March 28, 2010

The Toyota Problem: Is It Driver Error?

Toyota chased General Motors for years until finally passing the General to become the world's largest automaker, and now...disaster. Reports of runaway Toyotas are all over the news. The ghost of 1980's Audi is haunting Toyota. Now, we have to find ...

March 11, 2010

Sarah Palin's family used socialized medicine?

Lincoln Mitchell is on his high horse over at Huffpo reveling in the supposed hypocrisy of Sarah Palin. How could she? That's right, Sarah Palin's family used Canada's health care system a couple of times when she was a child. How can we continue to ...

March 8, 2010

End of the road for Obama?

It's common knowledge that the American mainstream media have collectively had a thrill going up their leg from the time Obama announced his run for the presidency. Even now they find it difficult to report the truth as the Obama presidency falls apa...

March 3, 2010

It's Perry in Texas GOP primary

On tax day last year Gov. Perry was at a tea party. Kay Bailey Hutchison was reportedly at a mattress store. Guess who won the Texas Republican primary? Here's analysis from the Houston Chronicle:Less than a year ago, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison w...

January 29, 2010

RINO attempts to revive Obamacare

Sen. Susan Collins (RINO-Maine) is just itching to sign a health care bill. As reported in The Hill on Thursday she said: "[T]hat it is still possible for Democrats and Republicans to reach a deal on a bipartisan health care bill." She furt...

December 18, 2009

The end of liberalism?

From the very beginning of the Obama presidency Democrats have been acting like kids in a candy store - doubling down on the TARP bailout and the $787 billion stimulus/slush fund. The most recent 1.1 trillion spending bill and now the health care bil...

November 9, 2009

Scotland Yard and the FBI have prevented an attack on the New York subway

Scotland Yard and the FBI have prevented an attack on the New York subway that if successful would have been second in scope only to the attack on 9/11. Reportedly a senior member of al Qaeda  gave instructions over the internet to Najibullah Za...

October 24, 2009

Camille Paglia, last of the open minded liberals

What would you call an acknowledged member of the intellectual elite who is skeptical of global warming, likes to listen to Rush Limbaugh, has an ongoing battle with the feminist establishment and is a fan of Sarah Palin? I would call her the last of...

September 3, 2009

UK 'death panels' exposed

The Telegraph has the weekly (or is it daily now) horror story from the UK's National Health Service. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to...

August 27, 2009

Government healthcare horror

In case there is anyone out there who still believes that we should turn over our health care to the government these three stories about the UK's infamous National Health Service should make them reconsider.From The Daily Mail: "The babies born...

August 24, 2009

We should spend more on health care, not less

Everyone is talking about controlling the rising cost of health care, but is that really such a good idea? When other sectors of the economy grow it's considered good news. We Americans spend more on our clothes, more on our cars and more on our home...

April 26, 2009

Shovel ready solar project put on hold

Where are those green collar jobs the stimulus money was supposed to create? If you are a unemployed San Franciscan waiting for the trillion dollar stimulus money to trickle down, you may have to wait a while longer.Here is the sad story from the San...

April 14, 2009

Breaking News: 'Sunspots May Cause Climate Fluctuations'

Are sanity and science about to make a comeback in climatology? Willie Soon, a researcher affiliated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Harvard College Observatory, offered his comments in this article at thecrimson.comThe t...

March 23, 2009

Inequities in socialized health care

The goal of socialized health care is not to provide exceptional health care to the few but to provide "cost-effective" health care to everyone. In theory this may be a worthy goal, but how does it work in the real world?The UK's ...

February 25, 2009

Socialized medicine, here we come

In his address to Congress President Obama said health care reform can not wait, must not wait, and will not wait another year. Republicans need to take the long view, since they don't have the votes to stop the Democrats on most issues; let them rai...

February 17, 2009

Australia turns to socialized health care

We should keep an eye on Australia, they are slightly ahead of us on the road to socialized health care. For a glimpse into our future under the Obama administration take a look at this article from The Sydney Morning Herald:DENTISTS have condemned a...

February 12, 2009

More casualties of environmentalism

Environmental policies have caused millions of casualties over the years. The banning of DDT resulted in millions of African children dying from malaria. Growing corn for fuel has resulted in starvation in third world countries. Now from down under w...

February 5, 2009

Social engineering rampant

It's common knowledge that Hillary and Obama were disciples of Saul Alinsky, and for all we know they may each still possess a copy of Rules for Radicals. Now that the Alinsky liberals have gained power, the radicalization of American society can pro...

January 25, 2009

Obama to GOP: 'Stop listening to Rush'

The political battle over the trillion dollar stimulus package has begun between President Obama and the Republicans Rush Limbaugh?This recession we are in was a godsend to Obama and his new administration, as Rahm Emanuel said: "You never want ...

January 23, 2009

George Bush, the healer

The libs are in a festive mood while rhetorically kicking president Bush on his way out the door. Nancy Pelosi said she feels as if a 10-ton anvil has been lifted from her shoulders. I know the excitement of seeing America elect our first socialist l...

December 29, 2008

Anthropogenic global cooling

Being of European descent means carrying a world of guilt on your shoulders. Slavery, the decimation of the indigenous people of the New World. And in more modern times, the industrial sweatshops of the late 1800's and now global warming.If you thoug...

December 27, 2008

The Bush legacy from main street to Africa (updated)

Yesterday James Lewis analyzed the psychopathology of Bush hatred in today's liberal mainstream media. It's a sad commentary on what passes for journalism today. We're all familiar with Bush derangement syndrome as practiced by the New York Times and...

November 27, 2008

Bye-bye, Rosie

I must admit I enjoyed reading the bad reviews of Rosie O'Donnell's ego trip /variety show. It couldn't have happened to a nicer conspiracy theorist. Only 5 million viewers tuned in to see "Rosie Live"on NBC. Do we need any more proof that ...

October 27, 2008

Oliver Stone's W 'won't recoup'

If recent trends continue Hollywood may be looking for a government handout. A surge of liberal style patriotism has gripped the movers and shakers in Hollywood, they have produced movie after movie critical of the war in Iraq. Every one a box office...

August 5, 2008

Obama's view of America troubles voters

Rasmussen reports that McCain is pulling even with Obama, apparently Obama's excellent adventure in Europe didn't have much effect on American voters:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows the race for the White House...

July 16, 2008

Bovine emissions 23 times more damaging than CO2

It appears that our efforts to control C02 emissions may be misguided, as the real culprit in global warming could be cows. The UK's Daily mail has the story.Argentine scientists are taking a novel approach to studying global warming - strapping plas...

July 12, 2008

The PIckens Plan

By now everyone has seen the ads from T. Boone Pickens pushing his latest project at PickensPlan.com, which promotes wind power, and downplays oil. Here are a few excerpts from his website:America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We im...

June 27, 2008

No ice at the North Pole?

The UK's Independent has an article on climate change with the headline: "Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole". At first glance this is very distressing, but let's take a closer look.It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human his...

June 14, 2008

John Coleman vs Al Gore

Regular readers of this website are well aware of the Global Warming scam. Poking holes in the AGW theory is becoming child's play. But we have to keep at it because the general public and major presidential candidates are not so well informed. ...

June 9, 2008

Overconfidence on the left

Democrats have convinced themselves that victory will just fall into their lap. An overconfident foe is usually blind to its own weaknesses.Markos Moulitsas, of the Daily Kos, has written a piece for The Hill that, not surprisingly is very criti...

June 5, 2008

Finally! A new refinery

It's been a long time coming but it looks like we may get our first new oil refinery in over 30 years. By a margin of 58% to 42% the voters in Union County, S.D. have approved the re-zoning of 3292 acres for a new oil refinery. Hyperion Energy has pr...

May 23, 2008

It's Supply and Demand, Stupid

The price of oil is not a mystery borne of conspiracies,  it's simple supply and demand. In the late 70's we were in the same situation we are in now. What was the Democrat's solution then? The same as it is now: alternative energy and tax the o...

May 19, 2008

Does a new 'radical' religious group threaten Britain?

In this article for the UK Telegraph, David Modell is concerned that a "radical" and "hard-line" religious group has set up shop in Great Britain.They think society should be built on their beliefs. They claim non-believers a...

May 17, 2008

Obama's health plan

Now that Hillary is fading fast in Obama's rear view mirror we should take a look at some of his proposals for America. Let's start with health care. Here are his words on the subject from one of his speeches:“We now face an opportunity —...

May 15, 2008

Government health care and its complaints

The promise of free government health care from Obama and Hillary is a tempting proposal. But before we jump on board let's take a look at how our cousins across the pond are doing. They've had "free" health care in England since 1948, and ...

May 10, 2008

Change you can believe in: 57 states

In a swing through Oregon today before starting his attacks on McCain which might include something about age or "losing his bearings" Obama was getting the pleasantries out of the way and had this to say:"It is wonderful to be back in...

May 9, 2008

Is one political party racist?

It's a provocative question isn't it? Some might say we shouldn't even be discussing it. But just as Jonah Goldberg in his best selling book Liberal Fascism set out to destroy a long held myth of the liberal elites that fascism is just an extreme ver...

May 6, 2008

America in decline or the rest of the world rising?

Does it really matter which it is? Either way we don't feel like we are the biggest kid on the block anymore. It's not that we grew smaller it's that the other kids got bigger. The value of the dollar is dropping and the price of gas is going up beca...

April 29, 2008

Too little, too late

He finally did it, he threw his pastor under the bus. Fox News reports:Barack Obama, declaring "that's enough," denounced Tuesday as "appalling" and "ridiculous" comments made in the last few days by his former pastor, t...

April 26, 2008

The 'greatest scam in history'

If you have friends and family concerned about global warming, have them watch this video from the founder of the Weather Channel. This guy has more experience and common sense than all the scientist in the IPCC put together. Here is the introdu...

April 25, 2008

NASA measures global temperatures

NPR has an interesting article on global warming... or cooling? The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat. James Hansen and Al Gore must be so disappointed. NASA is spending around 20 million dollars a year to deploy and monitor 3000 robot buoys a...

April 12, 2008

Sen. Obama, meet Dr. Freud

Barack Obama's remarks to a bunch of rich Marin Country liberals, disparaging the "bitter" gun-owning, God-loving small town Pennsylvanians already have received an enormous amount of attention, and it is only one weekend day later. Stop th...