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Global Warming Charlatans Feel the Heat

By Alan Caruba



The University of Virginia, after vigorously resisting a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request for data related to the emails of Michael Mann, was the subject of a court order to make them available. While global warming is known worldwide for its claim that manmade warming would doom the Earth, the names and machinations behind the fraud are far less well known.



Mann, a climatologist, was part of a relatively small clique of charlatans who, working for… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 31, 2011 at 7:23pm — No Comments

Did We Experience A Great Recession or a Depression?

There has been much discussion regarding the most recent recession, often referred to as "The Great Recession".  I have often felt that using the word Depression may have been avoided due to the ensuing panic this would have caused.

 

Even though we are technically in an economic recovery, there are many statistics that clearly show that the recovery is not sustainable.  I would…

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Added by Kevin R Mullins on May 28, 2011 at 1:33pm — No Comments

ObamaCare waiver process will devastate small businesses

Collaboration was made between Jane Keill of Glenview, IL and Nancy Thorner for this article about the indiscriminate granting of ObamaCare waivers.

 

There seems to be no criteria used by Health and Human Services (HHS) in granting or denying waivers to excuse insurers from…

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Added by Nancy J. Thorner on May 28, 2011 at 11:09am — No Comments

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 the many movies he made in a long career owe him a great debt.



By his very presence on the silver screen he taught us all what it meant to be a man. Wayne was masculine without having to… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 26, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

Time is running out for meaningful pension reform in Illinios

 

Pensions of teacher and public employees are hot topics not only in Springfield, but in state capitals all over the country. Why? Because unsustainable, unfunded pension systems are bankrupting states.

 

According to a report released on April 25 by The Pew Center on the States, a Washington, D.C. think tank, Illinois ranks last place among states in putting away enough money for benefits promised to its employees in…

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Added by Nancy J. Thorner on May 25, 2011 at 9:01am — No Comments

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 to come to an end.



The war in Afghanistan has degraded into a distraction from the nation’s desperately deteriorating financial situation. Even worse, it is part of that problem. On… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 24, 2011 at 5:37pm — No Comments

Rep. Paul Ryan’s Speech to Economic Club of Chicago

“Chairman Ryan is correct when he makes the following statements: ‘This [government spending and debt] crisis has been decades in the making’ and ‘There is plenty of blame to go around.’

“According to my economic research, if Congress continues to raise tax burdens, trend growth in real GDP will fall further in the U.S. economy – to no more than 2.5 percent annually. This is less than the 3.2 percent trend rate in GDP growth over the second half of the twenty-first…

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Added by John W. Skorburg on May 19, 2011 at 6:43pm — No Comments

The United States of Stupid

By Alan Caruba



In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report titled “A Nation at Risk” that documented nationwide failure in American schools. Not much has changed since then and the federal takeover of school curriculums and testing methods has mercilessly continued with the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind and the Obama administration’s Race to the Top.



They are the top-down approaches to learning that have played a large part in… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 17, 2011 at 5:21pm — 3 Comments

Obama vs. Israel

By Alan Caruba



Is Obama a Muslim? Does Obama hate Israel? Will Israel be attacked again? Will Iran nuke Israel? Has Maghreb and Middle Eastern turmoil flummoxed the White House? Why did Obama bow to Saudi Arabia’s king? Questions, questions, questions?



Watching President Barack Hussein Obama try to pick winners and losers in the Middle East would be amusing if it were not so deadly serious. Not a word about Syria’s slaughter of its protestors. A demand that Libya’s Gadhafi… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 15, 2011 at 7:30am — 5 Comments

The White House Official Spokesman

By Alan Caruba



I really miss Tony Snow who served as George W. Bush’s White House press secretary until cancer took him from us too soon. Snow was a journalist with an impressive resume, but beyond that, he had a charm that made him the master of that ugly little pit of hell where White House correspondents gather to report on its events.



I was no fan of Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s first press secretary. I used to call him Glib Gibbs and often wondered if some of the… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 9, 2011 at 3:09pm — 1 Comment

The Pakistani Pit of Deception

By Alan Caruba



Even Pakistanis do not believe that their political and military leaders did not know bin Laden was living, as one columnist put it, “wrapped in the bosom of the Pakistani security establishment.”



Cyril Almeida, writing in the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, a few days after the killing of bin Laden noted that, when the question is asked privately, “No one will say anything but, yes, they knew he was there.”



For 34 of its 64 years, Pakistan has been… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 8, 2011 at 9:02am — No Comments

Jihad is Forever

By Alan Caruba



Americans greeted news of Osama bin Laden's death with a celebration of the payback it represents for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001.



As former Vice President Dick Cheney said on hearing the news, “Today, the message our forces have sent is clear—if you attack the United States, we will find you and bring you to justice.”



This is part of the American psyche. A great power cannot allow itself to be attacked and harmed… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 2, 2011 at 7:41am — 1 Comment

Pageantry, History and Change

By Alan Caruba



Last week ended in pageantry that altered history in ways the whole world could take notice, vicariously participate, and absorb into the collective conscience. On Friday the heir to the British throne married and a former commoner became the future queen of England. The world rejoiced.



On Sunday, Pope John Paul was beatified, a step toward sainthood, in an expedited Vatican process that was a response to the crowds who gathered at his funeral on April 8,… Continue

Added by Alan Caruba on May 1, 2011 at 7:34am — 2 Comments

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