March 3, 2013

Benghazi: The Definitive Report?

With all of the political wrangling over events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, attention in some conservative channels has focused on a well-hyped recently released e-book.  Benghazi: The Definitive Report claims in its prologue to "cut thro...

January 25, 2013

Ex-NASA Scientists Find No Imminent Climate Threat

A team of ex-NASA scientists working since February 2012 has cast serious doubt on the science used to support the man-made climate change hypothesis. The team of Apollo-era retirees, many with Ph.D degrees, voluntarily joined together to attempt a ...

October 2, 2012

Muslim Ideology and Western Freedom of Speech

Worried Muslim leaders have begun setting up a confrontation with the western world, and America in particular, involving modern human rights.  As Reuters reports: Muslim leaders were in unison at the United Nations this week arguing that the W...

August 18, 2012

The Coming Battle of Ideologies

Asked to explain the growth of our business, my colleagues and I had a ready answer: "Success results from the confluence of preparation and opportunity.  You cannot succeed without both."  Our enterprise succeeded because, when an opportun...

July 23, 2012

The Return of the Iraqi WMD Controversy

As the situation in Syria worsens, governments around the world have suddenly begun to worry about chemical and biological weapons held by the Assad regime.  Israel reveals particular concern.  A report in The National explains: Syria has ...

July 16, 2012

Pay Attention to a Warning from Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich can throw out more ideas in a week than many politicians do in a lifetime.  However, everyone -- but particularly our leaders in Washington -- should pay attention to his op-ed piece published last week in the Washington Post. Like...

July 3, 2012

California Continues Pushing Societal Decay

Just to make sure people know California continues to lead the nation toward 21st Century societal collapse, the Sacramento Bee reports on the push by a San Francisco Democrat to amend state law presently limiting households to two parents.  Sen...

July 1, 2012

A Californian Sees the Writing on the Wall

Two-term Congressman Tom McClintock, an emerging leader of California's conservative faction, holds an optimistic view about the upcoming national election -- but he harbors troubling doubt regarding how victorious Republicans will respond.  In ...

June 16, 2012

IRS Conflict with Tea Party and GOP House Members Continues

Conflict between Republicans in the House of Representatives and IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman may be escalating in the weeks ahead.  Prompted by recent incidents of alleged IRS harassment of Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status for the...

April 27, 2012

Congressmen Complain as IRS Harasses Tea Party

Congressmen from 63 districts have challenged the IRS to explain a series of events indicating a systematic harassment of Tea Party chapters around the nation  As disclosed on a major Tea Party website, beginning in January and February, chapter...

April 17, 2012

Stealth Executive Order Aims for Greater Fracking Control

The Obama administration issued a new executive order Friday evening, a favorite time to release material while everyone is otherwise distracted or not paying attention.  The Hill reports a unilateral move by the White House to establish a new w...

March 23, 2012

The Coming Clash of Worldviews

Current conventional wisdom about the November elections says the biggest issue will be "jobs" and who can best revive the economy.  However, emerging out of the rhetorical fog is the shape of something far more fundamental: a stark oncoming cla...

November 8, 2011

A Simple Balanced Budget Amendment

Two-term Congressman Tom McClintock (R, CA) and a member of the House Budget Committee has introduced  Instead of complex resolutions attempting to limit government spending or initiate taxation reform requiring complex definitions of fiscal yea...

October 18, 2011

Score another for Einstein

Last month, a blog posted on American Thinker reported the news that researchers at the CERN laboratory near Geneva claimed they had recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, traveling faster than the speed of light (186,282 miles per second)....

June 7, 2011

OK - Just What Is the Ryan Medicare Plan?

Much chatter today centers on the Ryan Medicare Plan, a proposal to reform Medicare first proposed by Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as part of "A Roadmap for America's Future" to guide the House Budget Committee under Republican Party control....

April 2, 2011

Real California Pollution

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

October 10, 2010

Sustainable Oil Production?

Who would have thought the current controversy over man-made global warming could lead to significant rethinking of the entire climate change phenomenon and, as an unintended consequence, shatter another environmental group-think error involving sust...

September 28, 2010

Fighting Voter Fraud

Fox News reports how a group of civic-minded Texas citizens decided to volunteer for the 2008 election as workers at several Houston polling places.  One of these volunteers, Catherine Engelbrecht, relates they came away "shocked" a...

September 25, 2010

A Nation in the Grip of Faulty Economics

Liberal columnist Dana Milbank recently criticized Republicans for their incessant attacks on Keynesian economics and, in the process, revealed how little he knows of the subject.Milbank singled out Representatives Eric Cantor (VA) and Paul Ryan (WI)...

September 2, 2010

Cracks in Climate Change Onslaught Appear

For those of us who view the concept of man-made global warming as one of the greatest hoaxes in history, two events this week give some hope that the international "climate change" juggernaut may eventually be halted. The UK Daily Express ...

June 28, 2010

More straws in the wind regarding Iran strike

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

May 12, 2010

A new 'Axis of Evil?'

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

March 26, 2010

Anatomy of an MSM smear of tea partyers

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

March 23, 2010

Senior Congressional Staff Exempted from ObamaCare

From the New Ledger blog comes news reported by Ben Domenech of an interesting item in the newly passed ObamaCare legislation now being scrutinized in detail:One such surprise is found on page 158 of the legislation, which appears to create a carveou...

February 23, 2010

Is Obama climate change policy in violation of the First Amendment?

George Will, in another of his brilliant moments, makes a fascinating point - that the Obama Administration may be violating the First Amendment of the Constitution which prohibits establishment of a religion by the federal government.In a posting on...

February 1, 2010

The Chinese 'get it' on climate change

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

January 7, 2010

Letter from 141 scientists to UN Sec Gen Ban states skeptics case

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

December 4, 2009

NASA's Hansen urges Copenhagen 'collapse'

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

November 27, 2009

Politics and Greenhouse Gases

Advocates and sympathetic politicians claiming that man-made global warming from use of carbon-based energy sources mandates international controls on economically prosperous nations were already worried that their victory is slipping. Now another bl...

November 23, 2009

'Climate change' blamed for increased prostitution in Philippines

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

September 27, 2009

Global Warming 'Science'

It was a startling admission.  Prior to passage of "Cap-and-Trade" legislation by the House of Representatives, Mr. Henry Waxman (D, CA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and co-sponsor of the bill, in responding to a quest...