Kyoto Costs Examined, Succinctly
Americans on opposite sides of the issue address the question of projected costs of ratifying the Kyoto Treaty: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1998: Recently [a Republican Congressman] claimed that complying with the Kyoto Protocol would increase the prices of consumer goods by more than 50 percent and the price of ...
Project 21 Press Release: Demand for Social Security Nomination Nullification Exposes Liberal Intolerance of Reform; Project 21 Fellow Deneen Moore Cites the Need for a Wide-Ranging Examination of Ways to Save Seniors’ Financial Safety Net
A demand from the liberal National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare for the incoming Senate leadership to reject the nomination of a proponent of Social Security privatization indicates that liberals are unwilling to consider all possible ways to save our nation's failing retirement security infrastructure, notes Project 21 ...
Post and Olbermann v. NSTA: In Good Journalism, Fact-Checking Is Everything
The National Science Teachers Association has now officially responded to Laurie David's Washington Post op-ed (see Noel Sheppard's Newsbusters post on the op-ed here) essentially accusing the group of being captive to corporate interests when it declined a gift of 50,000 "An Inconvenient Truth" DVDs for distribution to classrooms. It ...
Stealing: Not OK — Even at Work
We're equal opportunity critics here at the National Center. I critique MSNBC; husband David provides similarly constructive advice to Fox. To that end, I reproduce a letter David sent today to John Gibson, host of The Big Story on the Fox News Channel: John,Your story criticizing YouTube for carrying videos ...
On Social Security, Liberals Seek Censorship by Unemployment
Project 21 Fellow Deneen Moore is noting that efforts by the liberal National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and its allies to block President Bush's appointment of Andrew Biggs as deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration is an attempt at censorship through unemployment. Moore says, "All ideas ...
When It Comes to Hurricanes and Global Warming, Rhetoric Was the Only Thing that Grew in Intensity in 2006
Husband David has a few things to say about Al Gore and the end of the 2006 hurricane season: Inaccurate 2006 Hurricane Forecast Should Remind Americans that Climatology is an Uncertain Science - and Political Science, Even More SoWashington, D.C. - As the 2006 hurricane season comes to a close, ...
Forbes: Can Corporations Save The World?
As noted by Forbes magazine, National Center Senior Fellow Tom Borelli says there is a link -- and not the kind folks like -- between corporations that put resources into appeasing the PC police (my description, not his) and the corporation's performance on matters of greater significance. Tom cites BP ...
Congress May Be a Lame Duck, But National Heritage Area Proposal Still Lives
We're told Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) is going to try to get his National Heritage Area legislation through Congress during the lame duck session. We worry that the National Heritage Area plan could harm property rights and inappropriately increase federal involvement in land-use decisions that up to now have been ...
Dead Father of Two
I wish the news media would stop prominently referring to Sean Bell, the man killed in a Saturday confrontation with police in Queens, as a "groom." Sean Bell and the lady he planned to marry already had two children together. In every meaningful secular sense, they were married already. If ...
An Inconvenient Truth in the Classroom: Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” Declined to Distribute Gore’s Movie to Teachers
With the final line "Linda Froschauer, president of the National Science Teachers Association, available at the right price," Keith Olbermann of MSNBC Monday named Froschauer "worst person in the world." How did Ms. Froschauer get labeled a policy prostitute on MSNBC? The organization she heads declined a donation of 50,000 ...
Global Warming Consensus: Folks Who Believe There is One Can’t Tell you What It Is
From page one of today's (Nov. 25) Washington Post, an article by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin that begins with a reference to "the scientific consensus about climate change" as if the "consensus" were an established fact: While the political debate over global warming continues, top executives at many of ...
Perhaps a Coincidence
Interesting: British police are investigating the alleged poisoning of a former Russian secret policeman, who had been granted asylum in London.......Mr Litvinenko is a known critic of the Putin regime. It is thought he had been investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed in Moscow last ...
Everyone’s a Skeptic: Sir Nicholas Stern Concedes Uncertainties
More from David Ridenour at COP-12 in Nairobi: Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the much-publicized "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change," conceded that uncertainties remain on both the science and economics of climate change in an afternoon presentation here at the U.N. Global warming conference.Stern began his presentation ...
COP-12 Report: U.S. Climate Policy Puts Action Over Image
From David at COP-12 in Nairobi: Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. State Department hosted a briefing at the U.N. global warming conference entitled "Focused on Africa: U.S. Partnerships on Energy, Clean Development and Climate Change" that sent conflicting signals on where the U.S. stands on climate change.While describing a U.S. Agency ...
Climate Change Press Conference: The Atmosphere is Complex; Media Coverage, Not
Most press and blog coverage of the press conference sponsored by Senator James Inhofe today on the COP-12 climate change meeting in Nairobi seem to be focusing on the Senator's remarks. Our Ryan Balis attended. His write-up includes the remarks of the other speakers -- the scientists: Today on Capitol ...
Senators and Theft
The Chicago Sun-Times has published husband David's statement criticizing Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) for asking ExxonMobil to stop funding 29 "climate change denial front groups" to which, the Senators claim, ExxonMobil was "the primary funder" in 2004. (The actual names of the groups were not disclosed ...
Sell the Tiger to Save It Conference
Ryan Balis attended the Competitive Enterprise Institute's "Sell the Tiger to Save It: A Private Conservation Proposal" conference today, and has filed a report for the blog: How can private property rights, free markets and market incentives be used to save tigers? This was the topic of a spirited debate, ...
Kofi Annan Apparently Uncertain About Global Warming
Another report from David Ridenour at the COP-12 U.N. global warming conference in Nairobi: There are signs that even Secretary General Kofi Annan may have some doubts about the certainty of global warming.This morning he delivered a fiery speech at the U.N. Conference on global warming in Nairobi (known as ...
Peer-Reviewed?
Rajendra K. Pachauri, the head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says of those who disagree either that mankind is causing potentially catastophic global warming and/or with the big-government solutions proposed by global warming theory advocates: The shrillness of these skeptics and their numbers have been on the ...
Tidbits from Blogs I Read Often
Bizzyblog, citing Willisms, notes that the top ten percent of taxpayers are paying 65.7 percent of the personal federal income tax paid since Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts; before Bush's tax cuts, they paid 63.6 percent. (By the way, having $111,528 or more as the bottom line on your ...
The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.