COP-12 Report: Fear From Crime Trumps Fear from Climate Change
Husband David has another report from the COP-12 U.N. global warming conference in Nairobi: The risk from crime is apparently more palpable to environmentalists than the risks of catastrophic climate change from inaction, as thousands of global warming activists stayed away from the COP-12 conference, apparently due to security concerns.Nairobi's ...
The Donald Rumsfeld I Know
Not me, but former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith, writing in the November 12 Washington Post. Gee, the picture Feith paints is nothing like the one we've seen on the news pages ...
Inside the Beltway on Defunding the Mysteriously Anonymous Front Groups
John McCaslin's popular Inside the Beltway column takes a look today at our criticism of Senators Rockefeller and Snowe for calling on ExxonMobil to defund 29 unspecified "Climate Change Denial Front Groups": Burning Rex More reaction to the sharply critical letter that Republican Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine and ...
Environmentalists Run from Their Own Issues
Some environmental groups are claiming House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) lost his bid for re-election because he fought to improve the Endangered Species Act (not that they phrase it that way, but that's what he was doing), and because of his other work on environmental issues. Husband David ...
Don’t Worry, Mr. Minister, It Doesn’t Much Matter
Britain's climate change czar doesn't ride the bus. From Britain's Daily Mail: Environment Secretary David Miliband has been accused of double standards after being forced to admit that while telling motorists to switch to public transport to stop global warming, he never uses the bus in his ministerial travels.Not once ...
COP-12: Surviving the Carbon-Neutral Life
In honor of the Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year, I introduce to you the latest in tools for a carbon neutral lifestyle: the Kyoto Survival Kit. As an accredited United Nations NGO (yep, really), The National Center is distributing these items (go here to see a close-up of ...
COP-12 Report: Environmentalists in Nairobi Issue Dire Predictions of Drought Even as Rain Falls on Conference
Husband David, head of the National Center's NGO delegation to the COP-12 U.N. global warming conference in Nairobi, files his first COP-12 conference report for the blog: We arrived in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday to heavy rains. On Sunday, it rained at Lake Nakuru National Park -- a wildlife park ...
Has Pelosi Seen Murtha’s Abscam Video?
The news that Speaker-presumptive Nancy Pelosi is backing John Murtha for House Majority Leader amazes me, given what is on this FBI undercover video from 1980's Abscam investigation. Of course, there's a very good chance that Nancy Pelosi has never seen the video. According to David Holman at the American ...
Senators Ask ExxonMobil to Cut Funding to 29 Unspecified “Climate Change Denial Front Groups”
Apparently taking a page from Britain's Royal Society (if you missed that controversy, Prometheus has a thoughtful discussion of it here), Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympa Snowe (R-ME) are urging (pdf) ExxonMobil to stop funding organizations and individuals who disagree with Rockefeller and Snowe on global warming. In such ...
Rationing Goods and Services to Fight Global Warming?
The Guardian is running a column by Lucy Mangan today calling for worldwide rationing of consumer goods to combat global warming: You could be forgiven for feeling slightly overwhelmed at the literally planet-sized task ahead of us. I felt the same when I started at WeightWatchers. But do you know ...
British Foreign Secretary Compares Global Warming Theory Skeptics to Islamic Terrorists
The British Foreign Secretary has compared people who disagree with her on global warming to terrorists: ...let us deny the terrorists the historical importance they claim to themselves. They have no right to speak for the great and noble faith of Islam. This is a not a battle between civilisations ...
Another Sign of the Apocalypse
The John Locke Foundation's Locker Room blog cites evidence that continental European nations are finally getting serious about economic competitiveness: They're trying to improve their relative position by getting the EU to pass legislation to force Britons to stop working harder than the continentals do ...
John Hancock, Mid-20th Century Pediatricians at Fault in Enron Scandal
Former Los Angeles Times National Correspondent Robert Scheer, writing in his Creator's Syndicate column, isn't happy that Jeffrey Skilling got sentenced 24 years in prison for the Enron scandal. Scheer's blaming the Bush family for what happened at Enron. Says Scheer: No, I'm not thrilled over Jeffrey Skilling getting 24 ...
Nicaraguan Contras Failed, Despite Winning
From "Nicaragua Balloting Said to Go Smoothly" in the Washington Post Monday edition: But many Nicaraguans long ago lost their taste for [Daniel] Ortega, disillusioned by his government's human rights abuses, confiscation of property and bloody war against insurgents known as the contras, who were trained and funded by the ...
Ortega Returns, and So Does Biased Coverage of Nicaragua in U.S. Media
A Newsday article by Letta Tayler, "Ortega Headed for Stunning Victory in Nicaragua," brings back old times... ...memories of 1980s media bias when it comes to U.S. coverage of Nicaragua. For instance: Fans [of Daniel Ortega] waved a sea of Sandista [sic] flags -- some in the traditional red-and-black stripes ...
If Daniel Ortega Returns in Nicaragua, the Axis of Evil Grows
Sunday is decision day in Nicaragua, where, thanks to generous funding from Venezeula's evil nutcase Hugo Chavez, former Communist dictator and human rights abuser Daniel Ortega, is leading in presidential election polls. If you weren't around in the 80s, or are one of those people who rooted for the U.S ...
An E-Mail from Mom in Pittsburgh
An article e-mailed from Mom in Pittsburgh: TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Some gas station owners in Oklahoma are dropping the Venezuelan state-owned Citgo brand, saying sales have dropped significantly since the Venezuelan president criticized President Bush in a speech last month.The president of Tulsa-based Arkansas Valley, a wholesale distributor which ...
Ted Haggard on the Environment: No Conservative
In light of the recent scandalous allegations regarding evangelical leader Rev. Ted Haggard, many news outlets have been referring to Haggard as a "conservative." Only a small number are mentioning that Haggard also sees himself as a global warming activist -- and definitely not one of the "skeptic" variety. Some ...
Some Call It ‘Mind-Boggling Stupid’; Science Calls it ‘Peer-Reviewed’
The peer-reviewed (pause to geneflect) Science magazine says the world is going to run out of fish. As reported in the Seattle Times: Global fishing trends point to a collapse of most wild seafood harvests by midcentury, according to a team of international researchers who pored through historical data, catch ...
Senator Feingold Responds on Health Care
Senator Russ Feingold has responded to David Hogberg's analysis of Feingold's "State-Based Health Care Reform Act." The Senator's letter and David's response can be found here ...
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