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There are certain scientific discoveries that make fools out of the doomsayers. Decades ago Paul Ehrlich predicted a "population bomb" where the growth of the Earth's human population would become unsustainable and result in the starvation and death of millions. Advances in biotechnology allowed more food than ever to be grown on less land than […]

James Kirchick of the New Republic follows the lead of Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. This may sound like ancient history, but it matters. After Sept. 11, President Bush did not want to risk allowing Hussein, who had twice invaded neighboring nations, murdered more than 1 million Iraqis and stood in violation of […]

Way back when the solvency of Social Security was more on the front burner of American political discussion, I criticized New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for changing his description of Social Security from one week to the next depending on political expediency. One week Social Security was a welfare program to help the poor, […]

Proof that the far left, embodied by historian Howard Zinn, and the far right, embodied by Pat Buchanan, are practically the same. Several months ago, Howard Zinn was on Dennis Prager's radio show and claimed that World War II was unnecessary. Now Buchanan has come out with a book with the same theory, and gets […]

The dearth of blogging over the past several days are directly attributable to the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines -- which Tiger Woods won in sudden death on the 19th hole of the day today. The San Diego Union-Tribune has been doing special sections for more than a week, and I was designing some of […]

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking her cues from Sen. Chuck Schumer. "We cannot drill our way out of this," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California countered. Opening the wildlife refuge in Alaska would reduce U.S. gasoline prices by one penny per gallon, she said. Change "cannot" to "will not" and she has it […]

Powerline got a chart from Republican House whip Roy Blunt that makes the case for Republicans better than anything else they could possibly come up with. Send that out with your campaign materials and watch Democrats go apoplectic. Read the methodology postscript over at the Powerline post. It makes it readily apparent that Sen. Chuck […]

I'm a little amazed that the press didn't give Sen. Barack Obama the "Do-I-Look-Stupid?"-look after he claimed first that the team he's got helping him pick a VP isn't actually working for him because they're unpaid. And I'm even more amazed they didn't laugh out loud when he claimed that the same people -- doing […]

The Senate, prompted by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (the smarter California one), decided by voice vote to privatize the Senate food service. Last year, the Senate had to subsidize the food service to the tune of $1.3 million and the food is "noticeably sub par." (Apparently one of the problems was that the food was […]

Today CNN had as one of its top stories the a "flub" by Sen. John McCain. Instead of saying that he would veto every "bill" he said he would veto every "beer." Not only can you watch video of the misstatement, but CNN.com's people think it's funny enough that you can buy a T-shirt of […]