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A mere week after director James Cameron won a Chicken Award for running away from a climate change debate challenge he had made to Andrew Breitbart, filmmaker Ann McElhinney and Marc Morano, it has been confirmed that the Oscar-winner now

Despite the fact that President Obama made Cap and Trade and other green policy plans a focal point of his early days in office — not to mention his campaign for president — the White House has quietly scrubbed from

—– Actor Ryan Reynolds at HuffPo: I didn’t grow up in Louisiana, and I can imagine those who did are even more passionate about cleaning up this mess than the rest of us. I grew up in Canada, where we

Certainly the philosophy of the Triple Bottom Line (“3BL” or “TBL”) is unconventional when compared with accepted business practices which are based upon the typical single bottom line of profit. We know that profit is essential to business survival, but

Six taxpayers filed a lawsuit this week to invalidate an executive order issued by Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire. The taxpayers believe–with good reason–that the governor violated the doctrine of separation of powers by snatching a failed bill out of the

There’s a reason Prince made it onto Time’s 100 Most Influential Celebrities list. His musical legacy is easily apparent, and his opinions are still making headlines. Recently, the purple-clad eccentric has endured great scorn for his statement, “The Internet’s completely

Hollywood, particularly at awards ceremonies, prides itself as being courageous, ahead of the pack and willing to discuss and say the unpopular long before the rest of the world has caught up. This is of course nonsense but it has

*** UPDATED The National Enquirer has struck again in the Al Gore Sex Attack Scandal. Ahead of the print edition of the Enquirer hitting big city newsstands tomorrow morning, the Enquirer‘s website has just released it’s latest Al Gore Sex

While the White House really, really wants you believe that they have their boot on the neck of BP, it turns out that a key Administration official had his head inserted somewhere else just three short years ago. Do you

[youtube JnhbrAt8mFo nolink] Remember that “settled science” that Laurie David’s alleged married boyfriend was forever prattling on about? Well, surprise, surprise… according to the National Post‘s Lawrence Solomon, it turns out that it’s not so settled after all. The IPCC

California’s Air Resources Board (CARB)–long considered a foe of conservatives nationwide– has shelled out close to $800,000 to bolster its latest pet “green” initiative, Capitol Confidential has learned. A study released last month, which draws positive conclusions regarding CARB’s favored

The Hill: A new $3 million ad buy is pressing lawmakers in more than a dozen states to end Capitol Hill “bickering” and approve the sweeping climate change and energy bill unveiled last month by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and

You would think that a conference that features some of the world’s leading scientists talking about a hot-button issue like global warming would attract a bit of old media attention. The Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, currently

Widely reviled by the left, Bush’s faith-based initiatives were claimed to be evidence that Bush was a “religious zealot” trying to destroy America with evil Christianity. Now, two years into the Obama administration, we are seeing what Obama intends to

Just when we thought flag@whitehouse.gov–which appears to be alive and well when clicked–was scary and invasive–it seems the Obama administration’s Census Bureau has outdone itself. A US census worker, driving a metallic gray Ford Taurus-type car, has been reported to

If ignorance is truly bliss, then green-blogger Brendan DeMelle has got to be one the happiest people on the face of the earth. Attempting to ridicule the Heartland Institutes’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, set to kick off in

Either James Cameron is a genocidal maniac or a black-hearted liar. How else to explain the vast divide between his words and deeds? Yesterday on “Hardball,” Cameron ripped we Global Cooling Global Warming Climate Change deniers as “dangerous.” The takeaway

This Tax Day I’m sure we’ll all raise a glass to our friends at the IRS. After all, their ranks are only growing. While the private sector is still struggling, with unemployment hovering just under 10 percent and real unemployment

Global warming alarmists are now alarmed because they cannot account for the cooling trend that has been evident since the late 1990s in contradiction to their climate models. In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests the

In a lead editorial last month in the aftermath of the great Washington snowstorms, “Lessons from the Snow”, the Washington Post took the stance that the inundation that plagued D.C. (like other points in the U.S.) was nothing but a

Like all red-blooded American boys, when Mr. Gisele Bundchen speaks, we listen up to the principal signal-caller of the New England Patriots. Yes, the man with three Super Bowl rings and babies both by the Brazilian supermodel and actress Bridget

Wednesday evening, I had the honor of attending a presentation given by noted ‘climate change’ skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton, sponsored by the Bull Run Republican Women’s Club in Manassas, Virginia. As I didn’t think it appropriate to ask a long-winded

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is known for its relentless pursuit of initiatives to combat pollution and emissions it deems harmful, including carbon dioxide. However, one of its efforts designed to counter climate change has the agency attracting incoming

This week, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South Africa’s tourism minister, was nominated to head the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC). Van Schalkwyk is a former apartheid operative who bartered his way into the black majority government by helping it

You need to give me some money. And you need to do it right now. Let’s be clear – this is an emergency. The time for debate is over. The time for action is now. There is a clear consensus

Al Gore emerged from his undisclosed location and took to the op-ed page of the New York Times: I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting

Did Republicans lose in 2006 and 2008 because they were too far to the left or too far to the right? And which approach should they adopt if they want to regain power in 2010 and 2012? Some people think

We used to think of the British and European press as far more politicized than ours; after all, their newspapers freely chose up sides and when you picked up a Tory paper such as The Telegraph, a center-right paper like

As a trial lawyer, I am jealous of Tom Friedman, that prophet of painfully conventional “wisdom” whose insights grace the ever dustier New York Times op-ed pages. His latest column, “Global Weirding Is Here“, has managed to achieve what I

Oh, this is rich. I’m laughing so hard, it’s difficult to type. Only in California. For a few years now, I’ve been signed up for Barbara Boxer’s campaign solicitations. Keep your enemies closer and all that. So, today Ms. Boxer

The New York Times’ leading in-house global warming obsessive, Thomas Friedman, has quite a column today. It is more a tantrum, really, as so many of his offerings have verged on being of late, if one that I find, even

KSTU: A group of scientists from Utah and elsewhere held a press conference after the Utah House of Representatives passed two controversial climate-change resolutions. One resolution asks the Environmental Protection Agency not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The other asks

On Tuesday, March 23, a symposium will convene in Laurel, Maryland on “Climate Change and Energy Imperatives for Future Naval Forces.” Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory and the US Navy, it will include roundtable discussions on a variety

A few weeks ago, Lord Christopher Monckton told me a distressing story about a visit to Haiti. He said that poverty in that troubled nation is so pervasive that many of its inhabitants have been reduced to eating mud pies.

The U.S. Chamber strongly supports efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, but we believe there’s a right way and a wrong way to achieve that goal. The wrong way is through the EPA’s endangerment finding, which triggers

If there’s one thing the Snowpocalypse-hastened collapse of the Great Global Warming Hoax has shown us, among other things, it’s that Mark Steyn, as usual, was right all along, and “Anthropogenic Global Warming” — ridiculous on its face, as anyone