What threatens us is not any physical scarcity, but a politically created one.
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Department of Everything
At worst, DOE energy policies are wasteful, even harmful to the best interests of American consumers.
West Nile Virus: The Environmentalist’s Epidemic
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 2,000...
Gray Davis’s Government By Smog Check
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 supporters, Gov....
California Energy Enters The Dark Ages
In no case were the power companies and their profit motive responsible for brownouts or blackouts.
The Great Power-Shortage Myth
An electric-power blackout is a special case of the wider economic phenomenon of a shortage, that is, of a situation in which the quantity of a good that buyers are seeking to buy at the prevailing price exceeds the quantity of the good that the sellers possess and are willing to sell.
Scorched Earth: The Reparation Desperation
"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 earth." New York City Councilman Charles...
High Schools Flunk Science
Physics is the fundamental natural science. Its birth in the 17th century heralded man's coming of age as a rational being. The discovery of the basic laws of nature led to the industrial revolution and modern technology, demonstrating the enormous practical power of...
The Big Chill: Politics vs. the Science of Stem Cell Research
Every researcher has to evaluate several factors before entering a field of study. The work should be challenging, it should be helpful to humanity -- and it should pay enough to make a living. Today, stem-cell research - supporters of which hope will lead to...
Blood for Oil
Someone, finally, has stated the truth to the administration and to the world: Saudi Arabia is our enemy. According to the Washington Post, that was the message of a recent briefing to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. The presentation, by Rand Corporation analyst...
Antarctica Is Cooling?
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 out that most of the...
Fallacy of More Renewables
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...
Global Lying
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 actions were...
Books: The Biological Basis of Teleological By Harry Binswanger
This is an original, comprehensive treatise in the field of philosophy of science.
Gore’s Grossing
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 Balance would claim in a column to...
Concession to the Environmentalists’ Premise Killed the ANWR Drilling Program
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 were...
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...
Homegrown Terrorism: Militant Environmentalism
For years Islamic terrorists attacked Americans throughout the world, and we failed to heed the warning signs: the bombings of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, of our embassies in Africa in 1998, of the USS Cole in 2000, of the World Trade Center in 1993. This past Sept. 11...
Cloning In A Free Society?
"Life is creation, not a commodity," says President Bush, defending his view that all cloning should be permanently outlawed. Life is a creation of whom -- and for whose purpose? Do we make our own lives, for our own sakes, or is somebody else doing the making for us?...
Bush Turns Enron Green
On Aug. 4, 1997, Kenneth L. Lay, the chairman of Enron Corp., met with Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin to discuss the global-warming conference coming up in Kyoto. Mr. Lay was an enthusiastic advocate of the Kyoto climate-change treaty -- for...
Science Rejects Kyoto
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 by the...
Why the Green Church of Environmentalism Has No Tolerance for Skeptics
Sheer panic. That's the only way to describe the reaction of green activists to a fact-filled 515-page book by a young Danish statistician, published in English late last year by Cambridge University Press. The statistician, a slim, laid-back former Greenpeace member...
Blame It On Rio
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....
Should the Government Choose What Kind of Car You Should Drive?
Signs are increasing that the recession has bottomed. Home sales are surging, new unemployment claims are dropping, consumer confidence is rising. The typical recession lasts about a year, and the worst one since World War II lasted 16 months. So, if history is a...
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