Who wants a drumstick? The six-foot-tall phorusrhacos longissimus roamed what is now Argentina during the Middle Miocene.
People often talk as if warming temperatures are the only evidence of human-induced global climate change. But the amount of carbon dioxide in the…
An old baseball cliché says that “speed don’t slump.” In Washington, it’s lobbying that don’t slump.
President Barack Obama’s policy proposals may not have created many jobs so far in most sectors of the economy, but the lobbying industry is going gangbusters.…
The future according to Blaine
Our new favorite member of Congress, Blaine Luetkemeyer, is warning that “the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. . .receives millions of dollars a year in your taxes to promote a liberal agenda of taxing…
The British General Staff's battle map.
Last month the New York City Council approved a developer’s proposal to erect an 18-story apartment tower on the East River in Brooklyn, just east of the Brooklyn Bridge. The project is controversial not only because…
For the first time, someone has put a price on what Americans are willing to pay to protect their children and grandchildren from the effects of global warming: $18.75 a month.
The effort began with a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee last week took a major step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It approved a bill that would cap releases of heat-trapping gases and create a national market to trade pollution credits.
The bill comes on the…
Today is Earth Day. But you already knew that.
You knew it because Earth Day has become Earth Week — a hybrid of selfless environmental activism and shameless marketing opportunism. If the original was a media sensation, this latest version is an…
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President Barack Obama is moving swiftly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He cleared the way this week for California to set strict new carbon-dioxide standards for cars and trucks. A dozen other states are poised to adopt the standards once…
