Paul Driessen's Past Articles

153 articles

Learning and succeeding “differently”

published: November 03, 2013

Having a child who struggles in school torments parents – whether it’s because of attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, an inability to comprehend “whole word” approaches in...

Do the Math – Count the cash

published: November 03, 2013

Some years ago, a telegenic televangelist built quite an empire, before publicly falling from grace and adopting a less opulent life style. But back then he liked big homes and Lear jets with Rolls...

Increasing clouds and thunderstorms for climate alarmists

published: October 29, 2013

What a month it’s been. Rejecting claims of looming cataclysm, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) issued Climate Change Reconsidered-II on September 17. This re...

Where’s the concern over private sector furloughs?

published: October 20, 2013

In 2009, President Obama told Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA), “Elections have consequences, and I won.” As with his healthcare law, amid this year’s impasse, he said “the...

Fallacious claims prop up ethanol

published: October 13, 2013

Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves – leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustain...

Remembering the 1973 Arab oil embargo

published: October 05, 2013

This fall marks the fortieth anniversary of the Arab oil embargo, a painful episode in American history that had a profound effect on both the economy and psyche of the United States. It began in...

Taking cancer to the mat – 2013 updates in courage

published: September 23, 2013

My daughter had just learned she would have to endure still more chemotherapy for her leukemia. A tear welled up in her eye. But she quickly stopped herself, and her steely resolve returned. &ldquo...;

Real climate science the IPCC doesn’t want you to see

published: September 22, 2013

Once again, it’s the NIPCC versus the IPCC – facts versus gloom-and-doom assertions. Earth’s average atmospheric temperatures haven’t increased in almost 17 years. It&rsquo...;

To bee or not to bee

published: September 15, 2013

Activist groups continue to promote scary stories that honeybees are rapidly disappearing, dying off at “mysteriously high rates,” potentially affecting one-third of our food crops and ...

Stop denying climate science and ACT!

published: September 02, 2013

The full-court press is on. Alarmist scientists, politicians, pressure groups, newspapers, ministers, rabbis and bureaucrats want Americans to “stop stalling” on climate change. They de...

Carbon dioxide: The “gas of life”

published: August 18, 2013

It’s amazing that minuscule bacteria can cause life-threatening diseases and infections – and miraculous that tiny doses of vaccines and antibiotics can safeguard us against these deadl...

Ozone, Mo’Zone and NoZone

published: August 04, 2013

The Environmental Protection Agency’s war on economic growth, jobs, poor families, modern living standards, and people’s health and welfare is about to get a lot more damaging.. The Cl...

Fracking brings employment and economic revival

published: August 04, 2013

Signs of pride and prosperity were evident all over Williamsport and the gorgeous northern Pennsylvania countryside around it. Friendly, happy people greeted us. New cars, trucks, hotels and restau...

Delaware’s “future weather”

published: August 04, 2013

During this hot, wet summer, a “national climate expert” recently told Delawareans that they can expect even hotter summers – with a climate like Savannah, Georgia’s –...

Climate alarmism’s 10,000 commandments

published: June 30, 2013

The United States will “do more,” before it’s “too late” to prevent “dangerous” global warming, President Obama told Berliners last week. If Congress won&r...;

Greedy Africans are starving our cars

published: June 30, 2013

“You’ve heard of Live Aid? Well, this is Drive Aid,” an ardent young man says, as he approaches London pedestrians. “Greedy people in developing nations are eating huge amou...

EPA climatism: Dictating our lives, living standards and life spans

published: June 02, 2013

Numerous articles document how European climate policies have been disastrous for affordable energy, economic growth, entire industries, people’s jobs and welfare, wildlife habitats and human...

Mindless “green” indoctrination of children

published: June 02, 2013

“We’re from the Earth Guardians group, and we’re working on fracking and how it’s going to affect our future and our health. So we wrote this song for all the gas companies ...

A bee in their bonnet

published: May 27, 2013

Chemophobic anti-pesticide groups are at it again. This time they’re attacking a widely used and safe new insecticide, but their assertions and real agendas are nothing new. Radical environm...

Free market energy policies can end economic malaise

published: May 05, 2013

“We can’t have an energy strategy that traps us in the past,” President Obama proclaimed in March 2012. “We need an energy strategy for the future – an all-of-the-abov...

Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports

published: May 05, 2013

The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. ...

EPA’s Tier 3 tyranny

published: April 22, 2013

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits, but will impose high e...

Cut fingers, cancer, bats and birds

published: April 07, 2013

Georgia residents recently learned that a rare bat has stalled state highway improvements. The May 2012 sighting of an endangered Indiana brown bat in a northern Georgia tree has triggered fed...

Eco-imperialism joins vulture environmentalism

published: March 31, 2013

Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use &ldquo...;

Our real manmade climate crisis

published: March 10, 2013

In his first address as Secretary of State, John Kerry said we must safeguard “the most sacred trust” we owe to our children and grandchildren: “an environment not ravaged by risi...