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Washington Examiner columnist Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.

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  • Ron Arnold: Eco-terror advocate bashes climate 'deniers' on film

    Ron Arnold

    Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013

    Last month a Pew Research Center/USA Today poll confirmed what poll-watchers knew during last year's campaign season: Climate change was the lowest-ranked priority on President Obama's second-term agenda. Last Friday, Big Green's entertainment division churned out yet another attempt to turn...

  • Ron Arnold: A journalism nonprofit's nonagenda agenda

    Ron Arnold

    Published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013

    Among the standout names of outfits recently whacking the Donors Trust is the nonprofit investigative journalism organization known as the Center for Public Integrity. To many, the group's name seems presumptuous and agenda-laden, despite its insistence that it is "nonpartisan and does no...

  • Ron Arnold: The Left's simmering campaign against Donors Trust boils over

    Ron Arnold

    Published: Thu, Feb 28, 2013

    Two weeks ago, Greenpeace published a hit piece headlined "Donors Trust: Laundering Climate Denial Funding. The shadow operation that has laundered $146 million in climate-denial funding." A few days later, the New York-based media producer Democracy Now! broadcast a story called "The ATM for...

  • Ron Arnold: Feds cause Alaskan road crisis

    Ron Arnold

    Published: Thu, Feb 21, 2013

    Republican Rep. Don Young, Alaska's at-large representative in the U.S. House, is hopping mad. Three weeks ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service caved in to affluent urban Big Green pressure groups and refused to allow a congressionally approved life-saving road in the remote Aleutian Islands...

  • Ron Arnold: Big Green versus human rights in the Indian Ocean

    Ron Arnold

    Published: Thu, Feb 14, 2013

    Diego Garcia is the largest island of a tropical atoll in the Chagos Archipelago of the Indian Ocean, named after a 1500s Spanish explorer. It is actually a loop of about 50 islands atop one peak in a vast submarine mountain range. But if it looks less like a tropical paradise than a massive...

  • Ron Arnold: Federal court slaps down Big Green land grab

    Ron Arnold

    Published: Fri, Feb 8, 2013

    Three of the nation's most destructive environmentalist groups sued the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service in March 2011. Their goal was to force the agency to declare more than 187,000 square miles (approximately 120 million acres) along the north coast of Alaska as...

  • Ron Arnold: NIMBY New Yorkers don't want any Indian casino near them

    Ron Arnold

    Updated: Thu, Jan 31, 2013

    An old trivia game among bureaucracy-watchers is to guess what preposterous reason some official has invented to stop economic development. The game reached a new high of gobbledygook this week, when Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, urging it to...

  • Ron Arnold: Turning America's water into Big Green's elite empire

    Ron Arnold

    Updated: Thu, Jan 24, 2013

    Two weeks ago, outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar named the White River -- which cuts 722 miles through its 17.8 million-acre watershed, crossing 60 counties in Arkansas and Missouri -- as the second National Blueway. What exactly, we should ask, is a National Blueway? In short, it's the...

  • Ron Arnold: Big Green hits the big screen to stop America's economy

    Ron Arnold

    Updated: Thu, Jan 17, 2013

    Among the Heritage Foundation's many chores is tracking the movement of foreign money into projects that could harm the American economy. By a quirk in the viewing habits of the conservative think tank's staff, a tip to their investigative blog led to the discovery that Matt Damon's...

  • Ron Arnold: Nature Conservancy embroiled in another land grab scandal

    Ron Arnold

    Updated: Thu, Jan 10, 2013

    One of Big Green's biggest outfits, the Nature Conservancy (2011 revenue $997 million; assets $6 billion), is once again under fire. The new accusation is that it used improper influence over an elderly landowner to get her to donate her family property. This time it's the 16,500-acre Roberts...


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