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False hope for global unity
(October 31, 2008) My American friends believe that, after Barack Obama becomes president, America will once again be loved around the world. They are wishful thinkers. Anti-Americanism didn’t begin with George Bush and it won’t end with an Obama presidency. With rare exceptions, America has always inspired hatred and contempt, and for reasons that aren’t about to go away. Those who expect America’s haters to convert on November 4 need to get out more. Continue reading
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Peace Coffee: Changing the world a cup at a time
(October 25, 2008) Every morning, Andy Lambert, a local Olympian in the sustainable-development movement, straps on his helmet, mounts his bicycle and begins a 20-mile ride that will take him, bike trailer in tow, to several stores, coffee shops and food cooperatives where he’ll deliver about 300 pounds of “Peace Coffee.” Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture (Rural)
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Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 2
(September 1, 2008) Little wonder that people got off public transit at the first available stop. Transit patronage in the U.S. declined steadily, falling from 114 trips per capita in 1950 to 37 in 1970 to 31 in 1990. Continue reading
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Slim Pickens
(August 13, 2008) Oil imports are destroying the U.S., say a rising tide of alarmists in the U.S., chief among them T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil man turned wind power developer. “It is a clear and growing threat to our national security, and our national economy,” he testified to the U.S. Senate.” It has to be stopped. We are on the verge of losing our Super Power status.” Continue reading
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McCain’s French romance
(May 22, 2008) Senator John McCain’s nuclear stance comes under scrutiny this week from Carl Pope of the Sierra Club environmental group in his column for the Huffington Post blog. Pope asks how McCain can justify his double standard of opposing subsidies for solar power on one hand, and defending his support for an increase in subsidies for nuclear power, on the other. Continue reading
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