Albuquerque NM—It’s no April Fool’s joke. At this point, all of us who buy gasoline are the fools.

Most Americans were waiting for something substantial, hoping that Obama’s “new” energy policy would help them afford skyrocketing gas prices. They wanted solutions. Unfortunately, President Obama’s speech on energy security yesterday offered nothing new-no new solutions, no big changes in policy. It was easy to tune him out as many news channels did, offering the speech only on their websites. In case you missed it, in addition to the same old, same old, he included some of his favorite lies. (more…)

The debate over public education grows more heated. Regularly, reports are released showing that the academic abilities of American students continue to fall when compared to those in other countries.

Twenty years ago the U.S. ranked first in the world in the number of young adults who had high school diplomas and college degrees. Today we rank ninth and seventh, respectively, among industrialized nations. Compared to Europe and Asia, 15-year-olds in the United States are below average in applying math skills to real-life tasks. The United States ranks 18 out of 24 industrialized nations in terms of relative effectiveness of its education system. Knowledge in history, geography, grammar, civics and literature are all in decline in terms of academic understanding and achievement. (more…)

By Kelvin Kemm, nuclear physicist and CFACT scientific advisor

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan delivered a devastating one-two punch to that island nation and to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. So what does much of the world do? You guessed it. They blamed the designers, builders and operators of the nuclear plant for not doing a good enough job. They call for all reactors in the world to be closed down.

Electricity has been restored to all the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. That means that the control panels have lit up and banished the inky darkness. Electricity is available to the electrical cooling pumps.

The overall situation is looking much better. They are not out of the woods yet, but day by day the residual nuclear decay heat, in the reactor fuel elements, is dropping and the prospect for any major release of nuclear material is diminishing. (more…)

Headaches, insomnia, tinnitus, DNA breakdown. . . These are just a few of the myriad problems mentioned when people talk about the constant bombardment of EMFs or electromagnetic frequencies, a huge by-product of the new Smart Meters being installed by public utilities around the country.

But wait! We have been told that the Smart Grid, with it’s Smart Meters would be a good thing for all of us. Now we find out that this scheme poses very real dangers to human health?

Information on the effect of installing millions of Smart Meters, all equipped with wireless transmitters that are constantly filling the environment with EMFs, is just starting to trickle in. An electrical engineer named Rob States has been looking into this problem: (more…)

Across the nation activists are beginning to take up the fight to expose and stop Agenda 21 in their communities. Daily I receive more invitations to speak on the subject and the audiences are beginning to grow in size. I also am receiving an increasing number of invitations for radio and television interviews.

And the news is getting even better as more and more communities are beginning to throw our the scoundrels like ICLEI (The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). So far, four communities have take that action in just the past 6 weeks, starting with Carroll County, Maryland. Then, just a few weeks later Amador County, California also rescinded its ICLEI contract, followed by the same action in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and then again in Edmond, Oklahoma. I have been talking with several counties that are now vying to be the 5th community to remove ICLEI from its local government. (more…)

Big-government bureaucrats in cash-strapped California are hoping to plug their $25 billion budget gap with sin taxes levied on beverages sweetened with sugar. Before undecided California lawmakers decide whether they will penalize their constituents for enjoying the occasional soda or sports drink, they would be wise to first determine where the sin tax money will end up.

As we noted in a recent San Diego Union-Tribune opinion piece, the tobacco settlements of the late 1990s taught us that money collected for specific health-related purposes can easily be spent on practically anything else:

The money was supposed to be spent on smoking prevention, but the federal Government Accountability Office tracked the money and found that in 2004 just 17 percent of the funds went to health-related programs. (more…)