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Drought-Tolerant Black-Eyed Peas At Center Stage

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Extended droughts were far worse in the Little Ice Age that ended just 150 years ago, but big droughts are also likely in the world’s future if we are in a new warming cycle. This prospect pushes the un-exciting Black-Eyed Pea into an unlikely starring role The cowpea—better known in America as the black-eyed […]

Passover and the suffering necessary to end tyranny

Tonight marks the first night of Passover, the ancient Jewish holiday celebrating the Jews’ release from bondage and, I think, their reaffirmed commitment to God. I wrote the following post last year for Passover, and republished it once more a few months ago. It focuses on Iran, but I think you could easily substitute Syria, […]

Geithner Confident GOP Will Cave on Debt Ceiling

If there’s one thing that all rational adults ought to be able to agree on, it’s that the debt ceiling needs to be dramatically lowered, not raised. Yet we read this: Congressional Republicans are trying to figure out which card to play next after the White House got into some high-stakes poker-playing over the weekend, […]

Time Magazine Declares Icemakers to Be a Threat to the Planet

Having long crossed into the realm of self-parody, global warming hoaxers in the liberal establishment media see no reason to look back now. The tired joke calling itself Time Magazine shrieks that we should fear our icemakers: To the long list of human inventions that are wrecking global climate — the internal combustion engine, the […]

Good News! CFLs Now Reported To Release Cancer Causing Vapors!

This is the kind of story that deserved an “oh, snap!” headline, but, I refrained, but, it is certainly an eye opener. Good thing Congress didn’t mandate that most incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured and sold in the United States. From NoTricksZone (original story in German) I don’t have a single one […]

Britain: Wear The Headscarf Or Die, Infidel Women

Years ago, Mark Steyn told me that in certain parts of Britain, non-Muslim women wore the veil because it kept them from getting harassed in the streets by Muslims. Apparently, some of the Islamic radicals in Britannia have decided to formalize the arrangement. Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and […]

The Super Rich: Should We Hate Them Or Be Thanking Them?

Over at Yahoo, they’ve done a piece on the super rich that has a rather arbitrary negative slant to it. Sadly, that has become far too common of late. It’s called, Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically. The Internal Revenue Service tracks the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes each year. […]

An Interview With Andrew Breitbart

I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbartabout his new book “Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! .” What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. I always find it fascinating when people who used to be liberal say they turned to the right. That […]

Profiles in Ineptitude: a Timeline of the Boehner Debacle

Can someone send a copy of Negotiating for Dummies to Speaker Boehner? Please consider the Speaker’s feckless statements and actions over the last several months — after being handed his position by a huge groundswell of conservative support known as the Tea Party movement. • 1/7/2011: Boehner Doubles Down On Promise To Cut $100 Billion: […]

Was Lincoln REALLY a Secret Atheist?

Here we go again. This sort of nonsense that passes for journalism rehashing our history, and badly at that, always comes up when there’s some sort of anniversary in the offing. This time it is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War which gave Discovery News an excuse to cast Lincoln as the new atheist […]

Saturday Automotivators!

Y’know, whenever I get to working on this, I’m always a little surprised at the stories I didn’t blog about. Most of these are like that. Click the link under each picture for a little more info. Link: Reaganite Republican. Link: Walter Williams. Link: GOP 12. Link: Cubachi. Link: American Power. Link: Clayton Cramer. Link…oh, […]

Tornadoes In NC Cause Massive Damage, Kill Up To Two Dozen

No politics today this morning, folks. Just time to offer your prayers for those who were killed or injured on Saturday, and to their families A violent storm system slashed across central North Carolina on Saturday with apparent tornadoes touching down, causing multiple deaths and leaving a wide swath of property damage, downed trees, power […]

On Atlas Shrugged, The Movie

I was right. Anybody who watches the movie first without reading the book is making a dreadful, dreadful mistake. At least catch the Cliff’s Notes fer cryin’ out loud. As far as the people who read it, it seems everyone gets a different experience out of it. Whatever made an impression on you, and wasn’t […]

“Inappropriate and Denigrating”

David Burge, whom you may know as Iowahawk, had something interesting to post at the Hello Kitty of Blogging which you may know as Facebook. Those who may have been distracted by tax day & all the associated festivities, may have lost track of the other meaningful bits of this particular time of year. It’s […]

Best Sentence CXI

Re-discovered blogger friend Terri takes the one hundred and eleventh Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award. On the subject of “civil disobedience on a paper plate” (you have to skim through this New York Times article about San Francisco “food raves” to see what’s going on), she observes: Ahh the odd belief […]

Can “Extreme Weather” Cause Tectonic Movement?

(Comments now open. Something went goofy while posting using iPhone after it missed it’s scheduled posting time) Why, yes, they are still pushing this People who are ridiculed for saying that earthquakes are a result of global warming could actually be right, scientists claim. Long-term climate change has the potential to spin Earth’s tectonic plates, […]

Trust Fund Moonbats Lobby for Those Who Earned Their Wealth to Be Looted

Taking the hypocrisy and depraved sanctimony that characterize liberalism to a new extreme of self-parody, useless trust fund moonbats have formed a tax-exempt corporation to enforce their demand that other rich people who unlike themselves actually earned their money turn over more of it to be flagrantly wasted by bureaucrats. “Our current tax system perpetuates […]

Keith Olbermann Admits That Abortion Is Murder

A few months ago Keith Olbermann was King of the Moonbats, lording it over the rest of the hard left kooks at MSNBC. But when Comcast replaced crony capitalist GE as the parent company of this bratty child, the brass immediately lost patience with Olbie’s obnoxious and egomaniacal antics, and sent him out the door […]

TSA Frisks Eight Year Old Boy

Hot on the heals of the 6 year old being searched by TSA, we get this story Pictures have emerged of an 8-year-old boy on a family trip to Disneyland being full body searched by TSA agents at airport security. Spencer Sheahan was pulled aside and searched by a burly TSA agent at Portland International […]

Your Automatic Ice Maker Is Bad For Globull Warming

Did you know that your automatic ice maker is evil? Want to save the Earth? Easy, just buy a couple of ice trays. To the long list of human inventions that are wrecking global climate—the internal combustion engine, the industrial era factory—add the automatic ice maker. Climate modelers have long known that households are far […]

Obama Abdicates Campaign Passion To Obama Zombies

It’s campaign season, a year and a half before the 2012 elections….hey, remember when Obama told the GOP there would be plenty of time for campaigning in 2012?…..and His Imperial Majesty Barack H. Obama has a message for supporters President Barack Obama made his debut as a candidate for reelection on Thursday night by urging […]