National Review’s Jim Geraghty posted to his Facebook page photos he’d taken at the Black Lives Matter rally in Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention. One was of a woman wearing a T-shirt with the message, “Silence Is Violence.” That’s a message Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (DRI) needs to hear after his article in the Columbia…
Cornwall Alliance
Bill Mundhausen, Cornwall Alliance
Global Cooling? Why We Need Politics Out of Climate Change Science
Those of you who were alive in the 70’s may remember articles in Time Magazine warning the world about an impending ice age. That seems ludicrous after three decades of concerted effort to convince everyone that global warming is upon us and that we and our technology are the cause. It’s almost as if powerful…
Cornwall Alliance, Vijay Jayaraj
When You Are Starving You Don’t Care about Global Warming
While the West is busy touting global warming as the biggest threat to the human race, life and death in India continue as usual. Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) is the claim that carbon dioxide emissions resulting from human activity have caused global temperatures to reach dangerous levels, and that this will cause catastrophic impacts…
Cornwall Alliance, Megan Toombs
Zika, Abortion, and Population Control: The Hype and the Real Danger
The Zika virus has caused massive concern bordering on panic across a significant portion of the globe. Women are worried sick that their children could be born with birth defects, worries that are being heightened by some health agencies’ advice to avoid pregnancy during the Zika outbreak. But if experts are advising women not to…
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…