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Soon there will be hundreds (some say thousands) of new agencies and boards and panels staffed by tens of thousands of new bureaucrats and government employees, all to implement our new ObamaCare World. That’s so when we want a doctor, or a pill, or hospital treatment, or operation, or consultation we can go to them […]

I know one should always look for silver linings and glasses half-full, etc., but the happy declarations that “Our programs (stimulus, Tarp, and massive Govt expansion, etc.) are working!” because the job loss numbers are recently declining, rather ignore the fact that as millions are out of work there are just fewer left around to […]

The poster child for the “cause” of embryonic stem cell research was a man (Superman, in fact) paralyzed by spinal cord injury. He, and the lobbyists who used him, played on the public conscience (and ignorance of the actual science of stem-cell research and potential) to demand that there be no economic or policy or ethical […]

That “Ugly American Syndrome” showed itself again, these past few days, as the “we gotta have our sex” crowd in this country (and a few other parts of the world - mostly the “modern” world) condemned the Pope for his saying that condoms are not the solution to, but part of the problem in the […]

If there’s one constant in American culture and politics that leads our “diplomacy” to nought, vis a vis the Arab and Islamic world, it’s that we blindly (some - remember “The Ugly American” - would say, arrogantly) continue to assume they think exacly like us. That we share most basic values, perceptions, and objectives. They don’t. Their […]

Watching Congress lately reminds me all too much of the stampeding zebras of the movie Madagascar2: thousands of indistinguishable striped asses (scuse moi Francais) would take to flight in a perfect symphony to escape whatever danger, or get safely (under the cover of the horde/herd) to whatever goal they wanted. Sometimes they just did it for fun!
Curious why I am so reminded? […]

KGB or Gestapo? Which would you say best describes the thuggery being exhibited by much of our Congress and Senate, right now, over the bonuses of about 100 AIG executives? Does it frighten you at all that:
1. A Senator suggests these executives commit suicide (for having gotten a $1 million bonus)? Maybe the same standard ought be recommended for […]

“During his address to Congress last week, President Barack Obama declared, ‘We will double this nation’s supply of renewable energy in the next three years.’
While that statement — along with his pledge to impose a ‘cap on carbon pollution’ — drew applause, let’s slow down for a moment and get realistic about this country’s energy […]

Yesterday the “Global Warmists” were protesting a coal-fired plant (providing the biggest share of the electricity they’d need to get warm later) while shivering in an “unseasonably late” snowstorm. Hmmm.
A month or so ago, climatologists with our national weather service said there had been no sign of warmer temperatures for a decade. “Not to worry,” said the Global Warmists, “that’s just […]