Paul Driessen

By Paul Driessen Feb. 2, 2015 Not to praise ethanol mandates that kill jobs, raise food costs, and hurt poor families and wildlife They say politics makes strange bedfellows. In a perfect example, U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) are cosponsoring the “Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act,” to abolish the corn ethanol … Read more

By Paul Driessen Jan. 26, 2015 Deception, agenda and folly drive latest Obama EPA anti-hydrocarbon rules. Are farmers next? First they came for the coal mining and power plant industry, and most people did not speak out because they didn’t rely on coal, accepted Environmental Protection Agency justifications at face value, or thought EPA’s war … Read more

By Paul Driessen Jan. 17, 2015 Obama, Gore other climate alarmists refuse to debate, but love to vilify – and love their money Manmade climate disaster proponents know the Saul Alinksy community agitator playbook by heart. In a fight, almost anything goes. Never admit error; just change your terminology and attack again. Expand your base, … Read more

By Paul Driessen Jan. 10, 2015 President Obama makes it clear that the only “common ground” he respects is his liberal turf New Republican members were still being sworn in and expressing their desire for bipartisan initiatives, when President Obama said he would veto the Keystone pipeline, ObamaCare fixes and other bills that run counter … Read more

By Paul Driessen Jan. 3, 2015 Faith-based groups race against time, winter cold and Islamist butchers to reduce the slaughter Yazidi and other Christian communities trace their Syrian and Iraqi roots back nearly 2,000 years. Now they are being systematically exterminated. Not merely driven out. Exterminated – along with Jews, Baha’is and even Muslims insufficiently … Read more

By Paul Driessen and Chris Skates Dec. 27, 2014 Chairman Eric Schmidt should heed his own advice – and base energy policies on facts In a recent interview with National Public Radio host Diane Rehm, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said his company “has a very strong view that we should make decisions in politics based … Read more

By Paul Driessen Dec. 16, 2014 The neonics and honeybees saga takes interesting, potentially fraudulent turn Widening efforts to blame neonicotinoid pesticides for honeybee “colony collapse disorder” and other “beepocalypse” problems have taken a fascinating turn. Insisting that scientific evidence shows a clear link between neonics and honeybee population declines, EU anti-insecticide campaigners persuaded the … Read more

By Craig Rucker December 13, 2014 Radical global warming campaigners trespass on treasured Inca cultural sites Greenpeace likes to pretend it’s on the side of local people, especially indigenous peoples. But time and again they demonstrate a shocking degree of cultural boorishness. Now Greenpeace activists have Peruvians up in arms, after trespassing all over treasured … Read more

By Paul Driessen December 2, 2014 Lame Duck Congress could vote this week on more tax dollars for Big Wind There is a good chance that the Lame Duck Congress could vote as early as Wednesday, December 4, on extending huge taxpayer subsidies for Big Wind energy companies for another three, five or more years. … Read more

By Paul Driessen November 28, 2014 Accumulation of fraudulent EPA regulations impacts energy, economy, jobs, families and health Call it the Gruberization of America’s energy and environmental policies. Former White House medical consultant Jonathan Gruber pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars before infamously explaining how ObamaCare was enacted. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” … Read more