Thrice! Taking cancer to the mat Confronting death not once, not twice, but three times – with a “never surrender” attitude By Paul Driessen When my daughter learned she would have to endure still more intensive chemotherapy for her leukemia, a tear welled up in her eye. She would now be homebound at least two…
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Largest Army in the World? American Hunters The world’s largest army is … America’s Hunters! A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion: There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin. Allow me to restate that number. Over…
Keith Best
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Today’s political climate By Keith Best I attended the Tea party rally April 16th in what looked like a blizzard. The wind was fierce and the snow blew in hard for a mid-April day, but that was not the bizarre part of the day. For there were protestors there as well. While I listened to…
Cheryl K. Chumley, Cyril Boynes, Jr.
Dog lovers and baby killers
If only the world cared as much about African children and families, as they do about dogs. By Cyril Boynes, Jr. A couple months ago, when its dogsledding business lost customers, a Canadian company had approximately 100 of its dogs killed. The incident “shocked” and “angered” people. The employee who shot the dogs said he…
Paul Driessen
Carbon and carbon dioxide: Clearing up the confusion
Let’s restore common sense to our public policy debates on energy and climate By Paul Driessen We are constantly bombarded with information – much of it inaccurate, misleading, even deliberately so. We are frequently told we must reduce carbon emissions, support “carbon disclosure” and invest in “carbon trusts” – to prevent catastrophic global warming, global…
Paul Driessen
Fears and Facts
Fukushima’s lessons for America’s already safe nuclear plants By Paul Driessen The ground hadn’t stopped shaking. Tsunami waters had not receded. And yet coverage of this awful natural disaster – a scene of almost unfathomable devastation and death – was already giving way to single-minded focus on radiation exposure and meltdowns. Addressing justifiable concerns is…