NGO Demonstrators: No to Coal, No to Oil, No to Nuclear
COPENHAGEN — Fossil fuels may be the main targeted villains at the United Nation's Climate Conference, but the activist non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the summit have let it be...
About: William F. Jasper
Posts by William F. Jasper
Buck Knives Bucks Trends
“The Buck knife saved my leg and maybe my life at least once when I carelessly caught a pant leg in the anchor winch.” So writes “Old Fool,” the...
What Consensus? Public, Scientists Doubt Climate Crisis
According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the "Climategate" e-mails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations' view that climate change is accelerating due...
Lord Monckton, the Copenhagen Treaty, and the Constitution
In an October 14 speech to the Minnesota Free Market Institute in St. Paul, Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, delivered a devastating...
Copenhagen Summit Opens Amid Climategate Fallout
As the summit on global warming opens in frigid Copenhagen, climate alarmists at the United Nations and within various national governments — along with their media allies — are...
Eminent Domain Battles Continue: Fee Simple Is Not So Simple
The Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York, has ruled against Columbia University's plans to use eminent domain to develop a satellite campus in Upper...
Jobs Summit – More talk? Yes. More jobs? No
When ABC News asked if the "jobs summit" would make real progress or would just be "simply a glorified public-relations stunt," it studiously avoided asking the real question: How...
Copenhagen: UN Calls for Trillions in Reparations for “Climate Debt”
The United Nations summit on global warming in Copenhagen is less than a week away, and UN agencies are trying to pre-set the dials with calls for massive funding...
Climategate: George Monbiot’s Lament
One of Europe's most ardent and best-known global warming alarmists, George Monbiot, is in anguish over the unfolding climategate e-mail scandal and is calling on Phil Jones, one of...
Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings
Over the past few months, a movement has been growing to expel President Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings from his post. The effort has been led primarily by...
Climategate: E-mail Scandal Could Melt Copenhagen Plans
As was reported here previously, the release of thousands of e-mails and documents from a climate research center threatens to expose some of the biggest scientific names in the...
From Rio to Copenhagen: The Earth Summit’s Legacy
In May-June 1992, this correspondent was jammed cheek to jowl with 30,000 greenies in a global mosh pit known as the United Nations Earth Summit. From that initial event...
Inflation? What inflation?
We dont have to hire historians to see where deficit spending will take us. We have only to look around now. Since the end of World War II, some...
Kelo v. New London: All for Naught, or Not?
The city of New London, Connecticut, fought for and won at the highest level permission to take private property from one person and give it to another. Now that...
Carbon Scam? Al Gore, Profits, and Copenhagen
Will Al Gore become the first "carbon billionaire?" That question — and the ethical issues involved in his related lobbying activities — is beginning to dog him, as he...
Fort Hood Victims – Soldiers or Sitting Ducks?
Soldiers trained in the "art of warfare" are not allowed to carry personal self-defense weapons on base as one of the unhappy results of the long war against guns...
Wolves Will Thrive Despite Recent Hunts
In 1995 the federal government began transplanting Canadian gray wolves into Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. That program touched off a fierce range war that continues to rage, pitting farmers,...
From Rio to Copenhagen
Seventeen and a half years ago, in May-June 1992, this correspondent was jammed cheek to jowl with 30,000 greenies in a global mosh pit known as the United Nations...
Australian Prime Minister Goes Hysterical Over Global Warming
Speaking to a liberal think tank in Sydney on November 6, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared that "dangerous" global warming skeptics are "holding the world to ransom" with...
Dangerous Connections: NBA and the KGB
The recent public assassination in Moscow of Russian oligarch and sports team owner Shabtai Kalmanovich should give NBA promoters pause regarding their headlong rush to welcome Russian billionaire Mikhail...
