Here are a few stories about some lesser-known people who made the news this week that I thought would interest you. Continue reading
United Nations
News from the right you may have missed
IT’S ABOUT TIME – As I wrote on Jan. 20, 2017, the inauguration of President Donald Trump will be remembered as the day the “kick me” sign was removed from the back of Americans. The United Nations, which has long been the center of anti-American activity, received a shot across the bow on Jan. 27, 2017, when our newly confirmed UN Ambassador Nikki Haley presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Continue reading
Quotes you may have missed
These are some of the quotes from the news that made my day. Continue reading
There’s no end to Hillary’s cover-ups and corruption
We went into the long 4th of July weekend with four stories pointing to Hillary Clinton as someone who simply cannot be trusted. You may not have heard about the fourth story, another eye-opener. Continue reading
An open letter to President Obama
During your Manilla press conference this week, you mocked Republicans for their concern over the threat Syrian refugees pose saying, “They’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America.”
Where were you on Aug. 20, 2013, when 1,429 people, including 426 children, in Damascus were killed with Sarin gas? … read more
An uptick in climate control news as United Nations conference in Paris nears
Paris will host the UN conference on climate beginning Nov. 30. (theenviornment.co.in)
As the Nov. 30, convening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris draws near we are already beginning to see an uptick in communications on climate change.
In the past week, the news seems to favor those of us who don’t buy the scare tactics of those who predict doom and gloom. Today’s USA Today seems to poke fun at President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 science advisory committee report that carbon dioxide levels would increase enough to almost certainly cause significant changes in the temperature and other properties of the stratosphere by the year 2000. Continue reading
University professor compares Malthusian population explosion scare to climate change extremists
“Reducing our consumption of fossil fuels will not make bad weather and extreme natural events go away.” – Pierre Desrochers, author and academic
Faithful readers of this blog know my position on climate change. Yes, it is taking place; it’s cyclical. And, yes, we have experienced a very slight warming, but we cannot do anything to change that trend.
University of Toronto professor Pierre Desrochers compares climate change extremists to Malthusians. (montrealgazette.com)
In an interesting writing by University of Toronto associate professor of geography Pierre Desrochers, recently excerpted in the Wall Street Journal’s regular Notable & Quotable column, I found his observation of those who believed that the means of human subsistence (Malthusians) were so similar to climate change dooms day catastrophists.
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) argued that human population would increase to the maximum extent permitted by human fertility, that the means of subsistence wouldn’t keep up, and that the unavoidable result would be poverty, starvation, war, diseases and population crashes. Continue reading
Hillary Clinton favored continued enrichment by Iran
Well, well, well … today we learned that it was Hillary Clinton who opened the door to accepting a change in U.S. policy that would allow Iran to continue to produce nuclear fuel.
Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy aide Jake Sullivan photographed during a White House visit. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
After an unproductive secret meeting between Clinton’s foreign policy aide Jake Sullivan and Iranian diplomats in Oman in July 2012, and in a series of meetings in Washington over the following six months, Clinton and Obama concluded that we would have to let Iran continue to enrich uranium at small levels if an agreement was to succeed.
Very interesting, since it was Clinton who, during the 2008 campaign, called Obama naïve for believing he could directly negotiate with Iran’s regime. Continue reading
Iran still getting the best of us
In my Jan. 20, post on Iran’s exploitation of President Obama’s foreign policy weakness I mentioned hints that U.S. negotiators were backing off their demand for an outright halt to Iran’s nuclear program in favor of a lesser demand that would provide Iran with a window to gradually build up its capability. Today, it appears we’re a step closer to such an agreement.
Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week, Secretary of State John Kerry insists Iran will not get the bomb. (newsweek.com)
Secretary of State John Kerry told senators yesterday, “There is no deal yet. And I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce.” All reports indicate, however, that a deal in the works would supposedly slow the Iranian nuclear program.
“The president has made clear – I can’t state this more firmly – the policy is Iran will not get a nuclear weapon,” Kerry tried to assure members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Continue reading
China reneges on climate accord
There they were, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, all smiles during last month’s APEC summit meeting in Beijing, after signing a commitment to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 2025-2030.
The sight of the two leaders agreeing on the reduction of fossil fuels had to thrill the low-information crowd and, of course, the “greenies.” … read more