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Posted by Melissa Murphy · Published: April 13, 2008 · Comments (2)

"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win." Thomas Sowell 250 Foreign born troops become US citizens More than 40,000 service members are not American citizens, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). These foreign-born men and women... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (7 votes cast)

Does a wild bear dance in the woods?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 5, 2008 · Comments (4)

Bears apparently can and do dance in the wild - or something closely approximating it. Researchers with the USGS have caught several on hidden cameras lately. ***WARNING*** Do NOT try this at home, kids. Bears are strong and often unpredictable. Just ask Tim Treadwell about that . . . the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (3 votes cast)

Build a castle in the sand, pay a fine out the butt

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 29, 2008 · Comments (23)

After an Isle of Palms (near Charleston, SC) patrol officer twisted his ankle on the beach one night, the morons on City Council set to work to regulate the villainous children who dig sand on the beach, leaving holes. Jessica Johnson reports for The Post and Courier: Building in the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (9 votes cast)

How Will Al Gore Explain This One?

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: February 27, 2008 · Comments (30)

I expect he'll completely ignore it, but at some point global warming alarmists are going to have to address this problem with their theory that global warming is man made: Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (21 votes cast)

Looking for a scapegoat?

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 26, 2008 · Comments (2)

It is less than two months since the horrific oil spill off South Korea's coast. The owners of the tanker, Hebei Spirit, responded Thursday to the charges they are at fault for the catastrophe. HONG KONG - The owner and operators of the tanker involved in South Korea's worst oil... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (7 votes cast)

Bush Exempts Navy from Environmental Law, Anti-submarine training to proceed despite left-wing enviro lawsuit

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 16, 2008 · Comments (4)

President Bush on Wednesday exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using powerful sonar technologies in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast, notwithstanding a lawsuit brought by left-wing environmentalists and a prior court order enjoining the use of sonar by a Clinton-nominated federal trial... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (15 votes cast)

Kangaroo farts could ease global warming

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 6, 2007 · Comments (11)

Most of the proposed strategies for reducing "greenhouse gases" focus on human consumption of fossil fuels which emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a byproduct. However, methane is the "greenhouse gas" which does the most damage - equivalent to roughly twenty times an equal volume of CO2. The principal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (12 votes cast)

Common-Sense Environmentalism

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: November 21, 2007 · Comments (48)

I've spent a bit of time lately discussing the hysteria surrounding the environmental movement lately, and it occurs to me that I might be painting with too broad a brush. The whackos do have a few points -- and I don't mean the ones atop their heads, the ones that... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (26 votes cast)

"The Universe Is Change"

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: November 18, 2007 · Comments (30)

One of the big problems I have with the debate about global warming -- and, indeed, much of the environmental movement -- is that it seems to be based on a fundamentally flawed precept: that there is a "natural" state of the earth, of nature, where all is in equilibrium.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (26 votes cast)

Next "Endangered Species": Crab lice?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 22, 2007 · Comments (13)

A Dutch museum is appealing for donations: they need crab lice - or at least one louse. No questions asked . . . and they are afraid for the species, reports Toby Sterling for the Associated Press : A Dutch museum said Friday it is having trouble getting its hands... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (10 votes cast)

In midst of drought, colleges water artificial turf

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 22, 2007 · Comments (13)

The South's current drought is breaking records and requiring water-use restrictions. This isn't stopping Duke and UNC from keeping their artificial turf watered, though, reports Ann Blythe for The News & Observer: It's not even real grass. But in the midst of what may be the worst drought ever in... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (11 votes cast)

California burning

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 22, 2007 · Comments (10)

Full coverage of the wildfires, including maps, striking photos, and regular updates from Bruce Henderson at And Still I Persist. Thoughts and prayers for the residents and the firefighters and rescue personnel on the scene. UPDATE 6:20 p.m.: In comments, Ryan Anderson notes that people are being/have been evacuated (many... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (7 votes cast)

When monkeys attack . . .

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 22, 2007 · Comments (9)

I never quite understood why people tend to look at monkeys as "cute." Sure, they have body fur, fingers and toes, and faces that vaguely resemble human ones. So does Rosie O'Donnell. So did Lavrentiy Beria. Are they "cute," too? Monkey social habits are viewed as human-like, as well. Now,... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (5 votes cast)

Don't sit under the baobob tree with anyone else but me

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 22, 2007 · Comments (4)

At one of the United Nation's designated "World Heritage Sites," accessible only through mountain paths in Nigeria, visitors are cautioned about getting too close to a certain tree, reports Estelle Shirbon for Reuters: Visitors to Sukur are warned not to approach a certain ancient baobab tree because, villagers say, it... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (7 votes cast)

Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Getting Cool Reception

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: October 13, 2007 · Comments (18)

The best line out of this article about the facts of global warming is from Dr. William Gray, a hurricane forecast scientist, to meteorology professionals and students at the University of North Carolina: "We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (25 votes cast)

It's the thought that counts . . .

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 30, 2007 · Comments (18)

Los Angeles County is about to take the lead in the fight against global warming, reports Susannah Rosenblatt for the Los Angeles Times : Following San Francisco's lead, Los Angeles County and city officials are urging people, businesses and government to switch off nonessential lights for one hour next month... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (15 votes cast)

Al Gore's Global Warming Hysteria the Result of a NASA Programming Error

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 10, 2007 · Comments (78)

This is big, big news. Al Gore's global warming cause is based upon NASA graphs that say 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium. It turns out that is completely wrong. 1998 was not the hottest year; that distinction goes to the year 1934. Here's the nut of the... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (40 votes cast)

Walking Causes Global Warming?

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 7, 2007 · Comments (52)

If you're someone who cares about global warming and wants to do what you can to help reduce its impact, you'd think that walking more instead of driving would be a good thing. Well, you'd be very wrong. According to an environmentalist's calculations, walking, or any exercise for that matter,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (29 votes cast)

Watt's Up, Doc?

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: July 29, 2007 · Comments (34)

Yesterday, I wrote a piece about some environmental activists getting tasered by the local police in Brattleboro, Vermont. (It was a nice change of pace from the other recent news out of Brattleboro, when they finally passed a "no public nudity" ordinance.) I was rushed for work and suffering a... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (35 votes cast)

Not a whole lot of life at Live Earth

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 9, 2007 · Comments (81)

After all the hype, Live Earth came and went, but not with the bang organizers hoped. In the US, it came in last place on NBC: NBC's three-hour primetime "Live Earth" special, which included highlights from Saturday's global concerts, failed to generate much enthusiasm in the ratings. The estimated 2.7... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (37 votes cast)

Live Earth's mammoth hypocrisy

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 7, 2007 · Comments (67)

From the Daily Mail: The Live Earth event is, in the words of one commentator: "a massive, hypocritical fraud". For while the organisers' commitment to save the planet is genuine, the very process of putting on such a vast event, with more than 150 performers jetting around the world to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (61 votes cast)

How Radical Environmentalists are the Environment's and Humanity's Worst Enemy

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 1, 2007 · Comments (35)

A Tahoe resident's perspective on radical environmentalism: Here I sit, looking down at lovely Lake Tahoe, but also looking down the hill at the fir forest growing ever thicker and more deadly. Fires always burn uphill. If a fire ever starts at the bottom of our hill, we'll have 10... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.7/5 (60 votes cast)

President Vaclav Klaus: Freedom, not climate, is at risk

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: June 14, 2007 · Comments (9)

The president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus hits the environmental nail on the head: In the past year, Al Gore's so-called "documentary" film was shown in cinemas worldwide, Britain's - more or less Tony Blair's - Stern report was published, the fourth report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (18 votes cast)

Sheryl Crow's Plan to Save the World -- Ewww

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: April 23, 2007 · Comments (85)

This is ridiculous (via Newsbusters):By now you've heard about the environmental dust-up between singer Sheryl Crow and GOP operative Karl Rove at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Crow wrote about the incident at Huffington Post. She also added a new posting to her Stop Global Warming College Tour blog that... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (14 votes cast)

Mock Jury Finds Man Not Guilty for Global Warming

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: March 24, 2007 · Comments (40)

It's an interesting idea, putting on a mock trial and taking a look at the evidence to see if man is responsible for global warming. The verdict: man has been found not guilty by a jury of Colorado sixth graders. Humans don't cause global warming, a jury of sixth graders... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (23 votes cast)

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