The U.N. is reversing its position supporting the use of indoor spraying of DDT to prevent malaria in Africa. In 2006, after 25 years and 50 million preventable deaths, the World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed widespread use of the insecticide DDT to combat malaria. So much for that. Earlier this month, the U.N. […]
Emily Gertz is the "journalist" referenced below who suggested that Representatives Michelle Bachmann and John Shimkus commit suicide because they reject her belief that CO2 is a dangerous gas. A similar "experiment" to the one Gertz suggested would be to put a plant in a clear plastic bag and watch it "suffocate due to an […]
Courtesy of James Taranto at "Best of the Web Today," comes this hilarious link by a "journalist" covering the global warming debate. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) (above) on how carbon dioxide is harmless because it's in cola...Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) echoing House colleague Michelle Bachmann's (R-Minn.) recent "harmless gas" routine by saying that CO2 just […]
In a post earlier this month, I noted that gay rights organizations aren't interested in tolerance, they demand acceptance. Yesterday, legislation that would make gay marriage legal in New Hampshire faces a veto from a centrist Democrat governor because of gay marriage supporters. How can that be? Simple. To strike a compromise, both chambers had […]
Sunday's New York Times public editor column defended the paper's decision in the waning weeks of the 2008 presidential election to "cut bait" on a story that would have tied the Obama campaign to illegal (Hoyt's article characterizes it as "impermissible," just in case you wondered where he was coming from) coordination with ACORN. John […]
The Times of London's auto writer, Jeremy Clarkson, checked out the new Honda Insight -- and he didn't like it. So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it […]
President Barack Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame was what you've come to expect from him; full of platitudes about his respect for the pro-life movement covering for his pro-abortion radicalism. In short, your beliefs are sincere; go jump off a cliff. As many have noted, Obama's acceptance of the invitation and honor is understandable. […]
The Washington Post's Robert J. Samuelson analyzes the Obama budget plan and finds it is a potential economic disaster waiting to happen. Just how much government debt does a president have to endorse before he's labeled "irresponsible"? Well, apparently much more than the massive amounts envisioned by President Obama. The final version of his 2010 […]
I've been meaning to get around to writing a rather lengthy treatise on the techniques used on three top al Qaeda terrorists in 2002 and 2003. Unfortunately, exigent circumstances -- the mass layoffs at the Union-Tribune and my need to find a new job -- have conspired against me. In lieu of that well-written and […]
I'm feeling it today because The New York Times' Maureen Dowd got caught plagiarizing Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall. Here are the odds on Dowd's punishment: Termination of employment: 1 million to 1 Unpaid suspension of two weeks or more: 500 to 1 Unpaid suspension of less than two weeks: 300 to 1 A "clarification" […]