With a wide range of benefits facing the chopping block as federal lawmakers continue debate over the deficit reduction, current and soon-to-be retirees are legitimately concerned about their future welfare. Beyond Washington, other means for retirement such as pension funds also face very daunting challenges over the next 20 years in funding their commitments. But [...]  More »

Two years ago, reporters coined the term “Climategate” to describe emails between a group of elite climate scientists that showed them admitting to falsifying data and even conspiring to smear those who dared to question their findings. Many of those exposed during this 2009 scandal were deeply involved in controlling the scientific assessments of the [...]  More »

As the deadline for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction report (November 23) approaches and we eagerly await its recommendations, one thing is abundantly clear: The time for talk is over. Substantive solutions are needed to address our economic woes. Images of action instead of real action will be see for what they are, [...]  More »

Though Mark Twain originally provided Rudyard Kipling with the advice to “get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please,” it appears as if some modern day writers have adopted the mantra (“Skeptic Shifts on Warming,” by Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein, Oct. 31st). Painting physicist Richard Muller as [...]  More »

Yogi Berra could well have envisioned EPA’s recent plan for Tier III sulfur regulations when he exclaimed “it’s déjà vu all over again.” The arguments used by EPA at a recent Congressional hearing were exactly the same as former Administrator Carol Browner used for the first round of reductions. Where is the evidence that current [...]  More »

Groucho Marx was not known as a shrewd political analyst but the pursuit of a low carbon economy, reminds me of his definition of politics.  “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. Since the arrival of the global warming hobgoblin, politicians have been promoting [...]  More »

In the midst of several major oil companies reporting their third-quarter earnings, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is leveraging those figures to launch attacks on its opponents. The strategy behind the assault entails pointing to positive corporate earnings to justify selectively levying putative tax hikes on the oil and gas industry. However, attempts to position [...]  More »

Origins of the phrase “inside the Beltway” stem from the relatively small 64-mile Interstate loop that encircles the Washington, D.C. metro area. If that small figure sounds familiar, it’s because it’s about the same distance between the U.S. coast line and an estimated 5 to 20 billion barrels of oil. With oil prices hovering around [...]  More »

In 2008, President Obama catapulted his way to the White House in part on his promise to “green” the economy. Three years later, the administration is still over 4 million shy of delivering on the 5 million green jobs promised, taxpayers are on the hook for the hundreds of billions of dollars loaned to now-bankrupt [...]  More »

Though Mark Twain originally provided Rudyard Kipling with the advice to “get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please,” it appears as if some modern day writers have adopted the mantra. In a chapter of the newly released book entitled “The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society,” [...]  More »

The first oil well in the United States was drilled in Titusville Pennsylvania in 1859.  In 1901, there was an oil boom in East Texas which is what most Americans recognize from movies. That boom changed our way of life by giving us unrestricted mobility. Ever since the discovery of oil, there have been predictions [...]  More »

In 1917, Albert Einstein plugged what he dubbed the “cosmological constant” into his equations explaining why the universe didn’t collapse under its own gravity. He later abandoned the concept, calling it his “biggest blunder.” Today, three astronomers won the Nobel prize for proving Einstein’s original theory correct. It’s no surprise that modern scientists are still [...]  More »