March, 2014

Obamacare's Tough Day in Court

Individual mandate, ObamaCare
By Roger Aronoff - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Full Story

The Shape of a Post-American World

Russia and China have abandoned Communism. The United States is even abandoning nationalism; to say nothing of capitalism, democracy or freedom
By Daniel Greenfield - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Full Story

Zen, Galileo and Global Warming

Oxymorons and Settled Science
By Jim Yardley - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Full Story

New report from climate scientists: If global warming is real, it would actually be awesome

Remember when some of you thought it was cool to question authority? What happened to you?
By Dan Calabrese - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Full Story

Embarrassing: Obama speaks and the crowd goes wild. OK...one guy claps. Sort of.

It's tough when you can't stock the room with sycophants
By Robert Laurie - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Full Story

Nature Rarely Listens

Don’t think you can control nature
By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Full Story

China Exceeds U.S. as Largest Net Importer of Petroleum

China, oil, oil imports, shale oil, U.S. Oil Production
By Institute for Energy Research - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Small Oil Companies Eye Huge Prize in Ghana

While there is some safety in the diversification of the major oil companies, it's also harder for investors to get big returns on a hot new play like Ghana
By Guest Column James Burgess- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Exclusive: Under Arab pressure, UN set to reject vetted nominee, instead pick Indonesian with partisan record as next Palestine investigator

Diplomats say that Indonesia's former UN envoy is slated to become the next Human Rights Council monitor for Palestinian issues, but his objectivity is being questioned
By UN Watch - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

The White House is Defeating the U.S. Military

You can be sure that those nations unfriendly to our future are fully aware of what is happening
By Alan Caruba - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Happy Birthday Norman Borlaug

100th Birthday Of The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives
By Guest Column Dr. Benny Peiser- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Don't vote stupid: A name you recognize doesn't mean results you'll like

Manipulation
By Herman Cain - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

ObamaCare deadlines now rely on the 'honor system' - President officially a laughing stock

Utterly, utterly, pathetic.
By Robert Laurie - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Secret Service agents sent home from Amsterdam after getting blitzed

"One of the agents was found drunk and passed out in the hallway."
By Dan Calabrese - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Sebelius: New ObamaCare extension is not an extension - it's just an extension

Sebelius is adamant that there is no extension. Stop saying there is!
By Robert Laurie - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Israeli shoes put high-tech in your step

ISRAEL21c looks at two new made-in-Israel shoe technologies to help people avoid falls and regain proper gait after stroke and other injury.
By Guest Column Israel21c- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Health concerns swirl around electronic cigarettes

The battery-powered devices deliver an inhalable vapor, with or without nicotine
By American Chemical Society - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Improving explosives detectors for remote sensing: The beginning of the end of full-body scanners?

A computational tool and used it to successfully identify two explosives, RDX and TATP, with THz data directly
By American Chemical Society R. Kosloff, Ph.D.- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Beer marinade could reduce levels of potentially harmful substances in grilled meats

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
By American Chemical Society I.M.P.L.V.O. Ferreira, Ph.D.- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

An answer to the perennial question: Is it safe to pee in the pool?

More than 90 percent of the compound in pools comes from urine
By American Chemical Society Jing Li, Ph.D.- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Real-life CSI: What can investigators really tell from gunshot residue?

A novel approach to improve gunshot residue “fingerprinting” that can rapidly detect a wider range of particles than existing methods.
By American Chemical Society Igor K. Lednev, Ph.D.- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

David Cameron: Fracking Is Europe’s Top Agenda After Crimea ‘Wake-Up Call’

UK Prime Minister: Fracking Must Start By End Of Year
By Guest Column Dr. Benny Peiser- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Obama Administration: We Never Mean a Word We Say

The administration’s word means nothing, but officials expect the rest of America to operate on the honor system.
By Heritage Foundation Amy Payne- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

UN Double Standard on Iraq vs. Ukraine

Music to Putin’s ears as he contemplates further expansionist moves in blatant violation of the UN Charter
By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

The Plan for Police Nullification

As first responders, LEOs can also be first persecutors or first protectors. What they actually will be is up to us
By Selwyn Duke - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Full Story

Coal Fired Units Shutting Down Despite Lower Generating Prices

Coal, coal-fired electricity, electricity prices, EPA, MATS, Power Plants
By Institute for Energy Research - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Is Obama Stupid?

History hangs on questions of leadership and Obama has shown none, nor evidence of caring about the results of his failures
By Alan Caruba - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Judge Rules Justina Pelletier to Remain Ward of the State

“In all my years in practice, I have never seen a more barbaric overreach by a state agency
By Liberty Counsel - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Obama: OK, fine, we'll only keep your phone records for 18 months

Instead of 5 years. Change we can believe in?
By Dan Calabrese - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

All the best GOP campaign commercials contain the words 'castrating hogs'

Joni Ernst, you've made my day
By Robert Laurie - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Uh oh: Rumsfeld says 'a trained ape' could outperform Obama in Afghanistan

Here we go.
By Dan Calabrese - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

MSNBC: 'studies show' you're more likely to be abducted by a UFO than witness voter fraud

Let's test that theory!
By Robert Laurie - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Obama's ex-Russia envoy: I couldn't lecture Putin because of Iraq

The Russians are skillfully taking advantage of the rhetorical gift the Democrats have handed them
By Dan Calabrese - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Engineering the Emissions Target Depression

Is the Climate Change Authority engineering an emissions target depression to achieve its savage cuts, or is this just another mindless model-driven target?
By Viv Forbes - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Scientific Consensus Was Wrong IPCC Admits In Biofuels U-Turn

The Climate Change Debate Is About To Change Radically
By Guest Column Dr. Benny Peiser- Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Why Freedom Is Everyone's Business

ObamaCare’s trampling of religious freedom
By Heritage Foundation Kelsey Harris- Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Russia Looks East as Relations with Europe Deteriorate

The latest freeze in Russian-European relations is accelerating Russia's pivot towards China
By News on the Net Nicholas Cunningham- Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

West rejects justice in Egypt

Egypt’s El-Minya criminal court recommends death penalty for Muslim Brotherhood operatives; EU’s Ashton disapproves, State Dept. Marie Harff riled
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

G-7 Western leaders fighting Putin equal collective political wuss

The world awaits an end to Russian annexation of Ukraine and the talk-talk-talk of mealy-mouthed politicians in the G7 doesn’t cut it
By Judi McLeod - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story

Man’s inhumanity to man: Cannibalism in China

Man’s inhumanity to man is hard to fathom, especially when it is driven by blind ideological hatred in service to tyranny
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - Full Story