May 18, 2013
12:01 a.m.
Climate change skeptics often shrug off the pesky facts scientists present by pointing to the big, over-simplified picture. Climate is always changing, they say. Nature goes through cycles.
True enough, but there’s nothing all-natural about the cyc...
May 18, 2013
6:21 p.m.
Despite suggestions from such conservatives as Charles Krauthammer and Newt Gingrich to temper their rhetoric, more than a few Republicans these days are claiming that the so-called scandals that currently beset the Obama administration are the worst in...
May 18, 2013
12:16 p.m.
When U.S. Marines were shown providing umbrella coverage for President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Rose Garden news conference the other day (see top photo above), the right-wing noise machine went into high ...
May 18, 2013
12:16 p.m.
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, whose skillful way with words usually exceeds her grasp of the facts, waxed indignant the other day over four cases in which conservative activists were targeted for tax audits.
It’s a scandal, Noonan a...
May 18, 2013
12:16 p.m.
An all-natural substance that makes pets sickThis substance is non-toxic, smells nice and is even all natural, yet it can make your dog miserable and sometimes extremely ill.Virtually invisible, it hovers everywhere in the air in spring, summer and early...
May 17, 2013
6:21 p.m.
A Facebook friend of mine has dug up THIS WONDERFUL STORY from four years ago:
Bill Nye [above], the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentati...
May 17, 2013
6:21 p.m.
One morning back in 1977, I was having coffee with a certain prominent public official (an appointee, not a politician) whose judgment in most matters I usually respected.
Our conversation eventually turned to an upcoming local election, and this guy s...
May 17, 2013
6:21 p.m.
Most Americans are not following the controversies regarding the Internal Revenue Service and the Benghazi tragedy with especially intense interest, as we see HERE:
A majority of Americans are following both the controversy over the attack on the U.S. ...
May 17, 2013
6:21 p.m.
Ordinarily, I like to know what’s going on in the world. But I’m glad I didn’t know about THIS:
During 10 days in November 1983, the United States and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Newly declassified documents from th...
May 17, 2013
12:21 p.m.
The right-wing noise machine has strongly implied, and falsely so, that the Obama administration doctored government emails concerning the Benghazi tragedy.
In truth, however, it was the Republicans themselves who doctored the emails. And a gullible r...
