How to describe 16 years spent with one of the greatest minds in hurricane research of the past 60 years? I’m still having trouble coming to grips with the fact that he’s gone. There are so many things about our relationship that I’m going to miss. The daily hour?long phone calls, the tag?team conference presentations,…
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Letter to the Editor:
Steve, just like you, I’m a poll worker and have worked polls for over four years now. School referendums are the pits because the votes occur in February, not during the August primary when more people would actually show up. Tom Tiffany is my senator for the Northwoods. He sends out an e-mail every Friday,…
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Teachers have Students: Parents have Children
“Lo, Children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Psalms 127:3In recent years I have noticed a disturbing trend when talking to educators. They refer to their students as their children. Now most of these teachers think by saying “my children” means they care more, than saying…
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Inside climate propaganda
Inside Climate News excels at propagating environmentalist and Obama thinking and policiesHave you ever wondered how the LA Times, Associated Press, Weather Channel and your local media always seem to present similar one-sided stories on climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy and other environmental issues? How their assertions become “common knowledge,” like the following? Global…
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Cracking Washington’s Black Box
April 3, 2016 6:44 p.m. ET WSJ One reason Americans dislike Washington is that its denizens work so hard to obscure what they do. So it’s welcome news that someone wants to bring more transparency to the numbers and methods that are supposedly the basis for policy-making. The American Enterprise Institute will soon unveil its…
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Trying to make winners out of losers
By now, most people probably know about one of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s biggest campaign gaffes to date: “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” As soon as I heard it, I tweeted: “Imagine a presidential candidate running for office based on putting people out of work?” I…