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Starting November 30, people from all around the world will be (or at least should be) converging towards Paris for the much-talked Climate Conference. As can be expected from such an event, the climate hysteria will be at the forefront of the talks in hopes to solve the (imaginary) climate problem. Yes, imaginary. Most of what you hear about climate in the media is either false or hidden from your sight – fueling fear is very profitable for the media. So no, the climate is not getting hotter and hotter contrary to what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claims....

54 groups share nearly $1 million in cigarette-tax money for arts projects by Karen Sandstrom / Plain Dealer Reporter Tuesday June 10, 2008, 3:49 PM Over the next year, cigarette-buyers in Cuyahoga County will help pay for a summer arts program for 1,000 young people in neighborhood parks as well as outdoor concerts in University Circle. Those programs are among 54 that will receive a total of $980,000 from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the agency that administers the Issue 18 tax for the arts, levied at 1.5 cents per cigarette. On Tuesday, trustees approved the grants to, among others, University...

The U.S. Senate's leading abuser of science has struck again. Not content with calling the notion of human-caused global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" (as he did in a July 2003 Senate floor speech), last week James Inhofe returned with an "update" on climate-change science. In his latest speech, timed to coincide with the final steps toward implementation of the Kyoto Protocol (which the United States won't be joining), Inhofe asserted that "put simply, man-induced global warming is an article of religious faith." Clearly, he hasn't changed his tune. What separates Inhofe’s fixation from similar...