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Gary North
Written by Gary North on November 19, 2012
How would Darwin have explained this? Back in March, Lawrence Anthony, a conservationist and author known as “The Elephant Whisperer”, passed away. After his death, although they were not alerted to the event, a group of wild elephants Anthony helped to rescue and rehabilitate travelled to his house in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 15, 2012
London’s Mail Online ran an article on a government report that has received almost no attention. It was released by the Met Office, shorthand for the United Kingdom’s meteorological center. For those of us who have always suspected thatt he global warming movement was based on bad computer models, insufficient evidence, and a desire to […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 5, 2012
North’s first law of bureaucracy: “Some bureaucrat will eventually enforce the letter of a law to the point of utter foolishness.” Here is an example. Dear Mr. DeVries: It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 1, 2012
A battery manufacturing company has declared bankruptcy, taking $249 million on Obamagrants with it. It was clean energy: clean gone. It was green energy: $129 million worth. The company created 408 new jobs. Those jobs are now gone, as is the company. The company? A123. I get it. “Pouring money down a rat hole is […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 23, 2012
The Greens have recruited an interfaith council of liberal Jews, liberal Protestants, liberal Orthodox, and Liberal Roman Catholics. These people have formed an organization to make big civil government even more intrusive in our lives. This is The National Religious Partnership for the Environment. There is a rival organization of conservative, Bible-believing activists, whose economics […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 23, 2012
Maybe you are interested in the relationship between squirrels and rattlesnakes. But probably not. Maybe you think the federal government should subsidize this research. But probably not. Researchers whose salaries are paid for by the taxpayers of California are now investigating the squirrel-snake connection by means of robot squirrels. “No,” you say. “This is just […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 12, 2012
The Obama Administration’s Department of Energy put up $150 million to help fund a company that promised to produce batteries for the Chevy Volt car. You know: the hybrid car produced by the federally bailed-out General Motors company. Problem: Nobody wants to buy Chevy Volts. So, Chevrolet is not ordering batteries. So far, the plant […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 4, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency surely did not protect this man’s environment. A former student at the University of North Carolina has come forward publicly to call attention to the disturbing experiments the Environmental Protection Agency has conducted – and is likely still performing – at its Human Studies Facilityin Chapel Hill, N.C. . . . […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 3, 2012
Someone spotted a rare spider. He reported it to someone. Eventually, the government decide that a highway construction project had to be stopped. The spider in part of an endangered species. The project is supposed to cost $15 million. That was before they found the spider. This is in San Antonio, Texas. The U.S. Fish […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 13, 2012
On July 6, 2012, President Obama signed a new law regulating the ecology of the Gulf. That law opened the door to the creation of new layers of bureaucracy. President Obama has just signed an executive order. As with all EO’s, this one is written in bureaucratic gibberish. This is what lawyers in the Executive […]
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