BACKGROUND: The Associated Press ran a global warming story1 this past weekend that makes the following statements: "Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in ... READ MORE
We've got a new Ten Second Response online today, asking the question: Why can't the mainstream press get even basic facts right about global warming? It is in response to an AP story that ran internationally this past weekend that ... READ MORE
I spent this evening completing our family's tax returns. While completing them, I learned to my surprise that union dues are tax-deductible. Unions, however, work on political campaigns. Why should institutions receiving tax-deductible donations be allowed to use the money ... READ MORE
Speaking of union extortion, here's a National Review Online piece by Deroy Murdock explaining how it is that, under federal law and the laws of at least 15 states, unions are allowed to commit violence. Meanwhile, as noted in the ... READ MORE
Sean at the Everything I Know Is Wrong blog recommends a National Review Online piece by Frank Gaffney on the Law of the Sea Treaty. Sean is right to do so. This issue really is a big deal. Twenty years ... READ MORE
BACKGROUND: The Democratic Leadership Council released on March 18 a commentary, "Carbon Flip, Mercury Flop,"1 that may be the best evidence yet that the Bush White House can't get even a speck of fair treatment on environmental issues. The screed ... READ MORE
If Bush genuinely is bad on the environment, why can't the left critique him fairly? I really wonder this, as our new Ten Second Response e-mail alert makes clear. Is the environmental left not really convinced that Bush truly is ... READ MORE
I have a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Providence Journal (free registration required), among other places, today on the outsourcing issue. The outsourcing issue is an interesting one in that it often pits liberals against the notion of job ... READ MORE
We know where NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi DOESN'T shop: Can there be a "three strikes" law to protect our society from those with chronic poor judgment? If one can be passed, please put the executives of Urban Outfitters ... READ MORE
We've got a new edition of What Conservatives Think online today, answering Jesse Jackson's charge that tax cuts for the rich have been the Bush Administration's highest priority ... READ MORE
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