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• Climate Emails Have Rippling Effects

  Posted December 1st, 2009 at 5:36pm in Energy and Environment with 6 comments

  For those who thought the exposed emails from Britain’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit would come and go without much play, think again. Surely the skeptics and even the agnostics wouldn’t miss an opportunity to jump on such devastating revelations, but the fact is ClimateGate is having immediate and possibly long-lasting effects all [...] More

• The Obama Administration: A Year of Living Dangerously

  Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 10:08am in American Leadership, Protect America with 22 comments

  This week marks the one year anniversary of the president’s election to commander chief, but it seems more like an occasion for concern than for slapping high-fives. It is not hard to craft comparisons between Carter and the current occupant of the Oval Office. Both entered office with high expectations; both vowed to change the tone in [...] More

• Accepting and Embracing Nuclear Power

  Posted July 23rd, 2009 at 3:54pm in Energy and Environment with 20 comments

  Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has a problem. His Labor Party government wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent from 2000 levels by 2050, but opposes building nuclear power plants– the one clean, abundant, and affordable energy source known to this planet. Ziggy Switkowski, head of the nation’s main nuclear research institute, says that [...] More

• The Obama Administration Supports the U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty

  Posted June 10th, 2009 at 9:50am in American Leadership, Protect America with 1 comments

  The administration recently released its Treaty Priority List, designating the treaties for which it supports – and those for which it does not support – Senate action. The U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty, and its U.S.-Australia counterpart, is on the List. The treaties permit the U.S. to trade most defense articles with these nations without an [...] More

• Heartland Update: Causes of Global Warming Alarmism

  Posted March 10th, 2009 at 5:06pm in Energy and Environment with 10 comments

  Bob Carter is the first speaker during the last event of the conference. Professor Carter is a geologist at James Cook University and is widely known for his global warming skepticism. In his 2006 article, “There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998,” he said, The essence of the issue is this. Climate [...] More

• The Unintended Consequences of Global Warming Hysteria

  Posted February 11th, 2009 at 5:35pm in Energy and Environment with 21 comments

  In what has been an unusually and welcoming warm week in the District and with that comes the “What’s so bad about global warming?” or “I love global warming!” facetious remarks. The funny thing is these comments are made by both global warming alarmists and global warming skeptics. As most Foundry readers know, the science behind [...] More

• If the Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan Were a Country…

  Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 9:49am in Ongoing Priorities with 22 comments

  … which country would it be? Just so we can all wrap our heads around how big President Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Debt Plan is, this graphic compares the pre-Senate debt plan costs with the GDPs of major nations:Just think of it: The deficit-spending package passed by House Democrats already is bigger than 168 of the 180 national economies measured [...] More