Alan Caruba

Beware of Experts

I don’t know about you, but I have reached a point where, if someone is introduced as an expert on anything, I am almost automatically skeptical. Our popular media is filled with experts on politics, investing, dieting, and every other topic.

The Chicago Tar Baby

The media is working overtime to put distance between President-elect Barack Obama and the festering dung heap of Chicago politics that has produced yet another Illinois Governor-Headed-To-Jail.

The Liar-elect and the Death of America

Let’s understand something fundamental to everyone’s life in America and the entire economy. We are not “addicted” to oil. Like all developed, modern nations we use oil as a valuable resource for transportation, as the basis of plastics, and for a thousand uses from asphalt to Vaseline. We are not “addicted” to oil because it is essential to modern civilization everywhere.

Obama: A Red Diaper Baby

Books have been written by and about Barack Obama, pro and con, and millions of words in the course of the campaign. Curiously, those who supported him the most, the far left, now feel “betrayed” by what is portrayed as his centrist or pragmatic choices for his cabinet and other administrative positions.

A Very Different Generation

They are called “Millennials” and, with the election of Barack Obama, have been dubbed “Generation O.” Born from 1980 to 2000, they are as different from their parents as previous generations were different from theirs.

Not So Rare Cold Weather

It’s December, the season of the year in which we in the northern hemisphere are accustomed to hearing about cold weather. It is, after all, winter.

Drowning in Green Garbage

We all have one or more of them in our lives. They are the family members, co-workers, or just neighbors who are so convinced that global warming is real and that everything including the choice of a Christmas tree has “environmental” consequences, that any effort to convince them otherwise is a waste of time.

Cheerful Remarks at the Funeral

I have been a member of the Society of Professional Journalists for more than twenty-five years. Not long ago they sent me a label pin to commemorate my devotion to the organization which has, I must admit, mostly consisted of paying my annual dues. I have long since lost my youthful enthusiasm for the profession, but not for writing.

Global Liars Gather in Poznan

As the usual gaggle of global liars gather in Poznan, Poland for yet another United Nations global warming conference, a virtual army of scientists from around the world is massing to refute the bogus science that underpins the global warming hoax. Here are just a few of the views being expressed:

The Christmas Kill-Joys

I would like to reserve a special place in Hell for those people who, every year, issue warnings about “toxic toys” and thus add to every parent’s concerns additional worries about anything and everything they purchase for their children.

The Cult of Obama

David Limbaugh, a widely read conservative columnist, recently wrote about the “Obama cult factor” and what it portends. From my point of view, however, it is one thing to rise to the highest office as the apotheosis of hope and change, and quite another to deal with nasty reality.

Put Me in Charge of the Auto Companies!

Assuming the Detroit auto manufacturers will get their multi-billion dollar bailout, the question arises whether the men in charge of General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford should continue to run these companies or whether some elaborate government system of oversight and direction should be imposed.

How Obama and the Democrats will Destroy the U.S. Economy

When I heard President-elect Obama speak casually of “bankrupting” the coal industry because of its role as a source of greenhouse gas emissions, I knew that he would become a serious threat to the economy of the nation.

Living in a Funhouse Run by Morons

It is hard not to believe that the United States is being run by people who have no idea regarding science, economics, or history. CAFE Standards, ethanol,

A Date that will live in Infamy

December 7, 1941, “A date that will live infamy” is a fading memory for those alive at the time and most certainly for those born since that day. For most Americans I suspect it is just a date they may have read about in a high school history book or seen dramatized in documentaries or films.

Pakistan as a Perennial Problem

Pakistan is another way of spelling T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Just ask anyone living in Mumbai or anywhere else in India, Kashmir, or neighboring nations.

Why Congress Will Make Things Worse

Does it strike anyone as odd that the Detroit auto manufacturers and the governors of a number of States, along with every other lobbyist in Washington keep looking to Congress to “fix” the problem of the nation’s economy when Congress is the reason it is teetering on disaster?

Why Aren’t US Mosques Burning?

Here’s a question worth asking. Why didn’t 9/11 initiate a nationwide retaliation against the many mosques in America? Why were America’s Muslims relatively free of widespread individual acts of retaliation?

Improbable Events

On December 1, President-elect Barack Obama will announce his diplomatic and national security team.

The Relentless Greening of America

The late comedian, George Carlin, did a riff on environmentalists in which he castigated them and everyone else who thinks humans should or can “save the planet.” He reminded the audience that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, that 95% of all the species that ever lived are extinct, and that the Industrial Revolution is barely two hundred years old. The notion that, somehow, humans are destroying planet Earth is absurd.