The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's classic "Silent Spring" marks the beginning of a sea change: the mass attack on technology and progress as a whole, for environmental reasons.

How come all the environmentalists keep proposing things people don't want to do? Real solutions nedn't require deprivation.

It is claimed that this boat runs on biodiesel made form the crew's fat and that it is carbon-neutral. But how is that calculated?

Somebody in Europe has realized what's crystal clear to anyone with a brain: reducing carbon emissions destroys your economy.

Reuters reports trouble at the North Pole.

Poor people often skimp on food so that they will have enough money for things they consider valuable.

Since we peasants couldn't see that Roosevelt's marvelous ideas were for our own good, he believed it was OK for him to lie to help pass his programs. Does that remind you of any modern politicians?

Who owns your mortgage? It might just be...nobody.

Making a small class of citizens into a protected species leads to less employment for that group.

Wal-Mart doesn't like paying taxes any more than you or I do, but, unlike us, Wal-Mart has the money to do something about it.