Add this to the myth list

I fear that yet too many people out there assume that because something is "legal" it is good, safe and in the best interests of the public. Legality is not nor ever has been necessarily equal to good.

Go further! Get the federal government out of the road business altogether

OAKLAND, California—There are good reasons for financing roads through tolls instead of federal fuel taxes, but there is no case for the federal government to collect such tolls. This just adds to the overall cost and places planning and management decisions--regarding expansion, maintenance and replacement--in the hands of remote federal bureaucrats with little or no first-hand knowledge of—or interest in—local needs and conditions.

Ford Fusion hybrid wears its green colors proudly - and well

It may look like a James Bond-mobile when you first see it coming at you on the road, but don't confuse Ford's Fusion with high end sports cars. Fusion, in all of its guises, is a decidedly mainstream vehicle - almost pedestrian, if you can say that about a car.

Tablift makes tablets standup and be noticed - while Belkin and Nomad do their bit for flexibility

Three products designed to make life with your i or Android device even more rewarding than usual offer solutions to very different problems. But do they all pull it off well?

Cash for Clunkers was a Clunker

The Cash for Clunkers program, formally known as the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Act, was a nationwide vehicle scrappage program. Signed into law on June 24, 2009, the program incentivized households to replace used, fuel inefficient vehicles with new, fuel efficient vehicles. Specifically, the program offered consumers a rebate of $3,500 or $4,500 towards the purchase of a new fuel efficient car provided they scrapped a used vehicle. Transactions became eligible for rebates on July 1, 2009 and ended on August 24, 2009. Over the eight weeks of the program, Congress allocated a total of $3 billion toward the subsidies. More than 677,000 vehicles were purchased under the program. (1)

New Technology Could End The Debate Over Pipeline Safety

Who could have ever imagined that North America would surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids? A decade ago, that would have seemed laughable. Yet that’s exactly what has happened; and it’s not just Saudi Arabia that has been left in North America’s dust -- Russia has, too.

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev's sister arrested for making bomb threat

Yesterday, in New York, the sister of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev was arrested for allegedly threatening to blow someone up in what appears to be some kind of weird love triangle situation. You will, of course, remember the Tsarnaevs as the infamous terrorist duo behind the Boston Marathon bombing, which took place back in April of 2013.

Psycho S.O.Bs

Beaurat Obama has NO spine for facing the threats the world is suffering because of and in the presence of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) or ISIL (The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) the fundamentalist Islamist whacko unit. These are some Psycho S.O.Bs.

The Holocaust what would I have done

Eleven Reasons Why ISIS Might Be More Dangerous Than al-Qaeda

ISIS is not just the terror group de jour. They are a hugely successful movement with an apocalyptic, nihilistic philosophy. When they say “convert, join us, or die”, they not only mean it, but they follow through with horrific effect.

Fear Of Russia Pushes Europe Back To Coal

Germany will continue to need coal-fired power plants, its energy regulator said, warning that Europe's biggest economy should not rely solely on renewables or risk increasing exposure to Russian gas as it shuts down nuclear plants. "Those who call for an end of coal power generation don't have much interest in a reliable energy policy," Jochen Homann, president of the Federal Network Agency, or BnetzA, told an energy industry conference Wednesday. "We will close further nuclear plants; these capacities need to be replaced," he said, adding that coal power was vital to achieve this. --Reuters, 27 August 2014

Stealth Pension Bailouts Costing Taxpayers a Fortune

TORONTO, ON: With Labour Day just around the corner, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released new numbers today on “stealth bailouts” for government employee pension plans.

Disarming the U.S. on the "Information Battlefield"

Paul Goble, a specialist on international broadcasting and the propaganda war being waged over Ukraine, writes that "...as effective as [Vladimir] Putin's disinformation campaign has been inside Russia, it has been even more successful beyond that country's borders." One problem, he says, is that the Western media treat Putin's lies as just another point of view.

Canada’s labour relations laws restrict worker choice, discourage investment and job growth

VANCOUVER—As Labour Day approaches, Canada’s biased labour relations laws are failing workers, restricting their choices, and potentially stunting job growth and investment, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

Getting graffiti off a masterpiece (video)

The Canadian Rangers and Arctic Climate Change

According to an article by Dean Beeby of the Canadian Press, "Arctic rangers want better equipment to deal with climate change." The Canadian Press used the Access to Information Act to obtain a report from the Canadian Forces which apparently detailed concerns the Rangers -- "largely aboriginal reservists who patrol the North" -- have regarding the Arctic's changing climate.

America, Our Debt-Ridden Nation

Let’s look at just some of the latest news about the U.S. economy: # According to the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Services, the federal government paid $2,007,358,200,000—over $2 trillion—in benefits and entitlements in the 2013 fiscal year, October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013. Most of the benefits, 69.7% came from non-means tested government programs that provide them to recipients who qualify regardless of income. That would include Medicare, Social Security, unemployment compensation, veteran’s compensation, and railroad retirement, to name a few.

A President's Global Warming Treaty Tyranny

In yet another demonstration of contempt for the Constitution, President Obama and his administration are pursuing what the New York Times characterizes as a "sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions"--absent any input from Congress.

Ferguson's Media Problem

If there's a problem in America or anywhere in the world, inflicting the media on it can only make it worse. By some accounts there are more reporters in Ferguson than there are protesters. That may be why the protesters ran for cover behind the media after throwing bottles of urine at the police.

Which senator told Kirsten Gillibrand: 'Don't lose too much weight now; I like my girls chubby'?

I have to admit I feel a tinge of skepticism about the whole story, but only a tinge. Kirsten Gillibrand has never struck me as the type of politician who would make up complete crap just so she could paint herself as a victim, and the way she's telling the story seems to imply that these idiotic comments came mainly from other Democrats - older, um, "gentlemen" who are a little too used to doing things the Old Boys' way.