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EDITOR’S CHOICE:  By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, Wednesday, July 28, 2010; The long-anticipated Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' electric car, will cost $41,000, the company announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above that of similarly sized conventional autos.

SNAPSHOT: Rocky Mountain High. Believe it or not, this photo was taken on Lake Dillon in Frisco, Colorado at 9,042 feet on July 24th. Rumor is that Capt. Nemo won the wooden-boat roll out. He was last seen heading for Dodge City. That’s Chester in the back. Miss Kitty was staying out of the sun.

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EDITORS’S CHOICE: By Neil Reynolds in The Globe and Mail, July 19,  2010. “Stanford University physicist Robert Laughlin says governments – and people generally – should proceed with more humility in dealing with climate change. The Earth, he says, is very old and has suffered grievously: volcanic explosions, floods, meteor impacts, mountain formation “and all manner of other abuses greater than anything people could inflict.” Yet, the Earth is still here. ‘It’s a survivor.’”

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EDITOR’S CHOICE:  U.S. Senator  Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) writes “Nuclear Energy Is Cheap and Reliable” U.S. News & World Report July 19, 2010. "Today nuclear power produces 20 percent of our nation’s electricity but 70 percent of our carbon-free electricity."

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: Posted on July 12th, 2010 The Big Green Lie Exposed Posted In: Global Warming, Politics As the reports from Dutch and British watchdog panels came in last week, greens hailed what they see as a vindication of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit and the partial rehabilitation of the IPCC, but they are wrong.  As usual, the greens (and many of their critics) are missing the point.

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: Terence Corcoran writes in the National Post “The last of three British investigations into the notorious Climategate emails, the Independent Climate Change Email Review, landed yesterday and left behind enough cherry-pickable material to give all sides an opportunity to claim modest vindication. The review provides plenty of evidence that climate science has been and remains an uncertain shambles.”

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ASPEN THINKERS UNEASY: At the 2009 Aspen Institute’s Conferences, an annual gathering of the country's brightest lights, President Obama was the toast of the town. The mood has soured considerably in the last 12 months. Lloyd Grove, one of the president's supporters, has written on the Daily Beast that among the intelligentsia Obama’s support has run dry. “You’d think the well-heeled and enlightened eggheads at the Aspen meetings in this fashionable resort town with heady panel discussions and earnest disquisitions involving all manner of deep thinkers and do-gooders—would be receptive to an intellectually ambitious president with big ideas of his own."

 "In a way, the folks attending this cerebral conclave by the Aspen Institute think tank would be seen as President Obama’s natural base. Apparently not so much.” Mort Zuckerman, owner of the NY Daily News, and Boston Properties and one of the most successful businessmen in the country said: “The hostility (by Obama) to the very kind of business culture that has made this the great country is now doing great damage to this country with a public policy that could ruin everything.”

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: The Latest Politics, News & Election Videos Niall Ferguson On The Future Of America's Economy: Ferguson asks his Harvard students “Have we arrived at the endpoint of, say, half a millennium of Western predominance? And is that one of these historical changes so huge that we just can't get our heads around it?”

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: July 5th 2010, 10:11 by The Economist online. FOR everyone else it was the glaciers: for the Dutch it was the flooding. Last January errors in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hit the headlines. The chapter on Asia in the report by the IPCC’s second working group, charged with looking at the impact of climate change and adapting to it, mistakenly claimed that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035.

Resident's photo of Panhandle beach disaster.

Navarre, Florida has had enough. As devastating as the Gulf oil disaster continues to be there,  federal, state and local government paralysis is sparking even more anger and frustration. Navarre is a community of 30,000 in Santa Rosa County in the Northwest Florida Panhandle. It is about 25 miles east of Pensacola and about 15 miles west of Fort Walton Beach.  As one resident writes, “folks here are getting off their butts and not waiting on federal or local governments.”