The Great Schism in the Environmental Movement
“Green traditionalists . . . publish high-profile papers warning ‘that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth’ to an irreversible tipping point. .…
William Tucker: Why We Don’t Need a National Energy Plan
“Frederick Hayek dealt with all this in his 1940s classic, The Road to Serfdom, and it’s amazing how you have to keep going over the same old arguments because the…
Why Liberalism Doesn’t Work
“‘This is painful for a liberal to admit,’ admits Nicholas D. Kristof, a Times columnist… ‘but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle…
The Top Five Energy Stories of 2012
“1) Continued greening of the military, 2) Energy job creation, 3) Shale gas, 4) Carbon, 5) Our power grid’s vulnerabilities.” by Peter Kelly-Detwiler I recently asked a number of friends…
What Margaret Thatcher Said (After Conservatives Suffered Two Defeats in the Mid-70s)
“Do British workers have no deep feelings for freedom, for order, for the education of their children, for the right to work without disruption by political militants? Of course they…
[Flashback review] ‘John Adams,’ Second To None
“Giamatti’s performance is captivating, often poignantly so. . . . Tom Wilkinson has a romp playing Ben Franklin. . . . Stephen Dillane’s Thomas Jefferson is a quiet, introspective scholar.…
White House Data Debunk Myth Bush Cuts Built Deficit
“After President Bush in late May 2003 signed the largest tax cut since President Reagan . . . government receipts from individual income taxes rose from $793.7 billion to a…
The Left’s Anti-Religion and anti-Christmas Hate Speech
by George Landrith Every December, when outdoor temperatures are dropping, prominent atheists are using the approaching Christmas holiday as an excuse to stoke the flames of the culture war. It…
Federal Spending is the Problem: Defense is Not!
by George Landrith With a long history of federal overspending and the recent explosion of more federal debt, it is obvious that the federal budget must be cut back to…
The Real Fiscal Cliff
“After the phony cliff, we face the terrifying one.” by Conrad Black Last week, Fareed Zakaria and Charles Krauthammer appeared in Toronto (where I live much of the time), and…
Clinton Era Taxes and Clinton Era Spending
by George Landrith With the budget and fiscal crisis facing the United States and difficult economic times surely ahead for the foreseeable future, President Barack Obama has vociferously argued that…
Thomas Sowell: Fiscal Cliff Notes (Part II)
“So it is sheer hogwash that ‘tax cuts for the rich’ caused the government to lose tax revenues. The government gained tax revenues, not lost them. . . . That…
Thomas Sowell: Fiscal Cliff Notes (Part I)
“All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‘the rich’ to pay ‘their fair share’ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about…
Lincoln Movie Illustrates The Blessings of Liberty
“Secured by immense power” by Adam J. White Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, portraying the president’s battle to abolish slavery at the end of the Civil War, illustrates one of the fundamental paradoxes…
How Accurately Did Spielberg Capture Lincoln’s Time?
“So in the end I am left not with concerns but with gratitude: To Spielberg for making this movie, and to my fellow moviegoers, for only when movies succeed will…