Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Are Starlings Chirping ? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, One of the advantages to being observant is knowing the difference between imagination and reality. My ears no longer function as they did in my youth. When the room should be quiet I hear Starlings chirping, lots of them; a cacophony of sound which never leaves. I suppose others hearing a similar noise would suspect a fan belt [...]
Greenwashing America
By Alan Caruba Every time you see some product being sold as “Green”, allegedly safer or beneficial for the environment, you can be sure that it is more expensive than a comparable product that does the same thing without making this claim. Everything you eat, drink, wear or use begins as a “natural” product. It is absurd to think that [...]
Can Government Save Us From Manmade Disasters?
By James L. Payne Please, folks, can’t we have a little more sophistication about what it takes to prevent environmental disasters? The politicians seem to be stuck on the idea that more government is the solution, and many journalists echo the theme. In discussing the BP spill and several other manmade environmental disasters last summer, [...]
Grateful for Thick Gloves — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, This past weekend was General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church, gave a talk on Sunday about gratitude . After reminding us of the lepers who’d been healed by the Lord, only one of whom expressed gratitude, President Monson continued: “My brothers and [...]
Global Warming Editorial Gets It Wrong
By Alan Caruba It’s rare to come across a newspaper editorial in which virtually every assertion is false, but is absurdly titled “Face Facts.” Since 1988 the movement behind the global warming fraud has labored long and hard to mislead the citizens of the world to believe what is surely the greatest "science" hoax ever [...]
Two Crazy Greens
By Alan Caruba For a few hours on Wednesday the nation’s attention was on James J. Lee who took hostages at the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. Negotiations failed to sway him from his mission or free his hostages. Lee was a Green zealot and police were left with no alternative than to shoot Lee [...]
Carbon Dioxide Riches Disappear
By Alan Caruba The headlines report the way the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been lying and some, myself included, are calling for an end to this snakes’ nest of global deception. I keep waiting for some environmental group to announce that the Earth is running out of oxygen. It’s the kind of huge lie that [...]
Red Flag Warning EPA Ammunition Ban — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There is yet another assault on an individual’s God given right to bear arms; this one coming from of all places, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). First let me give a tip of the hat to Say Uncle and by extension the National Shooting Sports Foundation where I first learned of an underhanded attempt to ban traditional [...]
Big Green Lies Are Imploding
By Alan Caruba As World War Two wound down, in 1945 Italian partisans found Benito Mussolini and his girlfriend trying to flee to Switzerland. They shot both of them and then hung them by their heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan. He had led the National Fascist Party and had been the 40th prime minister from 1922 until being deposed, jailed, and [...]
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 [...]
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 exist [...]
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 point [...]
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 opponents [...]
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 online [...]
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 34-year-old [...]
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 the [...]
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 already [...]
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 program, [...]
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 by [...]
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 who [...]
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 new [...]
