Collecting My Thoughts

"The Earth has recently been warming. This is beyond doubt. It has warmed slowly and erratically for a total of about 0.8 degrees C s...

Wendy Williams of Massachusetts writes in the Wall Street Journal My husband retired from IBM about a decade ago, and as we aren't old e...

We've known for half a century or more that our biggest health problems are self induced--misused sexuality, legal drugs we take volunta...

First, and most importantly, it's another stage for our President who holds the record for a president spending the most time outside th...

Maybe I'll just put a bow on the new Town and Country minivan we bought 3 weeks ago. We've started (a bit late) researching a 32...

Only now it's his absence! E.J. Dionne Jr. just can't accept the fact that the health bill is just down and dirty awful. Now it...

In 1958 I tranferred from Manchester College in Indiana to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana to study Russian and Spanish. It ...

That's a loose translation of Chavez' speech. From the Australian: "Then President Chavez brought the house down. When he said ...

Time Magazine's missed opportunity--photo of the fed up American patriot in Washington DC. If you’re tired of bad news, I’ll give you so...

It's waiting for pick-up after I do my mail-run today. There are probably used copies available for sale, but I like to use the public l...

It's official. Our governor wants us to visit a nursing home this week. "The department [of aging] created "Visit a Nursing Ho...

Kathleen Parker at WaPo writes about Jane Hamsher’s attack on Mrs. Lieberman, but never calls her out as a leftist radical. Even "progr...

Some of these are really awful, or disrespectful, or unbelievably gross. Link. A selection: AALFD - Another A**hole Looking For Drugs ALS ...

Besides the obvious one, death. The list is in the November 14, 2008 US News and World Report. I came across it today looking for the succ...

Offutt Airforce Base is being threatened with the BRAC list (closure) if Ben Nelson (D-NE) doesn't fall in line. Michael Goldfarb, the W...

Again, not new, but can't think that I've ever used it, so I looked it up to find out why. Here's the context. "Polonius (...

It's driving politicians mad! "Global warming just might be the most important problem facing Western civilization after all. Not b...

Wonder of Fancy Nancy has wept tears and spoken out against the leftists protesting in Copenhagen. Remember how she slandered the peaceful ...

"A couple of years ago, supporters of global warming theory began referring to skeptics as “deniers” — implying that anyone who doubted...

Unstoppable Global Warming, Every 1,500 Years (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery sums up the theory of human-c...