In a recent fascinating Fox news segment, the erudite host Stuart Varney interviewed Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, the influential and once-responsible environmental group that’s become an organ of left-wing extremism. Moore quit the organization when, he said, “Greenpeace was hijacked by social and political activists.” He talked with Varney for 10 minutes about [...]
This is a quick update to this morning’s post, Runaway Trains, about the administration’s high-speed rail boondoggle. Rasmussen Reports, the national polling organization, reported today on their survey of public opinion on high-speed rail: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that, overall, 41% of Likely Voters favor the plan and 46% are opposed. [...]
Two excellent opinion pieces were published Monday on the administration's high-speed rail boondoggle. One was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal: We suppose every President is entitled to a pipedream, but President Obama's vow in his State of the Union address that 80% of Americans should have access to high-speed rail in 25 years [...]
Incredibly, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided that its mandate to prevent oil from contaminating the environment extends to the oil in milk. Dr. Thomas Sowell tells the story about the outrageous new regulations in his Tuesday column: (A)ny power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose…. (T)he [...]
Kimberley A. Strassel, the astute columnist for the Wall Street Journal, wrote a revealing piece on Friday titled “Cap and Trade Returns From the Grave.” She points out that Obama, in his State of the Union address, made it appear that he was moving to the middle on energy and environmental policies. Her reaction: Snort. [...]
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial showing that we must keep pressuring the House—even Republicans—to do the right thing on spending. When congress has cut spending, say by killing an earmark, it’s been their practice simply to put that money back in the spending pot. So they got the headlines for “saving” money but [...]
In his syndicated column today, Tony Blankley points out the continuing importance of individual resolve and collective action--the basis of the Tea Party--to save our government. He notes that "Political calculations are being made from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania Avenue to K St. intended to perpetuate the destructive governmental trends of the last years." He concludes [...]
John Fund, the astute Wall Street Journal columnist, wrote an excellent piece on the FCC's misleadingly named "net neutrality" action yesterday, which is the administration's first step in taking over the internet. According to Fund: The Federal Communications Commission's new "net neutrality" rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for [...]
As I write this, I’m inspired by an unusual rock that sits on the desk beside my computer. It’s unusual in two ways. One, it looks like a chunk of wood, with clear layers formed by tree rings, and in fact it’s from a petrified tropical tree. Two, the tree grew near the south pole [...]
Victor Davis Hanson, the conservative professor-farmer-writer, recently traveled around the agricultural area of California where he lives and wrote a powerful essay about what he saw and experienced. His descriptions remind me of a scene in one of the "Back to the Future" movies where America's cities have degenerated into vast slums. He concluded that [...]
On August 7, 2009, during the debate over the health care bill, Sarah Palin, then the Republican’s vice-presidential candidate, used the phrase “death panel” for the first time to describe Obamacare’s health-care rationing boards. She wrote the words in this paragraph on her Facebook page: The Democrats promise that a government health care system will [...]
In an astonishing interview published in German last week but little noticed outside the conservative blogosphere, a leader of the UN climate change group admitted "[W]e redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy....One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do [...]
