1988 was a barn-burner year for climate alarmists. Then-Sen. Al Gore’s steamy congressional hearing trumpeted a planet on fire, and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created to produce pseudo-scientific evidence blaming it on unfair capitalist industrial prosperity-spawned CO2 emissions. Canadian Environment Minister Christine Stewart explained the real cause for urgency. She…
Cornwall Alliance, James Wanliss
Orwellian Global Warming Dreams
In March a group of Democratic attorneys general formed “AG’s United for Clean Power.” It sounds nice enough, doesn’t it? New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, standing beside a grinning Al Gore, announced that the gang was going after any energy providers and distributors who may have committed thought crimes such as questioning the human…
Cornwall Alliance, E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.
What’s the Problem With the Commons in Environment and Health Care?
For generations economists have recognized the “problem of the commons.” The phrase harks back to when villagers all shared a common pasture. The natural incentive for each villager was to graze as many livestock on it as he could, because if instead he restricted his herd so the demand on the pasture’s grass growth was…
Steve's Say..., Steven Welcenbach
Steve’s Say . . . Political Courage Returns to the Scene in Madison
In an unprecedented and widely welcomed statement, State Representative Janel Brandtjen (R-Menomonee Falls) drew a red line in the sand for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Police Chief Ed Flynn and the judicial manifold of the Milwaukee County courthouse to see. The criminal lifestyles and culture of violence consuming Milwaukee, especially on the Northwest side, have…
James Wanliss
What Can We Lose Fighting Climate Change?
What do we have to lose? This is a frequent response when someone questions the idea that human caused runaway global warming should be addressed. At the 2015 Paris Climate Conference President Obama offered (https://www.whitehouse.gov/thepressoffice/ 2015/11/30/remarks-president-obama-first-sessioncop21) a terrifying vision of the future if global warming is not addressed. He presented “a glimpse of our children’s…
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WILL Reacts to U.S. Department of Education Dictate on Transgender Access to Public School Bathrooms
Federal mandate offends constitutional constraints on Executive Branch, Federal GovernmentMay 13, 2016 – Milwaukee, WI – In response to the United States Department of Education’s mandate that public schools provide bathroom access to transgender students based on how they gender identify, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty condemns the policy for failing to respect…