It’s the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day and the official website wants you to celebrate by being afraid, being very afraid: Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is … Continue reading →
I first saw the Paul Taylor Dance Company perform in 1970. I was immediately impressed, even though it’s a modern dance company and at the time I tended to prefer ballet. But Paul Taylor’s work had a unique set of … Continue reading →
From the start, the MSM has been determined to trivialize and/or demonize the Tea Partiers. Although the Tea Party movement has been consistent in focusing almost entirely on fiscal matters and small government, one of the most consistent and favored … Continue reading →
First, Arizona passes a much-needed (and much-criticized) crackdown on illegal immigrants. Now, is Arizona becoming a birther? Interesting: [The law] would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet … Continue reading →
…because he finally managed to pass HCR. Please remind me: why is this man considered some sort of foreign affairs expert?
Continue reading →Here’s a bunch of photos of familiar political figures back in their callow youths. Get a load of Dick Cheney in particular.
Continue reading →Arizona has just passed a tough anti-illegal immigration law, requiring: …state and local police to determine the status of people if there is “reasonable suspicion” that they are illegal immigrants and to arrest people who are unable to provide documentation … Continue reading →
…may have overstated the case with the volcano and its effect on airplanes: Flawed computer models may have exaggerated the effects of an Icelandic volcano eruption that has grounded tens of thousands of flights, stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers … Continue reading →
It’s Patriots’ Day—the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, regarded as the official start of the American Revolution, although Massachusetts and Maine (once part of Massachusetts) are the only states that officially celebrate the occasion. Boston does so … Continue reading →
One of Obama’s most enduring characteristics (one he shares with many on the left) has been his belief in the power of words [emphasis mine]: When the Right, in trying to figure Obama out, says “watch what he does, not … Continue reading →
Any of you tech people got theories on what this might signify?
Continue reading →…on the “dangerously delusional” and “self-indulgent irrelevance” of Obama’s nuclear summit.
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