June 17, 2014

A Misinformed Electorate Imperils Us All

Six months before he was assassinated, John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Vanderbilt University in which he declared that "only an educated and informed people will be a free people," and "the ignorance of one voter in a democracy impair...

May 2, 2012

What Dan Savage Doesn't Know about the Bible and Slavery

During an April 13 keynote speech delivered to thousands of people attending a high school journalism conference in Seattle, "anti-bullying advocate" Dan Savage launched an expletive-filled tirade against Bible, stating that people should "learn to i...

November 21, 2011

The Inconvenient Truth about Species Extinction

"Overall, species loss is now occurring at a rate 1,000 times greater than the natural background rate," says Al Gore in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.  However, new data published in a peer-reviewed journal illustr...

August 19, 2011

AP crams three misleading assertions about global warming into a single paragraph

Reporting upon presidential candidate Rick Perry's skepticism about man-made global warming, the Associated Press has just published the following passage, which is now being circulated by more than a hundred news outlets that are carrying this story...

June 24, 2011

The Reality of the Federal Government's Fiscal Hole

This week, U.S. citizens were granted a reprieve from the fiscal negligence of our federal government when the editorial board of Bloomberg declared "it just ain't so" that American households are on the hook for trillions of dollars in "unfunded or...

October 27, 2010

Paul Krugman's Jihad

In his zeal to convince voters that Obama's $800-plus-billion stimulus was ineffective because it was too small, Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been engaged in a holy war against reality.In his October 10 column entitled, "Hey, Small Spe...