The UN’s Rio+20 agenda would harm health, welfare and nature – and make poverty permanent David Rothbard and Craig Rucker Twenty years ago, the Rio de Janeiro “Earth Summit” proclaimed that fossil fuel-induced climate change had brought our planet to a tipping point, human civilization to the brink of collapse, and numerous species to the…
Tom DeWeese
R.I.P Henry Lamb and Tommy Cryer
by Tom DeWeese The freedom movement lost two courageous leaders this past month. Our movement is poorer for their passing, but our nation’s richer from their lives. Henry Lamb is the man who first discovered Agenda 21 and sounded the alarm. He attended the international meetings and challenged participants to question the programs being proposed.…
Frank Lasee
The Big Wind Game Plan
By Frank Lasee We’ve done a few Lasee’s Notes on the effects that the nearly 500 foot Industrial Wind Turbines (IWT’s) have on people that have them built too close to their homes and the outrageous costs to taxpayers and electric users (wind costs a lot more than other electric generation sources), this is a…
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Senator Grothman’s Comments on U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Regarding Obamacare
Madison – Well, Chief Judas, er, Justice Roberts continued a long tradition of disappointing justices appointed by Republican presidents of trashing the Constitution by upholding the bulk of Obamacare in the June 28 decision, siding with four predictable justices appointed by Clinton and Obama. Like many conservatives, I had gotten my hopes up that we…
MacIver News Service
New Study Refutes Economic Development Claims of Milwaukee Streetcar Project
National Transit Expert Authors Report for the MacIver Institute Milwaukee – A new study rips the proposed Milwaukee Streetcar project as an expensive and inefficient scam. If City of Milwaukee Officials were truly concerned about providing affordable transportation options to their residents, they could provide expanded bus service initial cost of less than $2 million…
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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, “Someone may steal from it at night.” So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, “How does the watchman do his job without instruction?” So they created…