Wow. Just wow: What is causing the illusion? Something as marvelous as the face itself: In this case, the cosmic “face” is actually caused by a neat galactic phenomenon as well: gravitational lensing. Large galaxy clusters sometimes produce such a … Continue reading →
ISIS has been holding American aid worker Kayla Mueller hostage, but her death has just been confirmed by President Obama. It is unclear how many details the government knows. But as yet the public doesn’t know how she died, when … Continue reading →
David Axelrod has made an admission in his new book: Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons, his former political strategist David Axelrod … Continue reading →
Christopher Booker wrote a piece in the Telegraph that claims that climate scientists have fiddled with temperature data, and calls it “the biggest science scandal ever.” Here’s a quote: Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked … Continue reading →
Obama is preparing to veto the Keystone pipeline bill, issuing the first of what promises to be a blizzard of vetoes of legislation due to be passed by the current Congress. Never mind that the Keystone bill was bipartisan, passed … Continue reading →
…with the concept of first name versus surname. It’s hard, hard I tell you (hint to Times: “Scott” is the first name, “Walker” is the surname): This was not an ordinary article, either, that just lacked an editor’s eye. It … Continue reading →
…then why not Hillary? After all, she told essentially the same lie. Isn’t a presidential candidate more important than a newscaster? Yes, and that’s why her nearly identical lie will be winked at: the Democrats need her (they have no … Continue reading →
I gave a modest amount of money to a few charities at Christmastime this year, as I sometimes do. I got the next solicitations from them in the mail around the first week of January, and several have sent me … Continue reading →
Here’s a quote I came across recently in The Rule of the Clan by Mark S. Weiner (it begins with a quote from Robert Kagan’s The World America Made): “There is a general sense that the end of the era … Continue reading →
Commenter “DNW” asked yesterday: …[C]an anyone…tell me why an even moderately religious or observant Jew, would continue to speak of left-wing atheist progressives, as “Jews”? Not that you would necessarily know. I just have no one else to ask. I’ll … Continue reading →
Newly-minted Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas got a lot of attention for this hard-hitting exchange yesterday: I hadn’t seen Cotton in action before, and my first thought about him on seeing this (after noticing his laserlike intensity, which seemed to … Continue reading →
Jordan makes good on its threats to ISIS: State TV showed footage of the attacks, including fighter jets taking off from an air base and bombs setting of large balls of fire and smoke after impact. It showed Jordanian troops … Continue reading →