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Economics 101: Demand is the demon behind high gas prices

with James L. Sweeneyvia San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, August 17, 2006

The nation's journey to $3 per gallon gas has been more like a drag race than a meandering road trip…

Analysis and Commentary

Saving California From Californians

by Henry I. Millervia TCS Daily
Thursday, August 10, 2006

Some aspects of our political and personal lives -- zoning, city planning, traffic laws, noise ordinances, conformity in architecture, composition of school boards, and so forth -- can effectively be determined at a local level…

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Letter to the Editor: GMO bill, SB 1056 is a rational choice

by Henry I. Millervia Sonoma Index-Tribune (CA)
Tuesday, August 8, 2006

The letter from Yannick Phillips ("GMO bill needs scrutiny now," July 28) is rife with misrepresentations…

Analysis and Commentary

The Coming Tsunami of Trash

by Niall Fergusonvia Los Angeles Times
Monday, August 7, 2006

There is a wonderfully sinister poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea," which depicts an Atlantis-like metropolis lost beneath the "melancholy waters" of a "lurid sea…

Analysis and Commentary

The Bounty of Biotech

by Henry I. Millervia Los Angeles Times
Saturday, August 5, 2006

Anatole France famously said, "If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing…

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Modified solution

by Henry I. Miller, Gregory Conkovia Rocky Mountain News
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Ask any farmer in America's major wheat-growing regions about this year's crop and you'll get an earful…

Analysis and Commentary

Designer Jeans From Designer Genes

by Henry I. Millervia TCS Daily
Thursday, July 27, 2006

As the "new biotechnology" -- gene-splicing, or "genetic modification" (GM) -- enjoys ever more varied and impressive successes, the intractable opposition from environmental and other activists has become reminiscent of the old cartoon cliché about the person who year after year inaccurately predicts the end of the world…

Analysis and Commentary

Logic and land use

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Thursday, July 20, 2006

When conservationists talk about "saving" this and "protecting" that, logical questions might be: Saving it from whom…

Analysis and Commentary

Letter to the Editor: I Have a Dream: Scientific, Logical Regulation

by Henry I. Millervia Wall Street Journal
Thursday, July 13, 2006

In regard to "Weekend Interview: Get Your Priorities Right" by Kimberley A. Strassel (editorial page, July 8): Bjorn Lomborg calls for more advocacy for efficient ways to accomplish major international health, economic and environmental goals…

Analysis and Commentary

Europe must not trade its principles for Russian gas

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Financial Times
Monday, July 10, 2006

On the eve of the summit of the Group of Eight industrialised nations, which opens this week in St Petersburg, Europeans are faced with a delicate balancing act in their policy towards Russia…

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