As a free-market environmentalist, I should probably be more excited about President Obama’s cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions. After all, it’s not a tax, which would allow the government to gain financially from pollution indefinitely… a situation, like any vice tax, that causes the government to suffer unhealthy conflicts of interest. No, according to   more

With the economy tanking, and the Dow heading to its lowest level since 1997, the country finally seems ready to tighten its collective belt.
I’m seeing it in my own part of the world; none of my friends who tend to make their own are suddenly buying store-made. Just the opposite; my friends who normally buy   more

I like to think that reasonable people can disagree on the issue of global warming. Take, for example, its first visible proponent, NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen and… my mother.
It’s not an arbitrary pairing; Dr. Hansen and my mom went to school together in Denison, Iowa back in the 1950s, and there has always been   more