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Protest Outside Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv (Update)

May 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Anti-Turkey protests began to take shape across the street from the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv only hours after an incident off the coast of Israel left as many as 19 10 people dead aboard ships purporting to be carrying aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to this report. Within hours of the [...]

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Senator Blasts New Global Warming Bureaucracy

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) made an appearance on the Fox Business Network yesterday to discuss what he described as an apparent “crisis of confidence” in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “There is a crisis of confidence in the IPCC, and the Obama Administration is turning a blind eye by creating a new [...]

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Gore Dodges Questions About Climate Change

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments

In a post four days ago, I reported on the uncooperative manner in which Stanford University Professor Stephen Schneider received questions about climate change from Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer’s during a news conference in Copenhagen. Today, it appears the producer of the documentary “Not Evil, Just Wrong” has had a second noteworthy encounter with an [...]

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Inconvenient Question Ends Debate in Copenhagen

December 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

During a press briefing in Copenhagen this week, Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer asked Stanford University Professor Stephen Schneider an inconvenient question about the “ClimateGate” e-mails that have cast dark clouds of doubt over the work of scientists who claim man-made global warming endangers the plant. McAleer, the producer of the documentary “Not Evil, Just Wrong,” [...]

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Inhofe Launches Investigation of Climate Change

November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Yesterday and today, I reported that Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) was threatening to launch a “ClimateGate” investigation.  Late this afternoon, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works did just that. Senator Inhofe sent letters to several scientists, some of whom allegedly manipulated data to prove the scientific “consensus” of global [...]

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Will Medical Tourism Industry Realize Benefits From Passage of Government-Run Health Care Bill?

November 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Recently, a friend shared a prediction that prompted me to wonder whether or not the medical tourism industry will experience a boom if government-run health care becomes a reality in the United States. In case you’re not familiar with the concept of medical tourism, it typically involves people from one country traveling to an exotic [...]

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Inhofe Threatens ‘ClimateGate’ Investigation (Update)

November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

UPDATE #2 11/24/09 at 4:58 p.m. Central — In the video below, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) appears on Fox News Channel to announce he has sent out letters to officials with a number of government agencies as well as to scientists.  Those letters instruct those people to retain documents related to their research regarding climate [...]

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