Year: 2007

Regarding Jacques Chirac’s Kyoto Tax: A Counterproposal

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Jacques Chirac of France has proposed a Kyoto tax, specifically, an import tax against the U.S. and other nations shunning the Kyoto global warming agreement and its successor treaty, the soon-to-be-negotiated Kyoto II: This Time We Mean It (Wink Wink) ...

Global Warming Scaredy Cats III

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From Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, last year: I sat in a roomful of journalists 10 years ago while Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider lectured us on a big problem in our profession: soliciting opposing points of view. In the debate ...

We’ve Got Political Leaders Who Rely on Blacks Being Slaves and Underdogs, Says Project 21’s Reginald Jones

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Project 21 member Reginald Jones spoke frankly about Black History Month at a speech at Ohio University earlier this week. As reported by the Athens News (excerpted): Black conservative activist Reginald Jones discussed his controversial view of Black History Month, ...

An Apology for Slavery is Redundant, Says Project 21’s Mychal Massie

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As quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie says an apology for slavery -- presently under consideration in the Virginia legislature -- is redundant: "Not every black person in this country is a descendent of slaves ...

Ronald Reagan’s Birthday Party

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David Almasi and his wife Nancy had a birthday party for Ronald Reagan this week. They've shared a picture of the cake. Here's something we wrote in commemoration of Reagan's birthday in 2005. I particularly draw your attention to this ...

Wal-Mart Calling for Socialized Medicine?

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Hard to tell, since the statement their executives apparently agreed to is meaningless pap, but the presence of the Center for American Progress and some ardently left-wing labor unions at an event calling for universal access to health coverage hardly ...

“I Was Shocked at the Ignorance and Rudeness of the Members of Congress”

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Joe Roche attended Rep. Henry Waxman's hearing on private military contractors on February 7. He wasn't very impressed -- with Rep. Waxman and his colleagues, that is. Dear Amy,The House Governmental Reform Committee hearings, led by Rep. Henry Waxman, are ...

Gay Marriage Activists Seek to Put the Government in Bedrooms

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The folks who try to argue that traditional marriage can't be harmed by the gay rights agenda might want to tell these folks to put a sock in it. Trying to get a law passed to forcibly annul marriages if ...

Environmentalists are Hypocrites

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Environmentalists scream bloody murder when the Administration involves itself in the preparation of government science-related press materials and reports, mistakenly screaming "censorship" when government scientists are required to follow even the most benign procedures. On the other hand... Environmentalists also ...

Kennedy Mum on Chavez?

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Now that several days have passed since Venezuela's "legislature" gave Hugo Chavez a dictator's powers, I thought I'd visit the website of his American buddy, former Congressman and Citizens Energy Corp CEO Joseph P. Kennedy II, to see if Kennedy ...

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