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This is a couple of weeks old, but it’s too good not to bring it to your attention. Melting icebergs causing sea level rise Scientists have discovered that changes in the amount of ice floating in the polar oceans are causing sea levels to rise. The research, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, is […]

Seriously, I do. I did less to earn my Pulitzer than President Barack Obama did to win his Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got his award for not being George W. Bush. I got my Pulitzer for being on the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2006 when “the staff” of the U-T won for […]

I’m really not sure how to appropriately gauge the level of stupidity on display here by school administrators. Five Live Oak High School students' First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to […]

This would be a much better country if all citizens – both natural and naturalized – were as conscientious and involved as Gabriella Saucedo.

Andrew Breitbart has offered $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if anyone can provide evidence that Tea Party protesters screamed the N-word at a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus as they walked from the Cannon office building to the Capitol on the day they voted to pass health care reform. No one […]

I don’t know how many of you saw this video from the protests against the anti-illegal immigration law that Arizona passed last week, but I encourage you to take a look. (videos via Flopping Aces)   Here’s the scene from overhead: The video shows police escorting a lone anti-illegal immigration protester away from the crowd […]

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law last week that made what was already a federal crime – being in the country illegally – into a state crime (usually it’s the other way around). Today we get this story from the AP: Illegal Immigrants Leaving Arizona Over New Law If that was all it took, […]

Claudia Schultz. Stay home.  You got us into this mess.

A modicum of common sense would’ve told you that you can’t save money by offering health care to more people. But President Obama and Democrats in Congress fed the Congressional Budget Office a load of manure and got back their desired lie – we’ll extend the solvency of Medicare, provide insurance to 34 million more […]

Late last week, CNN.com featured as its main story an opinion piece by journalism professor and author of “The World Without Us,” Alan Weisman. In the article, Weisman attempts to make the case – in overwrought prose – that the eruption of the Icelandic volcano was a result of global warming. Both Iceland and the […]