If anyone needed an illustration of just how complicated a place the world is, he should have directed his attention Thursday to Norway, where President Obama received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
The President spoke eloquently about diplomacy...But Mr. Obama, of [...]
'Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. Oh, oh, the irony!"
This quip by comedian Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" last week was a welcome break from the steady disclosures of science gone bad....
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Dave Coverley's Speed Bump with some humor on the outcomes caused by government's massive subsidies and regulations within health insurance and health care...In August, Mattel won an exception to new testing requirements that Congress imposed in 2008 after several toy recalls. (See “Dangerous Toys, Strange Bedfellows,” June.) Six of the recalls that sparked the push for more regulation involved Chinese toys made [...]
Kentucky's higher education institutions are bracing for a spike in students needing remedial reading and math [...]
Part of the fallout from the State [...]
Do downturns create Democrats? The Great Depression certainly did: The generation that came of age in the 1930s has cleaved to the Democratic Party like no population before or since. And [...]
One of many fruits of increased government involvement in health insurance and health care-- from Reason.TV...We have now reached the stage of the health-care debate when all that matters is getting a bill passed, so all news is good news, more subsidies mean lower deficits, and more expensive insurance is really cheaper insurance. The nonpolitical mind reels.
[...]...what happens when the political process completely hijacks science.
As an Austrian economist, I don’t worship at the feet of the “scientific community,” in large part because the “scientific [...]
Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, [...]
Surely there must have been serious men and women in the hard sciences who at some point worried that their colleagues in the global warming movement were putting at risk the credibility of everyone in [...]
Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency International. It also gave a combined $125,000 to the Heritage Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis, two conservative [...]
The Democratically-controlled Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing yesterday to examine' [...]
Saturday, December 5It’s interesting how [...]
Many in today's soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we befriend our teenagers (literally [...]
Zhao Xiao, one of China's top economists, started reading the Bible in 2002 while traveling in the United States and researching a paper on American business culture....
Zhao, who lives in Beijing with his wife and two daughters, professed Christ [...]
The article summary: "All-American Michael Oher went from the streets as a 15-year-old son of'" [...]
As Dr. Shetty [...]
When Alabama Congressman Artur Davis voted against the health-care bill that passed the House earlier this month, he probably expected some grief from fellow Democrats. But he couldn't have anticipated being accused of selling out his race.
Mr. Davis was the only black Member' [...]
[...] With Thanksgiving just around the corner, encouragement [for the unemployed] may come from an unexpected source: the Puritans.
Often misunderstood and perennially maligned, the Puritans—tested first by religious persecution and later by [...]
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Excerpts from a long article by Justin Lahart in the WSJ on some amazing research...
Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test [...]
Remember that 35% tariff President Obama imposed on tires imported from China this month?...Since the tariff announcement on September 11, U.S. tire wholesalers have been warning that their sales prices to retailers will increase by about 15% on average. [...]
But I think it's terrific that liberals are finally willing to start looking at outcomes to judge a system. I say we start right away with the public' [...]
(17) America's low ranking on international comparisons of infant mortality proves other countries' socialist health care systems are better than ours.
America has had a comparatively high infant mortality rate since we've been measuring these things, [...]
I love to see Malthusians gettin' a beatin' (with hat tip to and analysis by Sevens)...An eye-opening documentary called Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria is being released this week by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation—an outfit I endorse.
I dare say the film will be controversial because it [...]
"I probably wouldn't have started with evangelicals," said the Brigham Young University (BYU) professor, considering the antagonism between the two groups' [...]
From Peter Leithart in Touchstone...Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally from cap and trade.
"If you believe that the reason" [...]
Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades [...]
The R-rated comedy may be the most sincere movie the Coens, ever aloof and controlled, have made in their 14-film career. There's never a stray shot or a line of dialogue out of place...but there are moments when the [...]
From Suzanne Ma (hat tip: C-J), an article which starts with AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com as a springboard...Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the [...]
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One of those quirky articles on the front page of the WSJ-- this one by Timothy Martin...In most ways, Columbus is a typical Indiana [small] town....But as you emerge from the cornfields that surround Columbus and head into town, things immediately begin to look different.
To the west, Columbus welcomes you along the main highway with [...]
Cool demographic info-- in charts/graphs, tables and maps-- from Census Bureau data (hat tip: World)... [...] Black leaders constantly remind Americans of our racism. Should not these same leaders protest the expansion of government control contained in the health-care [...]
So too, George Herring's massive survey of American diplomatic history runs along a double [...]
The Cambrian Explosion more than 500 million years ago is regarded as one of the most relevant episodes in the history of life on Earth, when the vast majority of animal phyla first appeared in the fossil record.
However, the causes [...]
From Thomas Woods in the Intercollegiate Review...
According to the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom, the Great Depression of the 1930s was the result of capitalism run [...]On “the New New Deal?”, Obama claimed that by repairing bridges, expanding transit, and paving roads, we would create millions of jobs.
There is an important grain of truth in the new president’s rhetoric....Inadequate infrastructure contributes significantly to the burden [...]
But the most common deals replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better [...]
Some slightly salty language, but a great analysis of the on-going brouhaha over delivering packages, the agendas of labor unions and big business, and labor regulations. The John Murtha Johnstown–Cambria County Airport is a state-of-the-art facility. Its features include an $18 million runway made of reinforced concrete, a $7 million air traffic control tower, a $14 million hangar, an $8 million radar system, and a massive portrait of the [...]
From World...Philip Boroff's story about the $530,044 in salary and benefits made by Dennis O'Connell, who oversees props at Carnegie Hall. The rest of the stage crew-- two carpenters and two electricians-- had average incomes of $430,543 in 2008.
[...]Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby recently found that poor urban children who attend a charter school from kindergarten through [...]
Hilarious!
Great stuff from the Onion!
