During 1972, Ayn Rand delivered a lecture at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum. In her lecture, she contrasts two major events from that summer’s news: the Apollo 11 moon landing and the Woodstock music festival. Using the symbolism and meaning of the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus, Ms. Rand outlines the fundamental conflict of our age:…
At least in the lower 48 states. RONALD BAILEY | 7.19.2019, Reason Americans east of the Rockies are sweltering as daytime temperatures soar toward 100 degrees or more. It is now customary for journalists covering big weather events to speculate on how man-made climate change may be affecting them, and the current heat wave is…
Tony Heller says the Union of Concerned Scientists has a long history of climate fraud, but they have outdone themselves with their latest heatwave scaremongering.
The irony is that if passed, the Saving America’s Pollinators Act would actually be detrimental to bees and other pollinating species, while harming America’s farmers. By Henry I. Miller, The Federalist Some old ideas for bad laws are endlessly recycled. Take the case of the Saving America’s Pollinators Act, a nearly six-year-old initiative now cosponsored…
By Jeff Stier, The Federalist Unjustified and outsized verdicts harm society by discouraging investment in innovative products, yet they’re becoming startlingly common. Only 51 percent of Americans think socialism would be a bad thing for the country, according to a Gallup poll released in May. Although the 2020 election will be a big test for…
US wildfire burn acreage is down 80% over the last eighty years. In this video, Tony Heller shows how climate alarmists have made up absurd excuses to ignore the inconvenient historical data.
By Hank Campbell | July 15th 2019, Science 2.0 A study has taken a look at the radii of homes with measured data near natural gas wells and statistically linked that to higher radon. While some in media will use that to sound this week’s ‘science is killing us’ alarm, the reality is that something…
Parents skeptical or opposed to vaccinating their children are turning to homeschooling to avoid vaccinating their children. During the first week in July, The Wall Street Journal reports, parents attended workshops hosted by the anti-vaccine organization New York Alliance for Vaccine Rights. The events covered course requirements, instruction plans, extracurricular activity options, and potential financial…
Jacob Jarvis, Evening Standard A lawyer representing hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters said it “beggars belief” so many of them are being prosecuted. It comes as two courtrooms are being set aside for a day each week at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for 19 weeks, to deal with Extinction Rebellion protesters arrested in mass demonstrations across…
Jessica Glenza, The Guardian Catherine Montantes was a 28-year-old college student, training to become a border patrol agent, and recently diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. When she stepped into the Lower Elwha tribal health clinic in Port Angeles, Washington, she had no idea she arrived just an hour after a 52-year-old infected with measles. The…
The ivory tower of the mainstream media continues to crumble. This time a CNN reporter threatens a Trump supporter at the White House Social Media Summit. This on top of other instances where so-called journalists (who are really political activists) use their positions to smear or destroy in order to keep market share, or just…
The US has had fewer forest fires than it did in pre-industrial era, or 90 years ago, or even a decade ago. But, as Tony Heller points out, fire makes for effective propaganda, and is useful for creating fear by climate charlatans. PHOTO CREDIT: Wikimedia – The Rim Fire in the Stanislaus National Forest near…
