Alan Caruba
Forecasting Hurricanes. Not!
MichNews.com-- In late April, AccuWeather.com, led by Joe Bastardi, its chief meteorologist, issued a news release that was, to be kind, pure mush. The early warning forecast for 2008’s June to November hurricane season said that conditions like La Nina and a “continued warm water cycle in the Atlantic Basin” held forth the “chance for U.S. landfalling storms.”
May 5, 2008, 10:12
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Alan Caruba
Ten Simple Truths About Oil
MichNews.com-- Having written about the energy industry and issues now for a long time, I hope I can be forgiven for being enraged by the comments by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) in response to President Bush’s press conference Tuesday morning. There is simply no way to describe them other than false.
Apr 30, 2008, 12:33
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Alan Caruba
From the Soviet Union to Putin's Russia
MichNews.com-- When the government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the fall was attributed to all kinds of reasons. There was the failed invasion of Afghanistan, the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and, after some desperate efforts by Mikhail Gorbechev, Communism as a guiding principle and economic system simply imploded. That’s the thumbnail version that passes for history, but Michael J. Economides and Donna Marie D’Aleo have another answer and it’s one you may not want to hear.
Apr 28, 2008, 14:57
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Alan Caruba
Earth Day Is a Holiday For Liars
MichNews.com-- Earth Day is a holiday for liars. I have followed the apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement since the 1970s and their single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements the Green agenda.
Apr 21, 2008, 09:34
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Alan Caruba
Global Food Fights
MichNews.com-- It takes a decent respect for the obvious truth to admit that mankind has no control over the climate. What is occurring, however, based on actual and anecdotal information, is a trend toward global cooling. Between rising food costs driven by an environmental agenda and real, not imagined climate change, the word famine is going to be heard more often.
Apr 14, 2008, 00:09
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Alan Caruba
Universal Health Insurance: Just Don't Get Sick
MichNews.com-- Okay, let’s say that President Obama or Hillary is in office and Congress has passed a bill that requires everyone to have health insurance. Gas is up over $4.00 a gallon, food prices are sky high, and, if you’ve recently graduated from college, you are paying off loans at $1,000 per month.
Apr 7, 2008, 22:59
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Alan Caruba
Ultra-Rich Cash in on Global Warming Hoax
MichNews.com-- Recently I emailed a gentleman who is highly regarded, nationally and internationally, as one of the top strategic, military and economic long-range thinkers of our times. He is the author of several bestselling books about the way globalization is impacting the lives of the Earth’s population.
Mar 31, 2008, 20:27
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Alan Caruba
Cold North Pole, Cold South Pole
MichNews.com-- I was suspicious when the Department of the Interior announced it was considering the listing of polar bears as an “endangered species”, particularly since the designation has nothing to do with the current, thriving population, but a computer model projection that in fifty years they might be endangered. Since polar bears have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, the notion they might suddenly go missing in fifty years is questionable.
Mar 28, 2008, 20:35
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Alan Caruba
Understanding Arabs
MichNews.com-- Seven years passed 9/11 and five years passed the invasion of Iraq, Americans are still trying to figure out what makes Arabs behave the way they do. There is a vast cultural difference between those in the West and those in an Arab world that fills the Middle East and stretches across the northern tier of Africa. Indeed, military conflict with Arabs goes back to the days of Thomas Jefferson.
Mar 24, 2008, 14:26
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Alan Caruba
Our Nation, Our Military, Our Mission
MichNews.com-- Americans know that we have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but I suspect they have little idea that nearly a half-million of our soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors and coast guard are in far-flung places prepared to deter and defeat the enemies of, not just our nation, but of the freedom we enjoy and want to extend worldwide.
Mar 20, 2008, 14:50
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Alan Caruba
Why Is Everyone Lying About Energy?
MichNews.com-- In early March, President Bush, addressing an International Renewable Energy Conference, was widely quoted saying that the United States has to “get off oil.” Earlier he had said that America was “addicted” to oil. These are such huge lies one wonders why he is telling them, unless perhaps he has quietly been investing in ethanol production.
Mar 17, 2008, 00:10
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Alan Caruba
America's Bakers March on Washington
MichNews.com-- On March 12, the American Baking Association, representing 85% of the total baking industry, will lead a “Band of Bakers March on Washington.” Representatives from more than 50% of the nation’s largest baking companies will call on Congress to correct the policies it has created over the years that have led to soaring food and oil prices.
Mar 12, 2008, 15:17
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Alan Caruba
A Primer on Oil Prices
MichNews.com-- “The tripling of oil prices since the summer of 2003 has unleashed forces that within the next two or three years will bring oil prices tumbling back down to below $50 a barrel.” So said John Cassidy, writing about “The Coming Oil Crash” in the January issue of Conde Nast Portfolio. Yes, the price of oil will come down, though no one knows exactly when. It has topped $100 a barrel and there are indications it could go higher.
Mar 10, 2008, 12:30
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Alan Caruba
An Extraordinary Event
MichNews.com-- For the last two days, March 2-4, I and about five hundred other people attended the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, including some of the world’s leading authorities on climatology, meteorology, economics, energy, and other fields of knowledge.
Mar 4, 2008, 15:20
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Alan Caruba
Ruining Our Youth, Our Future
MichNews.com-- Those of us who grew up in the 1940s and 50s almost universally look back on those days with great fondness. Born into an era that saw the end of the Depression and living as children through World War II, we were nonetheless somehow shielded from it by parents who took care to ensure that these calamities in the world did not take from us the sheer joy of being young.
Mar 3, 2008, 19:38
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Alan Caruba
Irrational Legislation
MichNews.com-- I heard from Friends of the Earth, a huge environmental organization, who one would think would favor the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007 being advanced by Senate Democrats. It would impose a cap-and-trade program to force reductions of so-called greenhouse gas emissions.
Feb 29, 2008, 09:14
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Alan Caruba
Democrats Demagogue Poverty. Again
MichNews.com-- The Democrats are at it again. Both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama have made “poverty” a central theme of their campaigns, promising to lift up the poor and put a chicken in every pot, a large screen TV on every wall, and a new car in every driveway.
Feb 25, 2008, 09:06
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Alan Caruba
Calm Sun, Cold Earth
MichNews.com-- I can understand why people believe that global warming is real and that all the things Greens say are true. One cannot read a newspaper or magazine, turn on the television or radio, without getting the Green message.
Feb 18, 2008, 10:34
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Alan Caruba
America is Running Out of Electricity
MichNews.com-- The provision of electrical power nationwide has become the chosen battleground for environmental groups laboring night and day to insure there will not be enough of it to meet our needs.
Feb 11, 2008, 10:03
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Alan Caruba
The Nausea Factor
MichNews.com-- There always comes a time at some point in the process by which Americans select the next “leader of the free world” that one experiences the nausea incurred by too much political rhetoric. There is an impolite word for this that begins with the word “bull.”
Feb 7, 2008, 09:04
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