedication and personal histories of scientists studying climate change.” I know quite a few climatologists and meteorologists and the ones I know have been [...]
Fool Me Once, But No More
By Alan Caruba My commentary on the lies about bisphenol A (BPA) that have led to several states banning it without a shred of scientific evidence generated a lot of feedback; enough to revisit the topic because it symbolizes the way Americans and others around the world are under assault from the environmental and consumer groups that [...]
When Bad Science Makes Bad Laws — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba You may have noticed that the mainstream media has virtually dropped “global warming” as a topic worth reporting. That can be traced to “Climategate”, the November 2009 leak of emails that revealed the global hoax perpetrated on us by a small group of scientists who had been generating false information about the [...]
Journalistic Credibility — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Something caught my attention while browsing news articles on the internet this morning, a story explaining why CNN got rid of a journalist who’d been with them for 20 years because she wrote something on Twitter which was politically incorrect, something which might put her work ethic in a bad light. Imagine that; CNN’s [...]
Obama’s Panel is Biased — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster in the Gulf has been headlining the news for nearly two months. You might recall an advisory report submitted by oil industry specialists a couple of weeks ago, a report which was altered after it had been signed by the experts . Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put a moratorium on [...]
The Emperor’s New Clothes — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Some lessons in life never seem to sink in, especially political lessons. Take the young boy who didn’t know Politically Correct policy on the King’s clothiers. While the King was parading around in his “altogether”, pleased at the workmanship and finery which had been created out of nothing, nobody had the courage to [...]
Crisis Abuse 101 — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I have to hand it to the Obama administration for being able to work their agenda forward through the use of immediacy and crisis intervention. Each new crisis takes our nation further from its foundations of free enterprise and individual liberty; all for the sake of saving what’s left, if you believe what they’re dishing [...]
Do You Really Want Government Drilling for Oil?
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Sheldon Richman You’ve got to hand it to the people who really dislike free markets. They see markets everywhere, and especially wherever any serious problem arises. That no free market exists within a thousand miles makes no difference whatsoever. Take the oil spill in the Gulf. The market [...]
Conservative’s Wishful Thinking — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba One of the themes running through conservative forums and blogs these days is the question of just when Barack Obama will resign from the presidency. Secondarily, the concern is that he would do this before or after the November midterm elections, thus leaving the nation in the hands of Joe Biden, a longtime Washington [...]
Are Americans Addicted to Oil?
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, William L. Anderson American political classes tell us we are addicted to oil. Whether such admonishments came from former President George W. Bush or the present administration, Americans are admonished to break the oil habit and use alternative fuels meeting Washington’s approval. An [...]
Destroying America One Environmental Law at a Time — Caruba
By Alan Caruba While America maintains the greatest military power in the history of mankind, fearful of another terrorist attack on its soil, it is being destroyed from within by the relentless imposition of laws that defy science and common sense. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has introduced legislation to “reform” the [...]
Our Warrior Class, and Several American Wars
By Alan Caruba I come from a generation, just as several before it, that was drafted into military service. The Draft, conscription, goes back to the days of the Civil War and, before that, it was understood that able-bodied men would serve in militias. After the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, many American men lined up around [...]
More on Obama’s Healthcare “Army”
"Page 496, section 5210 (Healthcare Act) calls for the establishment of a "Ready Reserve Corps", Commissioned officers to be appointed by the President, and this army can be called out by the Surgeon General. Does Congress not understand that the Surgeon General is not a real general, and should not be commanding an army?" -- Sean Linnane, [...]
Drill Here, Drill Now, Despite Obamas Lies
By Alan Caruba The Obama administration announcement that it intends to lift the ban on offshore exploration and drilling came as a big surprise, albeit a welcome one. In an early March editorial The Washington Times noted that, “Within a month of taking office in 2009, Mr. Salazar (Secretary of the Interior) froze drilling leases [...]
Destroying America with the EPA’s Carbon Lies
By Alan Caruba Lisa Jackson, Obama’s EPA director, has just announced the agency’s new auto regulations of gas mileage based on global warming. In addition, the agency asserts the right to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions under the Clean Air Act. There is absolutely no scientific justification for this and, indeed, many [...]
Govt. Energy Star Program a Farce
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The federal agency recently swayed by the industry it regulates to conceal a hazardous chemical has been duped into labeling bogus products as greenhouse emissions-decreasing energy savers that qualify for government rebates. This certainly indicates that Uncle Sam’s highly-touted Energy Star [...]
The Next Enemy of the State is Energy — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Despite a significant majority of Americans who opposed the healthcare bill, despite protests heard by members of Congress starting in the summer of 2009, despite a huge protest rally in Washington, D.C. in September, despite having the phones and faxes of Congress jammed with protests, the bill passed the House on March 21 [...]
Remember Johnny Appleseed — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer 70-years-old, he visited his friend William Worth one evening, ate some milk and bread, read out loud from the Bible, laid down on the floor to sleep and never woke up. This was how John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, died on MARCH 18, 1845. Johnny Appleseed's father, Nathaniel, was a Minuteman [...]
Global Warming A New Religion — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly At the close of the climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, made some very important statements. Here's what he said (and I'm quoting): "I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not a matter of temperature. Global warming is a [...]
Glaciers Are Growing, Not Melting: More Falsehoods From Al Gore — Robert W. Felix
Guest Editorial, Robert Felix "Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising," said Al Gore -in an op-ed piece in the New York Times on February 27. Both parts of Gore's statement are false. Never mind that Mr. Gore makes only passing reference to the IPCC's fraudulent claims that the Himalayan [...]
Blowing Wind Up Your Skirt — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba One of the keystones of the Obama administration’s energy policies has been a very expensive emphasis on “clean energy”, sometimes called “renewable energy”, allocating billions to the wind and solar energy producers. Like much of the “stimulus” bill that money is a waste. The wind power trade group, the [...]
2001-2010 Snowiest Decade on Record — Alan Caruba
by Alan Caruba News you will NOT find in the mainstream press was posted March 2nd on Watt's Up With That, a blog that is an excellent source of climate news and views. Steven Goddard reported "Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University Global Snow Lab numbers (1967-2010) show that [...]
Energy Suicide — Unplugging America — Alan Caruba
Free Enterprise Zone, Alan Caruba What was that most homeowners and apartment dwellers most feared in the recent record-breaking blizzard that hit the northeast? The answer is losing electricity and that is why the news of the event was always filled with reports of what towns had lost electricity due to downed tree limbs. This was followed [...]
A Lot of Hooey — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Al Gore is at it again, ranting and raving in the pages of the New York Times, America's equivalent of the Soviet era's propaganda vehicle Pravda. Despite winters of increasing severity and the recent disclosures of outright trickery by the avatars of the global [...]
Time to Turn Up the Heat On the Warmists — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke At one time some would call them “deniers.” The more generous called them “skeptics.” But now, increasingly, it appears that they can be called something else: sane. Yes, the climate has certainly changed. Even in the mainstream media, the less liberal organs are waking up. There is now a never-ending barrage of [...]
The Multi-Billion Dollar Global Warming Fraud — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba As the massive global warming fraud implodes, the one aspect of it that has not been explored in depth is the equally massive waste of billions of dollars spent by the United States and nations around the world, we were told, to avoid global warming. Whole industries such as automobile manufacture had demands and limits put [...]
The Yucca Mountain Blues — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Are you worried about your “carbon footprint”? Still think “global warming” is real despite the fact that one of its leading advocates, a climatologist, recently said that there’s no significant data to demonstrate any warming since 1995? Can’t figure out why the White House is still trying desperately to pass [...]
Where the Jobs Are — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Everyone agrees that we should reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Everyone agrees that we need to increase American jobs. Everyone, except perhaps the President and his minions in the majority, agrees that the government cannot afford to subsidize either of these goals. Both of these goals can be achieved quite easily [...]
