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Environmentalists’ Hypocrisy

Reading this title might raise a curious question by any reader, and maybe rightfully so. Who ever heard of environmentalists being haters? They are not, they are protectors, right? Well, we question that based on their actions on many fronts in the past until today. We have addressed and commented on their activities in previous articles, the most recent one entitled ‘Environmental Extremists gone wild was posted on March 31, 2008. Read More→

“The Case for Terrestrial (a.k.a. Nuclear) Energy” (2 of 2)

As Common Sense Authors have done in the past, we want to share an article with you we came across recently. It is actually the transcript of a speech delivered by William Tucker, a veteran journalist who spoke at Hillsdale College on January 29, 2008, during a conference on “Free Markets and Politics Today.” Mr. Tucker’s work has appeared in the Atlantic Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review and Reader’s Digest among many other publications. His articles have won the John Hancock Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Amos Tuck Award among others. He has also published several books of which The Excluded American: Homelessness and Housing Policies has won the Mencken Award. Read More→

“The Case for Terrestrial (a.k.a. Nuclear) Energy” (1 of 2)

As Common Sense Authors have done in the past, we want to share an article with you we came across recently. It is actually the transcript of a speech delivered by William Tucker, a veteran journalist who spoke at Hillsdale College on January 29, 2008, during a conference on “Free Markets and Politics Today.” Mr. Tucker’s work has appeared in the Atlantic Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review and Reader’s Digest among many other publications. His articles have won the John Hancock Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Amos Tuck Award among others. He has also published several books of which The Excluded American: Homelessness and Housing Policies has won the Mencken Award. Due to its length, we will reprint this speech in two parts with the following proviso: “This reprint is with the permission from Imprimis, the national speech digest of Hillsdale College, www.hillsdale.edu.”

The following is the first part of William Tucker’s speech:  Read More→

Environmental Extremists Gone Wild!

As Common Sense Authors, we continue to find ourselves totally baffled by the inability of elected officials, people in power (like the President, Governors and Congressional Leaders) whether in politics or industry, and of course the vast media membership to confront the environmental movement in this country. This is especially true Read More→

Climate Change in CA Education Curriculum

California has long been held in public opinion as the place where things start, whether they, those things, are good, not so good or even outright bad. And generally speaking, Californians are somewhat proud of that. It was therefore only a matter of time before someone had to come up with this idea: Make Global Warming, or to be more precise, Climate change part of the science topics in all of California’s public schools. Read More→

Dangerous Politics

They did it again! The Democrats in Congress cannot help themselves when it comes to playing politics with all kinds of issues; they have to politicize them, whatever they are. Their latest attempt deals with the renewal of the Protect America Act. Read More→

Global Warming? Global Cooling? What is it?

A recent article in Investor’s Business Daily entitled ‘The Sun also Sets’ focused on the World’s Climate Change; except for the ‘minor’ difference that it was highlighting scientists who are seriously concerned about, believe it or not: Global Cooling! Read More→

2007 Man of the Year – General David Petraeus

When it comes to Person of the Year for 2007, there should be no doubt for any common sense thinking person in America that there is really only one candidate who deserves this honor. Notwithstanding other Read More→

Award-winning Al Gore

 

After receiving an Oscar and an Emmy in Hollywood, former Vice-President Al Gore has now added the Nobel Peace Prize to his trophy chest. This is quite an accomplishment. But there could be more. Since no human being Read More→

More on Global Warming, part 2 of 2

 

It has to be said that the topic of Global Warming has been brought to the attention of almost everybody who has access to news, regardless of where they live on this planet. It has been debated ad infinitum for several years now and the main reason it is still on the front burner on a daily basis is because it has been disputed whether or not it is man made or a natural occurrence. While the scientific community Read More→