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Skeptics Put Freeze on Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN — Taking their cue from radical environmentalist political stunts, global warming “skeptics” in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference served...

Alex Newman December 18, 2009

NGO Demonstrators: No to Coal, No to Oil, No to Nuclear

William F. Jasper December 17, 2009

COPENHAGEN — Fossil fuels may be the main targeted villains at the United Nation's Climate Conference, but the activist non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at...

Media Ignore Communist Presence at Copenhagen

Rebecca Terrell December 16, 2009

Among the demonstrations accompanying the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was the Saturday, December 12 "Global Day of Action" at which protestors...

Participants Freeze Amid Climate Conference Chaos

Alex Newman December 15, 2009

COPENHAGEN — Upon arrival at the United Nations COP15 Climate Change Summit in Copenhagenon December 14, the police officer in military fatigues guarding...

Reporting From Copenhagen

William S. Hahn December 14, 2009

William F. Jasper, senior editor for The New American and Alex Newman, contributor to The New American, are in Copenhagen this week attending...

Fathers Jailed in Germany for Opting Children out of Sex Ed

Selwyn Duke December 13, 2009

Could you imagine being jailed simply because you decided to opt your children out of sex education? Well, this is exactly what is...

British Journalist Mourns Death of “Magna Carta” Under EU

Thomas R. Eddlem December 11, 2009

“Our Magna Carta has been superceeded,” declared the London Daily Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard as the European Union came into force for Britain. In...

Lisbon Treaty Builds EU Super-state

Alex Newman December 10, 2009

The once-sovereign nations of Europe are about to become saddled with an even more powerful governing body in Brussels — a powerful new...

Leaked Proposal Prompts Furor In Copenhagen

Alex Newman December 9, 2009

A secret draft agreement being called the “Danish Text” has sparked an uproar among various groups at the United Nations COP15 climate change...

Christmas Trees Too Christian for Climate-change Conference

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. December 8, 2009

As climate-change chicken littles gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark (temperature a balmy 41 degrees on Tuesday), there was one traditional aspect missing from the...

Limos and Private Jets for Climate Dignitaries

Alex Newman December 8, 2009

As self-described “world leaders” gather in Copenhagen to lecture the Earth’s population about carbon-dioxide (plant food) emissions, international news reports have revealed that...

Controversy Over Swiss Minaret Vote

James Heiser December 2, 2009

As reported previously, the November 29 decision by the citizens of Switzerland to amend their constitution and ban the future construction of minarets...