About: Roy Cordato
VP for research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation
Recent Posts by Roy Cordato
Alarmists go “Dan Rather” on the Heartland Institute
Over the past couple weeks the global warming alarmist community, both locally and nationally, on their blogs and Twitter pages, have been quite excited about some documents that have been fraudulently obtained from the Heartland Institute, a well known libertarian think tank in Illinois. For many years Heartland has been on the vanguard of providingContinue Reading
Written on February 22, 2012 at 2:56 pm
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A new movie on windpower, without the romance (HT Jon Ham)
Written on February 20, 2012 at 4:41 pm
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The meaning of hypocrisy is…
…to complain about rising gas prices while opposing the keystone pipeline, drilling in the ANWR and drilling off the coasts. (OK, maybe it’s not hypocrisy. Maybe it’s complete ignorance of the laws of supply and demand.)
Written on February 16, 2012 at 7:29 am
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A 4000 year Greenland Temperature Record
Here’s the scenario. Greenland is warming, ice caps are melting, and eventually, New York City is flooding. Now the problem with this story. New research from the Geophysical Research Letter, a top climate research journal, estimating 4000 years of Greenland temperature anomalies, suggest nothing unusual is going on and it has been both much warmerContinue Reading
Written on February 15, 2012 at 3:56 pm
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“It’s not just the car we wanted to build, it’s the car America had to build”
This is the claim in the latest Chevy Volt ad, and it is absolutely true. This is true, America had to build this, i.e. it was forced to by the policy of subsidies put in place by the Obama Administration. The American taxpayer has no choice but to fork over massive amounts of their hardContinue Reading
Written on February 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm
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An interesting fact about the HHS contraception mandate
The only contraception that actually can prevent disease, the condom, is not covered by the mandate. Remember, the mandate has been issued under the heading of disease prevention. If you ask me this whole contraception mandate thing is a Trojan horse for the eventual mandated coverage of abortions.
Written on February 13, 2012 at 4:20 pm
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Progressives getting back to their roots
The whole movement for so-called reproductive health is almost totally fixated on making sure that lower income women have easy access to services that will keep them from reproducing. Can you say eugenics?
Written on February 12, 2012 at 8:07 pm
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You might be a progressive if…
…you believe that we don’t have access to everything from McDonald’s hamburgers to computers because they aren’t provided free of charge by an insurance company.
Written on February 12, 2012 at 7:22 am
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Recent Comments by Roy Cordato
- May 8, 2013 on Is there anything the Obamaites don’t want to regulate?
- August 29, 2012 on Yes, they did build that?
- July 3, 2012 on Re: NEA Environmental Education (Stoops)
- April 30, 2012 on A Tough Crowd to Please
- April 11, 2012 on Media largely ignoring closure of The Mint
