“Two thousand three hundred years ago, Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot with one slice of his mighty sword. This was most unfortunate, inspiring countless men to believe that the path to greatness lies with simple solutions to complex problems. So it is with a small new education reform idea called the ‘65 percent […]
“Educational choice refers to parents’ rights to choose their child’s educational environment without financial penalty. Educational choice is a funding policy, not another teaching or schooling reform. Any rational schooling method can be pursued under educational choice. Though such choice can take different forms — vouchers, certificates, tax credits, for example — its […]
“According to Reuters, Ford Motor Co. is set to announce a new program that will enable customers to invest in clean energy projects to offset the carbon dioxide they produce by driving. The ‘Greener Miles’ program is a partnership between Ford and California group TerraPass, an organization that has pioneered carbon offsets for individuals. … […]
“Ten states plus New York City and Washington, D.C., sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, claiming newly adopted emissions standards do not do enough to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The states said that the EPA was refusing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act, despite what they say […]
“NASA is trying to rid the Kennedy Space Center of vultures after the shuttle struck one of the large birds during lift-off last year on the first flight after the Columbia disaster. The space center has set up what it calls a ‘road kill posse’ to quickly clear as many carcasses as possible from the […]
“Some of the gaping holes that exist in our understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere will be answered by two new satellites launched on Friday. The Cloudsat and Calipso missions will study how clouds and aerosols (fine particles) form, evolve and affect our climate, the weather and air quality. Scientists say knowledge gaps in such areas […]
“Scrambling to respond to the public outcry about gas prices, Senate Republicans want to send taxpayers a $100 rebate check to help ease some of the pain at the pump. But if GOP leaders stick with their strategy of packaging this proposal with a provision to open the Arctic National Wildlife to oil drilling, they […]
“Amid the race between politicians to capitalize on consumer anger at high gas prices, at least one member of Congress, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., expressed a much-needed perspective on the problem — these same politicians own a share of the blame. During an interview with Larry Kudlow earlier this week about rising gas prices, Rep. […]
“In September 2005, an Internal Revenue Service auditor darkened the door of Greenpeace, the organization known for its frontline environmental activism against nuclear testing, commercial whaling and destruction of wilderness, and stayed for three months. ‘There’s no doubt there was a political motive behind it,’ says Carol Gregory, spokeswoman for Greenpeace. According to the group, […]
“These days, even President Bush is dissing the oil companies. … He doesn’t accuse them of starting the Iraq war, of course, but he does now favor looking into other possible misdeeds, such as antitrust violations. For Republican Sen. Arlen Specter and a chorus of Democrats, oil-company misdeeds are enough to justify a tax on […]
