The Obama administration is currently embroiled in three big scandals that have nothing to do with science – the vast, right wing conspiracy that said they edited out references to terrorism in the Benghazi murders by Muslim extremists turned out to be true, they had the IRS targeting conservative groups for special attention and they have been tapping the phones of Associated Press...
read moreWhen the Hostess company, which made Twinkies – that terrible confection and butt of jokes no one ate until they became a political hot button issue – went bankrupt in November of last year, the blame fell along predictable lines. The union blamed the incompetence of management while management blamed union costs. You’ve heard this all before. We used to have steel in America...
read moreThe EPA under administrator Lisa Jackson has been exceptionally heavy-handed and secret email accounts have the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation wondering what it means for transparency. The administration has a real issue with transparency; yesterday I discussed the closure of Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste storage and...
read moreAnti-science progressives have no problem invoking a little fear in the heart of the public – sure, conservatives do the same thing, but their scare tactics revolve around money and crime. Progressives claim voting for Republicans will kill you. Historically, it works. Rachel Carson is famous today despite writing a book that was written to get DDT banned in order to make her fellow...
read moreMassachusetts environmentalists are celebrating approval of designated “no-discharge” areas which bans boat sewage along nearly the entire coast of the state. Seriously, they should. Everyone knows if you pass a law against something, it disappears. This is why obesity will disappear in New York City once they make Big Gulps illegal. In those areas the [...]
read moreProgressive wonderland San Francisco, the American leader in social authoritarianism, has already gone after Happy Meals, golf, goldfish, plastic bags and just about everything else. Now they want to control your water bottles. Remember when hippies used to be for more freedom? They wanted less rules, like in that “Signs” song by Five Man Electrical Band song. No YouTube video...
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