Pages

▼
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Defining the Class of 2017

›
The Beloit College Mindset List describes the class of 2017 as the "sharing generation." Here's why: They share information :...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Why Should He Care?

›
Atheist blogger P.Z. Myers says he's been handed a hand grenade with a pulled pin. A major figure in the atheist community has been acc...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Back from Panama

›
I've just returned from a week spent trekking through the forests and meadows of Panama in pursuit of tropical species of birds. Panama ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Notice

›
Dick Cleary is out of the country for the week of August 12 and may not have access to the internet. If that's the case, there won't...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Why He Uses a Teleprompter

›
The Blaze has a link to a video of some of the President's more memorable moments where his mind, or his education, simply failed him. ...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Politicians Say the Darnedest Things

›
Kirstin Powers at the Daily Beast illustrates for us the fact that so many pro-choicers base their advocacy for the right to terminate the ...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Geographically Challenged

›
Perhaps Mr. Obama went AWOL from his high school geography classes to go "chooming" with his fellow stoners, but, whatever the rea...

Profiled

›
I walk for exercise and over the last couple of weeks my peregrinations have taken me through neighborhoods other than my own. In some of th...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Who Can They Blame?

›
The unemployment numbers for July recently came out and - good news! - unemployment dropped to 7.4%, lower than expected (at least until it...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Innis v. Rangel

›
Congressman Charlie Rangel has no qualms about concocting libelous falsehoods about people he knows nothing about. He recently undertook to ...
Monday, August 5, 2013

The Nature of the Threat

›
Debkafile claims to have information on the nature of the threat that has caused the U.S. to close its embassies throughout the Middle East...

IRS Says "No Thanks" to Obamacare

›
IRS chief Danny Werfel last week testified to congress that IRS employees would rather not switch to Obamacare, thank you. The IRS, mind you...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Lenin with a Charming Smile

›
This story from Breitbart should come as no surprise. When the administration in Washington does everything it can to discourage employers ...
Friday, August 2, 2013

The Third Way

›
A friend has on occasion stated wistfully that he wishes there were a tertium quid or third way between liberalism and conservatism. I unde...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Conversation on the Conversation

›
We see that the Democrats are calling , again, for a national conversation on race. That's understandable given that a conversation on a...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Eight Baffling Questions About Your Brain

›
George Dvorsky at io9 discusses eight things about the brain that we have no idea how to explain. Here are the eight with a sentence or two...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Fourth Trimester Abortion

›
This would be funny were it not for what it says about how uncritical and thoughtless are some of those who are allegedly among our best and...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Real Heroes

›
It's often lamented that our culture makes heroes out of people who aren't and fails to make heroes out of people who are. I recent...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

God and Quantum Physics

›
One of the fascinating developments of the last two decades is how much work in both philosophy and science points to the existence of a tra...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Mr. Holder's Gun Policy and Other Scandals

›
Attorney General Eric Holder still refuses to return George Zimmerman's weapon even though Zimmerman has been found innocent of all cha...