No More IRS
Whatever you think of Mike Huckabee’s campaign for president (and I don’t think very much of it), it has had one remarkable feature: his TV …
A Long Way Down From Lincoln
President Bush is rightly challenged for his bumbling rhetoric and undiagrammable syntax. But worse could follow. Consider Hillary Clinton, responding to her defeat in Iowa …
The Inferno
When, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton broke down and cried, I felt for her. Here is an intelligent and capable …
Damn Lies and Statistics
A recent article on cancer myths, distributed online by Johns Hopkins and flagged by Yahoo as a Number 1 story, bewails the fact that 390/0 …
Word Watch – Jan 2008
I know it’s a movie-house cliche, but it’s scary nonetheless – the story of the demon twin, the entity that seems identical to some nice, …
Sex Shocker! Dems Caught In Church Orgy!
Unlike the Democratic Party leadership, I am not surprised to discover that congresspersons sometimes run after young men. For some reason, however, I believe it’s …
The Fallacy of Open Immigration
Nothing is more common than for well-intentioned people to believe that if everybody just does what is right (as they see it), nothing but good …
A Steady Diet
We are used to encountering garbage that is labeled “news,” but sometimes even the hardened troller for information is astonished by the smell. On August …
Comically Close Call
I am looking at a news article entitled, “Killer Asteroid Headed Towards Earth.” This is an opportunity to see what “science” reporting is like today. …
Where Credit’s Deserved
I hate to say anything good about politicians, but I do want to compliment the managers of the V.S. Senate for their good conduct in …