Interviewing Bob Dylan several years ago, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner kept badgering the legendary artist to admit that the world is going to seed and things look grim. Dylan demurred, asking Wenner just what he was getting at. “We…
In early October the federal government released its monthly employment statistics. The numbers were stunningly dismal. According to the Labor Department, the economy lost 263,000 jobs in September, and unemployment ratcheted up to nearly 10 percent. The jobs report included…
THE LAST FEW DECADES have not been kind to the folks who brought you the weekend. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are around 16 million Americans on union rolls today. That figure is fully two million fewer…
ANYONE DOUBTING THAT OUR nation’s environmental and economic policies can get seriously out of whack from time to time need only look to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Located in California’s Central Valley, between the state’s capital city and Stockton,…
A mini-media controversy has erupted over conservative TV and radio show host Glenn Beck’s remarks that he thinks President Obama is racist. A black activist organization called Color of Change has led the charge for a boycott of Beck’s highly…
President Obama claims he wants to transform America’s energy economy away from the fossil fuels that presently provide the lion’s share of our energy. He talks about investing tens of billions of dollars for renewable energy technology research and development…
Who is Patrick Moore, and why do so many environmentalists hate him? Moore has been denounced as an “eco-Judas” and a shill for the timber and nuclear industries by prominent Canadian green activist David Suzuki. He is “a turncoat who…
President Obama drew rave reviews for his unorthodox selection of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the nation’s surgeon general. Not only is Dr. Gupta an accomplished neurosurgeon, but as CNN’s in-house doc he has also proven himself a bona fide celebrity….
(This review appears in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of The American Spectator.) Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey By William Tucker (Bartleby Press, 420 pages, $27.50) ONE CLEAR MEASURE OF…
This article appears in The American Spectator‘s March 2006 issue. To subscribe, please click here. In recent years Nevada politicos like Governor Kenny Guinn, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, and Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, along with the major newspapers, have…