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A Tale of Two Reactors

A nuclear power plant is arguably the most extraordinary product of engineering and scientific know-how in the history of mankind. Once every 18 months or so, a truckload of metal is...

Gas Prices: Why So High?

In early March a sign in front of a Citgo station read Regular/Unleaded: $3.19 per gallon, and I told my companion, “That’s absurd! Why would anyone buy gas there?” We’d just...

Did We Get Lied Into War?

On June 5, the Senate Intelligence Committee, concluding five years of investigations (and partisan disagreements), released its report about whether the Bush administration had based its decision to attack Iraq on...

Dangers of an Underreported CPI

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The government uses the CPI to “calculate inflation.” Changes over the past 40 years...

A Global Population Ice Age

If you’re like most alive today, you grew up with Paul R. Ehrlich’s Malthusian idea of a “population bomb.” It just seems like common sense that man will increase his numbers...

Underground Carbon Dioxide

The high price of oil has caused those responsible for energy generation to think increasingly about coal as a fuel source, mainly because our nation’s coal reserves are much more abundant...

Whose Children Are They, Anyway?

How does a state child protective services agency even begin to take nearly 500 children from families living in a peaceful religious community in West Texas? Answer: a night-time raid with...