By Sean Walsh One of my favorite television channels is the History Channel. This is ironic since when I was younger I hated history, like most kids. Quite frankly, I wondered why we needed to study the subject since I felt it had no practical use for my current life much less my future endeavors.…
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Paul Driessen
Rare corporate courage and common sense
Wal-Mart stands up to activist intimidation, ensuring affordable, wholesome food for customers By Paul Driessen Good for Wal-Mart! Despite intense pressure by anti-biotechnology activists, the retailing giant didn’t cave in to demands that it “reject” Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) sweet corn (maize). Other retailers had capitulated to intimidation campaigns by Food and Water Watch, Greenpeace…
Tom DeWeese
Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory or Threat?
By Tom DeWeese Part 1 of 2 The battle over Agenda 21 is raging across the nation. City and County Councils have become war zones as citizens question the origins of development plans and planners deny any international connections to the UN’s Agenda 21. What is the truth? Since I helped start this war, I…
Ken Haapala
Heartland Climate Conference a Big Success Again
By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project The three-day Seventh International Conference on Climate Change, Real Science Real Choices, sponsored by the Heartland Institute ran from Monday May 21st to Wednesday afternoon of May 23rd. Even though the decision to hold the conference was not made until three months ago, it…
Paul Driessen
Trying to snooker Smucker
Climate alarm campaigners make pitiful case that manmade climate change threatens coffee By Paul Driessen It’s a common tactic among groups promoting climate alarmism and antihydrocarbon policies. As evidence mounts that manmade catastrophic climate change is not imminent, extreme weather events cannot be linked to human activities, and developing nations will not reduce their use…
Steven Welcenbach
A Forgotten but Effective Paradigm for the Future of Conservatism
By Steve Welcenbach Last week I made a journey up to Mayville in Dodge county to visit with some of my favorite members of the Wisconsin Activist Army I have had the pleasure of befriending since my engagement the past three+ years. They have reestablished something so basic but so important to the movement that…