Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) One Job Forward, Two Jobs Back Another triumph of Obamanomics. BY Andrew B. Wilson July 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 41 The Great Obamanomic Job Creation Machine rumbled into action again over the Fourth of July weekend, promising to spend as much as $2 billion to support creation of 1,585 […]
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JUNE 28, 2010 Protests Rock Toronto Over Weekend Despite Stepped-Up Security Effort, Police Struggle to Halt Violence Near G-20 Summit, Arresting Nearly 600 By PHRED DVORAK And MONICA GUTSCHI TORONTO—The site of the weekend’s Group of 20 leaders’ meeting was rocked by some of the most violent protests to hit a global gathering in recent
THE WEEKLY STANDARD Beyond Pathetic BP’s Gulf disaster was no surprise to those who understood the corporate culture. BY Andrew B. Wilson June 28, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 39 Shortly after lunch on November 27, 2003, Oberon Houston was in his office beneath the helideck of BP’s Forties Alpha oil platform in the North Sea,
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Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies will steal your freedom and bankrupt America By Christopher Horner Power Grab exposes the agenda of the Obama administration and its allies, from ‘green jobs’ to the cap-and-trade energy tax as ways to cram down the Left’s long-held wish list of demands, and dream of ‘organizing society’. Horner reveals
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ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE MAY 29, 2010 Mining for Cold, Hard Facts Scientists Probe Antarctic Ice to Settle Climate Debates By ROBERT LEE HOTZ WEST ANTARCTICA—At a camp here on Earth’s remotest continent, American researchers have constructed a towering drill that, like a biopsy needle, periodically plunges thousands of feet into the ice to extract an
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BOOK REVIEW: Slamming global warming claim THE WASHINGTON TIMES CLIMATEGATE: A VETERAN METEOROLOGIST EXPOSES THE GLOBAL WARMING SCAM By Brian Sussman WND Books, $25.95, 240 pages THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING BLUNDER: HOW MOTHER NATURE FOOLED THE WORLD’S TOP CLIMATE SCIENTISTS By Roy W. Spencer Encounter Books, $23.95, 180 pages Reviewed by Anthony J. Sadar “Give
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Wall Street Journal MAY 17, 2010 John Kerry rearranges cap and tax—and hopes no one notices. Despite the most creative rhetoric this side of ObamaCare, voters have figured out that “cap and trade” involves artificial carbon rationing and vast new energy taxes. So the main goal of John Kerry and Joe Lieberman has been attempting
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Thoughts on Gorism Posted By Victor Davis Hanson On May 2, 2010 From the Sanctimonious to the Ridiculous I think sometime this year elite radical environmentalism died. And at about the same time perished also the notion of the man in the mansion as the man on the barricades. Let me explain. Gorism We all
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The Energy Policy Morass ‘Think, Baby, Think’ BY Stephen F. Hayward April 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 30 If you think the health care debate is a tangled mess, try wading into the thickets of the energy sector, which is high on the Obama administration’s list of targets to subjugate. Few areas of national policy
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APRIL 22, 2010 Environmentalism as Religion By PAUL H. RUBIN Many observers have made the point that environmentalism is eerily close to a religious belief system, since it includes creation stories and ideas of original sin. But there is another sense in which environmentalism is becoming more and more like a religion: It provides its
