Fred Thompson looked much too relaxed on Sunday's Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert. He was nonchalant to the point of apathy about one of his key supporters being a convicted drug trafficker, and his positions on rights for the unborn and the disabled were embarrassing in their lack of intellectual depth.

Last Friday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-4 to surrender U.S. sovereignty to Third World countries and the corrupt United Nations!

Hardly a day goes by anymore without some breathless announcement of some new "Green" initiative. It's all rather boring really, but politicians are eager to associate themselves with these idiotic exercises in futility.

When the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was first founded back in 1985, we had little idea that 22 years later we would be in the middle of the fight for economic freedom for the world's poor. For years, in speeches, articles, and on our daily "Just the Facts" radio commentary, we have argued for positive approaches to solving environmental problems through technology and human ingenuity - and that people are the Earth's greatest resource.

Dark horse candidate Ron Paul is fast becoming the media darling of the same leftist press that has been pushing Rudy Giuliani for President since 2001. This alone should make conservatives nervous about supporting either. If the leftist press approves, count me out!

Developers who have already obtained permits to build on property affected by a new measure changing land use law may have to turn to the courts to decide whether they have gotten far enough to keep building.

Since the dawn of humanity, there have been a few classic, sure-fire incentives to get people to do all sorts of crazy things. Love is one of them. Money is another. The ingredient in question, of course, is land.

St. Clair County's nearly three-year effort to seize and close a shooting range next to Scott Air Force Base suffered a legal setback Thursday morning. St. Clair County Associate Judge James Radcliffe dismissed the county's eminent domain lawsuit against the Caseyville Rifle and Pistol Club in Mascoutah.

Now that much of the land along County Road 210 has already been purchased and developed, St. Johns County Commissioner Cyndi Stevenson has called for a stop to any more land use changes for development along the roadway.

A proposed quarry operation along the Applegate River could test the legal limits of Measure 49 in Jackson County. The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development approved a Measure 37 claim Monday for the Krouse Ranch despite objections from neighbors.

Higher juice prices and fair weather have made this a good time to be a citrus grower like Joe Davis. So why, amid a historic housing slump, is Davis planning to develop his plump groves to make way for homes, which are withering on the vine?

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa supports while encouraging over two million illegal aliens in the City of Angels. He's not too happy, however, about the 20,000 Mexican and Central American gang-bangers wreaking havoc in his streets where cops fear to tread.

We are really lucky to live in Utah. This state has so much to offer. We have hundreds of miles of undeveloped land within arms' reach. Less than an hour's drive of almost anywhere within the state will bring you to a national park. Unlike many people in the nation, we have a chance to discover the outdoors.

Two land trusts and the Massachusetts Audubon Society will share in $442,020 worth of Conservation Partnership grants in Central Massachusetts that will preserve 205 acres of open space and wildlife habitat statewide. The grants were announced this week by Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles.

China will this year surpass the US in terms of carbon dioxide emissions and will become the world's biggest oil consumer by 2010, the International Energy (OOTC:ILGL) Agency (IEA) said.

Skeptics of the idea that global warming is a looming threat to the well-being of all the earth's inhabitants can count among their ranks John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel.

One of the most pernicious falsehoods that occur in letters to the Fence Post on global warming is that an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that global warming is caused by man and only a handful of climate skeptics disagree.

Brazil has discovered huge new petroleum reserves in its south that could turn the country into one of the biggest oil producers in the world, the government and its state-controlled oil company announced Thursday

Democratic House members can't understand why their party's national leaders are embracing driver's licenses for illegal aliens, and say their constituents see it as a "de facto amnesty."

Amid all the chaos on Capitol Hill -- a possible vote to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney one day, shenanigans over the annual spending bills the next -- one constant has been the prolonged, backroom negotiation over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).