February, 2013

CIBC provides startling commentary on pensions

Last year Canadians contributed $31 billion into public sector pension plans, $34 B into RRSP’s and another $37 Billion into the CPP plan.
By Bill Tufts - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

EVIDENCE that a bird society traded its approval of a windfarm project for money

"This is the start of Nabu in the protection money industry,"
By Guest Column Mark Duchamp- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Germany’s ‘Green Revolution’ May Cost Taxpayers 1 Trillion Euros

First European Government Forced To Resign Over Rising Energy Prices
By Guest Column Dr. Benny Peiser- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

The nose that can smell cancer goes commercial

Israeli professor’s revolutionary disease-detection device is on the road to changing how early, and how easily, lung cancer is diagnosed.
By Guest Column Israel21c- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Obama’s absurd song and dance on the horrors of spending cuts

How does anyone take this man seriously?
By Dan Calabrese - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Using millions of gigs of data to improve human health

Biomedical researchers are beginning to tap into a gold mine of nontraditional sources of data to unravel some of the complexities of human diseases
By American Chemical Society - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Spent coffee grounds are a rich source of healthful antioxidants

People around the world drink millions of cups of coffee every day, generating about 20 million tons of used grounds annually.
By American Chemical Society Maria-Paz de Peña, Ph.D.- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

A self-healing protective coating for concrete

Microcapsules loaded with a material that seals cracks
By American Chemical Society Chan-Moon Chung, Ph.D.- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Six in 10 people worldwide lack access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation

A more realistic definition from the standpoint of global health
By American Chemical Society Jamie Bartram, Ph.D.- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Ancient “Egyptian blue” pigment points to new telecommunications, security ink technolog

New nanomaterials with potential uses in state-of-the-art medical imaging devices
By American Chemical Society Tina T. Salguero, Ph.D.- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Top 3 Reasons Chuck Hagel Is Wrong for Secretary of Defense

He embraces dangerously naïve policies such as “nuclear zero,”
By Heritage Foundation Amy Payne- Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Wrestling with the I.O.C: a shortsighted, tragic decision

International Olympic Committee’s recent decision to drop wrestling as an Olympic sport
By Greg Halvorson - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Who Needs the Family?

Governments have come to serve as undying guardians of human society, ushering new life into the world and ushering old life out of it
By Daniel Greenfield - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Will the Media Save the Hagel Nomination?

David Gregory was just doing his job, which is, as part of the NBC team, to deflect any accusations that might be damaging to President Obama’s reputation or agenda
By Roger Aronoff - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Orszag in LaLaLand

Former Obama economic guru, Peter Orszag
By Klaus Rohrich - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Take the Power Back

Bully "Educrats", Radical liberal agenda aimed at your kids
By News on the Net - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Meet Iran’s Ambassador to the UN

Mohammad Khazaee
By Claudia Rosett - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Full Story

Witness to the Decline

We are witnessing an expansion of ignorance and of apathy
By Alan Caruba - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

ICYMI: Government Hubris Leads to Unnecessary Regulations

How big government and heavy-handed regulations harm Americans
By Institute for Energy Research - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Joe Salazar: Rape victims shouldn’t have guns, because women may be overcome with paranoia

CO lawmaker thinks whistles and "safe zones" are more than suffici
By Robert Laurie - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Media finally discovers problem with Obama: They can’t follow him while he plays golf

They grumble about this but it did not stop them from enthusiastically cheerleading for his re-election
By Dan Calabrese - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Pelosi: Congressional pay cut would undermine the ‘dignity’ of the job

Pelosi...dignity....Pelosi....dignity...there's a joke here somewhere
By Robert Laurie - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

B.C.‘s Balanced Budget 2013: A Hat Trick of Tax Hikes

Three tax hikes undermine good news of a balanced budget - MSP, personal and corporate income tax
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Jordan Bateman- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Chemistry of Yore and Now

Allotropes, graphene, Neanderthals, carbon
By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Obama and his Sequestration

For it, against it, I could change my mind again
By By Dag Barkley, CFP's Resident Cartoonist - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Identifying Flaws and Faults in Wine

Life is too short to drink bad wine
By David White - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Love is Finally Dead in America, but Does Anyone Care?

The Death of Love Has Debased America's Greatness
By Kelly O'Connell - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

No upside down flag needed to identify America as a country in distress

When are media scribes going to start telling the unvarnished truth: that It is not Obama’s endless vacations that have been rare, but his very presidency
By Judi McLeod - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Spending Cuts Are Happening, One Way or Another

Sequestration leaves many programs like Social Security, welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid untouched, while having devastating effects on national security
By Heritage Foundation Amy Payne- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

How Alberta Came to the Cliff of Debt and Tax Hikes

The same over-spending and over-reliance on unreliable non-renewable resource revenues plague the Alberta government today.
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation Derek Fildebrandt- Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

NPR Downplays Chicago Priest’s Extreme, Left-Wing Activism

Father Pflager
By Warner Todd Huston - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Democrats Want Background Checks… Except When They Don’t

If background checks violate a person’s civil liberties in order to gain employment, then background checks also violate a person’s civil liberties in order to enjoy their Constitutional rights.
By Warner Todd Huston - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Canada’s about had it with the media’s Keystone XL nonsense

Frustrated with the media for treating the issue as if it’s a choice between building the pipeline and doing something about global warming
By Herman Cain - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

MSM considers covering Obama on the golf links as hardline news but not snoozing through Benghazi

While media lapdogs were tripping over each other’s furiously wagging puppy tails to cover Obama on the golf links, the world continued to implode around them
By Judi McLeod - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Sequester Hysteria

Economic Armageddon: We are "cutting" our way to adding another $7 trillion of debt to the $16-plus trillion we have already amassed
By Arnold Ahlert - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Saving 1 Billion People From Themselves

The West and the Muslim World
By Daniel Greenfield - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Full Story

Questions We’re Often Asked

Basics of Fertilizer Indoors
By Wes Porter - Monday, February 18, 2013 - Full Story

American sheriffs unite to defy Obama’s gun grabbing laws

"As a County Sheriff you can serve only one master."
By Jim Kouri - Monday, February 18, 2013 - Full Story

Obama the Emperor

With the right motivation...
By By Dag Barkley, CFP's Resident Cartoonist - Monday, February 18, 2013 - Full Story

Western Flicks and the Academy Awards: The Values We Live and Die By

Time alone will tell if we can ever regain that intrepid, indomitable, heroic spirit that conquered the Wild West and has become the stuff of legends.
By John W. Whitehead - Monday, February 18, 2013 - Full Story