Scientists Try to Have It Both Ways on Global-warming
It was announced June 15 that scientists are now fairly sure that around 2020, sunspot activity is going to lessen significantly. All the...
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Got Meds? Not Necessarily, Say U.S. Hospitals
Over the Memorial Day weekend, while many were getting their first taste of summer — ergo, not reading the news — it was...
What’s Really in Those Teen Magazines? (Hint: Nothing Remotely Romantic)
There’s a really dirty little secret about the category of literature known as “women’s fashion magazines”: They are aimed at pre-teens, teenagers, and...
Service Versus Surveillance: Has Computer Technology Outpaced the Legal System?
First, the short version: Privacy? "Fuggedaboudit!" You can encrypt your messages, lock your laptop and password-protect your various accounts till your fingers fall...
Liberal Columnist “Mugged” by Reality: Still Doesn’t “Get It”
Here?s one for late-night jokester Jay Leno?s weekly ?Headlines? segment featuring Stupid Criminals ? his favorite target. Although, he might want to consider a...
National Insecurity — Part 2: Fed’s Message to Border Agents: Back Off!
In Part 1 of this series, the symbiotic relationship between the federal government and leftist environmental groups was examined to provide a partial...
National Insecurity — Part 1: A Culture of Federal Corruption and Collusion
The nation’s porous borders took front and center stage this week, as unconnected, but surprisingly related, news items highlighted the lack of political...
Book Review: Now Tell Me I Was Wrong
Tom DeWeese is among the unsung heroes of the real conservative activist movement, the one that focuses on individual (as opposed to collective)...
How to Concede in Politics Without Really Trying
Most adults recall the iconic musical comedy, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It is still a mainstay of annual high-school...
How Bad Laws Go National: Case Study HB 235
At this writing, a piece of state legislation in Maryland, HB 235, has passed the state House in Annapolis and is poised to...
D.C. Resident Complains About Nonstop, Noisy Protests
As union leaders and “community organizers” ratchet up the noise level of assorted demonstrations and protests, using microphones, megaphones, and even drums that...
The PBS-NPR Debate’s Unmentionable Dilemma
As House Republicans pushed to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this month, Democrats fought back with a vengeance....
Sex and the “Study”
In an era of trillion-dollar budgets and out-sized deficits, the U.S. government continues to finance studies that nobody needs. The latest goofball “research...
Education’s Implosion Abetted by Unionization of Public Employees
The State of Wisconsin is a microcosm of everything that's wrong in public education, including education policy at the federal and state levels,...
Normalizing the Surveillance Society
The District of Columbia, like other metropolitan areas, has been using traffic cameras to catch motorists who speed or run red lights. It...