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Today’s Trial Lawyers Would Have Loved This Ad

November 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Imagine what life in 1913 would have been like if the trial lawyer army that exists today was around back then.  For starters, newspaper advertisements like the one Iver Johnson’s Arms & Cycle Works ran (above) would have led to thousands — or, perhaps, millions — of product liability lawsuits.  That, however, was another day [...]

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Treatment of Climate Change E-mail Scandal-ous

November 30th, 2009 · No Comments

First, a BBC News headline reported, Hackers target leading climate research unit. Ten days later, a new headline from the stodgy-and-liberal media outlet reads, Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails. What’s wrong with those headlines?  They focus on something far less important than the fact that the e-mails exchanged between researchers at the UK’s East Anglia [...]

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Energy Exec Says ‘E-mails Helped Our Cause’

November 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Asked whether he thinks the tables could be turned on climate change alarmists after e-mail evidence of manipulation of climate change data by UK researchers surfaced last week, Mike Carey isn’t ready to declare victory.  The president of the American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy does, however, see value in those e-mails coming into public [...]

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