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Gas Price Predictions Haven’t Panned Out – Yet

December 28th, 2010 · No Comments

A CNN Money article published yesterday included a prediction about gas prices made by John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil.  He said that Americans could be paying $5 per gallon of gasoline by 2012.  In response, this designer of “Will Work for Fuel” merchandise says, “Tell me something new.” Since President Barack Obama took [...]

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Journalist Banned from Climate Change Conference

November 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments

It appears that drug cartel-related kidnappings and murders are not the only crimes taking place in Mexico these days.  According to a message received this morning, Phelim McAleer has been denied press accreditation for the Cancun Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Only days before the international conference opening today, the United Nations refused access [...]

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Senate Must Defeat Law of the Sea Treaty

September 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

EDITOR’S NOTE: Since launching this blog almost four years ago, I’ve written and published several posts about a dangerous piece of legislation known as the Law of the Sea Treaty.  Today, I share the update below about the recent passage of the Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act of 2009 by the U.S. [...]

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‘Solastalgia’ the Next Liberal Buzzword

April 26th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Remember when the word, gravitas, entered the public conversation for the first time?  Well, stay tuned, because solastalgia is next. A rarely-used 131-year-old word at the time, according to Merriam-Webster, gravitas was introduced en masse to the American vocabulary by members of the liberal media within 24 hours of President George W. Bush’s selection of [...]

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Senators Introduce NEPA Certainty Act

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Three U.S. senators just introduced new legislation concerning national environmental policy.  It’s designed, according to the description found on page one of the bill, “To prohibit the use of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to document, predict, or mitigate the climate effects of specific Federal actions.” I found out about it via this [...]

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‘Fox Cleared of All Charges in Henhouse Scandal’

April 14th, 2010 · No Comments

“The accused fox was cleared of all charges after none of the hens who had occupied the henhouse prior to the alleged incident appeared in court this morning to testify against the fox.  Reporting live from the criminal court building in London, this is Peter Johnson reporting for BBC News.” Of course, the paragraph above [...]

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Beef Cattle Industry Fighting Back Against EPA

April 7th, 2010 · No Comments

The prices of everything from hamburgers to filet mignon are going to rise, thanks to the efforts of people at the Environmental Protection Agency who, it appears, didn’t receive the memo that global warming climate change had been proven to be a hoax at best and, more accurately, a crime against humanity. In an effort [...]

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