The Colorado Welcome Mat

December 18, 2019

Washington insiders’ opposition to moving the BLM to Grand Junction reached a new low last week. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), fired another shot at the Interior Department, still trying to stop the move before it starts. The chairman’s latest letter to Interior Secretary Dave Bernhardt raised a bizarre issue, as a […]

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Clean Energy Has a Dirty Secret

December 13, 2019

“Governments should temporarily provide funding for new energy technologies so that they can become market competitive with traditional energy resources.” So the Global Energy Network Institute and other renewable energy advocates have been saying for decades. Taxpayers have been assured such subsidies would be “temporary,” just to “level the playing field” until the renewable industry […]

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Everybody Eats When They Come Here

December 6, 2019

Good Housekeeping magazine has a list of the most famous and popular Thanksgiving songs of all time, and more than half of them are about food. My favorite was recorded by the jazz pioneer Cab Calloway in 1948, called “Everybody Eats When They Come to My House.” It is not about turkey, but does mention […]

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All Hat and No Cattle

November 29, 2019

The proposed ballot measure forcing introduction of wolves into Western Colorado has touched off another debate pitting ranchers and livestock advocates against proponents (primarily the Sierra Club and a coalition of outside environmental organizations calling themselves the Southern Rockies Wolf Restoration Project.) They argue the supposed benefits, and the dangers, of bringing in wolves. But […]

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Revolving Doors Save Energy

November 22, 2019

One of the largest and most powerful environmental industry groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRCD), has hired former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy as its new president. Although NRDC put out press releases, the hiring escaped the notice of nearly every reporter in the country. Perhaps it didn’t seem especially unusual, nor would it be, […]

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How About a Dietary Impact Statement?

November 13, 2019

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a dairy farm cannot expand its operation, adding additional cows, without an “environmental impact statement” (EIS) analyzing its effect on global climate change. To be fair, there should be a similar legal requirement, whenever significant changes might affect agriculture, for a “dietary impact statement.” Adding more cows […]

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More Fiddling While Forests Burn

November 8, 2019

What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it’s for your own good? They need to study how houses burn, so they can build better computer models to predict future home fires. In the future, therefore, that might help you. Asinine as that sounds, it is precisely what the U.S. Forest […]

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I Promise to Change Washington

November 1, 2019

Following the Earth-shattering upheaval of the election, one of the great observers of political trends wrote that, “The new American majority wants change. It especially wants leaders who will change the way Washington, D.C., conducts the public’s business.” That simple statement captured with pinpoint accuracy the mood of public opinion. But it was not written […]

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Guitar Music is On The Way Out

October 18, 2019

A Decca record executive famously declined to sign the Beatles in 1962, saying “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” A 1955 Variety Magazine article about the rock-and-roll craze predicted, “It’ll be gone by June.” Many now-famous predictions turned out to be spectacularly wrong. An 1876 internal memo at […]

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The Grinch Won’t Steal His Own Christmas

October 11, 2019

In the 1957 Dr. Seuss classic, when the Grinch steals everything needed for the Who-ville Christmas celebration, the final insult is the tree. “And he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee, and now, grinned the Grinch, I’ll stuff up the tree!” This year’s Grinch may be a federal district judge named Raner […]

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