Its not seditious. It’s worse than that. It’s not racist. It’s worse than that. It’s not homophobic. It’s worse than that. What could be worse than all of these things? Criticism of the media! Welcome to the weird world of the People’s Republic of Portland, where the newspaper of record, The Oregonian, lives in its […]
I don’t usually burden my readers with technical jargon, but in this case… Those of us technically inclined call the rapid ‘Climate Change’ we and other communities across the USA are presently experiencing “Summer.” That can mean heat that may seem unbearable. But trust me, “Summer” always gives way to “Fall” and “Winter,” followed by […]
When Nobel Laureate in literature Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn uttered the words “Live not by lies” in his native Russia under the Soviets, it was considered fair enough. After all he was a fervent anti-Communist who was long persecuted by the Soviet government and spent time in their Gulag labor camps. Even when he uttered the same […]
We surely live in a fog these days that has nothing to do with weather conditions. On the best of days many are unable to see the obvious in front of them, let alone anything the least bit sophisticated. They are prisoners of a mindset, a swamp, so thick and so vast that they have […]
As I write this on a beautiful Spring day in Portland, I have to wonder why anyone would want to change it. Is it a little too warm or too cold? Are we so arrogant as to think that we can change the weather, the seasons, or the climate? Yet we are spending more than […]
Those who can remember a half century back will recall these words, spoken by Captain James Kirk of the starship Enterprise at the beginning of each episode of Star Trek: “Space—the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission—to explore strange new worlds—to seek out new life and new civilizations—to […]
Of all the creatures on this planet, only one is capable of significant abstract reasoning. Yet, all too frequently, he surrenders his intellectual capabilities to his animal instincts. Our ability to reason gives us capabilities to understand and adapt to the world around us. We live better and happier lives as a consequence. But in […]
It was said of the Bolshevik Revolution that Russia looked no different the day after. Yet she suffered a profound nightmare for seven decades and only managed to get out of it because an American President, Ronald Reagan, was able to orchestrate the peaceful economic collapse of the Soviet Union with his Russian counterpart, Mikhail […]
Climate alarmists have always been a strange lot, closely adhering to the prevailing story-line, when they surely know that it is nonsense or, at the very best, impressively weak. When I have asked Oregon’s premier climate alarmist, Oregon State University Professor Phil Mote, a question and he has not attempted to run away, he will […]
Released this November, The Climate Science Special Report (CSSR) prepared by the U.S. Global Change Research Program is a legacy from the Obama Administration. It is the latest edition in a long line of government reports linking human emissions of carbon dioxide with just about every climate and weather event that we observe today. They […]