April 4, 2014

Mozilla CEO forced out over opposition to gay marriage

The newly elected CEO and co-founder of Mozilla - the maker of the Firefox web browser - was forced into resignation today after activists pressured the company over his donation to a political campaign that opposed same-sex marriage.  Brenda...

November 3, 2009

Al Gore, the first 'carbon billionaire' (updated)

Al Gore's is positioned to become a green billionaire thanks to his investment in several 'green energy' companies which reportedly will soon be awarded healthy contracts by the US government. If it were anything other than 'green' energy -- ...

June 16, 2009

Global cooling and crop harvests

The only thing stranger than the sudden drop in global warming coverage in the media is the yet smaller coverage of global cooling. Christopher Booker of The Daily Telegraph in London sums up the recent drops in temperature and th...

February 28, 2009

Obama's Creative Stealth Taxation

One of the more creative ways in which Americans are proposed to pay for  the government's lavish spending habits has been revealed by Reuters. The proposed "Spectrum user license fee" on p132 of President Obama's budget would see cell...

February 17, 2009

Journalists without shame

It seems that professional photo journalists are now winning awards for what looks like fake news. Can an industry have a death wish?...