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Flashback: In 1972, Cronkite Warned of ‘New Ice Age’

As winter weather continues to dominate the Midwest and the East Coast, the Media Research Center’s Julia Seymour provides this piece of video from Walter Cronkite’s CBS evening news broadcast on Sept, 11, 1972 in which Cronkite warned of the

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The Nuclear Option: With Another Snow Storm Nearly Upon Us, Let’s Reflect — on Evolution

It is such a high, blessed relief to finally get to the bottom of the most pressing issue here in this age of $17 trillion U.S. debt, barbaric animals burning humans alive in cages, the systematic rounding up, rape and mutilation of young girls around the world and all these inconvenient blizzards and bone-chilling winds blowing giant holes in our faith in the newly founded Church of Global Warming.

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Dr. Wei-Hock Soon Challenges Climate Change Critics to Public Debate

On Monday, Dr. Willie Soon, the brilliant astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has been smeared by media outlets including the Boston Globe, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Scientific American and Nature because he had the temerity to point out that human activities are not “a major cause of global warming,” struck back with a press release defending himself from the scurrilous charges aimed at him.

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Kenyan Wind Farm Company Regrets Shooting of Teenager

A Kenyan wind farm company has expressed its regret over the death of a teenager. Kinangop Wind Park CEO James Wakaba called the shooting “regrettable” after the teenager was killed following protests against the building of a £92m wind farm.

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‘Blackfish’ Continues to Cost Sea World

Fallout from the Blackfish documentary, and continued activist criticism, may be to blame for SeaWorld’s disappointing 2014 earnings report, which still shows a downward decline. Park attendance was down only a small amount–22.4 million in 2014, versus 23.4 million in 2013. Earnings, however, suffered more.

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Dr Willie Soon: A Scientist in the Humble Quest for Truth

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley answers the campaign of assaults on the reputation of Dr. Willie Soon, an unsalaried astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The recent campaign of concerted assaults on Dr Soon’s reputation Recently the Boston Globe, The

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Manchin to Obama: ‘Quit Playing Politics With Everything’

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) criticized President Obama for vetoing the Keystone XL pipeline, stating “quit playing politics with everything we do” on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. “I would say that — people like myself,

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North Dakota – More Equal Than Other States?

In the five minutes it will take you to read this article, the national debt of the United States will increase by about $9.5 million. There are no easy answers to this monumental problem, but there are simple ones.

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The Crucifixion of Dr. Wei-Hock Soon

In recent weeks, Dr. Wei-Hock Soon, a distinguished solar astrophysicist, coauthored with Christopher Monckton, Matt Briggs, and David Legates an important work of original scholarship in the Science Bulletin (previously titled Chinese Science Bulletin), a publication of the Chinese Academy

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California Dupes Taxpayers into Building the Hydrogen Highway

The California Energy Commission is honoring ex-Governor Schwarzenegger’s dream by spending another $20 million to build the supposedly non-polluting ‘hydrogen highway’ through most parts of the Golden State. A high school freshman math class could figure out that the reason

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Listen: Green Leader’s Disastrous LBC Interview

The Green Party Leader, Natalie Bennett, has appeared on the Nick Ferrari show on LBC to talk about her party’s policies. However, she became badly unstuck when she was asked about the Green’s policy on social housing. Bennett appeared to