His horse went dead and his mule went lame, And he lost 6 cows in a poker game. Then a hurricane came on a summer’s day And blew the house where he lived away. An earthquake came when that was gone And swallowed the land the house stood on And then the tax collector came […]
“I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past.” – Patrick Henry “JUST AN ACTOR.” That’s what they called President Reagan. But he didn’t just collect wisdom; he cultivated it. Not long before his birth’s centennial, the Reagan Library found a box containing […]
The editor in chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli got plaudits from the world in the only way a regressive Christian publication can – by trashing a president who is unabashedly pro-life, an unabashed supporter of religious liberty, an unabashed nominator of pro-constitutional judges, and an unabashed supporter of Israel. Galli, after wrapping himself in […]
The Democrats are crowing now, claiming that the inspector general did not find any evidence of bias in his investigation of the FBI’s handling of certain warrant applications to the FISA Court. Is there any logic behind their celebrations? It is to be expected that they fail to acknowledge he was speaking only of “testimonial […]
Reporting right from Madrid, where climate hypocrisy was alive and well at COP-25 They came for your car, your light bulb, your dishwasher and washing machine, your toilet, your electricity, your airline flight and so much more. Now you can add your burger and steak to their list of what they want to legislate, regulate […]
Inconvenient facts show why wind energy is not renewable, sustainable or climate-friendly Wind turbines continue to be the most controversial of so-called “renewable” energy sources worldwide. But, you say, wind is surely renewable. It blows intermittently, but it’s natural, free, renewable and climate-friendly. That’s certainly what we hear, almost constantly. However, while the wind itself […]
Biofuels are unsustainable in every way, but still demand – and get – preferential treatment The Big Oil-Big Biofuel wars rage on. From my perch, ethanol, biodiesel and “advanced biofuels” make about zero energy, economic or environmental sense. They make little political sense either, until you recognize that politics is largely driven by crony-capitalism, campaign […]
How politically diverse is the Yale faculty today? According to an article by James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal, “0%.” He notes, “Nobody looks to the Ivy League for balanced political discourse. But a new report suggests that on at least one campus, the stifling of conservative views among faculty members is nearly complete.” […]
By most accounts, American colleges and universities are highly successful businesses, with students clamoring for admission and willing to pay whatever tuition, room, board, and books the school demands. That may seem like an ideal business relationship, where the customers are very happy with the products offered and the business is very happy with the […]
Banning neonic pesticides in wildlife refuges would hurt birds, bees, other wildlife and people. The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources recently approved HR 2854, the 2019 Protect Our Refuges Act, prohibiting the use of neonicotinoid insecticides in any of the nation’s 560 National Wildlife Refuges, some of which are the size of Delaware […]