The Hawks Buzzards Are Circling
As I pointed out yesterday in a piece at Human Events, Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have been arguing that we must pass a global-warming bill now in order ...
Behind the Cap-and-Trade Curtain
Proponents of a cap-and-trade program to combat global warming face an uphill fight. For all their attempts to spin it as a solely environmental issue about saving the planet from ...
Obama Gives Small Plug for Nuclear Power
I will give the president credit, however, where it is due. In his Iowa speech, he did manage to give a small plug for nuclear power. Took him long enough.
The Road to Prosperity Is Paved with . . . Skyrocketing Prices?
President Obama just gave an Earth Day talk in Iowa that builds on this statement: “The choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. ...
Re: Happy Earth Day
Wow, it’s Earth Day again already? Didn’t we just, er, celebrate it? Of course, it feels that way partly because of a political and media elite that wants us to ...
Yucca Mountain Is Not Dead
After Pres. Barack Obama unveiled his first budget two weeks ago, many proclaimed the death of the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. Obama campaigned against the repository last ...
A Puff of Green Air
‘The state of our economy is a concern that rises above all others,” said Pres. Barack Obama in his address to a joint session of Congress last night.
Indeed it is. ...
Browner and Greener
During the October 7 debate at Nashville’s Belmont University, after a summer in which gasoline prices topped $4 per gallon, Senator Barack Obama declared that the highest priority facing the ...
The Gore-ing of the Bull
Congressional leadership fights often give the best sense of where the political zeitgeist is drifting. Think of the combative Newt Gingrich narrowly edging the establishment candidate Ed Madigan for House ...
Coal in Your Stocking
Give Barack Obama credit for one thing. When it comes to global warming and coal, he exhibited extraordinary candor about the economic pain his proposals would cause. Unfortunately for John ...