(Part I: Spinning Climate, Weather for Political Points) By Paul Driessen and Patrick Moffitt In the wake of “Superstorm” Sandy, the political spin and distractions reached hurricane proportions. “It’s global warming, stupid,” declared Bloomberg BusinessWeek after monster winds and waves pounded New York and New Jersey. This storm should “compel all elected leaders to take…
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Lassee’s Notes
The American Economy, a Well Oiled Machine Think of the economy as a car with lots of moving parts. Like all cars, the economy needs oil to run smoothly and if you try to run it without oil, you’re asking for trouble, big trouble, really expensive trouble. Every part of our economy uses oil, in…
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Supreme Court Ruling: Police Have No Duty To Protect The General Public
People who don’t understand taking responsibility for your own safety often ask me why I wouldn’t just call the police to stop a crime instead of drawing a gun. Well for one, a great police response time would be 1-2 minutes, but most crimes take place in a matter of seconds. Two, police have no…
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Who’s afraid of fracking?
Federal and state environmental officials have given hydraulic fracturing a clean bill of health. Why do radical environmentalists continue to wage war on this game-changing technology? By Deroy Murdock If frackophobes are to be believed, natural-gas fracking is the most frightful environmental nightmare since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear-power plant melted down amid an earthquake and tsunami…
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A Canadian Perspective on Government Run Healthcare
Time to overhaul the delivery and funding of health care, MacKinnon says Costs, including for hospitals, are crowding out other needed spending while creating inter-generational unfairness. Solutions include more provincial-led reforms such as use of efficient private clinics and indirect user fees. OTTAWA, January 31, 2013 – “As the oldest of the baby boomers turn…
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Desperately Trying to Derail Canadian Oil Sands
Radical activists launch more attacks on oil sands, Keystone pipeline, jobs and revenues By Paul Driessen Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally sensitive. The Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would create more than 5,500 Nebraska jobs…