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John Wayne’s Birthday
By Alan Caruba It’s not a national holiday but, for some, it should be. On May 26, 1907 Marion Robert Morrison came into the world in Winterset, Iowa. When he left on June 11, 1979 he was John Wayne, an American icon. Men of a certain generation or two, fortunate to grow up going to […]
Chicago Trial: Pakistani Agents Implicated in Mumbai Terror Attacks
By Jim Kouri, CPP. “These Pakistani intelligence agents were sympathetic to the cause of the radical Islamists and provided military and moral support to the group, Headley stated. He also stated that a Pakistani intelligence agent paid him $25,000 for the reconnaissance operation and that he was trained by LeT terrorists.” The man who pleaded […]
Al Roker Should Join the Rest of His Colleagues on Climate Change
By Nicolas Loris As we mourn the human toll taken by the tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, some are using the disaster as an opportunity to warn about the dangers of climate change. Al Roker recently suggested that climate change is bringing tornadoes from the country to the city. Environmentalist Bill McKibben, the same guy […]
Flannery Admits: The Science Has Changed Since His Last Scares
By Andrew Bolt I’ve mentioned before some of Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery’s dud predictions, like these: In 2005, Flannery predicted Sydney’s dams could be dry in as little as two years because global warming was drying up the rains, leaving the city “facing extreme difficulties with water”. Check Sydney’s dam levels today: 73 per cent. […]
In Honor of Fallen Patriots
By Mark Alexander They Gave Their Fortunes and Lives for Our Liberty “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” –John 15:12-14 Memorial Day was first observed as Decoration Day to commemorate those who died in the War Between the States. It is a day set aside in […]
Pennsylvania’s Voucher Math
Please Note: There is a correction to this article at: Pennsylvania Vouchers – A Correction and Response http://wp.me/pJrS-eRz Questions: Why should parents who get vouchers receive more in taxpayer subsidies than they pay in taxes? How much does a public school really save when a student leaves for a non-public school? What are the real […]
Iranians Are Friends of the Jews
By Amil Imani Is there anyone left in the world that does not know the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hates the Jews? His welcoming of representatives of an extremist branch of Orthodox Judaism to his conference denying the Holocaust reminded us of the Nazis’ use of some Jewish community leaders […]
Oil “Subsidy” and “Tax Breaks” Nonsense
By Paul Driessen President Obama frequently says Americans “need to end our $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to oil companies.” The latest Democrat bill would have repealed some $2 billion of what Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and others call “subsidies” and “special tax breaks” for Big Oil. That’s baloney – shameless demagoguery that will […]
The Homosexual Agenda
By Alan Caruba People’s concerns about homosexuality are deeply rooted and even reflected in sacred texts. There is no mystery to this. Opposite sexes are understood and expected to be attracted to one another. When this doesn’t occur within a segment of the population, it raises fears about them. From Adherents.com: “1.51% of the total […]
As Heritage Predicted, Bin Laden Planned Attacks on Energy Infrastructure
By Ariel Cohen Materials obtained in the U.S. SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden confirm what Heritage suspected all along: Al-Qaeda considered attacking tanker ships and other maritime energy infrastructure. Bin Laden expected to drive up the price of oil and intended to cause considerable damage to the U.S. and other oil-dependent economies. As […]
Porkulus: Cash for Tax Cheats
By Michelle Malkin When President Obama signed the trillion-dollar stimulus law in 2009, he proclaimed that he was “keeping the American dream alive in our time.” The stimulator-in-chief failed to mention that billions would be spent keeping American tax scammers afloat on our dime. At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, federal auditors reported on the […]
The Not So Great Debate
By Burt Prelutsky In the wake of the GOP debate in South Carolina, I have decided that Herman Cain was not only the clear-winner, but that he’s now the guy to beat. He’s bright, speaks well and seems to be free of the sort of baggage that career politicians always seem to be carting around. […]
Time to Leave Afghanistan
By Alan Caruba The Greek philosopher Plato said, “Only the dead know the end of war.” I doubt that in the five thousand years of what we call civilization there has ever been a day when war has not been taking place somewhere on the planet. All wars, in one fashion or another, however, have […]
NewsBusted – 11-144 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Judgement Day last weekend got their dates a little wrong. It was in fact earlier than they thought – President Obama is having trouble raising money for his re-election campaign. – President Obama called for Israel to return to pre 1967 borders. – President Obama spoke to the CIA about […]
And Whale Meat Is A Renewable Resource, Too
By Andrew Bolt Matt Ridley asks – how renewable is renewable? Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a thousand-page report on the future of renewable energy, which it defined as solar, hydro, wind, tidal, wave, geothermal and biomass. These energy sources, said the IPCC, generate about 13.8% of our energy and, if […]
A Week of Shocks but Few Surprises
By Peggy Noonan They were open secrets. Everyone knew. And maybe the lesson this week is that people should pay more attention to what they know. Everyone knew Newt Gingrich was combustible, that he tended to blow things up, including, periodically, himself. He was impulsive, living proof that people confuse “a good brain” with “good […]
Republican Russian Roulette
By Alan Caruba I have a friend who thinks the ghost of Bob Dole is stalking the Republican Party and Dole isn’t even dead! What he means, of course, is that, at this point, the present batch of candidates are not that inspiring. The Party needs to articulate a distinct, conservative agenda and have the guts to […]
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