By Viv ForbesIn the era before coal, oil and electricity, the environment suffered greatly. Whales were slaughtered for lamp oil; forests were cleared for firewood, mine props, building materials, roofing shingles and sailing masts; London (“The Big Smoke”) and Pittsburgh (“The Smoky City”) were smothered in smog from open fires, charcoal kilns and iron smelters;…
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Bad Advice Began Special Election Date Drama
By Bill OsmulskiDays after Rep. Sean Duffy announced his decision to retire from Congress, Wisconsin’s top elections lawyer gave the Evers Administration two options for the special election. One option was illegal and the other was a nonstarter for the governor. held on Jan. 27th. Republicans immediately criticized the governor for scheduling an election during…
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Be Grateful for Global Warming, Our Ancestors Were
By Larry BellIt’s important to realize that global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels have fluctuated greatly through entirely natural causes over hundreds, thousands, and millions of years. This began long before humankind lit cave fires, ancient Romans donned cool togas and sandals, or Icelandic Vikings tended cattle, sheep and goats on previously warm southwestern coastal…
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Polar bear expert purged
Global warming campaigners have done an effective job at convincing the media and much of the world that polar bears are dying out. It’s not true. In fact, thanks to a hunting ban, polar bears are a major conservation success story. Their population ballooned from around 5,000 in the 1960s to (depending on whose estimate) from 22,000…
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Time to Hear from Sensible Adults
By Viv Forbes Climate alarm has fractured western societies into four main groups – the Silent Majority, the Red Green-ants, the Noisy Street Children, and the Wise Elders. The Silent Majority do the work of the nation. They pay the nation’s bills and taxes and only make their presence felt at election time. They despise…
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Civil Wrongs
“They that forsake the law praise law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.” Proverbs 28:4By Riley J. Hood If you make any criticism about the adulterer and Planned Parenthood advocate, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and or “civil rights” you are automatically tarred and feathered. As I get the…