Here are some recent news headlines: "Teen Pregnancy Surges" … "Rise in teen pregnancy"... "Teen pregnancy, abortion rates rise"... A “surge”? That sounds pretty bad... continue reading »

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The Center for Consumer Freedom never fails to inform with its bitingly funny ads that call out the bureaucrats and busybodies who would restrict our freedom of choice. “Attack of the Food Police” and “Trial Lawyer” poke fun at activists who meddle in Americans’ lives.

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"Atomic scientists move Doomsday Clock one minute further away from midnight" (continue reading »

Did you hear about the tsunami headed for San Diego? Neither have I. But there must be one coming because local governments have already spent $75,000 and are looking for another $150,000 so they can be designated "TsunamiReady" by the National Weather Service... continue reading »

Page W3 in this weekend's Wall Street Journal carries two excellent articles that put the risk of terrorism into perspective. University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos writes the first:

The world's greatest nation seems bent on subjecting itself to ... humiliating defeat, by playing a game that could be called Terrorball. The first two rules of Terrorball are:... continue reading »

Immediately after US Army major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim, was accused of murdering 14 people at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, the media warned of the backlash soon to be felt by Muslim Americans... continue reading »

Don Surber reminds us that in 1974, Time magazine helped hype Comet Kohoutek, which was headed to Earth for the first time in 150,000 years... continue reading »

I’ll be on O’Reilly tonight to talk about the recent Climategate e-mails. How bad are they? They show that scientists at Britain’s Climate Research Unit – which the UN IPCC relies on for temperature data – tried silence dissent. From the Washington Post:

In one e-mail, the center’s director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University’s Michael E... continue reading »