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Global Resurgence of Malaria: Environmentalism’s Death Toll

Use of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) enabled much of the world to control most infectious diseases, 80 percent of which are transmitted by arthropod vectors such as mosquitoes, biting flies, fleas, ticks, lice, and mites.1,2 Since these vectors account for more than 70 percent of animal species,3 the odds are stacked against avoiding these diseases, especially in…

Anger

Space between the earth and all celestial bodies is a void, not dissimilar to the space between the average politician’s ears. I do not write that as a witticism, I write that as a sorry fact that I wish was otherwise. There is another fact that has become apparent and that is the ‘sellout’ by…

Rep. Jim Ott: I Choose Leah

During my time in the State Legislature I’ve had the opportunity to work with and get to know many great people. One person that stands out for her courage, integrity, work ethic and intelligence is State Senator Leah Vukmir. In my first term Leah quickly became a colleague I could turn to for advice or…

Overheated claims on temperature records

Time for sober second thought on climate alarms Now that the excitement over the news that 2017 was one of the hottest years on record have died down, it is time for a sober second thought. Did the January 18 announcements by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that 2017 was the third-hottest year,…