In case you haven't heard, Obama's FCC has passed new rules requiring private companies who provide Internet services to submit to control under the government. What will government's rules be? Those are yet to be determined. But the government alone will decide what...
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Religion Turns Green
It's remarkable how you can do more and more things online. Paying bills, for example, can be "paperless." With the stroke of a few computer keys, you can pay all your bills without the use of mail, paper or pens. The self-consciously "green" love to brag about how...
Natural Resources and the Environment
The notion that production and economic activity are harmful to the environment rests on the abandonment of man and his life as the source of value in the world.
BP Oil Spill: Private Property is the Solution
For this article, let me be brief about the following facts, which are oil and water under the bridge. BP’s off-shore oil leases, like all off-shore oil leases, are leases to use federal property. (Hat tip to this article in The Freeman.) The land and water are...
A Free Market in Water
Houston–where I live–has been under a severe drought. This year, we have received about one-third of our normal rainfall. In response, the city has enacted water rationing and citizens will be fined if they violate the restrictions. At the same time, the city reports...
Moratorium One of Many Obama Oil Spill Mistakes
he order by a federal district court in Louisiana overturning President Obama’s six-month general moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico illustrates many of the mistakes the administration has made in handling this environmental disaster. ...
No Defense of Deficits: Beware Dr. James Galbraith's Snake Oil
As the Greek welfare state collapses, citizens there have been rioting over cutbacks in social spending necessitated by mounting government debt. The rioters apparently fail to recognize that whenever a government routinely promises to spend more money than it has,...
Obama's Inept Nuclear Strategy: Building Down Will Trigger A Rogue Build Up
On April 6, the Obama administration released its new nuclear strategy; on Thursday, the prez inked a new nuke treaty with the Russians in Prague. This week, he's hosting an all-world atomic affair in Washington. It's a veritable "no-nukes-palooza." Problem is, not...
Net Neutrality vs. Internet Freedom
Google has no more right to demand that Verizon be “neutral” with its network than Verizon has a right to demand that Google be “neutral” with its coveted advertising space.
Carbon Dioxide Restrictions are Costly, Pointless, Symbolic Gestures
Substantial restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, such as those proposed by President Barack Obama and contained in the Waxman-Markey bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, will force Americans to undergo severe and protracted economic hardship for little or...
Obama’s Cap-and-Trade: Lifeline or Noose?
Throughout his presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged to address the "crisis" of anthropogenic global warming. Since taking office his cabinet appointments and policy initiatives have not disappointed those who believe such a crisis exists and that America should...
Fallout from Declaring CO2 a Pollutant
A Potential News Dispatch from a World Going Mad
Global Warming and Climate Change in Perspective: CO2, Scientific Consensus, and Climate Models
The increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind.
Environmentalism vs Creativity
It’s businesspeople, not “Friends of the Earth,” who, by translating scientific discoveries into practical reality, actually advance human life and eliminate pollution.
The Green Energy Fantasy
The reality is that “green energy” is at best a sophisticated make-work program.
The Earth is Mankind’s Garden
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 existence on...
Global Warming Rope-A-Dope
The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives.
EPA Fascism versus America: There Are No Practical Alternative Fuels in the Short-Term (6 of 7)
This is the sixth in a seven part series detailing our objections to plans by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to claim unlimited power over the life of every American. Those plans were laid out in an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR),...
EPA Fascism versus America: There Is No “Consensus” Among Scientists (4 of 7)
Based on the conclusions of many scientists and the reasons they offer for those conclusions, there is no basis for assuming the truth of an imminent global climate catastrophe caused by human action.
EPA Fascism versus America (1 of 7)
This article details how the EPA intends to claim unlimited power over the life of every American.
Anarchy on the Internet
The Internet provides vast amounts of information but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation. For more than two weeks, scarcely a day has gone by without e-mails pouring in to me, asking about columns that...
Environmentalists’ Hold on Congress
Let's face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it's a different story with groups such as Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy. When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike...
Stop Oil Speculation Now: The Airlines Disgraceful Political Agenda
Today I received a message from United Airlines pushing a particularly misguided political agenda. It is one of the most disgraceful public displays of incompetence and evasion by American business in recent memory. According to the airlines, speculators are to blame...
In Defense of Oil and Gas Speculators
Despite Congress' periodic hauling of weak-kneed oil executives before their committees to charge them with collusion and price-gouging, subsequent federal investigations turn up no evidence to support the charges. Right now oil company executives are getting a bit of...
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