The Gaian faithful’s doomsday is nowhere to be seen: In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity – the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels – would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded. Another paper published by leading climate...
If a married man has children by a mistress, shouldn’t he be allowed to marry the mistress as well? The “voice of the children“ demands that he be allowed to do so! If a brother and sister have children, shouldn’t they be allowed to marry? The “voice of the children” demands that they be...
In the Seattle Times, Lynne Varner, an African-American columnist, wrote a column full of the usual racial resentments. For example: Around a year ago this time, I wrote about the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin and how it fueled talks with my son about racial biases. The U.S. Department of Education’s statistics...
What socialism hath wrought upon wretched Venezuela: What has Chávez bequeathed his fellow Venezuelans? The hard facts are unmistakable: The oil-rich South American country is in shambles. It has one of the world’s highest rates of inflation, largest fiscal deficits, and fastest growing debts. Despite a boom in oil prices, the country’s infrastructure is...
You know how cars unrealistically explode in movie accidents? Well, it happens in real life too:
[Police] said [rapper Kenneth] Cherry and the occupants of the Range Rover had left the Aria resort hotel and were heading north on Las Vegas Boulevard at 4:20 a.m., an hour when the casino marquees shine brightly but the gambling thoroughfare is largely empty. At Harmon Avenue, occupants inside the Range Rover opened fire on [Cherry's] Maserati, police said.
The silver-gray sports car, which was struck several times, sped into the intersection at Flamingo Road, ramming a Yellow cab, officials said. The taxi exploded, killing the driver and a passenger. Four other vehicles in the intersection were also involved in the crash and explosion, but police offered no details.
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Mark Steyn makes comparisons: When the Queen or her viceroy reads a Throne Speech in Westminster, Ottawa, or Canberra, it’s usually the work of a government with a Parliamentary majority: In other words, the stuff she’s announcing is actually going to happen. That’s why, lest any enthusiasm for this or that legislative proposal be...
This year brought two great shows, The Americans and Continuum.
It is better to be lucky than good. He’s lucky and good: The Washington Post keeps waiting for the time when Cuccinelli will be sunk. It never comes. “He doubts the science of global warming,” wrote the paper in a 2009 editorial, endorsing his opponent in the attorney general race. “He peddles outmoded, half-baked and prejudicial theories about...
By hope n’ change: A comprehensive new Harvard University report on Americans under 30, the so-called Millennials, shows that the economy is having a crushing impact, with just 62 percent working, and of those, half are toiling at part-time jobs. The report, released by Harvard’s Institute of Politics, paints a depressing economic portrait of...