I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. The radical environmentalists, emboldened by some of the positions taken by Obama’s Czars,1 are proposing even more radical solutions to combat their favorite apocalypse: global warming. For instance, The New York Times environmental reporter has proposed giving carbon credits
I am not a big fan of reality TV. My tastes run instead to EWTN, FOX News and–because I travel a lot and have a farm–The Weather Channel. But the news that D-Health reality-show stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are expecting their 19th child
The opening sentence of the Lancet1 article paints a grim picture. The normally staid British medical journal reports on a new health threat that “will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk.”
President Obama’s top science advisor and I have something in common: We both have a long-term association with Paul Ehrlich, my former colleague at Stanford University. There any similarity ends, however. Holdren, who has co-authored hooks on population control with Ehrlich and his wife, is
John P. Holdren thinks babies will be the death of us all. Normally, one man’s opinion would not matter terribly, but Mr. Holdren happens to be President Obama’s Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Assistant to the President for
30 July 2009 — Vol. 12 / No. 22 A few weeks ago, President Obama demanded that a national health care bill be on his desk before Congress’s summer recess. Since then, frenetic attempts to ram the 1,000-page bill through Congress have all but collapsed,
13 July 2009 — Vol. 12/No. 20 In what will perhaps come to be known as the pontiff’s signature writing, Pope Benedict XVI released a sweeping encyclical that seeks to make the Catholic Church’s social stance abundantly clear on everything from sound economic practice to
…Mosher has put his finger on another instance of the general case that government intervention in the spontaneous order of the world is counterproductive. When government intervenes, resources are squandered to “solve” a small or imaginary problem and in doing so it creates a large
What’s the opposite of a fan? Well, I have one of those. For the purposes of charity, we’ll give him a new name: Blake. A year and a half ago, Blake sent me a polite email requesting that we remove a picture that we currently
Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals, is
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. The radical environmentalists, emboldened by some of the positions taken by Obama’s Czars,1 are proposing even more radical solutions
I am not a big fan of reality TV. My tastes run instead to EWTN, FOX News and–because I travel a lot and have a
The opening sentence of the Lancet1 article paints a grim picture. The normally staid British medical journal reports on a new health threat that “will
President Obama’s top science advisor and I have something in common: We both have a long-term association with Paul Ehrlich, my former colleague at Stanford
John P. Holdren thinks babies will be the death of us all. Normally, one man’s opinion would not matter terribly, but Mr. Holdren happens
30 July 2009 — Vol. 12 / No. 22 A few weeks ago, President Obama demanded that a national health care bill be on his
13 July 2009 — Vol. 12/No. 20 In what will perhaps come to be known as the pontiff’s signature writing, Pope Benedict XVI released a
…Mosher has put his finger on another instance of the general case that government intervention in the spontaneous order of the world is counterproductive. When
What’s the opposite of a fan? Well, I have one of those. For the purposes of charity, we’ll give him a new name: Blake. A
Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K.