Fighting Fires with Money
The main reason that California’s fires are such a problem is because of the proximity of housing enclaves to the repeat burn zones. Firefighters do extraordinary work saving homes each and every year...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists, Progress, and Fantasies
I enjoyed Jim’s letter to the Bryan/College Station Eagle so much I had to re-print it here: Power to the people The environmentalists claim the electric car is the answer to "saving our world." Let’s...
View ArticleSave Your Home from a Wildfire, go to Jail
Ross Curtis, along with family and friends, saved his Big Sur home from being destroyed by a wildfire. Moreover the backfire he set seems to have helped officials contain the blaze. His thanks?...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Science
Dr. David Evans, a pioneer in the modeling of climate change, now says that there’s no definitive evidence that man-made carbon emissions are contributing to global warming. Moreover, he seems to...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s Priorities
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama recently participated in an anti-global warming rally in California during which he said that few of the nation’s problems were more urgent than global warming. To...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Markets
Crowd-sourcing, capturing the “wisdom” of the mob, was what the cool kids were doing not so long ago. Witness the rise of the Daily Kos and other such web sites. One thing they failed to espouse in...
View ArticleGuerilla Environmentalism or Fraud?
Tim DeChristopher, a Utah economics student, is – for now – the proud possessor of the obligation to buy drilling rights from the federal government on 13 tracts of land he bid on at a recent Bureau of...
View ArticleCold Showers and How Sometimes Liberal Guilt is Hilarious
The overblown, self-important angst of some liberals is so stupid it’s painfully funny to watch. The cold shower to this humor is the knowledge that such people will occasionally act on their...
View ArticleWords of Wisdom: Environmentalist Grandstanding
Jason Avark writes: The current state of environmentalism seems a form of moral preening — a very self-promotional way for “green” adherents to publicly display their moral superiority and, more the to...
View ArticleSaving the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Could Endanger Oil Production
As a friend of mine said after reading this article, "Step on the thing and start drilling!" I’ve been to this part of the country and, with due respect to Midland/Odessa, there’s only one reason for...
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