Environment

Prepare for more religious propaganda: The Day After Tomorrow, which opens today, is the New Left’s evangelism with ecology as its religion. Junk science is holy in Hollywood and director Roland Emmerich’s motion picture is the latest example; the press...

Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier after Joseph Stalin, decided in 1955 that the country should celebrate their national political philosophy, communism. He chose as the day, April 22, Vladimir Lenin’s birthday, a tribute to the founder of the Soviet Union. When...

The expressed goal of environmentalism is to prevent man from changing his environment, from intruding on nature. That is why environmentalism is *the enemy of man, the enemy of human life*.

Within a week of each other, two earthquakes struck on opposite sides of the world — an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale in California and a 6.6 earthquake in Iran. But, however similar the earthquakes, the human costs were enormously different. The...

The star of the environmentalist trilogy “Free Willy” movies, Keiko (Japanese for “Lucky One”), the Orca “Killer” Whale, has died in the misguided and costly attempt to put him back into the open oceans. Quoting the Globe and Mail:...

Ross Gelbspan celebrated Earth Day 2003 with publication of his op-ed in the Boston Globe wherein he opines about the damage global warming will inflict upon earth’s ecosystems. True to form, he proposes fixes that will at the same time cure any number of global...

It’s not hard to figure out why Congress has yet to vote to allow exploration for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). It’s the easy way out. You simply declare your love for the environment, your desire that America find some...

That stint on the Democratic Ticket — and the concomitant six months on the road with “Earth in the Balance” author Al Gore — made quite a mark on Senator and presidential aspirant Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.). Since that time he has, among other...

“Socialism is a wonderful idea.” It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Its economic...

Some of the facts, but not all of them.

Politics, they say, is the art of compromise. You give something, I give something. In the end, we wind up with something everyone’s happy with. That’s how worthwhile legislation is forged, right? Yes, usually. But compromise could earn a bad name from the...

The Washington Post reports that a 54 year-old Northern Virginia woman died this Sunday after being infected with the West Nile virus. The woman was Virginia’s first death from the mosquito-borne illness. To date, the Centers for Disease Control reports over...

The race for governor of California has played like a choice between the lesser of two evils. But there are several reasons why Bill Simon, Jr. — whatever his flaws — will do less harm to California. Ruled by the liberal dogma of his most ardent...

“I just might walk up to the nearest white man and say, ‘You don’t understand this, this is a black thing,’ and slap ’em, just for my mental health. . . . If they don’t pay us reparations now, we’re talking about scorched...

So the Antarctic is cooling after all. Years of news reports claimed that it was warming, and that gigantic icebergs would calve off and melt, turning New York’s Central Park into a pond. But the boy who cried “wolf” cried once too often. It turns...

Renewable sources of energy are greatly misunderstood in public debate. One misunderstanding is the idea that having more renewables supply our energy needs in the next decade or two is necessarily a public good. A second mistaken notion is that renewable energy...

The campaign to stampede the federal government into drastic action to counter “global warming” has never let honesty cramp its style. The most recent ploy has been the release of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency which concluded that human...

When former Vice President Al Gore takes pen to paper – or computer to email – he seemingly can’t avoid engaging in hyperbole. Thus, it is no surprise the man who wrote that we live in “a dysfunctional civilization” in Earth in the...

The Senate has just voted against opening up the Alaska ANWR site for drilling. Technically, what happened is that the Republicans were unable to vote to end the Democrats’ filibuster against the drilling, but the news services agree that since the Republicans...

If the welfare of human life was the standard by which we judged industry and technology, there would be no reason to have a day like “Earth Day.” Rather than the environmentalists parading their assault on anything and everything that is a mark of human...

Is science necessary anymore for defining and solving true environmental problems? President Bush’s plan to semi-combat carbon dioxide is unworthy of his principled stand taken last year against the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to limit emissions...

It was ten years ago this spring that President George H.W. Bush took a step that began a slide down the long path toward energy rationing. It was barely ten days ago that his son, President George W. Bush, took an equally large stride in that unfortunate direction....