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Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - March 21 2013 Climate hustlers destroying our civilization for a lie "What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably." This private musing between climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate leaker "Mr. FOIA" leaked his second set of emails from Britain's disgraced Climate Research Center at the University of East Anglia. Last week, Mr. FOIA emerged for a third time, sharing with the world not only his entire batch of 220,000 encrypted emails and documents, but also, for the first time, his thoughts. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - March 14 2013 Eco-terror advocate bashes climate 'deniers' on film Last month a Pew Research Center/USA Today poll confirmed what poll-watchers knew during last year's campaign season: Climate change was the lowest-ranked priority on President Obama's second-term agenda. Last Friday, Big Green's entertainment division churned out yet another attempt to turn that around with a panicky new global-warming documentary. It opened on 51 screens with a weekend gross of $45,000 (that's $882.25 per screen, according to the Internet Movie Database). It was produced at an estimated cost of $1.5 million and comes with a screaming title: "Greedy Lying Bastards." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - March 7 2013 A journalism nonprofit's nonagenda agenda Among the standout names of outfits recently whacking the Donors Trust is the nonprofit investigative journalism organization known as the Center for Public Integrity. To many, the group's name seems presumptuous and agenda-laden, despite its insistence that it is "nonpartisan and does no advocacy work." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - February 28 2013 The Left's simmering campaign against Donors Trust boils over Two weeks ago, Greenpeace published a hit piece headlined "Donors Trust: Laundering Climate Denial Funding. The shadow operation that has laundered $146 million in climate-denial funding." A few days later, the New York-based media producer Democracy Now! broadcast a story called "The ATM for Climate Denial: Secretive Donors Trust Funds Vast Network of Global Warming Skeptics." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - February 21 2013 Feds cause Alaskan road crisis Republican Rep. Don Young, Alaska's at-large representative in the U.S. House, is hopping mad. Three weeks ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service caved in to affluent urban Big Green pressure groups and refused to allow a congressionally approved life-saving road in the remote Aleutian Islands to connect isolated King Cove to Cold Bay, which has the only reliable medical evacuation airport in the region. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - February 14 2013 Big Green versus human rights in the Indian Ocean Diego Garcia is the largest island of a tropical atoll in the Chagos Archipelago of the Indian Ocean, named after a 1500s Spanish explorer. It is actually a loop of about 50 islands atop one peak in a vast submarine mountain range. But if it looks less like a tropical paradise than a massive U.S. naval support facility, a ship and submarine support base, a military air base, and a military sealift command center, that's because it is. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - February 8 2013 Federal court slaps down Big Green land grab An old trivia game among bureaucracy-watchers is to guess what preposterous reason some official has invented to stop economic development. The game reached a new high of gobbledygook this week, when Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, urging it to deny a tribal request to build a casino-hotel complex on its 230-acre site in Seneca and Cayuga counties because it "would harm Upstate New York's local tax base, its businesses, and its future economic development." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - January 31 2013 NIMBY New Yorkers don't want any Indian casino near them An old trivia game among bureaucracy-watchers is to guess what preposterous reason some official has invented to stop economic development. The game reached a new high of gobbledygook this week, when Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, urging it to deny a tribal request to build a casino-hotel complex on its 230-acre site in Seneca and Cayuga counties because it "would harm Upstate New York's local tax base, its businesses, and its future economic development." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - January 24 2013 Turning America's water into Big Green's elite empire What exactly, we should ask, is a National Blueway? In short, it's the focus of the biggest federal land grab in American history. YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS: Roslyn Tam: An important contribution to the knowledge base of a free society from an educational psychologist. Ms. Tam writes on the decline of creative intelligence in the American public school system and some potential solutions to re-inject creativity into it. She writes of the need for educational leadership in order to maintain the innovation and development necessary for free enterprise to survive and thrive. Originally published on http://www.educationalleadership.com/ The Creativity Conundrum In Educational LeadershipThe Creativity Conundrum in Public Education Leadership Many of the men and women who shaped the world over the course of history, from Mozart to Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, have done so by thinking well outside the sphere of traditional education. Famously, each of these men had some issues with authority, and it’s hard to imagine any of them sitting placidly in a classroom and copying facts and figures from a chalkboard. In the end, their genius was not simply in their ability to understand complex systems, although that was certainly an important part of it. What set them apart was their creativity—that is, their ability to use previously held knowledge to produce something that no one had ever thought to make before; whether a symphony, a scientific theory or a personal computer. The passing of Steve Jobs in 2011 rekindled an age-old discussion about the relationship of creativity and innovation to traditional notions of intelligence. (Jobs often credited the creative classes he audited after dropping out of college with influencing some of his later decisions at Apple.) Not everything about this relationship is completely understood, but most people involved in education and public policy agree: creativity will be a crucial characteristic possessed by anyone hoping to succeed in the twenty-first-century economy. And yet, the education system in its current state is not set up to foster this sort of out-of-the-box thinking. One solution currently gaining momentum is the use of community-driven non-profit organizations known as local education funds (LEFs) and public education funds (PEFs), which are committed to improving access to quality education for all members of society. While not the complete answer, these reform-minded organizations might be the key to injecting creativity back into public schools. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - January 17 2013 Big Green hits the big screen to stop America's economy As a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the Emirate didn't want more competition and lower prices because of America's vast, newly accessible shale oil and natural gas reserves. A sharp-eyed Heritage analyst saw a "Promised Land" trailer on Al Jazeera's TV channel that listed a "produced in association with" credit for Image Media Abu Dhabi. Who's that? The question went to Lachlan Markay, investigative reporter for Heritage's Center for Media and Public Policy. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - January 10 2013 Nature Conservancy embroiled in another land grab scandal One of Big Green's biggest outfits, the Nature Conservancy (2011 revenue $997 million; assets $6 billion), is once again under fire. The new accusation is that it used improper influence over an elderly landowner to get her to donate her family property. This time it's the 16,500-acre Roberts Ranch in Larimer County, Colo., owned by a 92-year-old woman. TNC allegedly influenced her to donate the land and cattle operation to the county, where it would be run as open space at taxpayer expense -- or, if the county declines the donation, the ranch would go to "a conservation group," according to county officials. The real kicker is TNC's questionable part in cutting off inheritance rights of three living descendants of 1874 homesteader Robert O. Roberts, Derek Roberts and his two sons, Burke and Benjamin. That's brewing up a storm of protest from hundreds of locals who know the heirs. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - January 3 2013 Obama illegally withheld regulatory plans, businesses died The OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is required by law to publish two Unified Agenda reports each year -- spring and fall -- on the regulations that federal agencies are considering -- including bureaucratic monster trucks such as the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and National Labor Relations Board. Thousands of American businesses rely on the regulatory road map to make major decisions affecting jobs, investments and the possible need for relocation. For them, it is no trivial delay to spend nine months in the dark regarding the big agencies' plans for their future. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - December 27 2012 Where is Big Green going in 2013? Environmentalism is an affluent, urban, white movement. As a result, the few rural residents and minorities in the fold become political poster children. Eco-activist Barbara Dudley, a former philanthropy executive, told a 1992 meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association that the environmental movement was "an upper-class conservation, white movement. We have to face that fact. It's true." She was being so straightforward with her foundation colleagues because the emerging "wise use" movement -- a loose alliance of property rights advocates and resource industry workers -- was bleeding under foundation-funded green group assaults and complaining loudly. Some response was necessary, but the EGA gathering of executives from wealthy foundations didn't know what. Dudley admitted, "They're not wrong that we are rich and, you know, they are up against us. We are the enemy as long as we behave in that fashion." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - December 20 2012 Dismantling America, one business at a time Big Green may have a bigger, richer and greedier shark than the National Park Service, but the latter can be considered the worst glutton when it comes to taking others' property. Since its authorization in 1916, the NPS has destroyed so many private homes and businesses to make way for new parks that, if shown by pins on a map, the pattern of personal heartbreak it has left in its wake would look more like a carpet-bombing run than the growth of a beloved national institution. At the same time, the American love of visiting great scenic wonders is such a powerful shield against criticism that NPS bureaucrats have come to believe they are not only above the law, but that they are the law -- and they've been getting away with it for decades. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - December 13 2012 Meet Your New Regulator: A Big Green Law School Big Green activists and former federal bureaucrats who just can't stop trying to regulate your life have become advisers at an ultraliberal law school that sues the government for not doing what its professors want. They are creating not the rule of law, but the rule of lawyers. The litigious lodge is New York University Law School and its mean junkyard dog, the Institute for Policy Integrity, an adviser-ridden think tank with a cheeky name. Most recently, this bastion of the dark arts announced it was preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency to make the EPA ration how much fuel goes into the U.S. economy from refiners and fuel importers. The lawsuit will demand that the EPA "set up a cap-and-trade system for the transportation sector to rein in greenhouse gas emissions from fuels" -- imposed on all the trains, planes and automobiles. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - December 6 2012 Obama is negotiating the plunder of America's wealth Officials from about 190 nations are staying at five-star hotels this week in Doha, capital city of the tiny Arab state of Qatar, which pokes like a thumb from its border with Saudi Arabia into the Persian Gulf. The bigwigs are attending the 18th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in the ultra-extravagant Qatar National Conference Centre. Good choice: Qatar has the highest carbon emissions per capita on Earth. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the agenda in Doha -- in addition to the usual items, like stopping hydrocarbon use, transfering wealth, regulating economic growth and controlling people's lives -- is to bring about "a complete economic transformation of the world." Translation: "Wealthy nations, you will give $100 billion a year to the United Nations' Green Climate Fund so we can dole it out to our kleptocrat friends in poor nations who will claim to use it for global warming purposes from their yachts." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - November 29 2012 Is Big Green's carbon tax a snake in the 'fiscal cliff's' grass?
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio (@SpeakerBoehner) tweeted back: "FYI @WhiteHouse: House GOP voted to stop #my2k tax rate hikes & defend #smallbiz jobs. What spending will Dems cut to stop #fiscalcliff?" Beyond this hashtagged and refined Twitter trash talk, as the 112th Congress mud-wrestles over the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the fiscal cliff, influential blogs are posting headlines such as "Return of the carbon tax?" and "Carbon tax could be part of eventual tax reform package." Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - November 22 2012 The futility of climate change mitigation
What do you do? Do you gloat because you got even with all those evil corporate polluters who were destroyed when the carbon days ended? Or do you scream and shout, realizing that we have sacrificed our nation for nothing? Or do you take comfort in the mitigation we achieved through self-immolation? Are you proud that, by 2050, our act of total national self-destruction prevented the global temperature from going up by an additional 0.083 degrees Celsius, and sea levels from rising by 0.6 centimeters? It only cost the world its biggest economy and a people their entire livelihood. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - November 15 2012
November 20, 2012: Colleague Teresa Platt of the National Center for Public Policy Research goes head to head with 3 anti-coal "experts" on HuffPost - here are some real facts http://tinyurl.com/cojhewn CDFE Senior Fellow Paul Driessen Washington Times Op-Ed - November 8 2012 the coming environmental battlegrounds - green agenda threatens economic future When American voters re-elected President Obama, they also returned his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior and Energy departments and wide-ranging agenda for “fundamentally transforming” our nation. This will mean cementing Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, higher taxes and rampant spending. It also will bring more disputes over energy and environmental regulations, the vanguard of Mr. Obama’s determined campaign to eliminate hydrocarbons that power our economy and to embrace more “green” energy. The conflict will be fought primarily on six battlegrounds: Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - November 8 2012 separation of 'science' and state With President Obama now in office through 2016, a relentless threat lurks in his second administration, sly and irresistible. It is the corps of government scientists who failed to amass all the power over development that they expected during his first term. What do scientists know and how do they know it? And why does a scientist's vote on public policy issues count more than yours or mine?Read More... Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - November 1 2012 big green's corporate takeover strategy
But Big Green's private regulatory power is beginning to steal the business spotlight. High-profile "seal of approval" schemes and "green certification councils" of unelected eco-activists are enforcing their ideological "sustainability" directives under threat of brand sabotage and product trashing. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - October 25 2012 Read More... Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - October 18 2012 What is ethical energy and why aren't the candidates talking about it? When it came to gas prices and energy production, the second presidential debate last Tuesday played like the footnotes to the first one: same points, just more detail. President Obama claimed that oil production is up because of his policies, and Mitt Romney claimed that "the president's right in terms of the additional oil production, but none of it came on federal land." Read More... Ron Arnold Washington Examiner Column - October 12 2012 Who's funding Montana's Libertarian spoiler? Somebody is trying to upset Montana's Senate race. The problem is, nobody can figure out exactly who it is. Montana is seen as a key to Republicans winning back control of the Senate -- barring upsets. Four-term Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg is challenging Jon Tester, incumbent Democratic junior senator, who barely won in 2006. Rehberg already represents the entire state as its at-large member of Congress, so name recognition is no problem. October 8 2012 - Teresa Platt on a basic freedom CDFE Executive Vice President Ron Arnold Ron Arnold Washington Examiner column - october 4 2012 What did Wednesday's first presidential debate tell us about the energy policy of President Obama versus former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney? Anti-Fracking Movie Financed by Oil-Rich Arab Nation 
The creators of Promised Land have gone to absurd lengths to vilify oil and gas companies, as Scribe’s Michael Sandoval noted Wednesday. Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing – a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations – Promised Land’s script has been altered to make doom-saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate “fracking” concerns. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner column - September 27 2012 Two months ago, President Obama strode into the White House East Room to tout his "Extending Middle Class Tax Cuts" agenda and, of course, thump his Republican presidential opponent, Mitt Romney. He said, "The GOP's so-called small-business tax proposal could actually discourage firms from creating jobs or making new investments this year, while giving away tens of billions of dollars to millionaires and billionaires." Two weeks ago, the Congressional Research Service released a 23-page report titled "Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945." It contains text for nine charts on savings, investment, labor productivity, growth and top tax rates, two tables -- economic growth and income inequalities -- and multivariate regression equations to prove it all. It says tax cuts for upper income brackets don't lead to economic growth. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner column - September 20 2012 For a brave ranching family, the government was armed and dangerous "Don't shoot up our water tanks," said the rancher, "and if you're going to aim towards the meadow, make sure there's no cattle out there." The uninvited campers squirmed, unsure how to react. "And while you're hiking," the rancher continued, "if you run across any problems, like downed fences, or strays, or vandalism, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know. You can leave a note at the ranch house you drove by down at the creek. Now, have a good time and be safe." That unexpected welcoming speech -- heard by many a grateful city slicker gawking at the Toiyabe high country -- had become part of the legend of "firebrand" Nevada rancher E. Wayne Hage by the time he died of cancer in 2006. Ron Arnold Washington Examiner column - September 13 2012 ranching family's court slapdown not total defeat after all Consider two recent headlines: One gloats: "Central 'sagebrush rebellion' case suffers defeat." Another rejoices: "Major court victory for ranching family." Those who knew the late Nevada rancher E. Wayne Hage, and who know his son Wayne N. Hage, weren't mystified; the family's 21-year-old challenge to the government has invited many such contentious |
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