Society & Culture

This year’s graduating class at Boston College was treated to empty rhetoric about “climate change” by its commencement speaker, Secretary of State John Kerry.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to be given a never-ending authority to interfere in a critical part of the U.S. infrastructure—electrical generation.

Major corporations are pulling up decades-old roots in sunny California and heading for greener pastures elsewhere. The most recent to join their ranks—Toyota Motors—becomes one of the 36,000 companies that have left between 1990 and 2010.

In November 1999, the BBC ran an article with an alarming title, “Global Warming Could Starve Polar Bears.”

Who would not want renewable, clean and affordable energy? The promise is great, but do green power sources live up to their claims? It seems that the only green to be found is from taxpayers’ pockets to environmentally friendly construction companies. Green energy is big business but delivers small returns.

World copper prices are tumbling again and fingers are pointing at China's ailing financial system.

It appears that Argentina and Venezuela have more in common than meets the eye. They were both Spanish colonies, have a majority Catholic population, once enjoyed a vibrant and growing economy—and they are both falling headlong into chaos, bankruptcy, civil unrest and massive poverty.

In 1999 Venezuela was ranked 99 out of 178 countries for overall economic freedoms by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. It is now listed as 175, slightly nudging out Zimbabwe, Cuba and North Korea.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is choking a $45 billion agricultural industry with a three-inch baitfish called the Delta Smelt by denying precious water to San Joaquin valley farmers.