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Alan Caruba

Editor's Note: Alan passed away on June 15, 2015. He will be greatly missed

Alan Caruba: A candle that goes on flickering in the dark.

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Congress Conjures Up an Energy Deficit

Let’s understand a simple fact. You cannot squeeze any more energy out of a gallon of gasoline than already exists. If you mix it with an additive which itself provides less energy, what you get is less energy.
- Monday, January 14, 2008

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble

I never fail to be amazed by all the problems there are in the world and the fact that we now learn about them instantly, no matter that they are occurring on the other side of the planet.
- Sunday, January 13, 2008

Prelude to a Palestinian Bloodbath

One of the most astonishing aspects of President Bush’s visit to Israel is the demand for a Palestinian “State.” Such a state exists. It is called Jordan.
- Friday, January 11, 2008

Official Apologies as Empty Gestures

The front page of the Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest circulation daily, had a story on January 8, “Jewish Cemetery Vandalized.” In its New Jersey news section inside the paper, among the “Action in Trenton” roundup, was a short item, “Apology for slavery sails through legislature.”
- Wednesday, January 9, 2008


At War with Mexico

It’s an issue that will dominate the elections in 2008. It is illegal immigration, but there was scarce attention paid during the debates leading up to the Iowa caucuses. The candidate that promises to put a stop to it will be the candidate that wins. The party that temporizes will be the party that fails.
- Monday, January 7, 2008

Real Murderers Cry A Lot

I don’t watch television like other people do. When you spend your days writing, your mind needs to relax to a point where it is not processing a lot of information.
- Sunday, January 6, 2008

Too Ignorant, Too Greedy, Too Partisan

Just as a democracy must fear leaders who might threaten our freedoms, we must also fear leaders who are so stupid or indifferent to the facts that it inflicts economic and other harmful effects on our lives.
- Thursday, January 3, 2008


News By and For Idiots

One of the great pleasures of life used to be reading the Sunday edition of newspapers, crammed with all kinds of information in thick sections subsidized by advertising. Well, newspaper circulation and advertising revenue has been falling fairly steadily and my guess is because (1) advertisers count heads and (2) the quality of the news being offered is so dreadful.
- Monday, December 31, 2007

The Challenge of 2008 and Beyond

The beginning of a new year is a good time to consider the many things that differentiate this new century from the last.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007


Terrorists? Not Us Say Muslims

In lieu of the assassination of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, it is necessary once again for those in the West to gain some insight into the culture of Islam and, in particular, of the Middle East. What can be easily observed is the abject refusal to take any responsibility for anything done in the name of Islam.
- Thursday, December 27, 2007

Stepping Back from the Precipice

The end of a year, any year, is a good time to give some consideration to the reason we have arrived at a particular state of affairs and whether a new direction is required.
- Monday, December 24, 2007


Global Warming Lies Create a Climate of Crisis

The United Nations conference in Bali, attended by some 10,000 participants and observers, is likely to make future generations conclude that ours was deranged to be discussing how humans could have any affect whatever on the climate. They will, in retrospect, agree that the global warming theory was a lie whose agenda was to # anything that might extend and enhance life on earth.
- Monday, December 10, 2007

America’s Standing in the World

I am already quite sick of hearing Democrat candidates say that we have to “improve America’s standing in the world” as if the whole world holds our nation in contempt or disagrees with our actions.
- Monday, December 3, 2007

Never Learning from the Past

The libraries of the world are filled with books devoted to history and new ones are published on any almost daily basis, but if their lessons are ignored, it condemns nations and the peoples of the world to horrors that increase with the evolving technology of death.
- Monday, November 26, 2007

Loons and Bears Versus Eskimos and Oil

"A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service" noted a May 29, 2007 Associated Press article. "Conservationists hope an eventual listing of the yellow-billed loon will curb petroleum development in the 23-million acre reserve that covers much of Alaska's North Slope."
- Monday, November 19, 2007

Kansas Rules Against Electricity

I wonder if the folks at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment think that electricity is made by fairies who live in the garden or that an army of elves produce it?
- Monday, November 12, 2007

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