By E. Calvin Beisner Every once in a while—well, a lot more often than I wish—I miss a big story related to climate change and climate policy. Week before last, on my birthday, I missed a really big one: the decision by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse a critical piece of Obama-era…
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The Sky is Falling?!?
Ridiculous report claims humans have killed more than half the world’s wildlife in past 48 years By Greg Walcher A recent World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report claims humans have killed more than half of all the wildlife in the world since 1970. The report attracted media mass attention, even though the actual 145-page essay doesn’t really…
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“Promote the General Welfare”
“But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,” Deuteronomy 8:18a By Riley J. Hood—Milwaukee County Constitution Party “We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land,” according to President Herbert C. Hoover in…
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Give Thanks That We No Longer Live On The Precipice
By Paul Driessen Thanksgiving is a good time to express our sincere gratitude that we no longer “enjoy” the “simpler life of yesteryear.” As my grandmother said, “The only good thing about the good old days is that they’re gone.” For countless millennia, mankind lived on a precipice, in hunter-gatherer, subsistence farmer and primitive urban…
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Protesting Carbon Taxes with the Gilets Jaunes
Reflections on CFACT’s Katowice delegation coverage of Yellow Vests protest in MarseillesBy Craig Rucker The Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) represent a broad cross section of French rural, working and middle classes. They are butchers, bakers and automobile makers. They are the folks who grow the food, drive the trucks, build the buildings and fix what…
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But what will take its place?
Does government really need to regulate everything? Can no program be allowed to expire?By Greg Walcher In high school and college, I competed in debate tournaments across the state and country. I clearly remember many occasions when a debate team’s plan would include abolishing some government program. Inevitably, the opponents would ask, “What will you…