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  • W.Va. board passes science standards allowing climate change debate

    04/10/2015 8:26:19 AM PDT · by hauerf · 5 replies
    Charleston (West Virginia) Daily Mail ^ | April 9, 2015 | Samuel Speciale
    Two months after withdrawing its controversial science education standards with modifications that would have asked students to question the scientific community’s assertion that global warming is caused by human greenhouse emissions, the West Virginia Board of Education voted Thursday to amend the standards once again to allow classroom debate on climate change.
  • Global Warming Is Anti-Science

    03/25/2015 9:46:31 AM PDT · by hauerf · 9 replies
    Briggs' blog ^ | 03/25/2015 | William M Briggs
    It is not anti-science to say that humans influence the climate, because, of course, humans, and every other species on the planet, influences the climate. At the least, humans move through the atmosphere, which influences it and hence the climate. Only a science denier would deny this. It is an semi-open question how much humans, and each other species, influences the climate. What is not an open question, indeed it is a question as closed as can be, that the global-warming-of-doom promised by organizations like the IPCC has failed to materialize in the ways these groups have promised. Only science...
  • Megascale Desalination

    03/03/2015 8:27:49 AM PST · by hauerf · 56 replies
    On a Mediterranean beach 10 miles south of Tel Aviv, Israel, a vast new industrial facility hums around the clock. It is the world’s largest modern seawater desalination plant, providing 20 percent of the water consumed by the country’s households. Built for the Israeli government by Israel Desalination Enterprises, or IDE Technologies, at a cost of around $500 million, it uses a conventional desalination technology called reverse osmosis (RO). Thanks to a series of engineering and materials advances, however, it produces clean water from the sea cheaply and at a scale never before achieved ...
  • Trashing our history: troops in Iraq

    08/15/2005 9:19:15 AM PDT · by hauerf · 18 replies · 635+ views
    townhall.com ^ | August 10, 2005 | Thomas Sowell
    All the American deaths in Iraq since the war began are not even half of the deaths of U.S. Marines taking the one island of Iwo Jima in a couple of months of fighting. And Iwo Jima was just one battle in a war that was raging on other fronts around the world simultaneously and continuing for nearly four long years. - Thomas Sowell
  • Port talks come to a standstill

    10/02/2002 4:34:53 PM PDT · by hauerf · 2 replies · 41+ views
    Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) ^ | 10/02/2002 | Dennis Johnson and Jasmine Lee
    WEST COAST: Union leaders pull out, accusing shippers of bringing in guards to intimidate them. By Dennis Johnson and Jasmine Lee DAILY BREEZE Negotiators for union dockworkers walked out of talks Tuesday aimed at ending a lockout at ports from San Diego to Seattle, claiming the shippers association brought in “armed thugs” to intimidate them and hasten federal intervention. Representatives of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union were supposed to meet with Pacific Maritime Association officials, who represent shipping firms at 29 West Coast ports. When dockworker officials arrived at a federal mediator’s Oakland office they were met by an...
  • Democrats play loose with facts

    09/25/2002 8:23:56 AM PDT · by hauerf · 2 replies · 190+ views
    Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) ^ | 09/25/2002 | Stan Katten
    With the midterm election less than two months away, the Democrats have turned on their demagoging spigot full force — same old accusations with some new assaults on the economy, the president and vice president. It is amazing that they can keep straight faces as they mouth these “party-line” untruths and distortions and that anyone believes them. Though the Democrats have been wailing for the last three or four national elections that the “Republicans are going to cancel Medicare and destroy Social Security,” neither has happened and neither will. (To try to do so would be political suicide.) They have...
  • You Have the Right to Cross Your Legs and Pray

    05/09/2002 6:12:41 PM PDT · by hauerf · 5 replies · 236+ views
    Reason Express ^ | May 7, 2002 | Jeff A. Taylor
    What if the owners of TV shows and movies had the right to come into your house and find out what you watched? What if they told you not to skip over commercials, warning that it amounted to stealing their property? What if they thought that even going to the bathroom during a commercial was a technical violation of copyright law? This is pretty much the insane state of copyright disputes, circa 2002. Content owners have convinced a judge that SonicBlue must hand over any data it has on how its subscribers use its ReplayTV broadband digital video recorder. The...
  • Bush threats set dangerous precedent

    02/04/2002 6:36:17 AM PST · by hauerf · 7 replies · 12+ views
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 01/31/2002 | Jay Bookman
    Bush threats set dangerous precedent By JAY BOOKMAN Atlanta Journal-Constitution Columnist Within the community of nations, the United States has long been the big guy whom most members respected if not admired. Where we led, other nations have been willing to follow, not out of fear but because we have had the decency to treat others with respect when -- by virtue of our power -- we really didn't need to. Of course, when we've been provoked, or when our allies have been threatened, we have also fought with an unholy fervor. That too earned us respect. But unlike ...
  • The American Media and the War

    11/26/2001 8:56:35 AM PST · by hauerf · 2 replies · 6+ views
    The Ornery American ^ | October 22, 2001 | Orson Scott Card
    So I was watching Channel 12's news last week. They showed Democrat Tom Daschle declaring, "We aren't Democrats, we aren't Republicans, we're Americans." Then they had a story about our Democratic Senator Edwards coming to North Carolina to try to build support for the airline safety bill that is designed to prevent further airplane takeovers, including provisions for better-staffed security checkpoints and federal marshals on some planes. ... For the rest of this assessment of media bias, click here: Orson Scott Card essay.
  • Some rights simply are not right

    08/02/2001 3:42:16 PM PDT · by hauerf · 234+ views
    South Bay Daily Breeze ^ | 08/02/2001 | Balint Vazsonyi
    As the battle over a "Patients' Bill of Rights" continues to rage, we would do well to remind ourselves of what rights are — and what they are not. If we fail to reverse the current trend of creating rights that are not, we will lose the ones we truly possess. Most alarming about the proposed "Patients' Bill of Rights" — and others usurping the label — is the insinuation its legitimacy would be comparable to that of the original. Nothing could be further removed from the truth. The label "Bill of Rights" refers, as everyone knows, to the first ...
  • Senator Jeffords and The Party of Reagan, Not Rockefeller

    06/06/2001 8:36:26 AM PDT · by hauerf · 13+ views
    Club for Growth ^ | 06/06/2001 | Stephen Moore
    Many people have been asking us about the political ramifications of the decision by Senator Jeffords to defect from the GOP. It's undeniably a short-term blow to the Republican Party that Jim Jeffords has left the GOP. Allowing Tom Daschle to decide what bills come to the Senate floor and to give Committee chairmanships to people like Robert C. Byrd, Ted Kennedy, and Joseph Biden is unquestionably a harmful development for the Republican party and frightening for the economy. The press is reflexively deifying Jeffords as a man of principle and statesmanship and warning that this is a major setback ...
  • GO LAKERS!

    06/03/2001 7:08:21 PM PDT · by hauerf · 15+ views
    Self | 06/03/2001 | Fred Hauer
    GO LAKERS! SWEEP THE 6ERS! Uh, this is the ESPN chat room, isn't it? It isn't? Well, excuse me!
  • Tax cut won't pay energy bills

    05/20/2001 10:17:26 AM PDT · by hauerf · 11+ views
    Daily Breeze ^ | 05/20/2001 | The Editors
    President Bush's comment that tax cuts are the quickest way to help Californians pay their energy bills leaves us disappointed. In recent weeks, both Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have shown a strange insensitivity toward the plight of 34 million constituents in this state. Regarding tax cuts and energy bills, the median household income in California is about $40,000, and the Bush tax plan offers that bracket a cut of about $600 to $650. That's enough to pay power bills for a few months — under currently regulated retail rates. But retail electricity rates are about to skyrocket ...
  • How Do Home-Schoolers Spell 'Education?'

    05/17/2001 7:41:16 PM PDT · by hauerf · 5+ views
    Cato Daily Dispatch ^ | 05/17/2001 | Jerry Brito
    Last year, home-schoolers startled the educational establishment when they swept the top three places in the prestigious Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, nailing words such as "phrontistery" and "sphingine." Just a week earlier, home-schoolers took four of the top 10 spots at the national geography bee. This month, students who are taught at home -- just 2 percent of all school-age children -- will again make up more than 10 percent of the national spelling bee's participants and an even higher proportion at the National Geographic Bee, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, according to The Chicago Tribune. Continuing victories ...
  • No U.N. Seat? No U.N. Dues.

    05/11/2001 5:41:19 PM PDT · by hauerf · 11+ views
    Cato Daily Dispatch ^ | 05/11/2001 | Jerry Brito
    The House of Representatives voted yesterday to withhold $244 million in U.N. dues next year, striking back at the world body for its decision to oust the United States from a seat on a U.N. human rights panel, according to The Washington Post. ( http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12200-2001May10.html ) The move came despite warnings from the Bush administration that the action could scuttle a deal aimed at settling a long-running dispute over U.S. debts to the United Nations. The 252-165 vote was for a proposal that would allow Congress to pay $582 million in U.N. back dues this year but suspend the next ...
  • There may be a better way to resolve the energy crunch

    05/04/2001 7:57:58 PM PDT · by hauerf · 11+ views
    The Sacramento Bee ^ | 5/02/2001 | Dan Walters
    Even if Gov. Gray Davis' latest scheme to extract California from its energy crisis works as he hopes, millions of Californians will be paying very high electric utility rates for years, if not decades, to come. The 70 percent of Californians who are served by private utilities would see their power rates jump by roughly 40 percent. Such high rates could become a serious damper on new business investment in a state that needs a quarter-million new jobs a year just to keep pace with increases in the labor force. And they would create an immense differential between the rates ...
  • Proposed State and Federal Energy Solutions

    05/04/2001 9:41:51 AM PDT · by hauerf · 3+ views
    Secretary Jones Proposes State and Federal Energy Solutions in Letter to Vice President Cheney Says Davis Plan Could Saddle Taxpayers with $66 Billion of Long Term Debt SACRAMENTO --- In a letter to Vice President Dick Cheney, California Secretary of State Bill Jones outlined a private-sector proposal as an alternative to Governor Davis' request to bail out the state's investor-owned utilities through the state purchase of the utilities' electricity transmission grid. In his letter, Jones proposed a strategy for the state to negotiate a settlement to restore fiscal solvency to the utilities and immediately remove the state from the ...
  • Lawmakers vote to kill vouchers

    05/03/2001 7:06:58 AM PDT · by hauerf · 3+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 5/02/2001 | Alex Johnson
    Bush surrenders on one of his top education priorities WASHINGTON, May 2 — A key House committee joined the Senate in striking President Bush’s hotly contested voucher initiative from a far-reaching package of education reforms Wednesday. Shortly before the vote, the president conceded defeat on his proposal to help students pay for religious and other private schools, which had been one of his top legislative priorities. CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS accused the committee of abandoning the president on the measure, which would have given students in poor-performing schools as much as $1,500 in federal aid to attend religious and other private ...
  • Suits Against Gun Manufacturers Crumbling

    04/28/2001 8:08:03 PM PDT · by hauerf · 169+ views
    Cato Daily Dispatch ^ | 4/27/2001 | Jerry Brito
    New York State's highest court ruled that gun makers can't be sued for alleged negligence in marketing firearms, a ruling that could overturn a verdict holding handgun makers liable for crimes, The Wall Street Journal reports. The opinion by the New York Court of Appeals also blocked a bid by shooting victims and anti-gun groups to hold the gun industry as a whole responsible when crimes can't be traced to weapons made by individual manufacturers, the paper said. In "So Sue Them, Sue Them," Michael I. Krauss and Robert A. Levy show that when governments use the judiciary to recover ...
  • Supreme Court: Not "Unreasonable" to Arrest Traffic Violators

    04/26/2001 7:31:12 AM PDT · by hauerf · 9+ views
    Cato Daily Dispatch ^ | 4/25/2001 | Jerry Brito
    Police may arrest people without a warrant and take them into custody for minor traffic or other misdemeanor offenses punishable only by a fine, such as unbuckled seat belts or public littering, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a decision that could reshape everyday interactions between law enforcement and ordinary citizens, according to The Washington Post. By a 5 to 4 vote, the court held in Gail Atwater v The City of Lago Vista that a Texas police officer was not required by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution -- which bans unreasonable searches and seizures -- to get a ...