Max Borders: What’s with the righteous revenuers, tax break moonshiners and high-dollar tortillas?
Americans get warm and fuzzy thinking our cars will produce less carbon dioxide if we just add a little ethanol to our fossil fuels. And if we produce less carbon dioxide, we can slow global warming. That’s a good thing, right?
Posted: 01/30/2007 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Polar Bears on Thin Ice, Not Really!
Satirist Stephen Colbert coined a term truthiness, which the online encyclopedia Wikipedia explains is “to claim to ‘know’ something . . . ‘from the gut’ without regard to evidence, logic . . . or actual facts.” Truthiness is an emotional appeal meant to short-circuit intellectual examination of the claims being made.
Posted: 01/25/2007 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Global Warming