From the outset of the founding of this nation, the idea of America as “the new Zion” would play a significant role. Following the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson attempted to tie the new nation to the story of the Exodus and more explicitly to the idea of redemption and freedom. “Because of…
General
WILL Study Makes Case For Expansion of Statewide School Choice
Rural public schools face challenges of poverty and low student achievement – yet parents lack access to educational optionsApril 13, 2017 – Milwaukee, WI – The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty released a new policy brief, “The Case For School Choice in Rural Wisconsin,” to bolster the case for an expansion of the Wisconsin…
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.
Earth Day 2017 and the Anti-Scientific ‘March for Science’
Maybe it’s a fluke that Earth Day is also Lenin’s birthday. But it’s no mere happenstance that the “Marches for Science” were scheduled for Earth Day — this Saturday, April 22nd. The March organizers flew the flag of climate alarmism as soon as they announced the events. This, for instance, is from one of their…
Paul Driessen, Roger Bezdek
The social cost of carbon regulations
Anti-fossil fuel SCC relies on garbage models, ignores carbon benefits and hurts the poor “If you could pick just one thing to reduce poverty, by far you would pick energy,” Bill Gates has said. “Access to energy is absolutely fundamental in the struggle against poverty,” World Bank VP Rachel Kyte and Nobel Prize Laureate Dr.…
Tom Harris
Killing Clean Power Plan crucial step in ending climate deception
President Donald Trump is right to kill the hugely expensive Clean Power Plan (CPP). After all, it only controls carbon dioxide (CO2), which is simply plant food. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change cites over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies showing that rising atmospheric CO2 enhances productivity of forests and grasslands. Commercial greenhouses run at up…
Paul Driessen
Off to a bumbling start at Interior
If this is the kind of house cleaning and swamp draining we’re going to get, we’re in real trouble Was it because there were too few senior Trump Administration officials in place to catch and stop it? Or because Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was new on the job, and had so much…