Cops blast Obama tapping cop killer’s lawyer for DOJ civil rights chief

America's largest police organization, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), sent a letter to President Barack Obama for nominating an attorney with a questionable background to become the head of an important Justice Department post, an "Inside the Beltway" watchdog group reported on Tuesday.

The Very Green Keystone Pipeline Delay

Stopping the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from carrying Canadian oil, a major trading partner and ally of the United States, is just part of a much larger environmental agenda aimed at preventing access to this energy source, but it is larger in scope; stopping or slowing the development of America’s huge reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas.

Reality vs. EPA’s Carbon Capture Dreams

The EPA published this week a rule in the Federal Register that will essentially ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants. This creates a carbon dioxide emission standard that is impossible for a coal-fired power plant to meet without technology known as carbon capture and storage (CCS) attached to the plant. EPA claims that CCS is “adequately demonstrated” as is required by federal law, but this is not true.

March For Life Chicago: Proclaiming Sanctity of Human Life and Marking Roe v. Wade Anniversary

CHICAGO, -- On Sunday, January 19, 2014, pro-life groups from all over Chicagoland will come together to proclaim the sanctity of human life and mark the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States.

End Taxpayer Funded Tourism Promotion

Governments everywhere promote tourism as though tourist attraction was a fundamental role of government. Wyoming's state government is no exception.

Referendum Overturning Co-ed Bathroom Law Advances to a Full Check of Signatures

SACRAMENTO, Calif., -- The coalition working to qualify a referendum to the ballot that would overturn a law forcing boys and girls in California's public schools to share school bathrooms, showers and locker rooms said it was pleased that the State has ordered a full check of signatures submitted based on results of random samples from the 58 counties.

Water is the Weather Wildcard

The climatists claim that atmospheric carbon dioxide drives global warming. But the past seventeen years of rising CO2 without rising global temperatures shows this is untrue.

Fresh off $4 Million, 17-Day Vacation, The One Preaches Income Inequality!

Taking utmost care to faithfully execute the First Holy Commandment of the Progressive movement, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” Barack Obama has unveiled his latest political ploy for survival, this time involving a hasty pivot from the hauntingly ugly news about ObamaCare to the urgent need for a new government program for fending off the imminent destruction of the American Dream and the middle class by virtue of the growing divide between the haves (White Republicans) and the have nots(People of color Democrats).

Obama will get that budget to you ...eventually. Sometime. It's in the mail.

By law, the President must submit his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year by the first Monday in February. Barack Obama doesn't care. You'll get his budget when he decides to give it to you. That attitude has so far resulted in four blown deadlines. According to Congressional Quarterly, he's about to make it five.

Devil worshippers unveil statue of Satan intended for Oklahoma State Capitol

You may recall that, last month, Dan ran a piece about a group of Satan worshippers who want to build a statue of the devil outside the Oklahoma State Capitol. They announced that it would be about seven feet high and would include an interactive display designed for children. Apparently they - along with the ACLU - are outraged that a statue of the Ten Commandments was erected in 2012, and this is the Satanists oh-so-clever way of making the counter point.

Ex-Defense Secretary Gates: Obama didn't believe his own strategy

Conservatives are pretty excited today about news that a new book by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates essentially throws President Obama under the bus - particularly with respect to Afghanistan, where Gates believes Obama really didn't believe his own surge had a chance of working and really just wanted to get out because he didn't believe the war was "his". It is, after all, all about him.

Toyota Auris Hybrid Tourer road test

Hybrids are all very well but they’re generally smaller than traditional cars and therefore less user-friendly.

Art news: Success of British artist

Not many artists can claim to sell work to the British Royal family. Even fewer have sold more than one piece.

The Wolf’s Lair revisited

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates levels harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war in a new “tell-all” book; “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” based on his personal experience of sufferance under Obama’s administration. Gates concluded by early 2010 the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”

Israeli kids donate warm clothes to Syrian refugees

Pounds and pounds of sweaters, coats, blankets and other warming winter gear are on their way to Syrian refugees from a surprising source: a multi-ethnic Israeli high school located on a military base in the north, not far from the Syrian border.

Top chemical advances and more from the year 2013

From stretchy electronics to Martian chemistry, the most notable advances in the chemical world in 2013 appear in the year-in-review issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society. The issue also provides a look back at the business of chemistry and the politics affecting it, as well as an update on discoveries that a decade ago promised great things.

New way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria: Target human cells instead

As more reports appear of a grim “post-antibiotic era” ushered in by the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, a new strategy for fighting infection is emerging that targets a patient’s cells rather than those of the invading pathogens. The technique interferes with the way that the pathogens take over a patient’s cells to cause infection. This approach, published in the journal ACS Chemical Biology, could help address the world’s growing problem of antibiotic-resistant “super bugs.”

Green space can make people happier for years

Nearly 10 years after the term “nature deficit disorder” entered the nation’s vocabulary, research is showing for the first time that green space does appear to improve mental health in a sustained way. The report, which appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology, gives urban park advocates another argument in support of their cause.

Metal ink could ease the way toward flexible electronic books, displays

Scientists are reporting the development of a novel metal ink made of small sheets of copper that can be used to write a functioning, flexible electric circuit on regular printer paper. Their report on the conductive ink, which could pave the way for a wide range of new bendable gadgets, such as electronic books that look and feel more like traditional paperbacks, appears in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Laundering money — literally — could save billions of dollars

A dollar bill gets around, passing from hand to hand, falling on streets and sidewalks, eventually getting so grimy that a bank machine flags it and sends it to the shredder. Rather than destroying it, scientists have developed a new way to clean paper money to prolong its life. The research, which appears in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, could save billions and minimize the environmental impact of banknote disposal.