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Earth: An environmental writer mainstreams an idea floating around the green fringe — save the earth by population control and give carbon credits to one-child families. Are we threatened by the patter of little carbon footprints? New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin participated in an Oct. 14 panel discussion on climate change with other media pundits titled "Covering Climate: What's Population Got To Do With It?" People who need people they are not. In a recently rediscovered book, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," co-authored with Malthus fans Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Holdren wrote that families "contribute to general social deterioration...

More than a thousand fans of former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. are expected to turn out Saturday for a family corn roast, where kids will be able to take pony rides while their parents pose for pictures with the Republican and his wife. Proceeds will go to a campaign account Ehrlich has kept open since his 2006 reelection loss. The event in Reisterstown comes a week after he was the main attraction at a Republican spaghetti dinner in Cockeysville and another event just days before, where he was warmly received over cocktails and hors d'oeuvres by a GOP...

President Barack Obama talks about restoring economic growth. But his science adviser, John Holdren, once called for zero economic growth while writing with Paul and Anne Ehrlich--who predicted mass starvation in the 1970s. **** Admittedly, President Obama hasn't formally adopted this goal. But by putting the economy into hock and running up government borrowing, which even the Congressional Budget Office warns will crowd out private investment, the president seems determined to prevent a robust recovery. Maybe John Holdren will get his wish after all.

Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, considered compulsory abortions and other Draconian measures to shrink the human population in a 1977 science textbook. By Joseph Abrams FOXNews.com Tuesday, July 21, 2009 President Obama's "science czar," Paul Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, "compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet -- controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up...

Leadership: Our new science czar, John Holdren, once backed compulsory sterilization and forced abortion as part of a government population-control program. The only thing missing was a Soylent Green recipe.In April, President Obama declared that "the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over." In everything from stem cell research to climate change and energy policy, reason and science would triumph. The problem is that what the Obama administration considers science, as exemplified by the choice of Holdren, is troubling. In a recently rediscovered 1977 book, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," co-authored with doomsters Paul and Anne Ehrlich,...

Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States'...

<p>It's time to stop taking the likes of Paul Erlich seriously.</p> <p>On April 22 we will be celebrating three decades of environmental progress since the first Earth Day in 1970.Our air and water are cleaner, forest growth and food production are increasing, world hunger is decreasing, and the predicted population apocalypse never came. And all this good environmental news has come about because of an increasing economic prosperity that was supposed to doom us to death, disease and environmental destruction.</p>

Today is the official publication date of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment by Paul and Anne Ehrlich. The release of this book was timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the publication of Paul Ehrlich's once exceedingly popular "The Population Bomb" in 1968. If you expect to see much about either of these books in the mainstream media, you are in for a big disappointment. The MSM is avoiding the whole subject of Paul Ehrlich and his apocalyptic "The Population Bomb" like the plague nowadays. The reason is probably because it might draw embarrassing attention to...

Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar....

When Michael Steele ran for Maryland's open U.S. Senate in 2006, his backers hired 300 mostly poor African-Americans from Philadelphia -- most if not all of them unemployed, many of them homeless -- fed them doughnuts and then packed the crew onto Trailways buses for an Election Day trip that would make a bit of political history. The buses, which were draped in banners for Steele and Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, headed across the state line into Maryland, where the day laborers were dispatched to predominantly African-American neighborhoods of the city of Baltimore and populous Prince George's County. They spent...

Governor Ehrlich's Chief Counsel has sent a letter to the co-chairs of a legislative committee investigating hiring and firing practices of the Ehrlich administration.Included in that letter obtained by WBAL News, Jervis Finney provides the co-chairs with documents he says he uncovered during his investigation into the identity of "MD4Bush".He points to a now-former State Democratic Party official Ryan O'Doherty who he says sent an email to party supporters hours before the Washington Post published it's first story about the rumors about Mayor O'Malley.The following is the text from that e-mail: "There will be a big story in the Post...

It looks like president-elect Obama will name John P. Holdren as his science advisor. Holdren is a professor of environmental policy at Harvard and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As Ron Bailey points out, he has been an activist on the ecological left and no friend of free markets. Perhaps more striking is his activism well beyond his own academic specialty, arguing, for instance, that scientists have a responsibility to advance the cause of the elimination of all nuclear weapons and seeking controls on population growth. And he didn’t say all this in the...

The Dewey Loman American Legion Post 109 is the place to be tonight for Maryland Republicans. That’s where presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and ex-presidential candidate Mitt Romney are both scheduled to speak this evening in Halethorpe Maryland. Romney was previously scheduled to attend the event, while McCain announced his surprise appearance this morning. And just minutes ago, McCain’s campaign put out word that the Arizona senator would be picking up “a major endorsement” at this evening’s Baltimore County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. Minutes later, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney announced he would be ending his bid for the White House....

Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has thrown his support behind state Sen. Andrew P. Harris' attempt to unseat a fellow Republican, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest, in the upcoming congressional races. Mr. Ehrlich's chief fundraiser, Richard E. Hug, has joined Mr. Harris' exploratory committee and cultivated donors for a Harris fundraiser last week in Baltimore that featured an appearance by Mr. Ehrlich. "Many of you know [Mr. Harris]. He is a tireless campaigner and has an excellent shot at winning this seat," Mr. Hug wrote to supporters in advance of the fundraiser. In addition, Mr. Harris is a frequent guest...

Tonight, at the Huntingtown Vol. Fire Department, in Calvert County, Maryland, the Republican Women of Calvert County, sponsored a Lincoln Days Dinner with former Gov. Bob Ehrlich the keynote speaker. It was a very good speech as the former governor raised three points. One - what Republicans accomplished fm 2003-2007, in the dark blue state of Maryland. Two - not only what dems are doing in Maryland now, but what they are doing and planning to do in the U.S. Congress, and three - what we as Republicans need to do to overcome this loss and regain lost seats. Once...

Here are some outrageous and racist comments by environmentalists. These are compiled and documented in my book Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health. John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club: Muir said American Indians are “mostly ugly, and some of them altogether hideous.” They “seemed to have no right place in the landscape,” he continued. Muir is still honored without qualification on the Sierra Club web site, which proclaims, “John Muir is as relevant today as he was over 100 years ago.” Paul Ehrlich, influential “overpopulation” guru and professor of population studies at Stanford University: In his best-selling book,...

The Population Bomb The Population Bomb (1968) is a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich. A best-selling work, it predicted disaster for humanity due to overpopulation and the "population explosion". The book predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death", that nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in the history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation. The book is primarily a repetition of the Malthusian catastrophe argument, that population growth will outpace agricultural growth unless controlled. It assumes that the population is going to...

ANNAPOLIS -- Perhaps former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s best excuse should be that he was too busy running Maryland to sit long enough for a painting, but Mr. Ehrlich's four-year term has ended and his official portrait still is not hanging inside the State House. Mr. Ehrlich has declined to say why he has no portrait to go with those of the state's 12 other most recent governors, hung in the second-floor reception room, a stately space in which governors hold press conferences and other events. Former staffer Paul E. Schurick said only that Mr. Ehrlich, the state's first...

I am trying to figure out exactly what Ehrlich did wrong in MD to get thrown out by the voters. He balanced the budget taken over from Paris Spenddenning. Was not this election about fiscal spending. SO far all I can figure is that he was not a Dem is what the problem was. Anything else?

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday disclosed that former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have sought his input for their potential presidential campaigns, saying that his own re-election loss has not ended his career in Republican politics. Mr. Ehrlich, who was Maryland's first Republican governor in 36 years, also said he had not ruled out another run for state office, including a possible campaign in 2010 to replace Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, a Democrat. "I would not eliminate that as an option," he said of a run to succeed Miss Mikulski,...

Ehrlich in talks with prez hopefulsDefends record, says he'll stay near Annapolis By JEFF HORSEMAN, Staff Writer Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday said he's been in touch with 2008 Republican presidential hopefuls Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, but he hasn't made any decision about what he'll do after he leaves office in January. Mr. Ehrlich also defended his four-year record as governor, saying he hoped Maryland Republicans would mount an "aggressive" challenge to what he described as a ultra-liberal Democratic monopoly in state government. Having lost to Democrat Martin O'Malley in November, Mr. Ehrlich, the state's first Republican governor...

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. called for Republican unity yesterday at the state convention, where the selection of party chairman revealed divisions within the party after last month's widespread election defeats. "The hard left is in firm control of the state, and we don't have the votes to stop them," Mr. Ehrlich told party leaders in a ballroom at the Doubletree Hotel in Annapolis. "That's not the fate of Maryland in the long term. It's just where we are today." His remarks were more upbeat than those he made earlier in the day during his last appearance...

More than 1 million residents of the Washington-Baltimore region already live close to heavily trafficked motorways where dangerous soot pollution is at levels that can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks and respiratory disease. Building the $2.4 billion (and rising), 18-mile intercounty connector linking Interstate 270 to Interstate 95 through neighborhoods and near schools would worsen these health problems. Maryland Gov.-elect Martin O'Malley (D) reiterated his support for the road following his election last month, but if the public demands protection for our children and the elderly, he still could take steps to prevent these health hazards. The toxic pollution the...

Well, today is the day! I want Fred Grandy of WMAL to eat a cheeseburger! I phoned three of my brothers last night. Two live in northern Virginia and the third lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The two in NOVA will vote straight R's today. The one further south recently moved there from Maryland and does not know if he is registered or not. He got a VA license so I told him he probably is registered. I said for him to try to find out today and at least, take your electric bill and drivers license to the polling place...

Just heard on the news that Michael Steele just received the endorsement of prominant black ministers from PG County. He will win!

THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF Maryland has just one key responsibility under the law: to finish out the term of the state's chief executive if he or she no longer can serve. But a good lieutenant governor can carve out a meaningful role in the administration of the state -- and that potential is what voters should be looking for in a candidate. Both Democrat Anthony G. Brown and Republican Kristen Cox have experience in government. He served eight years in the state legislature; she's been a Cabinet secretary since 2003. But of the two, Mr. Brown has the experience and...

Today, we drove to northern Virginia for my grandsons last soccer game of the season. Now, this may mean nothing to those who do not live in Maryland or Southern Maryland. However, driving up Route 4 to get to the Beltway (495), starting from the Dowerhouse Road intersection, in the median strip and on both sides of the highway - north and south bound - there was nothing but Ehrlich and Steele signs. Those little signs you set out in the yard. There were hundreds of them. And they stretched all the way up Route 4 to the Beltway. Probably...

BALTIMORE -- Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. received the endorsement yesterday of a half-dozen black ministers who could sway Democratic voters in the battlegrounds of Prince George's County and Baltimore to cross party lines in the election Tuesday. Mr. Ehrlich, a Republican, stood on a street corner in South Baltimore surrounded by the ministers and touted his record of reaching out to minorities and implementing policies for urban voters, including programs for drug treatment instead of prison time. "This is an agenda for people regardless of color," he said. "This is white and black and Hispanic and Republican and...

On Saturday, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. attended an NAACP forum in his gubernatorial opponent's back yard. The next day, he went to four black churches in Prince George's County, then to a dinner for black police officers in Baltimore. Today, Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, the Democratic Senate candidate, and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley are scheduled to welcome Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to Bowie State University, a historically black college, for a rally. With polls suggesting that turnout of black voters could be critical in the races for governor and U.S. Senate in Maryland, the campaigns in recent days have...

The Maryland governor's race is a virtual tie less than a week before Election Day, as Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s relentless attacks on Mayor Martin O'Malley's record on crime and schools have eroded the Democrat's support in the Baltimore suburbs, a new poll for The Sun shows. O'Malley, who led by 6 percentage points in The Sun's September poll, has seen his advantage drop to just 1 point, well within the survey's margin of error. Ehrlich, who has spent months trying to convince voters that O'Malley's record as mayor makes him unqualified to lead the state, appears to be...

The Maryland governor's race is a virtual tie less than a week before Election Day, as Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s relentless attacks on Mayor Martin O'Malley's record on crime and schools have eroded the Democrat's support in the Baltimore suburbs, a new poll for The Sun shows. O'Malley, who led by 6 percentage points in The Sun's September poll, has seen his advantage drop to just 1 point, well within the survey's margin of error. Ehrlich, who has spent months trying to convince voters that O'Malley's record as mayor makes him unqualified to lead the state, appears to be...

Email from Public Opinion Strategies, LLC of Alexandria Va. TO: GOVERNOR BOB EHRLICH THE EHRLICH CAMPAIGN TEAM FROM: GLEN BOLGER RE: THE STATE OF THE RACE DATE: OCTOBER 29, 2006 M E M O R A N D U M Our latest tracking poll has the race a statistical dead heat -Martin O'Malley only has a one point advantage, leading by a 46%-45% margin, with 1% for the third party candidates and 8% undecided. The poll was conducted October 25, 26, and 28th among 600 likely voters and has a margin of error of +4.00% in 95 out of 100...

2. Are you registered as (a Democrat), (a Republican), an independent or something else? Dem. ............56 Rep. ............30 Ind. ............11 Something else ...3 No opinion .......1

"After 51 years, and eight gubernatorial administrations, of protecting Maryland's small population of black bears, Governor Bob Ehrlich decided to open a trophy hunting season on these creatures. It was political payback for his buddies at the NRA...."

WHEN HE RAN for governor of Maryland four years ago, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s claim to the job seemed to rest on little more than a sense of entitlement and a telegenic, genial personality. In fits and starts, though, he has grown in the role to become a generally proficient, pragmatic governor, if not always a disciplined or mature one. He has chalked up successes on transportation, the environment and education, among other things. For Mr. Ehrlich, the state's first Republican governor in a generation, those are real achievements -- particularly when weighed against the monolith of Democratic dominance in...

On many occasions during the past four years, it has seemed like Gov. Robert Ehrlich has been one of the few leaders in Annapolis providing a measure of adult supervision over state government. In particular, we admire Mr. Ehrlich's willingness to challenge the class-warfare demagoguery and reflexive support for higher taxes that has long dominated Maryland politics. Although we've disagreed with him from time to time, Mr. Ehrlich, who in 2003 became the first Republican elected governor of Maryland since Spiro Agnew's resignation 34 years earlier, deserves high praise for his willingness to stand up to Senate President Mike Miller,...

The hallways were decorated with the green and white of Martin O'Malley's campaign, but more important was what was happening inside the Prince George's County ballroom: thunderous applause from a thousand supporters, most of them African American women. The Baltimore mayor converted the rostrum into a pulpit. "You saw in 2004 what it can do," Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) says of George Bush's successful turnout effort. "Turn to your neighbor and say, 'There's a lot of power in this room,' " O'Malley preached. " There's a lot of power in this room ," the women cried out. Four years...

Sixteen percent of black Democratic voters in Maryland are backing Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich in his reelection bid, while 21 percent have yet to decide, according to a new poll that suggests he still has time to pick up more votes among black Democrats. The poll by Ariel & Ethan, LLC, also found that Democratic nominee Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, who is also white, has 64 percent of black Democrats. More than one in five voters is not yet decided on the gubernatorial race. Ehrlich also has nearly one in five votes among middle-aged blacks (aged 35-65), and he has...

It's a Thursday afternoon and William H. "Billy" Murphy Jr., as is often the case, seems to be doing 10 things at once. The phone rings. And he's spouting off about Mayor Martin O'Malley's response to a radio ad in which Murphy is featured, accusing the Baltimore Police Department of unlawfully arresting thousands of black residents. Murphy paces. Advertisement "Did you hear what O'Malley said today?" he booms incredulously into the phone. "He said that Governor Ehrlich was lying about this! He didn't say disagreeing. He said lying!" Fiery as ever, Murphy, 63, is a force to be reckoned with...

It was former Democratic Gov. Parris N. Glendening who often referred affectionately to politics in Maryland as a contact sport. If so, the current race for governor would be no exception. As the ever-tightening race enters the home stretch, the campaigns of Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., the Republican incumbent, and Democratic challenger Martin O’Malley, the mayor of Baltimore, have traded so many charges and countercharges, the voters are ready for the game to be over......

BALTIMORE, Md. -- Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley has a slight lead over Governor Robert Ehrlich in the race for governor, according to results from a poll published in The Baltimore Sun. The poll, which was conducted by Potomac Inc., found that O'Malley has a 6 percentage-point lead among likely voters--50 percent to 44 percent--over the Republican incumbent. The statewide survey of 815 likely voters indicates it will be a tight race in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 2-to-1. "This campaign should be neck-and-neck in November," said Keith Haller, the president of Potomac Inc., which conducted the Sun...

An email I received regarding the need for election judges in MD................... To: Friends of the Ehrlich for Maryland Committee From: JR Reith Re: Message from Ehrlich Campaign - November 7, 2006 Please forward this to your friends, family and co-workers who may want to help. All citizens of Maryland, regardless of party affiliation, deserve to vote this November in an honest and fair election. That’s why we need your help as an Election Judge in the General Election, November 7. After the Statewide problems we experienced at the polls during the Primary it is more important than ever that...

[EXCERPT]: Baltimore Mayor MARTIN O'MALLEY: CEO: Speaking of police, when you entered the Mayor’s office, crime was your top issue. In the first half of your tenure, things went pretty well, but then you experienced a lot of upheaval with your police commissioners. You’ve got one ex-commissioner hosting a radio show where he’s routinely not being very nice to you and another ex-commissioner is suing to get his old job back, saying he was wrongly terminated. Why has there been such a problem managing that position? What’s been going wrong? MO: You know, I wish the appointments that I make...

Joseph Steffen made his long-awaited appearance before a legislative investigative committee today, outlining the role he played in the firing of state employees by the Ehrlich administration and giving testimony that at times seemed to conflict with testimony given earlier by other administration witnesses. "We've got some conflicting testimony here. If witnesses testify under oath and are not telling the truth, it's perjury," said Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton, D-Charles, co-chairman of the special legislative committee. --Snip-- Steffen, the self-described "Prince of Darkness" and the key figure in a bitter political dispute over the firing of state employees after Ehrlich was...

Joseph Steffen, a former aide to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., was rebuffed today in his bid to avoid testifying before lawmakers about firing practices. Steffen, who called himself the "Prince of Darkness," is a key witness for Democratic lawmakers who want to know if Ehrlich used Steffen to improperly fire Democrats working for the state. Steffen no longer works for Ehrlich, and he argued that the legislative panel should have no power to subpoena witnesses. Harford County Circuit Court Judge Maurice Baldwin rejected Steffen's motion today. The former aide was subpoenaed to address the panel on Wednesday. A lawyer...

Former Republican aide Joseph F. Steffen Jr., the so-called "Prince of Darkness" who gained notoriety for his role in the firing of state employees perceived as disloyal to the governor, filed a motion in Harford County Circuit Court Monday to quash a subpoena calling him to testify about his work for Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Steffen was scheduled to appear at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Annapolis before the special committee investigating whether state workers were fired for being Democrats, according to court documents filed by his attorney. But the attorney, George S. Robinson IV, contended in his filing that...

A former police commissioner suing the city says he can implicate an associate of Mayor Martin O'Malley in a 2004 plot that entrapped Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s administration in a rumor-mongering scandal. Kevin P. Clark, who is suing over being fired in November 2004, says he lost his job, in part because a police probe of a city-owned laptop stolen from Baltimore Labor Commissioner Sean R. Malone threatened to expose Mr. Malone's link to the scandal. "We received information ... that there was information on the computer regarding a group called MD4Bush," said Neal M. Janey Sr., a lawyer...

MELLEN - "There are too many people in the world. It's not sustainable." That is what the chairman of the Backwoods Anti-Social Social Club said. We were sitting in a little bar working on hamburgers thick enough to make the cholesterol count jump just by looking at them. The chairman was saying something he wished he had said at a recent conference on sustainability, but he's not the type to stand up in front of a crowd. He likes to work the edges and lead from behind, so to speak. Not being the religious sort, he has never been admonished...

He was supposed to be the star witness before a committee of lawmakers examining the firing practices of the Ehrlich administration, the so-called Prince of Darkness accused of clearing out state agencies to make room for GOP loyalists. Then Joseph F. Steffen Jr. disappeared. His cell phone went dead. A subpoena drafted earlier this year was never delivered, and the select committee that wanted to hear from him put its work on hold. Steffen has returned to the Baltimore area and is ready to talk - to lawmakers and the news media. He never intentionally vanished, he said, but had...

Maryland’s Thought Police Governor Ehrlich makes clear that statements critical of homosexual actions are forbidden. It is not without irony that Robert J. Smith, a Catholic citizen of Maryland — the Catholic colony of the original 13 — has been punished by that state’s Republican governor for exercising his right to freedom of speech and religion. Robert Smith, a Maryland gubernatorial appointee to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) board, appeared regularly as a panelist on a local cable talk show. As the Washington Post reported, during a recent show the topic of homosexuality and federalism came up, and...