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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

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  By • Nov 15th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Environment, Ethics, Media Bias, Opinion, Politics

Nov 15, 2010 By Thomas Lifson The doomsayers were wrong in their predictions of an ecological disaster from the Deepwater Horizon oil well disaster. Researchers form the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama have discovered that there has been a population explosion, because of the fishing moratorium. Lou Dolinar writes in National Review Online: Even [...]

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  By • Nov 12th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Government Waste, Politics

Anti-nuclear ideologues cloud clean energy’s future By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Thursday, November 11, 2010 The re-election of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was a blow to America’s quest for cleaner energy. That’s because the Nevada senator, in league with President Obama, can proceed with his campaign to short-circuit nuclear power. No one has played a [...]

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  By • Nov 11th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Government Waste, Politics

IG: Scientists didn’t back ban By Kara Rowland The Washington Times 7:44 p.m., Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Gulf State lawmakers are accusing the Obama administration of putting politics above science after a government watchdog said Interior Department officials misled the public by altering a report to suggest that a group of outside scientists supported a [...]

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  By • Nov 6th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Government Waste, Politics, the UN

A top UN panel on Friday called for increased taxes on carbon emissions and international transport to raise 100 billion dollars a year to combat climate change. The group led by the prime ministers of Norway and Ethiopia also said there could be a tax on international financial transactions. Nov 5, 2010 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.65d35f849629004f3f01ff977b2a3e33.741&show_article=1 Social Bookmarking

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  By • Oct 28th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Editorial, Environment, Ethics, Government Waste, Politics

Government: While it destroys jobs with its regulations, the EPA has an opening for an “environmental protection specialist” whose job it is to help the agency meet its “environmental justice goals.” Meet its what? If socialism and environmentalism had a child, it would be called the Environmental Protection Agency. Established under President Nixon to ensure [...]

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  By • Oct 27th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Environment, Opinion, Politics

Canada has announced it will ban the chemical bisphenol A — known as BPA — which is used to make plastic water and baby bottles. The head of the Canadian environmental group Environmental Defence is thrilled: “Kudos to the federal government. … We look forward to seeing BPA legally designated as ‘toxic’ as soon as [...]

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  By • Oct 22nd, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Editorial, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Politics

Redemption comes in only one color — green You’ve got to hand it to Al Gore; he’s willing to adapt his scaremongering theology to keep it kicking. His 2006 agitprop film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” sold millions on the unproven theory that human-induced “global warming” threatens to wreak catastrophe on the Earth. Absent evidence of actual [...]

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  By • Oct 13th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Editorial, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Government Waste, Politics

But a drilling ban persists by other means. Oct 13, 2010 WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548454110320976.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop Social Bookmarking

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  By • Oct 13th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Government Waste, Politics

The Obama administration on Tuesday said it would lift the deep-water drilling moratorium it imposed after the massive BP oil spill, but Gulf of Mexico region lawmakers and industry advocates said the stiffer new rules that the government is imposing will leave rigs idle and workers out of jobs for months longer. By Kara Rowland [...]

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  By • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Opinion, Politics

By HAROLD LEWIS Posted 10/11/2010 06:08 PM ET Below is the text of the Oct. 6 letter that Harold Lewis, emeritus professor of of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sent to Princeton’s Curtis G. Callan Jr., tendering his resignation from the American Physical Society, of which Callan is president. …. “It is [...]

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