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Scientists doubt claims about global warming
Voice of the Times
May 12, 2008
Editorial

A NEW BOOK about scientists and climate experts who dispute claims by climate change stampeders may shake up the green-craze opportunists.

"The Deniers" by Canadian environmental leader Lawrence Solomon started out — on a bet — to find credible dissenters to the widely believed dogma of climate change. He thought at best he would find a modest number of scientists and come up with enough material for a few columns in Canada's National Post newspaper.

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Environmentalist hot air heats atmosphere
Voice of the Times
May 12, 2008
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS

Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let's look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget.

At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind."

Editor's Note -- When 'marxists' became tainted by their murderous ways, they switched names and now call themselves 'environmentalists' but their murderous drive to kill individual freedom and Capitalism is alive and well.

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Parnell and Young are neck-and-neck in early polling
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
May 12, 2008
By R. A. Dillon

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest poll by the Hays Research Group shows incumbent Don Young with a slight lead over challenger Sean Parnell in the Republican primary for the U.S. House of Representatives.

The poll gives Young 45 percent of the vote, while Parnell captures 42 percent among registered Republicans. State Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, of Kodiak, comes in a distant third with only 2 percent of the vote in the primary.

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Energy package before Senate includes ANWR drilling provisions
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
May 11, 2008
By R. A. Dillon

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate is set to consider competing energy packages on Monday or Tuesday, including a Republican proposal that would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Republican and Democratic leaders recently unveiled separate energy packages designed to show voters Congress is serious about tackling high gasoline prices at the pump.

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Utility races to restore Juneau's hydro power
Anchorage Daily News
May 12, 2008
By ANNE SUTTON

JUNEAU -- The avalanches that thundered out of the coastal range near Juneau last month uprooted old-growth forest, mangled transmission towers and ripped out a portion of the high-voltage lines that link the Snettisham hydroelectric plant to Alaska's capital city.

Now, with rate payers on the hook for an estimated $18 million in fuel to power backup diesel generators for three months,...

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Ketchikan mayor says bias shown in road plan
Juneau Empire
May 12, 2008
By Pat Forgey

Ketchikan's mayor, angry about the loss of the city's infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," is accusing the Juneau-based Department of Transportation and Public Facilities staff of bias against his project and being in favor of the Juneau Access Project. "It has been obvious to me for some time that the Southeast Region of DOT has an emotional commitment to the Juneau Access Project,...

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ACT, borough back in court: Oral arguments in term-limit lawsuit set for Thursday
Peninsula Clarion
May 11, 2008
By Hal Spence

Oral arguments in a citizens' lawsuit over last year's term-limit ballot measures are scheduled for Thursday before a Kenai Superior Court judge.

The Alliance of Concerned Taxpayers (ACT), whose initiative efforts saw two term-limit measures win popular support in the Oct. 2 municipal election, filed suit later that month after the school board and assembly voted to seat winning incumbents despite provisions in the propositions that ACT members believe should have disqualified them from taking office.

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McCain, Huckabee and the Evangelicals
Town Hall Daily
May 12, 2008
By Robert D. Novak

John McCain, who has spent the last two months trying to consolidate right-wing support as the Republican candidate for president, has a problem of disputed dimensions with a vital component of the conservative coalition: the evangelicals. The biggest question is whether Mike Huckabee is part of the problem or the solution for McCain.

An element of the Christian community is not reconciled to McCain's candidacy but instead regards the prospective presidency of Barack Obama in the nature of a Biblical plague visited upon a sinful people.

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Constitutional "Empathy"
Town Hall Daily
May 12, 2008
By Guy Benson

John McCain delivered an important speech at Wake Forest on Tuesday, but how many Americans even heard about it? Much of the media was too busy obsessing over the latest twist in the Democratic primary to pay McCain's remarks much attention. As the press breathlessly declared Hillary Clinton's demise (again) and wildly celebrated—er, objectively reported—Barack Obama's solid win in North Carolina, conservatives were showering McCain with positive reviews on a crucial issue: The federal judiciary. Republicans who remain unsold on McCain should take heed.

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Wind Versus Gas
National Center for Policy Analysis
April 12, 2008
By Staff

Congress seems ready to spend billions on a new "Manhattan Project" for green energy, or at least the political class really, really likes talking about one. But maybe we should look at what our energy subsidy dollars are buying now, says the Wall Street Journal.

For example:

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