May 30, 2012 Sierra Clubs Natural Gas The green lobby picks its next fossil fuel target. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Sierra Club has deep pockets funded by liberal foundations and knows how to work the media and politicians. The lobby helped to block new nuclear plants for more than 30 years, it has kept […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,
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Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama’s Version A profit-driven economy is preferable to one run by political favoritism. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Obama’s knock on free enterprise is that it is driven by “profit,” and that this experience makes Mr. Romney too heartless to be president. The alternative is an Obama capitalism
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May 20, 2012, 6:20 p.m. ET Are Russians still supposed to act grateful that we no longer live under Brezhnev or Stalin? By GARRY KASPAROV Mr. Kasparov is the leader of the Russian pro-democracy group the United Civil Front and chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. He resides in Moscow Moscow EXCERPT FROM
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May 15, 2012 Here Comes the Sunstorm Electric Grid Is Vulnerable to a Big Solar Blow; Officials Spar Over What to Do By RYAN TRACY ReutersU.S. electricity regulators are studying the impact of historic sunstorms. Pictured, a NASA handout image of the sun. With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, U.S. electricity
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May 3, 2012 Cabinets Gone Wild By Victor Davis Hanson 5/3/2012 We’ve had some unusual Cabinet secretaries in past administrations — Earl Butz, John Mitchell and James Watt come to mind — but never anything quite like the present bunch. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has overseen some $5 trillion in new debt. To help pay
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DRIESSEN: Facts, not fears, should govern fracking Misleading claims about shale gas development do not serve the public interest By Paul Driessen – The Washington Times Friday, March 23, 2012 Illustration: Fracking protest by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times It’s been called a “game changer” for good reason. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or
April 4, 2012, 7:00 p.m. ET So much for an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy. For three years the Environmental Protection Agency has imposed a de facto ban on new coal-fired power while doing everything it can to harm existing coal plants. But for once there’s something good to say about the latest EPA
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A carbon tax by any other name . . . Robert Bryce Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is the author of Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future. His report on renewable mandates can be found at www.manhattan-institute.org/html/eper_10.htm.
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