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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Contact: Chris Horner
Chris.Horner@ATI.org
Texas Tech ignores request for Gingrich book records
Controversial activist professor claims to have spent 100+ hours on chapter suddenly dropped from upcoming book
WASHINGTON — American Tradition Institute, a non-profit research institute dedicated to restoring science, liberty and accountability to the environmental debate, filed on Dec. 10 a Public Information Act request with Texas Tech University relating to collaboration on a book, using public time and resources, between “climate” activist Professor Katharine Hayhoe and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
Texas Tech was to produce responsive records by early last week. To date, ATI has not received a response.
“This is a matter of significant public interest, as Mr. Gingrich’s views and past activism on the ‘climate’ issue receive scrutiny by voters seeking to assess his judgment and compatibility with their views,” said Chris Horner, ATI’s Senior Director of Litigation.
Hayhoe, who preaches that human activity is destroying the climate and that Christian stewardship compels acceptance of the ‘climate’ agenda, had been publicly identified as a contributor to Gingrich’s forthcoming book “Environmental Entrepreneurs.” Hayhoe had gained notoriety for urging evangelical Christians into supporting the controversial, costly and according to all computer models, climatically meaningless ‘climate’ agenda. News outlets now report that Gingrich, under fire for his left-of-center views on the environment from presidential competitors and Tea Party activists, quickly deep-sixed Hayhoe’s chapter last week.
“Nice to hear that Gingrich is tossing my #climate chapter in the trash. 100+ unpaid hrs I cd’ve spent playing w my baby,” Hayhoe posted on her Twitter account Dec. 30.
ATI requested all emails to or from any Texas Tech email account used by Hayhoe (including as “cc”,) and either or both Gingrich and his co-author Terry Maple.
ATI also requested all emails sent or received by Hayhoe citing or referring to one or more of the following: Newt Gingrich (or “Newt” or “Gingrich”), Terry Maple (or “Terry”, or “Maple”), American Solutions (including in the email address/domain), and/or “Environmental Entrepreneurs”.
With time of the essence and the law very clear, ATI questions any further delays by Texas Tech in coming into compliance with its obligations, and calls on the university to promptly produce these records the public paid for and have a right to see.
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American Tradition Institute
Tom Tanton, Acting Executive Director
I’m a ‘notbot’.
And if you think that Benyamin Netanyahu thinks that a nuclear Iran is not an existential threat to Israel, you’re as kooky as Ron Paul.
/Mr Lynn
Why I will vote for Ron Paul and not Mitt Romney.
Mitt was responsible for “Romney Care” in Massachusetts. This is the model for Obama Care that Gingrich thought was a great idea.
Mitt also has hired firms that employ illegal aliens on 2 occasions to do landscaping at his home in Belmont, Ma.
Wall street loves Bankers….and Bankers love global warming.
Mitt was responsible for the infamously costly Big Dig (which is still plagued with problems).
Big Dig Contractor, Jay Cashman, managed to pull a few strings and get out of a bind regarding the Big Dig and has contributed to Romney’ campaign both times. This is how crony capitalism works.
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2005/10/03/www_windfarmblog_com?blog=14
Furthermore, Jay Cashman has an in at General Electric (Obama’s favorite company) as he is also developing wind projects using GE turbines.
http://www.patriotrenewables.com/
And has recently acquired an old air force radar site built by GE for the purpose of more wind development.
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/real-estateinvestor-buysold-radar-site_2011-12-28.html
Now about that special dredging project he got…
http://www.hudsondredging.com/2011/04/06/ge-selects-contractor-for-hudson-dredging/
So, we are looking at another Obama by design (in the event Obama loses).
That is why I support Ron Paul.
plenarchist says:
January 2, 2012 at 10:44 am
The points you make concerning PR’s domestic policies I happen to agree with, especially closing down many of the federal departments. However, my point was that the Ron Paul agenda pertaining to foreign policy and how he sees the world is, once again, ignorant. This is not the world of Thomas Jefferson, who btw is one of my favorite people. The POTUS cannot simply withdraw the U.S. from the world. Hiding our heads in the sand while the rest of the world falls to evil men is not the way to keep us safe. Recalling Martin Neimoller’s famous quote “and then they came for me…”. Closing bases and eliminating foreign aid make nice talking points but are not the way to get spending under control. Besides, we need to be a presence in the world, for our own benefit.
As to saving “billions”, that is not even close to what we need. We need to save trillions, starting with the elimination of Social Security. Next to go would be Medicare as it now operates. Anything less than that is but a drop in the bucket.
Finally, reading your posts gives me the impression that you have an almost religious belief in Ron Paul, almost like those who have a religious belief in AGW. Tough to make them see what they do not want to see.
As per my last post above…..
http://dailybail.com/home/ge-dumps-offshore-wind-power-plans-after-collecting-125-mill.html
@Dave Burton –
You need to get your facts straight. Paul endorsed a multiparty system. He is indicting the two-party system as anti-democratic. He does not endorse McKinney… he endorsed democracy. Stop spreading disinformation.
“Are you shocked? Don’t feel bad. You’re not alone.” I don’t but you should be ashamed.
“But Ron Paul also has a dark side: of race-baiting…” Prove it. Read my prior post. He has a long record of being a defender of minorities and you know it.
“… such as his recent encouragement for Iran to close the Straits of Hormuz…” In response to US sanctions because sanctions are an act of war. Get your facts straight and stop distorting Paul’s positions.
@Mr.. Lynn
“And if you think that Benyamin Netanyahu thinks that a nuclear Iran is not an existential threat to Israel, you’re as kooky as Ron Paul.”
Apparently the head of Mossad must be kooky too, “But if one said a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands was an existential threat, that would mean that we would have to close up shop and go home. That’s not the situation. The term existential threat is used too freely.”
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/29/395711/mossad-israel-iran-existential-threat/
Big Dig construction began in 1991, long before Mitt Romney became Governor, and planning long before that. It was pretty much a fait accompli by the time he took office.
I have problems with Gov. Romney, but that, and “Wall St.” and his landscapers using illegal aliens are just silly non-issues.
As are claims that he is no different from the Socialist-in-Chief now in the White House. And I though most of the commenters here were scientists, engineers, and other folks with a grounding in reality.
/Mr Lynn
“”””” Michael Reed says:
January 2, 2012 at 4:38 am
George E. Smith obviously has never heard of the 17th Amendment, passed in 1913, which allows for direct election of US Senators. Oprah still has a shot. “””””
And Michael Reed has never heard of “read what I wrote; not what you think that I wrote.”
Election of Senators is unrelated in any way to what I wrote about selection of the President of the United States, by the Electoral College; made up of appointed electors, who are appointed by each of the States of the Union; by whatever means the laws of that State provide for; and who are voted for by no ordinary registered voter.
But if any State wants to elect Oprah Winfrey to be one of its two senators; that would be fine with me; just look at the two deadbeats that California has as senators.
@Tom in Florida –
“This is not the world of Thomas Jefferson, who btw is one of my favorite people. The POTUS cannot simply withdraw the U.S. from the world. Hiding our heads in the sand while the rest of the world falls to evil men is not the way to keep us safe.”
I disagree. US interventionism has *made* the world a dangerous place for Americans; not the other way around. The reason the world hates Americans now is because of a century of failed interventionist empire building. And Paul believes (and I agree) that US intervention makes the US *less* safe.
He wants a strong national defense. He does not believe that a strong defense is a good offense like the neocons. He believes in Christian Just War Theory… fight when attacked and fight to win. The neocons want war to make themselves rich… not to make the US more secure.
@Mr. Lynn –
“As are claims that he is no different from the Socialist-in-Chief now in the White House.”
They are the same. Just like Obama is the same as Bush who was the same as Clinton. They are all the same. The rhetoric is different but the policies are the same. They are all owned by the oligarchs as is Congress.
2008 major campaign contributors:
Obama… Goldman-Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, UBS, Morgan Stanley.
Romney… Goldman-Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, UBS, Morgan Stanley.
Notice anything? Do you really think that either of those clowns gives a rip about this country? Your rights? Your economic well-being? In this new year, we might get to celebrate some new holidays… bank holidays. Look it up. We get poorer… they get richer.
@Mr. Lynn –
“Obama… Goldman-Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, UBS, Morgan Stanley.
Romney… Goldman-Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, UBS, Morgan Stanley.”
And what’s really funny is that those Wall St firms “too big to fail” are using *your* money to fund Obama and Romney campaigns today. Remember 2008 there was a big market crash… but these firms got bailed out by Congress and the Fed. The TARP money was tax dollars. The Fed money was taken from your bank account. Now that money is in Romney’s and Obama’s bank accounts…
Ric Werme wrote,
http://www.infowars.com/new-poll-ron-paul-betters-other-gop-candidates-vs-obama/ notes “The latest poll [the one marketwatch is referring to] dovetails with a previous NBC News/Marist poll out of Iowa that found Obama beating all GOP competitors except for Ron Paul. The results of these polls prove that Paul is the only GOP candidate that appeals to voters across the political spectrum.”
1. You need to pick your sources with more care. Infowars.com is Alex Jones’ web site. Mr. Jones is a chum of Ron Paul, and a raving “9-11 Truther” lunatic. See him in action here, abusing Michelle Malkin, the petite lady with the camera. Jones says (or, usually, screams) that secret conspiracies or space aliens are in charge of everything, and that the government is intentionally poisoning you with fluoride to keep you docile. Here he tells his radio audience what he thinks of American conservatives.
2. The polls cited do not support those claims. The NBC/Marist poll was for Iowa, only, and the CNN/ORC poll has Ron Paul doing no better than Romney against Obama.
3. The latest Rasmussen polls have Romney beating Obama by 6 percentage points, and Paul losing to Obama by 8 percentage points.
4. When the electorate learns the truth about Ron Paul ‘s history of race-baiting, his pandering to white supremacist & survivalist nuts & 9-11 “truthers” like Alex Jones, and his dishonesty, his support vs. Obama will surely decline.
@ur momisugly Mr. Lynn…..
daveburton says:
January 2, 2012 at 4:45 am
Please support Santorum, Bachman, Perry, Gingrich, Romney, or Huntsman — anybody but Ron Paul!
Sure. Vote Ron Paul get Obama!
Ron Paul has addressed the misconceptions about him.
Just do a google search. misconceptions+about+Ron+Paul
I conversed with a lot of people who call themselves liberal or left. I like to keep up with what they’re saying. Many like Dr. Paul and talk about voting for him. Some want to vote for Romney. Not a good sign for Obama.
Ron Paul now claims that he wasn’t responsible for the race-baiting newsletters that bore his name, and that he didn’t even know what was in them. But in 1995 he sang a different tune. He told CSPAN that “I put out” the newsletters. I guess when you lie as much as Ron Paul does, it’s hard to keep your story straight.
R. Gates on Ron Paul
Unfortunately, he’ll never get too far as the Defense Industry won’t back him
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Unfortunately, you are probably correct.
Disgusting, no?
For more evidence, google —> iowa caucus, vote count
plenarchist says:
January 2, 2012 at 3:07 pm
“I disagree. US interventionism has *made* the world a dangerous place for Americans; not the other way around. The reason the world hates Americans now is because of a century of failed interventionist empire building. And Paul believes (and I agree) that US intervention makes the US *less* safe.He wants a strong national defense. He does not believe that a strong defense is a good offense like the neocons. He believes in Christian Just War Theory… fight when attacked and fight to win. The neocons want war to make themselves rich… not to make the US more secure.”
Once again this expresses the ignorance of RP and his followers. Especially the “Christian Just War Theory”.
Plenarchist wrote, “US interventionism has *made* the world a dangerous place for Americans; not the other way around. The reason the world hates Americans now is because of a century of failed interventionist empire building. And Paul believes (and I agree) that US intervention makes the US *less* safe.”
Well, that does seem to be Ron Paul’s position. That’s one of the reasons I’ll never vote for him. I do not agree with you that imperialist empire building over the last 100 years, in places like Amiens, Normandy, Guadalcanal, Inchon, etc., had just made America despised in the world, without making the world any safer.
According to Ron Paul, we shouldn’t interfere with genocide on the other side of the globe, either, not even by sending food aid:
I agree with Sam Brownback and Alan Keys: that’s an appalling, cold-hearted, even un-American, position.
(Skip to 8:05 in the above YouTube to hear the candidates answer the question about genocide)
Very nice sounding and simplistic rhetoric, but is not – and cannot be – an absolute. What about Grand Jury testimony? At that point, no one has been indicted for a crime. Should those deliberations be made public? We did, after all, pay for it. Should we be permitted trial by press and besmirch the reputation of the innocent because “we paid for it”?
What about weapons research. We surely paid for that. Shouldn’t the most sensitive classified information be made public? We paid for it, that puts it in the public domain – right?
I can think of dozens of other examples right off the top of my head where public disclosure of publically funded information is not in the public interest.
True story: An EPA scientist and a senior administrator are sent to a town hall meeting to discuss a private individual’s finding of PCB’s in their drinking water. Based on the raw data gathered by the EPA and available for download, a local “expert” made a startling discovery – high levels of PCB’s in their water! At this town hall meeting, the EPA scientist asks what test sample the PCB reading came from. Going back over the sample sheets, the scientist points out that the positive reading came from a test slug. This is a sample with a known type and level of contamination in it used to assure that the test equipment was working properly. So there is a danger to letting “raw data” get into the hands of those not qualified to interpret it.
I understand your meaning, that publically funded scientific research that does not compromise national security should be, and by rights ought to be, available to the constituency that paid for it. And I agree. But let’s not paint with too broad a brush, shall we?
OK I give. The important thing is to beat Obama. James Carville is most concerned to have Obummer face Mitt Romney. That would be because of the money deal. Run those ads to all the dumbed down people propped in front of the boob tubes. So maybe everyone should just right now rally behind Mitt.
Honestly, when interest on our debt costs 1 trillion a year… Defaults later, will Ron Paul be remembered? We are in big trouble! I don’t see how we’re going to avoid permanent libertarian paradise without short term libertarian ideals for an election cycle or two.
GOOD NEWS (FOR AMERICANS)
“THERE MAY NOT have been a party in Times Square to celebrate, but
two of the most wasteful subsidies ever to clutter the Internal Revenue
Code went out with the old year. Congress declined to renew either the
45-cent-per-gallon tax credit for corn-based ethanol or the
54-cent-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol, so both expired Dec. 31.”
“Taxpayers will no longer have shell out roughly $6 billion per
year for a program that badly distorted the global grain market,
artificially raised the cost of agricultural land and did almost nothing
to curb greenhouse gas emissions. A federal law requiring the use of 36
billion gallons of ethanol for fuel by 2022 still props up the
industry, but the tax credit’s expiration is a victory for common sense
just the same…”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/overcharged/2011/12/30/gIQAzQ0yUP_story.html
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MEANWHILE, IN BRITAIN, THE INSANITY GROWS…
“…this leaves Britain isolated in a mad little bubble of its own, the only country in the world committed by law to the completely unrealisable goal of cutting CO2 emissions by 80 per cent within 40 years.
“On this very day, January 1, the EU is imposing a tax on airline flights which, on top of the Air Passenger Duty, when George Osborne raises it yet again in April, will bring the tax for a British family of four flying to Florida to £344.
“Next year, Mr Osborne is to impose a “carbon floor price” of £16 on every ton of CO2 emitted by British industry, when the price of “carbon” under the EU’s emissions trading scheme has collapsed to just £5.40. Not only will Osborne’s tax do serious damage to the competitiveness of British industry, it will add £3 billion a year to the cost of our electricity. This will rise within eight years to £5 billion, which alone will add 25 per cent to all our bills.
“Meanwhile, utterly lost in his own green dreamworld, the man supposedly in charge of energy policy, Chris Huhne, babbles about chequering thousands of square miles of our countryside and our coastal waters with a further 32,000 crazily expensive and useless windmills. It is a vision so insane that one cannot imagine why men in white coats have not already hauled him off – rather more expeditiously than the Essex police who, we are told, wish to see him prosecuted for perverting the course of justice over an alleged traffic offence.
“Even if Huhne’s pipedream could be achieved (it is technically out of the question), he still has not grasped that it would be necessary to pay billions of pounds more to build dozens of grown-up gas-fired power stations, as essential back-up for those still days that render the energy contributions of windmills all too frequently derisory. Something that we can predict with certainty is not going to happen in 2012 is any trace of sanity on these matters entering this absurdly dangerous man’s charmless head.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8986379/Europe-cannot-save-the-euro-nor-save-itself-from-the-euro.html
Don’t be too hard on the Newtster. A lot of people, especially those like Newt who grew up when NASA was doing heroic things like landing men on the moon, had a very hard time coming to grips with NASA and other scientists compromising their integrity to further political and financial agendas. Many still refuse to believe it.
Ron Paul on the other hand would perhaps be a better fit for chief executive of Switzerland. For better or worse the US is the only remaining superpower and has a moral, ethical, and self-interest responsibilities in keeping the world mostly safe for capitalism, free trade, and democracy. Paul’s ideas might help the U.S. in the short term but would be disastrous in the long term for both the U.S. and the world. Isolationism leads to people like Stalin and Hitler acquiring a vast amount of power which leads to make-or-break world wars like WWI and WWII which take an all-out effort to win and must be won at any cost. Koreas and Vietnams and Iraqs and Afghanistans should be dealt with while still regionally confined and managable not after vast swaths of nations have been subsumed by some bloody dictator with dreams of global occupation.
Newt’s embrace of the Global Warming agenda was nothing short of scurrilous opportunism.
Exactly. No doubt, back when he first got this rolling, he felt this would help make him more “mainstream” and distance himself from the typical republicans… make him more electable to independants. Ie. The “MAVERICK” approach that McCain employs.
A little wishy washyness over a minor issue is one thing, but this is a BIG issue with HUGE ramifications. I’m not comfortable giving a vote to someone willing to sell out the country for personal power.
Present Political Positions of Mitt Romney: “He would consider cap-and-trade only if part of a larger global plan. He has not offered specific targets on energy efficiency. He does not support mileage goals as a stand-alone measure, but has indicated he would consider them only if they were part of a comprehensive energy plan.
Romney has supported a $20 billion package for energy research & new car technology. He opposes a unilateral US global warming policy and believes that worldwide solutions are optimal.”
Past postions include founding and funding the Regional Greenhouse Gas Innitiative, although at the last moment he withdrew. He does support creating a Carbon Tax, offset by a cut in payroll tax. In Massachusetts as governor he instituted carbon emissions standards for vehicles which were 30% stricter than national standards. He presided over the closing of a coal plant stating that it kills people.
He is the author of RomneyCare, blue print policy for Obamacare.