Big Chills for Global-warming Alarmism
Don't pay any attention to your frozen thermometer. Never mind that your city is shivering under a record-setting cold wave, paralyzed by another record-setting snowfall. Do not think twice about your...
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More Covert War Against Iran
The United States has escalated its covert war against Iran, the New York Times reported on January 10. The article reported that the program involved efforts to disrupt the country’s nuclear...
Why Ron Paul Opposed the Gaza Resolution
On January 8, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (along with 11 House colleagues) introduced House Resolution 34, whose title reads: "Recognizing Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza,...
Bush Designates New Marine Sanctuaries
With just two weeks left in office, President Bush designated almost 200,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean as a national monument using powers granted by the Antiquities Act of 1906....
Trying to Uphold Federalism in Federal Court
"Federalism" is one of those words that turns many readers aside, as it conjures up images of boring old theoretical interpretations of John Locke treatises. The reality of federalism is much...
Kissinger, Putin, and the “New World Order”
Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, has declared that "you don't ever want a crisis to go to waste." As reported here yesterday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
True Unemployment Rate Higher Than Reported
The unemployment rate in December rose to 7.2 percent, according to the Labor Department. This represents a steep 0.4 percent rise from November's official rate of 6.8 percent, topping off a...
Why Would a Teen Murder Her Newborn?
A teenage girl is being held in Port Angeles, Washington, for the murder of her newborn baby boy. Sixteen-year-old Lauryn Louise Last is accused of drowning her newborn son, who was...
Obama’s New Course: More of the Same
President Bush leaves office amidst the greatest economic calamity in several generations, perhaps ever. The federal budget deficit is poised to triple last year's record $400 billion, rising to a projected...
Framer of the Framers
John Witherspoon was not only a Founding Father, but in his roles as preacher and professor he taught and influenced many of the great men of the Founding era. ...
NASA’s James Hansen Pushes Carbon Tax in Letter to Obamas
James Hansen, who runs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), has struck again. The political activist/scientist, global-warming guru, and boon companion to Al Gore has written a letter to Barack...
Obama’s Plan: Increase the $1.2 Trillion Deficit
President-elect Barack Obama has a plan to bring the federal budget under control: spend more and increase the record $1.2 trillion deficit projected for the current fiscal year. ...
Kissinger Urges Obama to Build a “New World Order”
According to Henry Kissinger, the various political and economic crises currently conflicting the world offer President-elect Barack Obama an opportunity to create a "new world order." That's what the former Secretary...
Stay Healthy: Government Healthcare May Be Coming
If they had been designing a health system from scratch, the change agents assuming power in January would have done things differently. Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy would have given us...
The Trouble With Leon Panetta
On January 5, the nation's new media learned that President-elect Barack Obama would nominate former congressman and Clinton administration official Leon Panetta as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency....