New evidence now updates and confirms a column I wrote in June 2014 that some or all of the highly publicized melting of western coastal Antarctic glaciers may be caused by seabed volcanoes rather than having much or anything to do with climate change. An article published in June 22 edition of the journal Nature…
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Learn from the Left: It Knows How to Make Law Without Congress (Part I)
For years I have been a critic of those who advocate government control of the nation’s free enterprise through excessive regulation. These advocates are called many names, i.e. liberals, Democrat Socialists, Progressives, or just the “the Left”. Many on the Left, especially environmental groups, exist on corporate contributions while extolling their sainthood and the sins…
Featured Posts, Paul Driessen
Finally! Some fuel economy common sense
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards were devised back in 1975, amid anxiety over the OPEC oil embargo and supposedly imminent depletion of the world’s oil supplies. But recall, barely 15 years after Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in 1859, a Pennsylvania geologist was saying the United States would run out of…
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Leah Vukmir Wins Wisconsin GOP Primary for U.S. Senate
Pewaukee, Wis. — Overcoming nearly $11 million in special-interest spending, nurse, mom-with-a-cause and conservative fighter Leah Vukmir won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday. “Tonight confirms there’s no substitute for the grassroots – and I’m humbled to have their support,” Leah said. “Voters sent a clear message that we want to take our…
Featured Posts, William Kovacs
Taming the EPA Regulatory Hydra (Part II)
Part I recommended that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) be reorganized into a five-person commission. The primary reason is to dilute the massive regulatory powers of the Administrator which are clearly visible by the fact that the agency is responsible for twenty-five percent of all federal regulations. Moreover, these regulations impose over fifty percent…
American Tradition Institute, Featured Posts, Tim Ball, Tom Harris
EPA head must ignore the flak and continue to drop more bombs
Shortly after Scott Pruitt was confirmed as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), disgruntled EPA bureaucrats began leaking what they said were Pruitt’s personal abuses of money, rules, and regulations. Naturally, it caused a firestorm in the press and among liberals. With investigations by the EPA inspector general, the White House Office of Management…