January 31, 2019

The Leftists Who See Trump’s Face in a Da Vinci

Two years into the Trump administration, there is now a hard and fast rule for any news outlet hoping to make a story go viral: make it salacious and stick Trump’s name in the title. BuzzFeed helped pioneer this strategy with Christopher Steele...

August 16, 2018

Putting Science on the Stand

In a closely watched decision, a California jury ruled last week that Monsanto owed former Bay Area school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $289 million in damages.  Though Monsanto maintains that its products are safe, pointing to c...

June 1, 2018

The Left Will Not Succeed in Killing Coal

No matter how much the left has come to believe in its own delusions, for any reasonable observer, it's shockingly clear that the Obama years have left a lasting toll on America.  If more proof were needed, look no farther than America...

March 13, 2018

The Courts against Proposition 65

A federal judge has frozen plans to require all products containing the widely popular herbicide glyphosate to display a Proposition 65 warning in a landmark ruling that could signal the turning of the tide for California's nanny-state ...

January 18, 2018

How Regulations Made California's Fires Worse

After raging through almost all of December, the so-called Thomas fire, California's largest wildfire ever recorded, was finally contained on January 12.  While the worst is behind us (for now), the fact that last year's wildfi...

December 29, 2017

Clean Coal Is Surging

Pouring more cold water over prophecies of coal's terminal decline, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently published its Coal Report 2017, which shows chatter about the fossil fuel's imminent demise as nothing more than wishful t...

November 30, 2017

For the UN's cancer research agency, a chance to redeem itself?

Facing mounting criticism from multiple sides, the embattled International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a semi-independent branch of the U.N.'s World Health Organization, has announced that it is searching for a new leader.  Th...

October 7, 2017

Coal Is Here for the Long Haul

While renewables and nuclear power are set to be the world’s fastest-growing sources of energy through 2040, it’s fossil fuels that will still account for more than 75% of world power production for decades to come. That’s according...

September 7, 2017

FEMA Apologists Unite

After Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas, the floodgates of the Left’s self-righteous wrath have opened with similar fury. Among all the howling, President Trump requested Congress to approve a $7.85 billion down payment for disaster relief, mos...

August 18, 2017

Kaspersky Kerfuffle: Can Foreign Contractors Protect America's Data?

With controversy over Russia swirling around Washington, our lawmakers have suddenly gotten wise to the fact that the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs has spent two decades securing important contracts with U.S. government agencies. Aft...

April 29, 2017

How the Paris Climate Deal Is Resurrecting American Coal

When former President Barack Obama signed the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 (COP21), it was widely seen as the death knell for the beleaguered U.S. coal mining industry. But what was supposed to be Obama’s apotheosis in his pursuit of environ...

January 29, 2017

The Left’s Misplaced Panic over the EPA

Out of all of President Trump’s cabinet nominees, Scott Pruitt has probably received more heat from the Left and the environmentalist movement than anybody else. From the moment the former Oklahoma attorney general’s name was floated...