Christina Larson

I WANT MY MTV… Conservatives are better at laying claim to liberal rhetoric than vice-versa (“Healthy Forests,” “Academic Bill of Rights,” etc.). Now they’re coming for the music. Courtesy of The National Review, John J. Miller has sifted through NRO readers’ suggestions for “The 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs” and picked some winners. (Alas, the […]

HOUSE-WARMING PARTY… Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif), chair of the House Resources Committee, raised eyebrows in April with his committee’s “Earth Day” web page: The “sky is falling” sensationalism of environmental activists lead people to falsely believe that our environment is getting worse when it’s actually getting better… This website provides information on the great environmental […]

SOME LIKE IT HOT… Kevin has already linked to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s ads on the alleged “myth” of global warming. The ads speak for themselves. But there’s something else worth noting. At yesterday’s press conference in Washington to roll out the campaign, spokesmen for CEI lectured the crowd of a few dozen journalists on […]

OUR BIG BACKYARD … All politics, even global warming, may ultimately be local. The National Wildlife Federation, which in addition to its national membership includes nearly a million sportsmen associated with state and regional affiliates, recently polled the hook & bullet crowd on climate change. 54 percent of sportsmen said they’d noticed seasonal shifts (hotter […]

GOD AND CLIMATE…. A week after the National Association of Evangelicals announced that it would not take a stance on global warming, a group known as the Evangelical Climate Initiative this morning released of a statement signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, author of the The Purpose-Driven Life; David Neff, editor of Christianity […]

METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING …. After a conference call with Bush’s energy secretary, Knight Ridder’s Kevin G. Hall reports: One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn’t mean it […]

SAUDI ARABIA OR VENEZUELA? …. Even if alternative-energy production is greatly expanded, and even if prices for, say, ethanol fuels become truly competitive, would that necessarily mean a reduction in oil imports from the Middle East? If Venezuelan or Mexican or Canadian oil remains more expensive to extract than Saudi Arabian oil, we would simply […]

NEWT II …. So Newt Gingrich has also been making the talk-show rounds on Abramoff. Yes, his own past ethical problems make him a dubious messenger. And yes, you?re entitled to question the motives of anyone whose name is sometimes mentioned in the same breath as 2008 for seizing this moment to present himself as […]

NEWT ON JACK …. Last August when the DC Rotary Club asked Newt Gingrich to speak at a luncheon at Hotel Washington, members had no idea that Gingrich?s talk would happen to fall on the day after Jack Abramoff?s guilty plea shook Washington. Glancing at the packed ballroom and the crowd of reporters and TV […]

GOODBYE, 2005 … As the year winds down, the Pew Research Center has released its list of the Top Ten Opinion Trends of 2005: 1. Presidential popularity plunge 2. Hurricane blowback 3. Iraq disillusionment 4. Pump shock and economy anxiety 5. Inward [isolationist] turn 6. Domestic issues ascendant 7. Schiavo backlash 8. Evolution devolution 9. […]