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Dan Calabrese

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Climate scientist: New alarmist global warming report totally bastardizes the concept of 'risk'

The global warmists are at it again, as the always are because alarmism in the service of expanding government power is their stock and trade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (note that they all come from government) has just released a new "report" that is not really a report at all, but the latest round of wild-# guesses about what might happen as a result of global warming.
- Tuesday, April 1, 2014

5 rules for a happy life

If you know me at all, you know where I'll be today, so for the most part Rob will be taking the reins. (Although I wouldn't be surprised if he finds a way to show up at the game too. That's what you get on this particular day when you rely on two Detroiters for your material.)
- Monday, March 31, 2014

VIDEO: County commissioner, in defiance of federal judge's order, talks about Jesus

Apparently there is no freedom of speech, and no freedom to practice religion, when you are a county commissioner in Carroll County, Maryland. At least that's the set of rules federal judge William Quarles Jr. sought to impose in a ruling earlier this week. Judge Quarles, in response to a complaint from the American Humanist Association (of course) ordered commissioners not to offer any sectarian prayers that would mention Jesus or any other "specific deity". Commissioner Robin Frazier had other ideas:
- Saturday, March 29, 2014

Stephen Colbert in hot water for racist tweet

I guess Stephen Colbert figures that when your whole proposition is to satirize conservatives, you can pretty much get away with anything. Looks like that might not be true, although Comedy Central is now circling the wagons and trying to shield Colbert personally from responsibility for the tweet.
- Friday, March 28, 2014



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

Remember, the whole "climate change" debate is a canard and always has been. Big government types, both in Washington and around the globe, are hyping this hysteria as a way of justifying things they want to do anyway. Massive tax increases and controls on industry are not some emergency steps they propose to take in the face of an emergency. They are the fundamental core of left-wing thinking, and they can't make them happen without convincing people that we're all doomed without them.
- Thursday, March 27, 2014

Secret Service agents sent home from Amsterdam after getting blitzed

You know, even those of us who don't like the policies of a given administration can still take pride in the fact that certain arms of the government remain at all times committed to professionalism, duty, honor and dignity. Like the Secret Service, whose agents recognize that their call to the duty of protecting the president rises above partisanship, and requires of them a level of responsibility and commitment that sets them apart and earns them our trust and respect.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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

If you have a problem with the NSA being able to look at your phone records, I wonder if it really matters to you what the time horizon is for them to hang onto the records. I'm guessing not much, but in his big announcement that he's going to supposedly reform this system, that is what President Obama's big change really amounts to. The Washington Post:
- Tuesday, March 25, 2014


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

Go back to 2006, when things started getting especially difficult for U.S. forces in Iraq. It was an opportunity for insurgents, but more important to Democrats, it was an opportunity for Democrats. Their objective was not to secure the success of a democratic U.S. ally in Baghdad. It was to inflict political damage on George W. Bush, and they did so by portraying the 2003 invasion as illegal and the ensuing battle as a disaster.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2014

VIDEO: Jimmy Carter's pretty sure the government's spying on him

If the NSA is reading your e-mails to your buddies about where you're going to meet up and play pool tonight, I'd say that's pointless and a violation of your rights. If the NSA is reading Jimmy Carter's e-mails to pals like Nicolas Maduro and Mahmoud Abbas, I'd say this is what digital surveillance is all about, bunky.
- Monday, March 24, 2014

Newt: As soon as the campaign turns to substance, Hillary's toast

It seems beyond dispute that Newt's basic premise here is correct. Yes, a campaign focused on policy substance would sink Hillary so fast and so far she might be looking up at Michael Dukakis, if not Walter Mondale. There's more substance to a morning mist than there is to Hillary Clinton.
- Monday, March 24, 2014

Awesome: Romney lays the smack to Obama's foreign policy on Face the Nation

Watching this is bittersweet. Sweet because Romney absolutely pummels Obama's decision-making and primary assumptions in the areas of foreign policy, and in so doing he clearly shows that there is a right way to approach international relations that takes full advantage of America's influence, but that you need someone who actually recognizes and understands the use of that influence - and Obama ain't that guy.
- Monday, March 24, 2014


CNN's Don Lemon: Maybe a black hole sucked up that plane

We haven't covered the plane from Malaysia very much here, and honestly, the reason is that neither of us is enough of an expert on avionics to feel we can add much of value to what you see everywhere else in the news. The plane is gone. No one knows where it is. We're interested in the story but our insight is no better than the media who are already on top of it.
- Thursday, March 20, 2014

Suburban Detroit teacher contract gives hiring preference to non-Christians

Quite a find yesterday by Michigan Capitol Confidential, which is a publication of the free-market Mackinac Center for Public Policy. In Ferndale, Michigan, which is directly north of Detroit, the contract between the school district and the teachers union contains a clause that gives hiring preference to members of certain groups - mostly ethnic minorities. But the Ferndale school officials and their union have an interesting way of defining a minority, and if you're a Christian, you might want to look elsewhere for a teaching job:
- Thursday, March 20, 2014



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