The two houses of the Republican controlled legislature plan to consider a variety of bills in the upcoming Fall session to continue the drive to create 250,000 jobs by 2014, a goal set forth by Governor Scott Walker. While many of these initiatives have tremendous merit, such as the legislation to update mining laws so…
Tom DeWeese
The Freedom “Brain Trust” That Sparked an Agenda 21 Revolt
By Tom DeWeese Just one year ago I sponsored the Freedom Action National Conference at Valley Forge, Penn. It turned out to be an historic gathering, because this was the event that essentially parked the current national firestorm against the UN’s Agenda 21. Here activists from around the nation heard from the foremost Agenda 21…
Alan Caruba
GE Stabs the US in the Back
Bringing “Good Things to Life” For Who? By Alan Caruba In 1876 Thomas Alva Edison opened a laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., for the purposes of exploring how to produce and distribute electricity. History records that he invented the incandescent electric light bulb there. By1890, he had established the Edison General Electric Company, now know…
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Balancing Budgets: Good Politics, Good Policy
Purposeful deficit reduction can result in electoral success Ottawa, Ontario – Contrary to the conventional view that deficit-cutting governments court political unpopularity, history shows that vigorous action to balance the budget and keep it balanced is both good economics and good politics. Yet, apparently inspired by the conventional wisdom, the current Conservative government is pursuing…
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Rethinking Schools
Here is a page from the organization sponsoring the upcoming appearance of Bill Ayers to MPS and the teachers Union. VOLUME 25, ISSUE 4 — SUMMER 2011 The entire summer issue of Rethinking Schools is accessible here, free of charge. If you aren’t already a member of Rethinking Schools, we hope the exciting and thought-provoking…
Energy Advocate
The Energy Advocate
The Role of Climate Models Results of climate models are in strong disagreement with one another, and not a single one is particularly adept at “predicting” present climate from past data. Climate models, which bear some resemblance to weather models, cannot predict very far into the future. On a more sophisticated level, there are at…