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Electricity – A basic human right
Blackouts remind us what life is like without electricity by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services September 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, September 2003 ¾ The great Northeast power failure and Hurricane Isabel reminded millions of Americans what it’s like to be without electrical power. Schools, offices, factories and water purification plants closed. Lights, computers, televisions, telephones, stoves, refrigerators, […]
The real posion is dishonesty
by Jay Ambrose Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 2003 President Bush, who seems honestly to care about the misery of the African people, could do them no better service on his trip to their continent than to speak out loud and clear about how fanatical, well-off, Western environmentalists are annually killing hundreds of […]
The Enron of nonprofits
Watchdog group charges Greenpeace with tax code violations by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services September 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, September 2003 Its famous name and high-profile campaigns convinced legions of people to invest in it – because it was devoted to the public interest. But complex corporate structures enabled it to violate tax laws […]
Death by Public Policy
by Henry I. Miller, MD Scripps Howard News Service April 2003 STANFORD, CA, April 2003 Germany is unwilling, for once, to go to war. French President Jacques Chirac sputters that Eastern European nations’ support of America over Iraq “is not well-brought-up behavior.” More Europeans think George Bush is a threat to world peace than Saddam […]
Hypocrisy on Parade
Congress should shun Hollywood’s advice in vote on Alaskan oil by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services April 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, April 2003 ¾ As if we needed it, this year’s somewhat subdued Academy Awards ceremony again reminded us how out-of-touch Hollywood is with America and reality. After hectoring us about saving energy, the glitterati arrived for their big night […]
Shouldn’t all organizations have to tell the truth?
by Dennis T. Avery Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services March 2003 CHURCHVILLE, VA, March 2003 BP, a huge international oil company once known as British Petroleum, now says BP stands for “beyond petroleum.” It invested $200 million in solar during the past year or so. But BP produces only enough solar electricity to light the city […]
How Europe is killing Africans
It may – as its advocates constantly exclaim – be based on a noble quest to safeguard our Earth’s future, but the “good science” of ecology leaves many urgent questions unanswered. Among the most pressing: – Why do Europe’s developed countries impose their environmental ethics on poor countries that are simply trying to pass through […]
Animals over Africans – European Priorities
by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online February 2003 NEW YORK, NY, February 2003 It’s a shame European functionaries don’t care as much about Africans as they do about pigs. British hog farmers are baffled by new regulations imposed by Eurocrats in Brussels. They require them to give toys to pigs […]
“Beyond Petroleum” – Beyond the Truth
by Alan Caruba The Sierra Times January 2003 MAPLEWOOD, NJ, January 2003 I was watching a recent “Meet the Press” and was struck by two commercials, one by British Petroleum (BP) and one by ExxonMobil. Both strove to convey a message of environmental responsibility, but the BP commercial failed the truth test on several counts. […]