Good news out of the Senate Finance Committee: A key Senate panel on Tuesday voted against creating a new government health insurance plan to compete with the private market. The 15-to-8 vote in the Senate Finance Committee could forecast the fate of the public option in the Senate as a whole. Not even close. This should […]

In a previous post I noted the great work Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit was performing in tracking down some of the questionable (i.e., cherry picked) data used by the IPCC and global warming alarmists to create the impression that the Earth has experienced unnatural warming over the last 50-100 years. In my mind this […]

Two stories caught my eye this week which indicate to me we should be seriously cutting back onthe lame bureaucracies we have put in place over the last 100 years or so. First is this article from across the pond: The government has ordered a review of the case of two police officers who were told […]

Scientific illiteracy is really hurting America right now. I know math and science are hard, and I know it is ‘cew’ to diss them and slack off. But to do so handicaps people in a profound and serious way. Take the creationists (or whatever label they wish to run under) and their attacks on evolution. […]

As the father of three daughters all I had to do was read this brutally honest piece at Salon to realize Roman Polanski deserves a couple of decades in jail for the crime he admitted to. Anyone defending him is sick (and on my life time boycott list).

Well, I guess the New York Times showed its colors today as it weeps over the demise of socialism (which has never worked to lift people up, but definitely oppressed them): A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Socialism’s slow collapse. Even in the midst of one of the greatest challenges to capitalism […]