As the U.S. Senate takes up climate change legislation, following the House’s narrow passage of the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill to curb, regulate, and tax fossil fuel production, renewable energy will take center stage while abundant and affordable oil ...
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Miguel Cervantes created one of the most memorable characters of literature with Don Quixote, a delusional old man who jousted with windmills he thought were giants. Now the Obama Administration is quixotically raising its lances against another hypothetical menace: fossil ...
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With President Obama and his allies in Congress pushing for a cap-and-trade regulatory policy to reduce greenhouse gases, the future of American energy is at a crossroads — and the creation of an economic “Green Bubble” may be in the ...
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The Senate recently confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, but it needn’t have bothered.  The Obama Administration apparently believes Supreme Courts can be ignored. Following the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from office, ...
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During the Cash for Clunkers program, GM sales dropped 20 percent vs. last year's and Chrysler's dropped 15 percent. Ford sales increased 17 percent. The reason -- aside from the fact that people don't want to buy from Government Motors ...
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According to its website, the National Legal and Policy Center"has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from ...
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If you followed with interest our articles from August (here and here) about how the U.S. Postal Service has been rationing stamps, you may want to check out Meredith Jessup's followup to it on the TownHall.com blog, and the comments ...
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On the way in to work this morning, I saw a vehicle with a bumper sticker "Buy Fresh, Buy Local" and various other green bumper stickers. Presumably, the point was that by buying local, you avoid extra greenhouse emissions from ...
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David Ridenour shares his appreciation of a recent Mark Steyn column: This comes from Mark Steyn in the latest edition of Hillsdale's Imprimis. Steyn describes how, in order to ensure that Muslims aren't offended, local British councils are banning workers ...
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Ron Bailey of Reason magazine takes a look at Congress' flawed Clean Water Restoration Act, quoting from this National Center paper by Peyton Knight ...
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