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Paul Chesser

Paul Chesser publishes CarolinaPlottHound.com, a news aggregator for North Carolina, and is a contributor of articles, research and investigative reports for both national and state-level free-market think tanks.
by | Dec 1, 2010

In September television station WJLA (the ABC affiliate in Washington) fired reporter Doug McKelway over his report about a demonstration by environmental groups, who protested during the BP/Gulf disaster over oil industry campaign contributions to members of Congress. Among other things…

by | Nov 30, 2010

It was only two weeks ago that EPA proposed rules to that would force large industries to use “best available control technology” to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, with a deadline of December 1 for the public to comment or…

by | Nov 29, 2010

We know the memo circulating around the environoiac Leftosphere was to not call “global warming” “global warming” any more, but to instead use the greater encompassing “climate change.” Obama administration science adviser John Holdren updated the blueprint a couple of…

by | Nov 29, 2010

This is a really cool story. Michael Misiewicz, born in Cambodia as Vannak Khem and now commander of the destroyer USS Mustin, is returning to the country for the first time since he was whisked away in 1973 as a…

by | Nov 29, 2010

We’ve referred many times to the failures in Spain of the heavy subsidization of a “Green jobs” agenda, citing it as the primo example of why the similar Obama policy will also fail. The Institute for Energy Research has produced…

by | Nov 23, 2010

This clever video from SpenceTF Productions, created for the Commonwealth Foundation‘s “Please No More Taxes” contest, provides an excellent illustration:

by | Nov 23, 2010

In last months of his successful campaign, Gov.-elect John Kasich — in a statement that almost all politicians would deem risky due to fear of inflaming the Big Green lobby — told the Dayton Daily News that he would seriously…

by | Nov 22, 2010

My grandmother turns 100 in January and over the weekend my sister, aunts, uncles and cousins did some massive cleaning of her home in Rhode Island. While cleaning out a drawer upstairs one cousin discovered an apparent souvenir from my…

by | Nov 19, 2010

A few months ago North Carolina State University economics professor Richard Stroup, who directed the Office of Policy Analysis in the Department of Interior during the Reagan Administration, explained to a John Locke Foundation audience how we so often get…

by | Nov 19, 2010

Progress Energy, one of the two major investor-owned utilities here in North Carolina, is lowering electricity rates for their customers. But it’s not as low as they could go if they didn’t have to adhere to forcibly-imposed environmentalist schemes. The…

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