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The Columbia Journalism Review just published an article concerning how CBS smeared Chevron (NYSE: CVX) in its May 3, 2009 expose. This and news from the U.S. Jesuit Conference concerning San Ramon-CA based Chevron’s new policy document on human rights, crafted over the past five years in dialog with multiple “social justice” communities, paints a much different picture that frothing leftists and enviro-whackos in Richmond and worldwide generally paint about evil oil companies. 60 Minutes leads the segment by showing a polluted well that wasn’t Chevron’s responsibility to clean and which Chevron says is not polluted by petroleum at all,...

More than 17,100 basic and applied American scientists, two-thirds with advanced degrees, have signed the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine’s Global Warming Petition, which says in part, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis. Maybe it’s because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support...

Michael Barone wrote yesterday that demography is destiny. He argues: “Americans are now moving out of, not into, coastal California and South Florida, and in very large numbers they’re moving out of our largest metro areas. They’re fleeing hip Boston and San Francisco, and after eight decades of moving to Washington they’re moving out. The domestic outflow from these metro areas is 3.9 million people, 650,000 a year. High housing costs, high taxes, a distaste in some cases for the burgeoning immigrant populations–these are driving many Americans elsewhere. “The result is that these Coastal Megalopolises are increasingly a two-tiered society,...