By Alan Caruba What kind of government deliberately denies its citizens access to the energy they need to live, to conduct business, to transport goods, to travel, and to just turn on the lights? Answer: The United States of America. In a letter to members of the G-20, the finance ministers and central bankers of…
By Alan Caruba Once, years ago, I was in a Midwestern State talking with a farmer. I raised the question of how much pesticide he used on his crop to ward off or kill insect predators or, in the case of weeds, how much herbicide. “Look, my family and I eat a part of what…
By Alan Caruba Historically, the Federal Reserve has had a poor record when it comes to correcting an economic slide into Depression. In his book, “New Deal or Raw Deal?” historian Burton Folsom, Jr, asked and answered the question “What caused the Great Depression?” Among the factors he cited was the huge debt left over…
By Alan Caruba Is there anything that some special interest group or some government agency doesn’t want to forbid you from eating, driving, wearing, using, and enjoying? We live surrounded by a multitude of “thou shalt not’s.” Throughout history people have been afflicted with rulers and others who felt compelled to create lists of things…
By Alan Caruba Every time you see some product being sold as “Green”, allegedly safer or beneficial for the environment, you can be sure that it is more expensive than a comparable product that does the same thing without making this claim. Everything you eat, drink, wear or use begins as a “natural” product. It…
By Alan Caruba “Why are they all so afraid to say it: There’s something seriously wrong with Barack Obama. And until the day he’s no longer in the White House, there will be something seriously wrong with America.” – Judi McLoed, Editor of CanadaFreePress.com. Like a broken record, Obama is still talking about Washington’s lobbyists…
By Alan Caruba After three decades of trying to push the global warming scam to a point where billions could be made selling and trading bogus “carbon credits”, the global schemers have abandoned it in the wake of 2009 revelations that a handful of rogue climate scientists were literally inventing the data to support it.…
By Alan Caruba Normally, we assume that anyone who runs for and assumes the office of president has an agenda intended to succeed and thereby ensure that history will look favorably on his accomplishments. The men who served in that office craved success and loathed failure. Barack Obama didn’t merely promise hope and change. On…
By Alan Caruba As we head into the home stretch leading to the November 2nd midterm elections, one factor getting very little attention is the way that liberal organizations have failed or betrayed their members, starting with the Democratic Party. Even a brief look at the Democratic Party provides a reminder that it stood against…
Nov. 20, 2009: The Day “Global Warming” Ended
By Alan Caruba November 20, 2009 is an important date because it was the day that “global warming” ended. It was the day that a total fabrication, a hoax, was revealed to be the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aided and abetted by a vast network of governmental and…
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