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SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT

The Week That Was July 10, 2010 Quote of the Week “There is no reason to give them any data, in my opinion, and I think we do so at our own peril! – Michael Mann in email to Phil Jones This Week By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)…

Obama is victim of Bush’s failed promises

By Chuck Green Barack Obama is setting a recordsetting number of records during his first year in office. Largest budget ever. Largest deficit ever. Largest number of broken promises ever. Most self-serving speeches ever. Largest number of agenda-setting failures ever. Fastest dive in popularity ever. Wow! Talk about change. Just one year ago, fresh from…

Government Circus

On the Recess Appointment of Donald Berwick By Benjamin Domenech The White House’s announcement that President Barack Obama will bypass the nomination process of the United States Senate to recess appoint Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is an act of unconscionable hubris. The White House claims this…

There’s Nothing Mainstream About Old Media

By: Joseph L. Bast If nearly 1,000 people gather at a hotel in downtown Chicago to hear 72 speakers from 23 countries explain why global warming is not a crisis, and not a single mainstream print outlet or network news station reports it, was the meeting any less important or successful? Nope. But it does…

Steve’s Say . . .

Sanctioned Stealing Must Stop “Mr. White is a happy man,” I said to my son as we toted some weeds to the back tree line. A surprised smile lit up Ryan’s face. “Is Mr. White coming up?” he asked. Here is a 17 year old young man wondering happily whether one of his father’s friends…

License To Steal

Redistribution of Wealth and the Shaping of a New America . . . Part 1 of 2 By Gary Wickert The current president of the United States is trying to implement something he elusively calls “social and economic justice.” He’s redistributing wealth by taking money away from certain people and giving it to others he…