As the Senate debates offshore drilling legislation, senior fellow Dana Gattuso says Americans -- "even with gas prices rising and Chicken Little-like speculations that we're tapping out supplies" -- are not quite ready to quit their oil habit. What's more, ...
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The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold its second hearing in two weeks on the so-called "hockey stick" temperature studies at 2 PM Eastern today. A live feed is promised. The hearing has ...
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The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold its second hearing in two weeks on the so-called "hockey stick" temperature studies at 2 PM Eastern today. A live feed is promised. The hearing has ...
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More on AlterNet's prescription of "Medicare for All" from our senior policy analyst David Hogberg: Continuing my deconstruction of Joshua Holland's AlterNet polemic in favor of single-payer health care, let's now look at administrative costs. Holland claims: People grumble quite ...
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I missed this story about the Nobel Peace Prize winner who told an audience of children that she "would love to kill George Bush." I've come to believe that anyone who wins a major award is best avoided. Awards seem ...
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Looks like global warming isn't the only issue in which folks try to win by muzzling those who disagree. Trudy Schuett writes to say that it also happened regarding the Violence Against Women Act: Global warming isn't the only issue ...
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If the intemperate United Nations response to Israel's defense of its citizens, or U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's off-the-cuff, before-any-investigation charge that Israel deliberately targeted U.N. peacekeepers surprises you, check out a small sample of facts National Center policy analyst ...
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Senior policy analyst David Hogberg takes issue with a health care policy prescription made on the popular leftie website AlterNet: Over at AlterNet, Joshua Holland argues that the way to universal coverage - which he inexplicably supports -- is to ...
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Continuing the followup to my post about climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, global warming, and censorship (which began here): 1) Commenter Wayne Hall on the RealClimate blog suggests that my blog entry about Hansen is so bad, the entire National ...
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I notice that Think Progress is drawing attention to Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK)'s comparison of the public relations effort promoting the global warming theory to Adolf Hitler's "Big Lie." For those unfamiliar with the "Big Lie," Think Progress describes it ...
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