Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, two groups that have received some ExxonMobil support for work by him and others on malaria eradication, Third World agriculture and economic development, climate change, and other issues. He is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power · Black death (www.Eco-Imperialism.com). http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:08:51 GMT Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:08:51 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ They get little credit for their efforts, but most resource extraction, manufacturing and power generation companies strive to be "socially responsible" - by emphasizing energy efficiency, resource conservation,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/09/02/the_social_responsibility_of_coal 5603e1ac-f6aa-4155-ad23-006f61c45746 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:08:51 GMT T. Boone Pickens is being lionized for his "socially responsible" efforts to legislate national "clean" wind and solar energy mandates. We're "the Saudi Arabia of wind," he argues. We need to "overcome our addiction... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/07/22/blowing_hot_air_up_our_shorts e1081f12-108f-4e80-9422-39bc4ffb817c Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:09:53 GMT "We can't drill our way out of our energy problem." This daily mantra, mostly from Democrats, underscores an abysmal grasp of economics by the politicians, activists, bureaucrats and judges who are dictating US... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/06/28/drill_here_drill_now_drill_anwr dca1ebfe-3331-4558-82df-054d97b3afcf Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT There is no distinctly native American criminal class, Mark Twain observed - except Congress. A century later, government power and intrusiveness have increased exponentially. Virtually every business and interest now... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/06/07/americas_native_criminal_class 66a04c15-2291-4e00-8847-25abf916664f Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT America is in the throes of a major housing and financial downturn, soaring food and energy costs, rising unemployment and near recession. But many legislators and bureaucrats are falling all over themselves to restrict... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/04/19/global_warming_tax_hikes_headed_your_way 901f58fc-42fb-4f62-bd2a-89fdccb7a73b Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT During the "Eat This" segment of their docu-comedy series BS, Penn Jillette beat Teller in a round of their "Greatest Person in History" card game. Penn needed just one card: Norman Borlaug. This Iowa farm boy and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/04/05/still_feeding_the_world b072ab5c-bcd5-4a1c-91e4-6491ba88920c Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT "Environmental justice" is often used to benchmark corporate social responsibility. "People of color and low-income populations are disproportionately impacted by pollution," argues Leslie Fields, Sierra Club... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/02/10/humpty_dumpty_policies 4ca4e276-1cc9-4565-9dec-2009464eefab Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT Tucked away in the mountains of western Romania, Rosia Montana has been a mining town for 2000 years. From Roman times, extracting gold and other metals from these rocks has been a dirty, dangerous business, and life... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/12/26/may_you_freeze_in_the_dark 73b0db2c-dd7f-4509-9b79-0c4840d5698f Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:40:07 GMT Tucked away in the mountains of western Romania, Rosia Montana has been a mining town for 2000 years. From Roman times, extracting gold and other metals from these rocks has been a dirty, dangerous business, and life... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/12/22/may_you_freeze_in_the_dark f3c61774-4314-41f1-93ae-0b0e62251c2e Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:01:01 GMT The mantra is repeated daily. There is consensus on climate change. Global warming is real. It will be a disaster. Humans are to blame. We have to do something - immediately. However, the consensus of 100... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/12/18/climate_change_rallies,_realities,_and_sacrifices 9745a6d4-0cc6-4a81-b98e-7bbb68a8c35f Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:07:40 GMT If "corporate social responsibility" is to be more than a brilliant strategy for compelling companies to follow the dictates of "progressive" pressure groups, it must apply defensible ethical principles to all... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/11/03/sick_and_deadly_double_standards 11767252-bfcf-4a53-bbc8-bacad9f891da Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:00:05 GMT During the Days of Repentance, Jews ponder their sins of the past year. Today, Yom Kippur, is their final opportunity to make amends and alter the judgment that God will enter in his books, as the sun sets. This Day... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/09/22/malaria_atonement_and_forgiveness d320137f-f331-432a-beff-b963533f71a9 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:46:39 GMT "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority," Marcus Aurelius opined, "but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." An even worse fate would be to end up in minority status and an asylum http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/09/08/global_warming_insanity 95a7cf7d-2557-4dc8-a4cd-910f5093a35e Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT For decades, Nazi and Communist regimes ruled Romania, kept her people impoverished and exploited her resources - tearing vast mineral wealth from her mountains, with little regard for worker safety, people's health or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/08/29/keeping_romania_impoverished a4d111ab-e053-4c4b-80b3-f682e01b5f32 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:38:43 GMT "The social responsibility of business," Milton Friedman famously said, "is to increase its profits." Some extol this view. Others condemn it. But many simply do not recognize that Dr. Friedman's 1970 aphorism has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/08/09/the_social_responsibility_of_profits dde2e32e-0dda-457a-9ec0-cdbfb9cf98c5 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:21:47 GMT "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, "it means just what I choose it to mean." That's apparently the operative philosophy for many politicians these days. Legislators should be working to ensure that we have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/08/01/do-nothing_energy_policies 7f1be9ac-339e-4761-a00e-684614b62b27 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:24:02 GMT Sarbanes-Oxley and the 2006 elections supposedly inaugurated a new congressional commitment to ethics, transparency, accountability and consumer protection. Something has been lost in translation. The "energy" bill... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/06/30/climate_ethics_on_capitol_hill dca4ece3-9bec-4438-a2ca-7a3d23f50c71 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Even in this "era of corporate social responsibility," brazen violations of honesty, transparency and accountability standards occur regularly. Exhibit 1: the recent "Coal is filthy" ad campaign. Prominent advertisement http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/05/12/the_"coal_is_filthy"_ad-scam 44970a4c-32fa-40a1-9d9f-81aa7ce36eef Sat, 12 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean," said Humpty Dumpty - "neither more nor less." Lewis Carroll's "Looking Glass" logic often seems to be a guiding principle for environmental and corporate... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/03/24/forty_years_of_perverse_social_responsibility 41186e8f-c0d9-4569-8abb-3314e388e0a1 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:01:01 GMT The ink has barely dried on its new code of conduct, and already Congress is redefining ethics and pork to fit a global warming agenda. As Will Rogers observed, "with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/02/06/global_warming_ethics,_pork_and_profits 940690b6-04bc-4607-8517-3927feaea913 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:25:32 GMT Two centuries years ago, Voltaire proclaimed, "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." Today, our free speech traditions are under assault. Colleges prohibit "offensive" or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2006/12/10/climate_mccarthyism_and_eco-inquisitions bbd75cb7-09ee-44ff-a521-07398e31cca4 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:48:32 GMT Every snowstorm, hurricane, deluge or drought generates headlines, horror movies and television specials, demanding action to avoid imminent climate catastrophe. Skeptics are pilloried, labeled "climate criminals," and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2006/10/21/the_real_climate_change_catastrophe c5e484c5-72a9-454c-9596-0681b18885d5 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:01:10 GMT "What you get in your mailbox," Audubon Society COO Dan Beard once admitted, "is a never-ending stream of shrill material, designed to evoke emotions, so you'll sit down and write a check." Added Sierra Club... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2006/09/06/activist_fraud_and_fundraising 66aff570-35e5-4aff-865e-093a5c1918be Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:30:35 GMT