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Dumb and Dumber, Watching TV
By Alan Caruba ~ I am pretty sure that, in their heyday, the Three Stooges, were looked down upon as low comedy by some folks. To this day, I still do. The truth is, however, even chimpanzees yuck it up when one of their fellow primates falls out of the tree. Since we share a […]
Children Just Aren’t Going to Know What Sun Is
By James Delingpole ~ There’s a great piece by David Rose in the Mail On Sunday nicely summing up what a lot of us here knew already: that the thing we really need to fear right now is not global warming but global cooling. And that, on current evidence, it’s global cooling we’re going to […]
Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Energy Misses Chance at Real Reform
By Jack Spencer ~ The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on America’s Nuclear Future released its final report late last week. It provides a thoughtful overview of how America’s nuclear waste policy has evolved since the mid-20th century, but the report’s final recommendations largely fall short. Essentially, the commission accepted the underlying structure of America’s […]
Saving The Planet Is For The Plebs
By Andrew Bolt ~ Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2009: Today we have reached the point where consumption and people’s desire to consume has grown out of proportion… The reality is that our lifestyles are unsustainable… His solution: hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should […]
The Insanity of Protecting Rats
By Alan Caruba ~ Going back to the 1980s I have worked professionally with elements of the pest control industry providing public relations services The process of educating the public is necessary because new generations must be informed of the threats pests pose to health and property. Back when it was still known as the National […]
Chart of the Week: Top 1 Percent Paid 38 Percent of Taxes
By Rob Bluey ~ President Obama used his State of the Union address Tuesday to outline his idea of fairness. To put it simply, that means redistributing wealth by raising taxes on the most successful Americans. “If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes,” […]
Fifteen Years Of No Global Warming Should Be A Warning
By Andrew Bolt ~ The inconvenient truth cannot be ignored much longer: The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years… Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued […]
Sunday Music – It Ain’t Necessarily So
January 29, 2012 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’ from the Australian singer Normie Rowe. This video was posted to You Tube by holysnappingarsehole In the mid 60′s Normie Rowe was pop music royalty here in Australia. He was at the absolute zenith when that popular music ‘explosion’ started. Australia had it’s Johnny O’Keefe, Col Joye […]
The New American Elite
By Alan Caruba ~ The only constant in the life of individuals and nations is change. Since the beginning of the last century, the process or rate of change has accelerated with the invention and availability of a myriad of machines, technologies that have altered the lifestyle of Americans as well as of millions around […]
Endangered Species
A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ Recent developments, according to the (Irish) Independent: Dozens killed in attacks on Nigerian Christians “A FRESH wave of violence against churchgoers in Nigeria has left at least 27 people dead and heightened fears over security in Africa ‘s most populous country.The religiously motivated massacres — three since last Thursday — […]
Democracy Can Have a Dark Underbelly
By Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman ~ As much as I love democracy, Western Liberal Democracy, this institution has a dark side. There are problems with our own American democracy; even more troubling are democracies such as that of Russia, and worse, democracy in the Muslim world. Why is democracy so under assault? Liberal Democracy is a […]
Obama, Biden Both Lauded Now-Bankrupt, Stimulus-Funded Ener1
By Lachlan Markay ~ The president’s energy agenda took a hit on Thursday, as yet another stimulus-backed energy company filed for bankruptcy. Videos have surfaced since then showing both Obama and Vice President Biden praising the company’s promise, drawing the attention of congressional investigators. As Scribe reported yesterday, Ener1 submitted a pre-packaged bankruptcy plan as […]
NewsBusted – 12-027 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Obama goes for huge venue to accept the Democrat nomination. – Liberals in Congress target oil company profits. – President Obama claims that the media is responsible for his cold and aloof image, marking the first time in his Presidency he hasn’t blamed something on Bush. – Gas expected to […]
An Alarming Lack Of Warming, Warn Scientists
By Andrew Bolt ~ The lack of warming casts yet more doubt on the global warming theory, warn 16 prominent scientists and engineers in an open letter: Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see […]
Auschwitz: Ignoring History, Predicting the Future
By Alan Caruba ~ The late Israeli scholar and diplomat, Abba Eban, (1915-2002) said, “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” Similarly, Winston Churchill said, “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.” In Churchill’s case, he was […]
WashPost Columnist: Occupy DC Protesters Just Like Yogi Bear
By Ken Shepherd ~ Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Yogi Bear lived in squalor in an urban park picking fights with the cops, urinating in public, and vexing local coffee shop owners and patrons. But Washington Post Metro columnist Robert McCartney today romanticized the average Occupy DC squatter as reminiscent of […]
Australia – No More Of This “Reconciliation”
By Andrew Bolt ~ So this is what reconciliation looks like on Australia Day, after so many concessions over so many useless years. Reconciliation means Prime Minister Julia Gillard being trapped by furious Aboriginal protesters inside a Canberra building yesterday for half an hour. It means Gillard and guests at the Australia Day function being […]
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