May 27, 2018

Marjory Stoneman Douglas revelation

I am not holding my breath for the CNN Townhall coverage of this local news revelation. Bob Norman of Local 10 News reports: Several parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff...

March 8, 2016

What if Hillary had been a purchasing agent?

Compare the standard of conduct required of purchasing agents with the practices of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. As a matter of course, purchasing agents for major corporations owe fiduciary duty to their employers’ corporate treas...

January 23, 2016

Hillary's disqualifying defense

As a thought experiment, let us take Hillary Clinton at her word.  The dismissive excuse that she has consistently offered is that, to paraphrase, the documents were not “marked” correctly such as to put her on proper legal notice th...

January 18, 2016

State Department bureaucrats beginning to turn on Hillary?

The revelation last week that the State Dept. has discovered thousands of documents highly relevant to the Benghazi investigation can mean only one thing.  The permanent civil servants have now become more fearful of being left holding the bag f...

January 17, 2016

Clinton fails the Truman Test

This article is about Joseph Stalin but contains a remarkable paragraph that notes as follows.  ‘[Former President] Truman had numerous offers from large corporations for work, but turned them all down, stating: “I knew that the...

March 16, 2015

Gruber's Grasp

“Oregon abolishes its hopelessly bungled health insurance exchange” reported the LA Times on March 7.  This $250 million disaster -- a total loss -- is the latest in a series of spectacular failures surrounding the implementation of ...

August 16, 2012

IRS plagued by ID Theft

I can report anecdotally that a number of friends and acquaintances here in south Florida who filed their tax returns then discovered that someone else had stolen their identity and fraudulently filed and received tax-refunds in advance of their legi...

June 6, 2012

Thermodynamics of Global Warming

What percentage change in global mean temperature (GMT) has occurred since the Industrial Revolution began?  This can be calculated only by using an absolute temperature scale.  Answer = +0.3%. Can this be so alarming to Al Gore?  Inde...

June 3, 2012

The Commodore and the Commerce Clause

The President's Supreme Court argument supporting his Obama-care legislation to socialize, nationalize and monopolize the practice of medicine hinges on expansion of the constitutional reach of the "Commerce Clause"[1].  Paradoxically, it was pi...

June 2, 2012

Scientific Truth Unbound by Credentials or Consensus

Science is solely concerned with demonstrable truth -- no matter the source of the information.  A lowly Swiss patent examiner named Albert Einstein overturned the Newtonian consensus view thereby transforming our very understanding of space and...

April 27, 2012

Gore and the Democrats' Green Graft Machine

With the Solyndra, First Solar, Sunpower, Fisker, and related Obama administration Department of Energy scandals, President Obama is following a trail blazed by Vice President Al Gore in the mid-1990s.  Similar scandals -- failed (or failing) gr...

April 15, 2012

More pseudoscience 'proves' Republicans are scary conservative

NPR breathlessly reports on political trends with a fancy looking chart reproduced below in an online report entitled "Political Scientist: Republicans Most Conservative They've Been In 100 Years".  "Keith Poole of the University of Georgia, wi...

March 30, 2012

Public radio embraces retracted story on Apple

Thursday's MARKETPLACE program on public radio includes a report by Kai Ryssdal in which he cites approvingly the totally discredited report by Mike Daisy about working conditions in Apple factories in China.   From the MARKETPLAC...

February 21, 2012

Germany surrenders on Solar Power

The skeptical environmentalist himself, Bjorn Lomborg, reports at Slate that despite the fact that "Germany once prided itself on being the 'photovoltaic world champion,'" now "Germany is cutting solar-power subsidies because they are expensive ...

February 20, 2012

The Cult of Warm

Daniel Greenfield has an excellent essay at FRONTPAGE today entitled, "The Global Warming Cult and the Death of Science" .  Perhaps it is precisely because he ordinarily writes about radical Islam that his insights are particularly cogent. Scien...

February 15, 2012

American solar cell pioneers bankrupted by Obama's DOE

Vast tranches of DOE-money have been released by the Democrats into politically-connected "renewable energy" companies, ostensibly in order to subsidize industries manufacturing solar energy generating photovoltaic cells.  One consequence of thi...

January 22, 2012

Al Gore's Last Theorem

For over 350 years, some of the greatest minds of science struggled to prove what was known as Fermat's Last Theorem - the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions. Imagine if I told you that I had just solved Fermat's Last Theorem -- b...

January 17, 2012

Where were the liberal politicians?

The Detroit Free Press broke the story over the weekend concerning multi-year $24 million no-bid contracts issued by the City of Detroit to implement that acme of liberal programs, HEAD START. An FBI investigation is underway.  Meanwhile, the Ci...

December 23, 2011

DOE must release climate data

Imagine if the NIH sponsored research at Yale Medical School, and then the federal agency allowed the professors to decide that the clinical data was proprietary, withheld from the public indefinitely on behalf of the university and its pharmaceutica...

December 19, 2011

Holder's 'State-of-Mind' Defense Wasn't Adequate for Scooter Libby

No one died when Scooter Libby was convicted of obstructing justice. His defense was that he didn't recall or mis-remembered a key conversation with Tim Russert.  Certainly this was his "state-of-mind" when giving testimony that was deemed false...

December 12, 2011

AP Report on Heating Costs Forgets Global Warming

In what is a perennial MSM complaint story this time of year, the AP reports: "Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can't affor...

November 19, 2011

How Newt Could Make Amends on AGW

While I admire Newt Gingrich's obvious intelligence and skill as a debater and articulator of conservative philosophy, I - like many AT readers I'm sure -- was disgusted when he sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi complaining about "Climate Change." Thi...

September 14, 2011

Green Business Models vs Climate Models

The spectacular failure of the Greens' business models in connection with their insistent predictions of the certain success of bankrupt Solyndra and similar now-failed solar cell manufacturers forces one to wonder why anyone would now trust their cl...

September 13, 2011

Did NREL sanction the Solyndra 'Investment'?

Did the Obama administration exercise elementary due diligence in vetting the Solyndra loan guarantees it issued? Did it use the government's own well-funded national laboratory dedicated to solar energy? According to its own website: "The National R...

September 11, 2011

Maureen Dowd can't help herself

Here is Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times: "[Obama] took two of the boldest risks in history - jumping into the presidential race in the first place and giving the kill order on Bin Laden on sketchy intelligence." Let me see.  Might any other "ri...

September 4, 2011

Will Solyndra's creditors be treated like Chrysler's Bond Holders?

In its wisdom in "investing" stimulus funds, the Obama administration agreed to put Solyndra's investors first in line for any payout in the event of a bankruptcy as reported by Bloomberg: "Taxpayers Rank Behind Solyndra's Investors."  One must ...

February 20, 2011

When green schemes go bad

The gigantic failure of Range Fuel's $300-million cellulosic ethanol "renewable fuel" plant is highly reminiscent of the sudden collapse in 1997 of the hitherto high-flying Molten Metal Inc. In each case, we see Green technology promoters l...

February 16, 2011

Epic Green Failure (updated)

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports the total failure of a taxpayer-subsidized $300 million "cellulosic ethanol" renewable energy plant in Georgia intended to convert pine trees into ethanol fuel.  It didn't produce any fuel and h...

February 1, 2011

The energy technology breakthrough the media won't tell you about

Cheaper electricity ought to be a topic of interest, you might think. But because the media is pushing uneconomical "green" technologies, you probably haven't heard of the discoveries which promise to make electricity generated by natural g...

January 27, 2011

More warmist alarmism debunked

This new scientific report indicates that the UN's International Panel on Climate Change's alarm about the melting of Himalayan glaciers due to Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is entirely false.  In fact half of them are growing!   ...

January 24, 2011

Climate Change Legal Boondoggle

Trial lawyers and their academic abettors  are salivating over the potential lfor "hundreds of billions of dollars" in legal claims for compensatory losses due to climate change -- according to a report by Richard Inham of the AFP.'...

March 15, 2010

Arctic Sea Ice Grows

Sea-ice grows and retreats each winter.  Satellite images have record the extent of artic sea-ice coverage on a daily basis since 1979.  The trend in March 2010 shown here is well above the lowest coverage recorded in 2006-2007.  This ...

January 21, 2010

Mass. Reverberations on EPA regulation of 'Green House Gases'

Following Massachusettes' Senate special election upset, three electorally-endangered Senate Democrats have already jumped ship on the liberal agenda on Global Warming, supporting legislation to prevent the EPA from regulating carbon-dioxide. "R...

September 8, 2009

An Obama supporter accidentally tells it like it is

Last night on FOX NEWS, liberal commentator COLUMBIA UNIV. PROF. MARC LAMONT HILL, had this to say about President Obama during his appearance on Greta Van Susteren's show:  "Obama has done an amazing job of going around the country, talkin...

July 10, 2009

Union Wages make Obama's Energy Efficiency Program Inefficient

Paying union labor $50-60.00/hour to caulk windows makes Obama's "Weatherization Program" too costly to ever pay off as an "energy efficiency measure".  That is the kernal of truth reported by NPR here: "Weatherization P...

June 30, 2009

Zbig: Amadinjehad is a 'Neocon'

Public broadcasting commits another error on yesterday's CHARLIE ROSE interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski.  Rose leaves unchallenged Brzezinski's assertion that the Amadinjehad faction in Iran is comparable to "neocons" in America (ca. mi...

June 20, 2009

Multiculturalists and Iran

Events in Iran present multiculturalists like President Obama with a conundrum.  After all, President Ahmadinejad 's anti-Bush, post-colonial, anti-western, anti-Zionist, anti-Christian credentials are impeccable. Less than two years ago he was ...

June 12, 2009

NPR: Ahmadinejad supporters akin to Republican Evangelicals

Despite his having been feted in liberal bastions such as Columbia University and the UN -- over the objections of American conservatives --  when it comes time to analogize today's Iranian Presidential Elections, NPR's reporters claim that the ...

February 6, 2009

Icicles in Palm Beach

The coldest temperatures in twenty-years were recorded yesterday in Palm Beach County.  Icicles formed on palm trees as can be seen in the photo in thePalm Beach Post.   While the national media will reliably trumpet reports  of "...

January 19, 2009

Sanity in Canada

The Canadian government agrees with Gov. Sarah Palin:  William Ayers is a threat to society.  He was not-allowed entry and turned back at the airport according to the Toronto Star....

January 10, 2009

'Wall Street had built a doomsday machine'

By chronicling at Portfolio.com the revelations of Steve Eisman as he began to understand the incompetence and self-dealing of Wall Street beginning in 2006, Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker,  records in in "The End of Wall Street's Bo...

January 4, 2009

Gen. Sherman's 'Disproportionate Response'

Reviled in the South to this day as a terrorist, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decided that the only way to end the protracted armed conflict of the American Civil War and terminate the rebellious, racist, slave-regime in the south was to bring the w...

December 16, 2008

A jobs bank for Hollywood?

Hollywood liberals are never reticent when it comes to sanctimonious lecturing of industrial America concerning labor relations.  With the news that apparently out-of-work actors such as Elliot Gould  and Hal Holbrook are eager for the...

October 6, 2008

It's official: Rezko's talking

According to the Chicago Sun-Times,  prosecutors have formally requested an indefinite delay in sentencing convicted-felon Anthony Rezko so they may question him concerning political corruption in Illinois.  Curiously, the report claims the...

September 28, 2008

The 'Marshall McLuhan moment' in the first presidential debate

Annie Hall has a famous scene wherein Woody Allen is stuck in a theatre queue next to a know-it-all, blowhard Columbia Professor who loudly blathers on nonsensically about famous figures including the media theorist, Marshall McLuhan.  A fa...

September 24, 2008

Corrupted science revealed

Outsiders familiar with the proper workings of science have long known that modern Climate Science is dysfunctional. Now a prominent insider, MIT Meteorology Professor Richard S. Lindzen, confirms how Al Gore and his minions used Stalinist tactics to...

September 21, 2008

Newsweek's confused history lesson

In an otherwise interesting article on the American electorate's post-war preference for center-right presidential candidates, Newsweek's Jonathan Darman offers this solecism:"George H.W. Bush won the White House not because of the tawdry Willie...

September 20, 2008

Robin Williams' Odious Bigotry

Most conservatives are perfectly willing to laugh at jokes about Republicans. Indeed, Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin on SNL last week was very humorous.  However, Robin William’s trademark rapid-fire, ad-libbed, stream-of-co...

September 9, 2008

No wonder Air America went bankrupt

One of the loudest voice in denouncing “torture at Gitmo”, the deranged leftist / Obama-supporting radio “personality”, Randi Rhodes -- Senate Candidate Al Franken’s erstwhile Air America Radio colleague -- now denies th...

September 2, 2008

Palin finds liberal defenders on television

Those familiar with ABC News This Week panel discussion know that most Sundays the reliably-liberal Cokie Roberts joins George Stephanopoulos and Sam Donaldson to triple-team the lone conservative, George Will (ABC's idea of fair & balanced)....

September 1, 2008

Wealthier than Kings

Royalty lived well through command of menial labor. But the role of labor has changed. A typical American child, my eight-year old daughter, is already proficient with panoply of technologies and gadgets that provide her capabilities and resourc...

September 1, 2008

Postcolonial values

A disturbing incident in Pakistan concerning "traditional", pre-colonial, state-sanctioned Islamic barbarity toward women, as Associated Press reports that a Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by northwestern tribesmen to bury five wome...

August 30, 2008

Peggy Noonan blasts MSNBC's 'fatuous suck-upping'

Peggy Noonan lets loose with hilarious straight talk on Obama and has her co-panelists doubled over with laughter. Except Andrea Mitchell...Video Here. ...

August 21, 2008

Buyer's remorse

This AP headlines says it all: "Democrats to review nominating process" "They [Democratic Party leaders] want to review the caucus system, which presumed nominee Barack Obama used so successfully this year."...

August 18, 2008

The Democrats' priorities in a dangerous world

Reportedly on the short-list to be Sen. Obama's running-mate, Sen. Tom Daschle appeared on ABC's This Week.   And he reveals the Democratic mindset by listing recruitment of Russian-cooperation on "climate" (see video, minute...

August 15, 2008

ANWR in perspective

These illustrations are very revealing about the enormous scale of ANWR versus the miniscule area proposed for oil-drilling:  One would hope that John McCain would take a look and then explain his continued objections in proper context. Hat-tip:...

August 10, 2008

Climate Impacts Center to shut down

Is this a political harbinger?   As the Democrats are about to gather in Denver, the famed Climate Impacts Center in neighboring Boulder is being shut down by its parent organization, the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Does this ...

August 4, 2008

Pelosi's 'free world'

Perhaps a Freudian slip, but an exasperated Nancy Pelosi exclaimed "It's a free world" when asked about the appropriateness of John McCain's campaign ads near the end of her interview on ABC's THIS WEEK   I have often heard the ac...

July 28, 2008

A John Edwards infomercial via PBS

John Edwards has a new infomercial being broadcast on PBS's "NOW"!  Sponsored unwittingly by taxpayers, it was taped before the scandal over his alleged "love child" broke (partially) into the news. The hour-long infomercial ...

July 23, 2008

The Achilles Heel of global warming theory

The scientific and mathematical details of Viscount Monckton's paper may be beyond the layman; however this paragraph near the end stands out and is comprehendible to all:"It is of no little significance that the IPCC's value for the coefficient...

July 21, 2008

Sen Lieberman on Obama's trip to Iraq (updated)

Appearing on Fox News Sunday:"Look, the fact is that if Barack Obama's policy on Iraq had been implemented, Barack Obama couldn't go to Iraq today."A reader adds: Meanwhile, on CBS' Face the Nation, reporter Lara Logan failed to ask Barack ...

July 20, 2008

No nukes on NBC News

During Tom Brokaw’s 40-minute interview of Al Gore today concerning “renewable” electric power to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, he never once asked Gore to comment on the potential of nuclear power.  Somehow I doubt T...

July 17, 2008

A revolution in schools?

A revolution may be occurring in big city schools.  I learned this from Charlie Rose's recent interview of a truly remarkable educator, Michelle Rhee, who has taken on reform of the Washington DC School District with strong backing from Mayor Ad...

July 14, 2008

The spread of advanced mathematics (continued)

I just learned the astonishing fact that Tenth-Century Pope Sylvester II personally introduced into Western Europe both Arabic (Hindi) numerals and the abacus. He had learned about this (at the time) new mathematics technology while visiting Moorish ...

July 1, 2008

Wesley Clark keeps digging

In case you missed it, General Wesley Clark made an exclusive appearance on ABC's Good Morning America today to reiterate his statements about John McCain.    He did not back down at all but rather he defended his statements.Clark appe...

June 27, 2008

Hillary the speculator?

Cattle futures speculation earned Hillary Clinton a hundred grand back in Arkansas decades ago. But more recently she has engaged in a different sort of speculation. As we all know now, Hillary Clinton committed at least $5 million of her p...

June 5, 2008

Rezoko and Abramoff in the media

The media went ballistic when a photo surfaced of Jack Abromofff walking with George Bush, undoubtedly one of thousands of photos showing Bush with visitors to the White House.  The implication was clear: Bush must be knee-deep in the lobby...

June 4, 2008

Daschle loses

Perhaps lost in the denouement of the Clinton-Obama primary battle is the fact that Tom Daschle, prominent Obama supporter with many appearances on the news networks' Sunday talk shows, was unable to deliver his home state of South Dakota in yesterda...

June 2, 2008

Barack's bitterness

Sen. Barack Obama and his San Francisco-liberal comrades' are bitter over the major military and political success in Iraq under General Petreaus's leadership.  They continue to cling to the Democrats' familiar but totally-discredited, pre-surge...

May 28, 2008

Czech President offers to debate Gore on global warming

Czech President  Vaclav Klaus has offered to debate Gore on global warming. Considering that Klaus would be debating in a second language, he is handicapping himself at the outset.  Also, he is a politician not a scientist, so he meets Gore...

May 21, 2008

'Grantsmanship' Distorts Global Warming Science

Almost every day another species of plant or animal is "discovered" to be threatened by global warming. I read a new report concerning moose in Scandinavia  that are unexpectedly "threatened" despite what researchers admit is...

May 14, 2008

Carbon 'cap and trade' policies immoral

The carbon "cap and trade" policies advocated by Al Gore and John McCain are an immoral solution to a non-existent problem. So says  Britain's Lord Christopher Monckton, and he backs this statement up with scientific fact and analysis....

May 11, 2008

'Won't we eventually stop the Earth from rotating?'

Imagine a concept for the perfect "green", safe, sustainable, zero-emissions, invisible (literally) energy technology with potential for limitless power.  Radical environmentalists will still object! This is what I learned when I perus...

May 6, 2008

60 Minutes plays 'Name that Party'

60 Minutes reported on the tragic injustice perpetrated in Dallas on James Woodard, who was recently proved innocent by DNA evidence for a crime for which he was convicted and imprisoned for 27 years. "...last Tuesday, James Woodard went to...

May 2, 2008

Biofuels: The lesson for Biomedicine

As always, Congress's heavy-handed intrusion into free-markets -- most recently acting precipitously in the market in bio-fuels in the name of Al Gore's "Global Warming" Alarmism -- causes unexpected and unintended consequences, causing con...

April 28, 2008

Cindy Sheehan too leftist for SF?

Apparently, Cindy Sheehan needs to complete a petition-drive in order to get on the ballot to challenge Nancy Pelosi in the next election."To get the signatures, equal to 3 percent of the district voters registered for the 2006 general election,...

April 26, 2008

First Journalist in newly-liberated Basra

No doubt multi-cultural leftists will lament that the "authentic" misogynist Muslims have been run out of Basra by their countrymen in the Iraqi Army, but the citizens themselves are celebrating their newfound security from violent fundamen...

April 21, 2008

No Starvation for Fuel!

"No Blood for Oil" is a spurious rallying cry on the left, but apparently it is acceptable for the poor in the third world to starve so that American Eco-activists can feel self-righteous about driving "flex-fuel" vehicles.  ...

April 14, 2008

Rezko mention on 60 Minutes

There was a passing reference to Tony Rezko on last night's 60 Minutes broadcast in a report concerning corruption in Iraq.  The report  included an interview with "(Iraq's) former Electricity Minister Aiham Alsammarae, an Iraqi-Americ...

April 13, 2008

NYT reports doubts on global warming/hurricane link

The NYT reports: "A fresh study by a leading hurricane researcher has raised new questions about how hurricane strength and frequency might, or might not, be influenced by global warming" But Al Gore assured Congress last month that the ...

April 3, 2008

Al Gore's syndrome?

Mark Shepard's excellent essay today entitled "Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy" suggests to me that premier climate alarmists, like Al Gore, may suffer what could be termed "Global Munchhausen-by-Proxy" Syndrome - an epidemic inv...

March 29, 2008

Debunking Gore's 'consensus' hoax

This new book by Lawrence Solomon who wrote a series of articles in Canada's NATIONAL POST about eminent "deniers" of Climate Alarmism has discovered there were so many such individuals he had to write a book to document them all.  The...

March 24, 2008

American media ignores inconvenient science on global warming

Americans apparently have to look to Australia for truthful accounts of climate research conducted by our own space agency.   Christopher Pearson' March 22 article in THE AUSTRALIAN concerns an interview of "Jennifer Marohasy, a biolog...

March 14, 2008

Liberals, hegemony and Subic Bay

The American left likes to throw around the terms "imperialism" and "hegemony" to describe our nation and its policies.  The AT Blog yesterday quoted Kenneth J. Theisen's anti-military OP-ED piece in the March 11 issue o...

March 12, 2008

Climate totalitarians

Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, has lived under Soviet tyranny so he knows first-hand the characteristics of totalitarians.  Here's his latest essay: "Climate alarmists pose real threat to freedom".Climate Alarmists'...

January 22, 2008

Will the Ice Caps Melt?

"The engineer has learned vastly more from the steam-engine than the steam-engine will ever learn from the engineer."    -- Prof John B. Fenn, Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 2002 There is considerable debate over whether the ...

January 10, 2008

Today's uncertain global temperature

An article in the New York Times by John Tierney reports on the discrepancy between various measurements to the Global Mean Temperature in 2007 from four credible scientific groups.  The NASA GISS surface temperature measurement is nearly 0.15...

January 9, 2008

Liberals and Mathematical Models

I just don't understand American liberals and their attitude toward mathematical models. The left places an inordinate amount of faith in untested models predicting man-made warming of the global climate, while ignoring time-tested mathemat...

December 29, 2007

Gore's Green Fiasco

Al Gore is quick to level accusations of ulterior motives to anyone who challenges his claims for Anthropogenic Global Warming, most recently saying that 30 of the scientists listed in the recent Senate Minority Report are compromised because they ma...

December 27, 2007

Nothing Better to Worry About?

When in the course of human history has mankind been so healthy, secure and prosperous that national political leaders, scientists and the media elite worldwide could be preoccupied with a theoretical crisis predicted to occur 50 years hence? Controv...

December 21, 2007

Hillary puff pieces on ET

Liberal advocates of the "Fairness Doctrine" seem unconcerned that the Hollywood gossip TV show Entertainment Tonight has featured puff pieces every day this week on Hillary Clinton. These essentially represent highly-produced thr...

December 20, 2007

Free-range fuel? (updated)

Now that the environmental lobby has coerced congress into mandating a six-fold increase in use of ethanol as motor-fuel, will they now decry the increase in acreage devoted to the corn-crop as well as the use of fertilizer and pesticides? ...

November 2, 2007

Phony science

James Lewis’s brilliant essay today reminded me of physicist Alan Sokol’s fantastically successful send-up of “Deconstructionism” which occurred over ten years ago.  Dr. Sokol persuaded the intellectually prominent editor...

September 20, 2007

One More Reason to Distrust Global Warming Predictions

"Garbage in, garbage out" has become a cautionary maxim of the computer age, reminding us that bad data corrupts computer software and many other artifacts of modern technology. What then are we to make of global warming scientists who pres...

September 6, 2007

The Attorney General Double Standard

Both John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales were pilloried by liberals in the left-wing press for trying to fulfill their official duty and advise the White House on a proper, constitutional response to the CIA's request for legal guidance on allowable m...

September 2, 2007

Eclipse of the Red Moon

For those who believe violent leftist movements are relics of the past, here is a reminder that revolutionaries avidly supported by the European Left are still perpetrating violence and murder against the people and legitimate government of the Phili...

August 31, 2007

Navy exoneration in 'eco-crime'?

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today suspended an injunction that prevented the Navy from employing advanced sonar. While not noted in this San Francisco Chronicle article, this case grew from concern over the fact that pods of pilot wh...

August 1, 2007

If only humanity were eliminated...

Ostensibly, Marketplace is Public Radio’s broadcast that concerns business and commerce.  I thus found it odd that the producers chose to include a lengthy report yesterday concerning speculations about what the planet earth would be ...

July 30, 2007

Hyperwhite?

Sunday's New York Times included an article by Benjamin Nugent entitled Who's a Nerd, Anyway? that reported on a 11-year study completed at UC Berkeley by linguist Mary Bucholtz, in which she concludes that "nerds" act "Hyperwhite...

June 16, 2007

A ray of hope in Detroit

This is amazing. The Detroit Free Press reports :A new co-ed Catholic high school in Detroit will use innovative partnerships to put students to work at local businesses, with their salaries going to the school to shave thousands of dollars off the c...

May 30, 2007

Find the missing words

As a coda to my American Thinker essay "Democrats and Apologies", I'd like to draw attention to today's AP article entitled "Miss. Murder Cold Case Under Way."  It concerns the trial begun today to prosecute Ku Kux Klan kille...

May 28, 2007

If this is 'neglect', let's have more of it

The Democrats and the Mainstream Media have told us time and again that the Bush Administration has been neglecting the ‘real' war-on-terror in Afghanistan by needlessly diverting scarce resources to the war in Iraq.  Somehow this "ne...

May 27, 2007

Boston Globe misses the mark

The Boston Globe "reports" today that any notions of Iraq being the central front for Al-Qaeda are just GOP talking points without any substance, "pointing out that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is not overseen by bin Laden."It's too bad that ...

May 24, 2007

Devastating Critique of Climate Modeling

This Website posting (hat-tip NRO's Iain Murray) from Dr. R.A. Pielke Sr., a bona-fide climate scientist and author of a book on climate modeling, is just devastating to Global Warming alarmists.  'That the (UN's) IPCC states that this (climate ...

May 21, 2007

Democrats and Apologies

Somewhere in the course of the evolution of the American Left and its party, the Democrats, the offering of formal apologies became an important political ritual. Most likely this grew out of the transition from an attitude of pride in America to an ...

May 19, 2007

Mindless reporting in the NYT Magazine

This sentence from James Traub's New York Times Magazine essay demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge on the part of the reporter and the editors: "Gore was telling me about Ilya Prigogine, a Belgian chemist who won a Nobel Prize in 1977 for ...

May 17, 2007

If you break a CFL light bulb...

A quick calculation shows that the 5 mg of mercury in an energy-conserving  CFL is enough to fill an average size room (100 cubic meters volume) with the 0.05 mg/cubic meter vapor concentration that is considered hazardous for long term chronic ...

May 7, 2007

Peddling doomsday on public radio

Public Radio's Marketplace is ostensibly a daily program on business and financial news, but its reporting on "climate change" is becoming increasingly exaggerated.  As recorded in the transcript of Friday's "Panel Discussion...

April 18, 2007

Galileo Denied Consensus

In 1632 Galileo Galilei was accused of heresy for questioning the Aristotelian "consensus model" of the universe which held that the sun and all other heavenly bodies revolve around the earth.  He was threatened by the Inquisition with...

April 12, 2007

Tax code patents

As an inventor with a few patents to my name, I wrestle with chemistry and physics in attempts to improve on industrial processes and measurement techniques. I hope these will be commercially profitable and redound in a small way to the benefit of ma...

February 28, 2007

Numerical Models, Integrated Circuits and Global Warming Theory

Global warming theory is a prediction based on complex mathematical models developed to explain the dynamics of the atmosphere. These models must account for a myriad of factors, and the resultant equations are so complex they cannot be solved explic...

February 28, 2007

I thought the left hated preventive war

Why declare preventive war on the climate?  Global warming hasn't attacked anyone.  Let the inspectors (climate empiricists) do their job!...