Fish stories abound in politics. Office holders and those who aspire to make their living off wealth redistribution and legal extortion have a perverse knack for lying in order to make things seem better or nobler than they are. As a result, we’ve been treated to fictitious tales of heroic Hillary Clinton welcomed to Bosnia by sniper fire, and blue collar Joe Biden claiming his family struggles…
Sometimes politicians are so mind-bogglingly elitist, they attempt such breathtakingly courageous feats of hubris that one wonders if they’re engaging in new forms of ironic performance art. As if glimpsing a shooting star at dusk, we are, for a fleeting, glittering, gleaming moment, presented with the bizarre possibility that these blowhards are actually ingenious saboteurs, attempting to…
On January 1, 2017, courageous Georgia Tech Climatologist Judith Curry resigned from her tenured position at the university, offering as her main reason her growing frustration with the politicized reward system now endemic in college science generally, and in climate science, specifically.
To quote Dr. Curry:
"A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs…
On January 3, 2017, the first day of the 115th Congress, North Carolina Republican Representative Richard Hudson introduced a bill that would lend a stamp of federal approval to state-to-state recognition of concealed carry handgun licenses and reciprocity for all “constitutional carry” states (where a gun permit is not required).
The bill should not be necessary.
Kudos to Congressman Hudson…
There’s nothing quite like opening a new year with political lies on a so-called “news” network that, only twelve hours earlier, saw one of its bubble-gum hosts get embarrassingly drunk and have his ear pierced live on the air. But to help folks ring in 2017, White House Advisor and top Obama policy wonk, Valerie Jarrett, appeared Sunday on CNN’s silly “Fareed Zakaria, GPS” to offer what…
By a vote of 92-7, with one not voting, the United States Senate on December 8 passed the annual -- and notoriously anti-freedom -- National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which contained one of the most stunning attacks on free speech ever written into US law. The bill that the NDAA assimilated is called the “Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill,” and would shell out over $160 million in…
It’s gift-giving time, that time when people of various religious faiths think about buying something entertaining, meaningful or both for their friends and loved ones. So, in the spirit of the “season,” let’s suggest a book that will read like the most absurd fantasy ever published.
Sadly, this one is non-fiction, and it comes to us from the office of US Senator James Lankford, (R- Okla.),…
The government has to work very hard to protect us from ourselves, and one of the most important areas where we troglodytes just don’t get it is the “settled science” that industrial generated gasses are causing Earth to warm at a rate the planet has never seen and cannot handle.
Our federal overlords know that we're too thuggish to realize that global “climate change” is attributable to human…
There’s something almost sweetly reassuring in the predictability of collectivist hypocrisy. Leftists advocates of so-called “women’s rights” (as opposed to just “rights,” which should pretty much cover everyone) tell us that all women who claim they have been mistreated by men should be believed, yet many supported Hillary Clinton, who has a pretty bad personal record of disregarding abused…
In the climax of the classic musical film “The Wizard of Oz,” (spoilers!) Dorothy throws water on the Wicked Witch of the West, and “liquidates” her, inspiring the witch’s tough-looking servants and guards to sing, “Ding-Dong, The Witch Is Dead.”
There won’t be public songs of joy in Cuba about the death of Papa Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, aka Fidel Castro, who passed away on Friday night,…
