By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project The three-day Seventh International Conference on Climate Change, Real Science Real Choices, sponsored by the Heartland Institute ran from Monday May 21st to Wednesday afternoon of May 23rd. Even though the decision to hold the conference was not made until three months ago, it…
Paul Driessen
Trying to snooker Smucker
Climate alarm campaigners make pitiful case that manmade climate change threatens coffee By Paul Driessen It’s a common tactic among groups promoting climate alarmism and antihydrocarbon policies. As evidence mounts that manmade catastrophic climate change is not imminent, extreme weather events cannot be linked to human activities, and developing nations will not reduce their use…
Steven Welcenbach
A Forgotten but Effective Paradigm for the Future of Conservatism
By Steve Welcenbach Last week I made a journey up to Mayville in Dodge county to visit with some of my favorite members of the Wisconsin Activist Army I have had the pleasure of befriending since my engagement the past three+ years. They have reestablished something so basic but so important to the movement that…
Keith Best
Guest Opinion
By Keith Best Finally it’s over after 15 plus long months. No more hearing annoying chants like “recall Walker” and they can put the Socialist/ Marxist blue fist back in the box as well. The folks that were elected back in November of 2010 can go back to doing their job and govern Wisconsin, and…
Paul Chesser
Century-Old Electric Car Technology Still Doesn’t Sell
By Paul Chesser Jay Leno electric car Enthusiasts can’t overcome their amazement at the innovation of electric cars – technology that is 100-plus years old. In Friday’s edition of the Vancouver Sun, writer Andrew McCredie – who is tooling around in a modern, all-electric Nissan Leaf and blogging about it – marveled at the 1912…
MacDonald-Laurier Institute
Canada’s biggest cities hurt by ‘radical densification’
Macdonald-Laurier Institute OTTAWA, May 24, 2012 – Quality of life in Toronto and Canada’s other major cities has been seriously harmed by urban planners’ “radical densification” policies that use “malicious incentives” to force developers to build within restrictive urban boundaries, a leading urban policy authority argues in a Commentary released today. Radical densification policies that…