Tag: Endangered Species Act
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Green Land Grabs on Steroids
USING BEES TO BLOCK HUMAN ACTIVITIES ON LAND 15 TIMES BIGGER THAN VIRGINIA – OR EVEN MORE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Mar. 3, 2019) — Special interest environmental groups got stung recently by an 8-0 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that held private landowners cannot be compelled to forego future economic uses of their property and…
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More Misplaced Environmentalist Outrage
GREENS ARE ANGRY THAT INTERIOR MODIFIED A RULE THEY WANTED TO SE TO ATTACK ENERGY AND RANCHING by Greg Walcher, ©2018 (Oct. 10, 2018) — How we long for the good old days! That’s the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about Department of the Interior actions…
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Off to a Bumbling Start at Interior
IF THIS IS THE KIND OF HOUSECLEANING AND SWAMP DRAINING WE’RE GOING TO GET, WE’RE IN REAL TROUBLE by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Apr. 9, 2017) — Was it because there were too few senior Trump Administration officials in place to catch and stop it? Or because Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was new…
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The IRS Doesn’t Need Criminal Intent To Prosecute!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Jul. 31, 2016) — It is a well-known fact that nothing happens in Washington, DC by accident. There are no coincidences. It was not a coincidence that former president Bill Clinton suddenly appeared on the tarmac when U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s plane…
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Will You Be Government’s Next Target?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (May 15, 2016) — “No oppression is so heavy or long lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.” Joseph Addison, (1672–1719) English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician * * * * * * * * * * *…
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The Big Green Job-Killing Machine
ENVIRONMENTALISTS WIELD POWERFUL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT TO KILL JOBS, IMPOVERISH FAMILIES by Ron Arnold, ©2016 (Apr. 1, 2016) — The abuse of environmentalist power to hurt people never stops. “Another one gone,” began the Lost Coast Outpost’s report in late January. A.A. “Red” Emmerson, chairman of Sierra Pacific Industries, announced the permanent closure of its…
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Washington’s Despotic Lawlessness
WE’VE HAD A “TRY AND STOP ME” PRESIDENT. NOW WE NEED ONE WHO WILL INVALIDATE THOSE ACTIONS. by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 21, 2016) — Washington is out of control. Legislators, judges and unelected bureaucrats want to control our lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no accountability even for major errors, calculated deception, or deliberate,…
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The Oregon Standoff Was A Predictable Reaction to Oppression
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Feb. 14, 2016) — “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Martin Luther King, Jr. * * * * * * * * * * * When rational…
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The Makings of An American West Rebellion!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jan. 24, 2016) — THE COWBOY’S PROMISE: ”If you push me once, I’ll ask you what your problem is. If you push me again be prepared to defend your life! — Ron Ewart * * * * * * * * * Well,…
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Why Waste The Effort, If Nothing Is Going To Change?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2015 (May 31, 2015) — “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy” ….. [or a Republic] — Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher, 1689 to 1755 – –…
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Environmentalism – Building Block of Global Government
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2014 (Mar. 16, 2014) — NOTE: The following article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily shared by the owners, employees, representatives, or agents of the publisher. Straw man: …. is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy…
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We Paid for It. We Have a Right to See It.
PUBLICLY-FUNDED SCIENTISTS WHO KEEP THEIR WORK SECRET SHOULD BE CENSURED AND CUT OFF FROM FUTURE FUNDING by Ron Arnold, ©2013 (Sep. 4, 2013) — Who owns taxpayer-funded science? From the way many scientists behave, it’s not the taxpayers. Many scientific studies funded by federal agencies – through grants, contracts or cooperative agreements – hide the guts…
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Eco-imperialism Joins Vulture Environmentalism
OBAMA APPOINTEES SEEK TO IMPOSE IDEOLOGICAL CONTROL OVER OUR ENERGY, ECONOMY AND PROPERTY by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Mar. 24, 2013) — Gina McCarthy, Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify new…
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Chessboard Series: War on the Southern Border
U.S. GOVERNMENT PROTECTS THE ENVIRONMENT, NOT U.S. CITIZENS by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely (Ret.) (Apr. 21, 2011) — We have raised the threat level of Mexico and the Southern Border. The threat from our Southern Border is greater now than the Middle East (except for Iran and proxies) and Afghanistan/Pakistan conflict. The inactions by…
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Do You Think Your Vote in November Will Restore Freedom?
HOW MANY ARE PREPARED TO WALK THE LONG ROAD BACK? by Ron Ewart (Sept. 23, 2010) — “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson Way too many Americans dwell in la-la land, on either side of the political spectrum. Naiveté…