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.

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.

Once again, lawbreakers get a nice fat Christmas present, while the longsuffering voters get "nothing but hooks and some wire."

By thumbing their nose in the fact of the overwhelming majority of Americans, the Democrats are running a very serious risk.

The issue of illegal immigration cuts so deeply to the very heart of what America is and who Americans are, that for a potential President of the United States to decline an opinion on the subject is totally unacceptable.

Contrary to Al Gore's predictions, our current lack of hurricanes is causing significant problems.

It does seem slightly odd that the famous Nobel Peace Prize should go to someone who is famous, more or less, for talking loudly.

Now comes what may be the solution to the global warming hysteria, and from a most unexpected source.

Is American citizenship of such little concern that we don't mind it being awarded as the result of a crime?