By Bonner R. Cohen The Heartland Institute An ambitious scheme to introduce the German driving public to presumed environmental virtues of ethanol has resulted in what Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has called a “fiasco.” Instead of embracing a biofuel its supporters have touted as eco-friendly, Germans are refusing to buy a new, 95-octane product…
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Art Horn: The Climate War Should Be Declared Over
Energy Tribune Whether you know it or not the industrialized world is at war, a climate war. The industrialized world didn’t ask for it, it has being forced upon us. The fossil fuel burning world is being attacked by factions that want to extract the wealth of the prosperous nations to pay for a…
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Rising Food Prices Spark Renewed Criticism of Ethanol Mandates
By Bonner R. Cohen The Heartland Institute Whether shopping at big-box stores in the United States or haggling with vendors at marketplaces in rural Africa, consumers around the world are confronting noticeably higher prices for the food they need. Agricultural and economics experts report government policies encouraging or mandating ethanol production are largely to blame.…
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Time to make Hamas an offer they can’t refuse
by Dr. Avi Perry The latest escalation of rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza on Israel’s civilian population is a new phase in the unremitting conflict between Israel and Hamas. Israel’s retaliatory response to these attacks has not been successful in breaking them off or slowing them down. On the contrary, rocket and mortar attacks…
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Muslim Student Attacks UN Rights Council for Anti-Israel Bias
By Tzvi ben Gedalyahu, Arutzsheva Muslim student Amran Hussain, speaking on behalf of the European Union of Jewish Students, recently spoke out for Israel a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, where he castigated the Council for anti-Israel bias. “Why is Israel consistently and conspicuously singled out for condemnation on the grounds of…
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US Black student leaders slam ‘apartheid’ characterization
By Jordan Horn, Jerusalem Post Letter says “decency, justice and hope compel us to demand immediate cessation to deliberate misappropriation of words.” NEW YORK – African-American student leaders from a variety of historically black colleges and universities took out full page ads in numerous American college newspapers Thursday, displaying an “Open Letter to Students for…