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