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What a Deal!

August 4, 2011 – 4:43 PM

In a battle of ideologies, the know-nothings won. And their victory combined with a partisan divide over taxes and entitlements virtually guarantees that we will know less, discover less and innovate less. Across-the-board spending cuts  — the budgetary equivalent of a butcher’s meat ax – loom for 2013, and absent a return to sanity among […]

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Science Under Attack

November 9, 2010 – 3:24 PM

The results of the November 2 elections will transform the House of Representatives from a pro-science chamber to one that is at worst overtly hostile to federal research and education programs or at best highly skeptical of their worth.  Although some new members will submit bills to eliminate the Department of Education, the Department of […]

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BP: Bad Policy

June 30, 2010 – 5:03 PM

BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill won’t be the last. Energy efficiency, nuclear power and natural gas are much better bets.

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Too Hot and Too Sticky

October 12, 2009 – 9:00 AM

Last August’s stultifying heat and humidity reminded me that climate change must still be a policy priority.  I say must, because although I’m not convinced the doomsday global warming alarmists have it right, if they do, the century-long dwelling time of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does not give us the luxury of waiting thirty […]

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