Month: December 2006

The ISG’s Dereliction of Duty

By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
December 11, 2006 | American Thinker

On Veterans’ Day, November 11, 2005, President George W. Bush, described the determination of Islamic terrorists, who

“want to end American and Western influence in the broader Middle East, because we stand for democracy and peace, and stand in the way of their ambitions….The tactics of al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists have been consistent for a quarter of a century: They hit us, and expect us to run.”

The President then vowed as he has many times since September 2001:

“We will confront this mortal danger to all humanity; we will not tire or rest until the war on terror is won.”

Yet, as we now see, the U.S. is running, not only from the Middle East. Continue reading “The ISG’s Dereliction of Duty” →


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Waste not

By Alyssa A. Lappen and Jack Lauber
Times Union | Sunday, December 3, 2006

Eliot Spitzer, listen up.

California, which has the nation’s toughest environmental laws, has just unveiled its “Roadmap for the the Development of Biomass.” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seeks to boost California’s wind, solar and biomass projects, and to eventually extract 22 percent of California’s energy feedstocks from urban wastes.

Last March, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously adopted a 20-year-plan to re-engineer its garbage disposal system and switch to waste-to-energy, eliminating transport costs and pollution.

The New York City Council, by contrast, adopted a garbage-export plan last July. Rather than harness trash to generate energy, New York City taxpayers will continue to export garbage, and pollution risks, at a cost of more than $600 million a year for residential trash alone. Continue reading “Waste not” →


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