Seeing red over 'green scare' Jonah Goldbberg talks about alarmism in the Environmental movement. Hype, hysteria and fear mongering are not theirs alone but their entire movement is predicated on it. I'm old enough to remember the "Next Ice Age" hysteria gripping the country. We were warned of doom and gloom and how we'd all die off b/c we couldn't grow anything in the soon to be frozen hinterlands of middle America. If Green Hysteria follows other trends we'll be hearing about the next ice age sometime soon. Oddly that would lead to the Greenies clamoring for an increase in greenhouse gases to prevent us from freezing to death. Maybe not. I've always suspected that this is the heart and soul of the environmental movement.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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