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Talk Radio Alert: ‘The Dana Show’ Friday Afternoon

January 25th, 2012 · 5 Comments

I’ll be making a guest appearance Friday afternoon on The Dana Show on FM NewsTalk 97.1. During the show’s last half hour, starting around 3:30 p.m. Central, host Dana Loesch and I will discuss an exclusive article I published Monday about a new Weldon Spring Cancer Report I obtained from the Missouri Department of Health [...]

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EPA Regulatory Outreach Going Too Far

August 1st, 2011 · No Comments

If the Environmental Protection Agency succeeds in advancing new ozone standards, places like Yellowstone National Park — where naturally occurring ozone levels can exceed the standard — won’t be able to meet the new requirements.  And that’s not the half of it when it comes to EPA’s regulatory overreach! Two recently-released studies show that the [...]

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The EPA Contest Winner That Should Have Lost

April 19th, 2011 · No Comments

One year ago, I published a post, Government Video Contest Invites Parody, about an EPA-sponsored contest which invited citizens to submit entries to a video contest under the theme, “RULEMAKING MATTERS.” One year later, I’ve decided to showcase the winning video and the video that should have won. First, let’s review the invitation to participate [...]

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‘Gas Strike’ Fueled by Emotion and Ignorance (Update)

March 10th, 2011 · 11 Comments

This morning, I came across a Facebook event, titled “GAS STRIKE,” that nearly a half-million people have signed up to “attend” today.  Sadly, their effort — which involves boycotting gas stations for one day — is a misguided effort driven more by emotion and ignorance than common sense. Oil companies produce the oil and make [...]

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Presidents, Pensions and Energy Prices

March 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

Every day, I receive news releases from organizations hoping I’ll pass along important news about their organizations to you, my readers.  Today, however, was one of those days when I simply had no time to write anything for immediate consumption.  As a result, I opted to share a few tidbits from my “news release” file.  [...]

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Nullification or Partition: The Choice is Ours

February 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Listening to the news reports out of Washington, especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s weak-kneed  budget proposal, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the early decades of the 21st century in the U.S. will be characterized by one of two governing principles: nullification or partition. Thomas [...]

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Company That Earned Millions from Gulf Cleanup Tangled in Suit That Could Cost Chevron $113B (Update)

January 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments

What do the BP Deepwater Horizon “disaster” of 2010, the $113 billion lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar have in common?  Stratus Consulting Inc. of Boulder, Colo., was involved in the first two and, possibly, the third. BP DEEPWATER HORIZON President Barack Obama talked as if he was ready to lock [...]

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