Carbon dioxide continues to increase in the atmosphere, but the rate of warming is a trickle. That doesn’t meet with scientific expectations! What’s the holdup in the meltdown? Pollution! From the story:Global warming has slowed in the last decade, according to the Met . . . . Continue Reading »
A Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, who writes from the relatively conservative side of the street (she writes in Canada, after all), declares the death of global warming hysteria and urges environmentalists to save their movement—of which she is a part as a director of the anti nuke . . . . Continue Reading »
A free Southern Sudan will be bad news for Darfur , according to Foreign Policy . Someday Israel will have to say “no” to the United States and make an alliance with India, according to an Israeli academic and lawyer. Iraqi Christians are still fleeing the country , as Islamic . . . . Continue Reading »
1. April 11 1954: Most boring day of 20th century Researchers claim they have ‘officially’ discovered the most boring day of the 20th century . . . April 11 1954. A team of Cambridge scientists say the day was devoid of any major news events or even the birth or death of any famous . . . . Continue Reading »
Medicare is in deep trouble because it is a single payer health care system that seeks to cut costs by, among other ways, restricting physician and facility compensation. As a consequence, we are seeing the ongoing collapse of the system as doctors restrict their patient load and cease providing . . . . Continue Reading »
We live in a strange era in which Jefferson’s “right to life” supposedly has a concomitant “right to death.” At least, that will be the case if the European Court of Human Rights rules that Germany violated the right of a woman with disabilities to obtain a lethal . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Silk notes that a Christian counseling center that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann co-owns with her husband receives a bit of funding from the Minnesota state government and questions whether she’s in any position to object (as she has) to potential public funding for the . . . . Continue Reading »
In her new book, Sarah Palin claims that most people who teach at universities “don’t share the religious faith of their fellow Americans.” A blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education unearths evidence that he believes proves she’s wrong. According to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanksgiving is America’s great feast day, and one of its to two most important national holidays—the other being Independence Day (July 4). Even though we have an international audience, I have so much for which to be thankful, that I honor our feast day here at SHS each year be . . . . Continue Reading »
Great news. During my July sojourn Down Under, my sponsors made a point of taking me to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, where I spoke in the Old Parliament Building. My allies were very worried about the prospects for the then pending euthanasia legalization bill, and my appearance was . . . . Continue Reading »
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