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When Melody Hensley first met Lawrence Krauss, she was a 29-year-old makeup artist at a department store, and he was one of her intellectual idols. She ran an atheist website in her spare time and had just started volunteering for the Center for Inquiry (CFI), a nonprofit group committed to promoting science and reason above faith. She was hoping to build a career in the burgeoning “skeptics” movement, and Krauss was one of its brightest luminaries. At a CFI event in November 2006, Krauss asked Hensley for her card, and later, as she was leaving, asked her if she was...

The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is North America’s only, and the world’s first, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission registry, reduction and trading system for all six greenhouse gases (GHGs).

Harry Browne blasts campaign laws at CFI conference in Washington, DC (February 12) American campaign finance laws are not just hypocritical -- they're "designed to assure the re-election of incumbents." That was the message that Harry Browne delivered at a conference entitled "Task Force on Financing Presidential Nominations," hosted by the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on January 31. Browne, the LP's 1996 and 2000 presidential candidate, appeared on a "Third Party Perspectives" panel with Theresea Amato of the Green Party and Kingsley Brooks of the Natural Law Party. During his remarks, Browne...