When Al Gore was vice president, I don't recall him ever saying that payroll taxes amount to "penalizing employment," as he now says: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Monday suggested taxing carbon dioxide emissions ... READ MORE
How many of the warmest months recorded over the last 300 years (central England data) took place during the Little Ice Age (which ended, roughly, in the mid-1800s)? A. Zero -- all the warmest months were recorded after 1880 B ... READ MORE
From an ABC News story about the book-hyping activities of a past governor of New Jersey: [Former New Jersey Governor James] McGreevey now says his first encounter with [future alleged blackmailer Golan] Cipel, which occurred while McGreevey's wife was recovering ... READ MORE
I have joined over 3,000 other bloggers to support the 2,996 Project, an project conceived and carried out by D. Challener Roe in memory of the 2,996 of our fellow Americans and friends who were murdered by terrorists five years ... READ MORE
Two days after he and his wife celebrated their first wedding anniversary, and seven weeks before the birth of his first child, James Matthew Patrick was on the 105th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center. His wedding ... READ MORE
A Bloomberg story describing how Hirohito's newborn great-grandson will be under great pressure to produce male offspring has this xenophobic moment: Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma said at a rally in February that 'if Aiko becomes the reigning empress, and ... READ MORE
Deroy Murdock covered the perils of socialized medicine in one of his recent Scripps-Howard columns: A national health-care system may be the Holy Grail of American liberalism... Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research sees this model ... READ MORE
Washington, D.C. - Calls by some federal lawmakers to add burdensome new regulations to quarantine, to control or to kill so-called 'invasive species' are of dubious environmental value and represent a real threat to property owners, says a new report ... READ MORE
Regarding this rumor, as reported by Time's Mike Allen... Bush's aides maintain that they're in no funk either. Previewing the final quarter of Bush's presidency, officials disclosed to Time that the Administration is formulating a huge energy initiative designed to ... READ MORE
In an effort to fight global warming, California cites water vapor as a "pollutant." Hat tip: Greenie Watch ... READ MORE
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