I'm flipping channels and come across the ScienceHD channel showing "Snowball Earth." The summary reads: Scientists postulate that the Earth was once sheathed in ice and complex animals evolved when the planet thawed, due to the release of carbon dioxide. Wow, carbon dioxide is good for little cuddly bunny rabbits and other living things? Who […]
Last Thursday, the Chicago Tribune published a story looking at White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's stint on the board of directors of Freddie Mac. To say the story paints a troubling picture of cronyism and corruption is an understatement. In a year-plus tour, Emanuel attended a total of six meetings and made more […]
Sen. Harry Reid has a history of putting his foot in his overlarge mouth on a regular basis when it comes to judges -- it's a minor miracle he still has any teeth left. Today, Reid stepped in it again. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his […]
Henry Ford famously declared that you could get a car in any color you wanted as long as it was black. Well, that may not be the case any more. If you think black is a hot color for a car, you're not alone. The California Air Resources Board thinks the same thing. And that's […]
Last weekend, four police officers were killed were killed by a Lovelle Mixon, a [impressive list of derogatory expletives deleted]. The day before the shooting, Mixon had been tied through DNA to the rape of a 12-year-old girl. On Wednesday, some of the "good people" of Oakland held a march to honor Mixon. The event, […]
President Barack Obama's game of choice is basketball. He's not much of a wrestler -- especially when it comes to "wrestling" with ethics questions, as Yuval Levin noted: In tonight's press conference, Jon Ward of the Washington Times asked the president whether he personally wrestled with the ethics of federally funding embryonic stem cell research. […]
There's plenty of reasons why newspapers are struggling nowadays. Just yesterday the Houston Chronicle and Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced layoffs. There will likely be more next week at some newspaper somewhere. There's three major reasons behind this decline: the overall economic environment, bad management and the Internet. While part-time, hobbyist bloggers can never replicate even a small […]
A reader of National Review's "The Corner" posed an excellent question for President Obama and his administration who appear to be insisting that somehow healthcare needs to be dealt with as a prerequisite for fixing what ails the economy. Jonah; I have never seen this point made: all of Europe, which has nationalized health care […]
Today's guilty party is Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. -- or is it Maryland? California's Rep. Pete Stark, a senior House Democrat who helps write the nation's tax laws, has been claiming a $1.7 million Maryland home as his principal residence in recent years, although he represents the Golden State's 13th District on the east side […]
It appears President Barack Obama's teleprompter needs to spell everything out phonetically. All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company’s name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on. After finishing his remarks and talking with a few people, the president returned to the microphone and said his prepared remarks led him to pronounce the […]