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By Alan Caruba

In his short statement following the bombing of the Boston marathoners on Monday, the President did not say either “terror” or “terrorist.” This is an administration that has virtually banished these words, but an unidentified “White House official” did say that it was an act of…

Sticky Fingers Eye Your IRAs

By Alan Caruba

Obamacare—the Affordable Care Act—is both imploding from its own dead weight and conversely exploding in the face of the Democratic Party as we head toward the 2014 midterm elections. You remember the Democrats? They were the ones who, on Christmas Eve 2009 passed Obamacare in the late hours. It’s the bill Nancy Pelosi told us had to be passed “so we can find out what’s in it.”

The bad news for Democrats and worse news for Barack Obama is that, since it was…

By Alan Caruba

The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club emailed to invite me to attend a “conversation on climate change in a post-Sandy New Jersey” intended to focus on the “impacts of fossil fuel pollution” later this month. “We need to take action to address and prevent the future impacts of…

By Alan Caruba

If you should suddenly cease to find my commentaries, I will either have passed away or have been detained by agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Defense Department and taken to an undisclosed location for the crime of having been an “extremist” and a danger to the…

The issue of Global Warming is very much alive in the Obama administration, even while the gun and the gay marriage issues remain on the front burner. 



Symbolic of President Obama's push for green energy was his visit to Argonne National Laboratory on March 15, only one of Obama's numerous campaign-like visits  to wean this nation off oil and all biofuels.  Argonne, as one of a network of  multidisciplinary national labs run by DOE,  was chosen to highlight how…

If you enjoy your freedom with a dash of adventure, you may like my new novel, Dangerous Wind, available on Amazon Kindle.

Carol Golden, the protagonist in Dangerous Wind, is familiar with government not protecting the rights of citizens. Two books ago (in Forget to Remember) when Carol…

Professor Happer (left)  and Steve Goreham, author of:  “The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism”

By Alan Caruba

If you want to know what a carbon tax on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would do to America you need only look at the destruction of industry and business in Australia, along with the soaring costs for energy use it imposes on anyone there.

“The carbon tax is contributing…