Mark Whittington
Mark R. Whittington is a writer residing in Houston, Texas. He is the author of The Last Moonwalker, Children of Apollo, Dark Sanction, and Nocturne. He has written numerous articles, some for the Washington Post, USA Today, the LA Times, and the Houston Chronicle.
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Eric Holder Must Resign Over the James Rosen MatterThe latest revelation concerning the scandals now consuming the Obama Administration is that Attorney General Eric Holder personally signed off on the seizure of Fox Reporter James Rosen’s emails as part of a leak investigation, according to NBC News. -
Obama Wants to Appease the Jihadis and Address Their GrievancesPresident Obama’s recent speech on national security was part attempt to distract the media and the American people from the scandals consuming his administration and part attempt to appease both the domestic left and the jihadi enemy. -
The Drive to Include Gays in Scouting May Be Just the BeginningThe news that the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has lifted the ban on openly gay scouts by 60 percent elicits the initial reaction, “Good for them and past time too.” But, as Mary Katherine Ham at Hot Air suggests, it’s not that simple.
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How I Walked Out of 'Battle Beyond the Stars'Usually I have a strong stomach where it comes to bad sci-fi. I can sit through almost everything so long as it has space ship to space ship combat and scantily clad alien chicks. I even sat through all of “Battlefield Earth,” so bad that it was good
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IRS Scandal, Coverup Could Have Affected the 2012 ElectionThe UK Daily Mail reports that the IRS’s own internal probe of the policy of harassment of tea party and conservative groups ended in May, 2012. But the results of the investigation were concealed from Congress and the American people.
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Jihadist Butcher of British Soldier Symptom of Larger Problem in EuropeThe UK Daily Mail reports that a British soldier was run down in the streets of Woolwich, a neighborhood in south-east London, by two men who then proceeded to hack his body, attempting to behead him, shouting, “Allah-uh-akbar!”
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Was the IRS's Lois Lerner Too Clever by Half in Taking the Fifth?Hit Air has a pretty good account about how Lois Lerner, a key player in the unfolding IRS scandal, may or may not have invoked her 5th Amendment rights during testimony before the House Government Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Holds the Little Round Top at GettysburgJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an unlikely person to become a military hero. At the beginning of the Civil War, according to his biography in Civil War Trust, he was a professor of languages and rhetoric at Bowdoin College in his native Maine. -
Drones Could Be Used to Study Tornadoes by 2015The tornado that recently flattened the town of Moore, Oklahoma has highlighted the need for more research into how these kinds of storms form, the better to predict when they happen, giving people more time to seek shelter.
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Nutrient in Mediterranean Diet Found to Fight CancerAn article in Science Daily relates how research has found that nutrient found in the Mediterranean Diet can have a beneficial effect in that it helps to cause cancer cells to die. The results have implications for cancer treatment.
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John Buford's Stand on the First Day of GettysburgGeneral John Buford, who commanded the first Union troops at Gettysburg, was an experienced cavalry commander by June 30, 1863, having fought in various conflicts against Native Americans and at Chancellorsville and Brandy Station. -
IRS Scandal Sparks Call to Delay ObamacareThe Washington Examiner reports that Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. has asked two Obama cabinet officials to suspend the implementation of the health care reform law, also known as Obamacare, pending the resolution of the IRS scandals.
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Howard Dean: Benghazi Controversy a 'Laughable Joke'Howard Dean, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former governor of Vermont, and former presidential candidate, termed the whole controversy over Benghazi a “laughable joke” according to the National Review. -
Obama Justice Department Targeting of Fox News Report Shows Contempt for First AmendmentWhen the New Yorker reported that Obama’s Justice Department had seized the phone records and emails of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter, that news alarmed some elements of the mainstream media, such as the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson.
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George Meade, the Victor of GettysburgOn the face of it, George Meade was an unlikely general to be the first to defeat General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. But where better known generals such as McClellan, Burnsides, and Hooker had failed, he succeeded. -
Cost of Self-Driving Cars Plummets Thanks to Romanian Teenager's InventionThe Google Self Driving Car has as part of its suite of sensors expensive 3D radar that adds roughly $75,000 to the price of the car. NBC News reports that a 19 year old Romanian high school student has decreased that cost to $4,000.
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Opposition to Genetically Modified Food Based on HysteriaThe news that Hungary has ordered fields of genetically modified corn is distressing on a number of levels, not the least of which, as the Wall Street Journal points out, there is no evidence that GM food is harmful whatsoever.
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Public Relations Beside the Point in the IRS ScandalPolitico suggests that both the IRS and the White House are mishandling the scandal caused by the tax agency’s abuse of tea party and other groups from a public relations standpoint. The premise of the article is correct, but misses the point.
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In the Wake of the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado, Politics Rears Its Ugly HeadThe reaction of most people when confronted with a natural disaster of the enormity of the tornado that ravaged the town of Moore, Oklahoma is to set aside all quarrels and speed aid and comfort to the victims as quickly as possible.
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Why Robert E. Lee Invaded the North in June, 1863, Leading to GettysburgAfter having defeated the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May, 1863, General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia had a decision to make concerning strategy going forward. -
European Olive Oil Open Container Ban Aggravates Euro-skepticismThe International Herald Tribune reports that the European Union is about to institute a ban on restaurants serving olive oil in dipping bowls or refillable jugs. Henceforth olive oil will be served in sealed, non reusable containers.
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Rand Paul Must Walk Tightrope in 2016 Bid for the PresidencySen. Rand Paul, R-Ky continues to lay the ground work for a possible run for the presidency in 2016 by headlining a state Republican dinner in New Hampshire, the first in the nation primary state, according to the Washington Times. -
Anti-IRS Protests to Be a Show of Tea Party StrengthThe Washington Examiner reports that the Tea Party Patriots, the largest umbrella organization of tea party activists, is calling for a nation-wide protest against the IRS on Tuesday, May 21, at noon local time. -
How I was Lost and Then Got Found at the Herman Park Garden CenterThe following is a true story. My beloved and supremely understanding wife Chantal was at a work related meeting at the Herman Park Garden Center. So that we could see the new Star Trek movie, I was to pick her up at the side of the road at 4 p.m.
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Graphene Produced from the Cannabis PlantGraphene is a form of carbon the atoms of which are arranged in a hexagonal pattern one atom thick, according to a video explanation presented by the University of Nottingham. Graphene has a number of properties useful for several applications.
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Obama's IRS Has Made the Tea Party More Powerful Than Can Be ImaginedCraig Shirley, writing in Townhall, suggests that the tea party is in the unique position of having been both victimized by the federal government and hence vindicated by the same. Whoever sicced the IRS on the tea party will likely regret it.
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Mia Love Risks More Racist Attacks in Her Second Congressional BidMia Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, has announced that she will run a second time for Congress in the Utah 4th District against the man who beat her narrowly in 2012, Jim Matheson, according to the Deseret News.
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Bill Maher and Michael Moore Defines Treason in a Curious WayBill Maher, the HBO ranter, and Michael Moore, the radical film maker, were on the former’s show “Real Time” recently and expressed a rather unique definition of treason. Apparently people who oppose President Obama are traitors.
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Sun Light Sensor Patch Can Tell You when It's Time to Get in the ShadeOne of the hazards of summer is staying out too long in the sun and getting a sunburn. According to SciTech a new sensor device, developed by a design team at Michigan Tech University, will help avoid that painful experience.
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'Star Trek into Darkness' Concentrates on Special Effects and Not a Plot“Star Trek into Darkness” begins with Kirk and McCoy running for their lives through a red jungle with angry natives is hot pursuit. Meanwhile Spock is trying to stop a super volcano from destroying the alien planet.
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The Left Really was Anti-Bush and Not so Much Anti-WarMarc Lamont Hill, an academic, commentator, journalist, author, activist, and television personality, who occasionally spars with Bill O’Reilly, made an astonishing admission via a tweet according to Twitchy.
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Angelina Jolie's Mastectomy Highlights Need for More Cancer ResearchThe first hundred or so times I saw a story about how Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy, the better to avoid getting breast cancer to which she is genetically predisposed, I was impressed. Now I wish we could just move on.
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Now the IRS Wants to Know What We're Praying AboutThe Washington Examiner recounts an exchange during a recent hearing between Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill. and the soon to be former IRS acting commissioner Stephen Miller that captures the Kafkaesque nature of the IRS scandal.
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Voyager Treadmill Would Enhance Running with Virtual RealityRunning on a treadmill can be a tedious as well as a tiring experience, alleviated maybe by having an iPod playing music through ear phones. But Dvice has a story about a particularly type of treadmill that enhances running through virtual reality.
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How NASA Engineers and the First Skylab Crew Saved America's First Space StationSkylab, America’s first space station, was launched on May 14, 1973. The Skylab program almost ended before it began, thanks to a malfunction in the deployment of the space station;s head shield and subsequent damage to two solar arrays. -
'Elementary' Ends Season One with Several Twists“Elementary,” like the British version “Sherlock,” plays with the Sherlock Holmes mythos in a variety of ways. Like the British series, the show places the famous British consulting detective in a 21st Century where Conan Doyle never existed.
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In 'The Big Bang Theory' Love is Deepened, Love is Lost, and Raj Learns to Talk to GirlsIn “The Bon Voyage Reaction,” the season six finale of “The Big Bang Theory,” love is deepened by impending separation in one instance and love is ruined by the prospect of too much togetherness in another.
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How Disney's Makeover of 'Brave's' Red Haired Merida was Turned BackAs scandals go, the attempt by Disney to “girlify” red haired Merida, the heroine in last year’s film “Brave,” doesn’t much tip the importance scale next to Benghazi and the IRS. But it was, nevertheless, irritating.
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Astonishingly, Homeland Security Treats Islamists with More Forbearance Than Right WingersThe Daily Caller has uncovered a couple of memos that shows how the Department of Homeland Security views conservatives as opposed to how it views Islamic extremists. The contrast cannot be more startling.
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Former IRS Director of Tax Exempt Organizations Now in Charge of ObamacareHot Air reports that a career civil servant named Sarah Hall Ingram is the director of the IRS’s Affordable Care Act Office, in effect the chief enforcer of Obamacare. Aside from the fact that such an office exists, this should fill people with foreboding
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'Star-crossed' About a Boy and a Girl from Different WorldsThe CW, the network best known for its youth oriented programming, has designated a new science fiction series, “Star-crossed,” as a midseason replacement. The show appears to steal elements from at least three other dramas.
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Obama Scandals May Bring About the End of Big GovernmentDavid Axelrod, the former political consigliere to President Obama, tried to excuse the president for allowing the various scandals to get out of control because the government is “too vast” for any one man to control, he said more than he knew. -
Steven Miller's Head Will Not Be the Only One of an IRS Employee to RollSteven Miller, the acting IRS Commissioner, is the first casualty of the scandal surrounding the IRS’s targeting of tea party and other conservative groups. Despite President Obama’s public announcement of Miller’s resignation, he will not be the last.
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Benghazi Emails Raises More Questions Than it AnswersStephen Hayes, writing in the Weekly Standard, notes that the 94 pages of Benghazi related emails provided by the Obama Administration confirms the White House and State Department role in altering the infamous talking points. -
New Treatment Could Make Older Hearts Young AgainResearchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have discovered a treatment that reversing the effects of aging in the hearts of mice, making them in effect young again. The discovery has implications for the treatment of heart disease in humans.
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How I Wrote 'The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper'A couple of themes are being pushed in the media as of this writing. Those are expeditions to Mars and asteroid mining. That is one reason I decided to combine them both in my new short novel, “The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper.” -
Can 'Rodham' the Movie Make Hillary Clinton President?The UK Daily Mail has gotten a hold of the screenplay for a movie called “Rodham,” said to be about the early romance between a young law student named Hillary Rodham and this guy from Arkansas named Bill Clinton.
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Sarah Palin as the Conservative Oprah? -- Not YetNewsmax reports that Sarah Palin has turned down a deal offered by her old friend Mark Burnett to – in effect – become the conservative version of Oprah and have her own syndicated television talk show.
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How the Obama Scandals Might Affect the 2014 MidtermsPolitico suggests that the various scandals that are roiling the Obama Administration, Benghazi, the IRS, and the Associated Press, already have both Democrats and Republicans looking ahead to plan how they will affect the 2014 midterms.
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New Diabetes Treatment Being Developed with Once Every 10 Days InjectionsA new treatment for diabetes has been developed and tested in animal studies that promises to revolutionize how people suffering from the disease are able to monitor and control their blood sugar.
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Obama Empowers Rush Limbaugh by Blaming Him for GridlockWith the Benghazi, IRS, and AP phone records scandals preoccupying his administration, the Washington Examiner notes that President Obama has hit on what he says is the real reason for all of his problems. Or rather, who.
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IRS Scandal Suggests it is Time to Abolish the Income Tax and the IRSThe evolving by the hour IRS scandal, in which the tax agency targeted conservative groups for examination and harassment, as detailed by the Washington Post, cries out for not only an investigation, but legislation.
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Obama Administration Alienates the Media with AP Phone Record SeizureAnother day, another scandal for the Obama Administration. The latest has to do with the seizure of two months of phone records for the Associated Press as a result of a leak investigation by the Justice Department, according to Hot Air.
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Now You Too Can Be a Star Trek Character, Thanks to 3D PrintingA company called Cubify has started to use the emerging technology of 3D printing to provide the Star Trek fan who thinks he has everything with something new, according to Greek.com. It is providing a new set of Star Trek action figures.
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3D Printable Guns Now Available, Much to the Chagrin of GovernmentsAccording to a recent story in Forbes, a libertarian law student in Texas named Cody Wilson has managed to create the first functioning 3D printed pistol, creating all sorts of questions and headaches for politicians who seek to regulate firearms.
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Just as 'Burn Notice' Ends, '24' is Coming BackThe bad news is that the upcoming season of “Burn Notice” will be the last. The good news is that the Fox Network is bringing back”24.” So just as Michael Weston and company are being retired, Jack Bauer is coming out of the shadows,
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Sharing Missile Defense Technology with Russia the Worst of Bad IdeasBad ideas seem to flow from the Obama Administration like water. However one that seems to have eyebrows rising among Congressional Republicans is a proposal to share missile defense secrets with the Russians, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
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Republican Noncooperative with Obama a Feature Not a Bug of Benghazi, IRS ScandalsSlate has uncovered the real problem, in its view, caused by the Benghazi and the IRS scandals. They will cause Republicans to be emboldened against working with President Obama and the Democrats to get things done.
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Obama Administration Must Approve Export of Natural GasThe Washington Examiner is reporting that the Obama administration is wrestling with a question that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago, whether or not to approve the export of liquefied natural gas.
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Tesla's Elon Musk Mulls Developing 'Autopilot' Features to Electric Car LineAccording to Newsday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is mulling adding self-driving, or as he prefers to call it, “autopilot” features to the line of electric cars he is developing. He is said to be in talks with Google, which is developing self-driving car features
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Sarah Palin for Senate Part TwoWhile the National Review notes that Sarah Palin is keeping her distance from the tea party inspired draft effort to get her to run for the United States Senate, Breitbart reports on a recent poll that might give her pause.
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Benghazi Emails May Be the 'Secret Tapes' of the Watergate with a Body CountIn reading the latest Stephen Hayes piece on how the CIA assessment on the Benghazi Massacre were transformed into a talking points cover up, one has the inescapable conclusion that Hayes has become the Woodward and Bernstein of the new Watergate.
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IRS Scandal Becomes a Cancer Upon the Whole NationIt certainly didn’t take long for the IRS scandal to start exploding. The Associated Press reports that higher ups in the tax agency knew about the targeting of conservative groups as far back as 2011.
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Could the Benghazi Scandal Benefit Elizabeth Warren -- and Ted Cruz?In a story about how the Benghazi scandal may dash Hillary Clinton’s hopes to become president, the Boston Herald has put out a new name of a liberal woman who might rise in her stead to become the hope of the Democratic Party.
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Benghazi Talking Points Revelations Deepens Obama ScandalPolitico reports that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was pounded by reporters during a press conference about the evolution of the infamous talking points, which were altered heavily thanks to input from the White House and the State Department.
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IRS Harassment of Conservative Groups Cries Out for an InvestigationThe Associated Press reports that the IRS has now admitted that it “inappropriately” targeted tea party and conservative groups to determine whether they were violating their tax exempt status during the 2013 election.
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Allegations of Coverup of SEAL Deaths in Afghanistan Part of Disturbing PatternThe Washington Times reports that relatives of a group of Navy SEALs slain in the shoot down of their helicopter in Afghanistan in August, 2011 are claiming an administration cover up of the circumstances of the action.
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How Republican Strength on Three Key Issues Means Trouble for DemocratsHot Air examines a new Pew Poll that shows that Republicans are more trusted than Democrats to make the right decisions on the economy, immigration, and gun control. The news is ominous going into the 2014 midterms.
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President Obama Comes to Texas to Propose Job Killing Minimum Wage IncreaseWhen President Obama came down to Texas on his latest jobs tour, that state’s junior senator, Ted Cruz, had a little fun with a tweet that suggested that the president knows little about creating jobs, according to Townhall
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Harry Reid: More Money Needed for Obamacare as Costs ExplodeAccording to the Hill newspaper, Senate Majority Leader has the perfect solution for the impending Obamacare “train wreck” that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. warned about. In his view, more money is needed to implement the thing properly.
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White House Mangles History in Support of Immigration ReformThe White House has beclowned itself with an ill-considered tweet in support of immigration reform that displays an astounding ignorance of American history, dating back thousands of years it seems.
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Stephen Hawking's Boycott of Israel a Heinous ActIt is always a keen disappointment when someone one admires commits a heinous act. Such is the case of Stephen Hawking bowing to Palestinian pressure and participating in a boycott of Israel.
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The Benghazi Hearings: What Happens Next?Bryan Preston at Pajamas Media has a pretty good run down of what was learned at the House Benghazi hearings. The question then arises, what needs to happen next to find out the truth and to sanction those responsible.
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Amity Shlaes 'Coolidge' About the Last President to Cut the Size of Government“Coolidge,” a biography of Calvin Coolidge by Amity Shlaes, depicts the life and presidency of the last president who not only cut spending and taxes, but also the size of government.
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Hillary Clinton is About to Find Out What Difference Benghazi MakesWith the Benghazi hearings preparing to detail Obama administration malfeasance surrounding the massacre of four Americans, according to CBS News, the person with the most to lose may be former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Anti Gomez 'Bin Laden Ad' Shows Markey Desperation in Mass. Senate RaceIt is a sign of desperation on the part of Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., that he would run an ad against his opponent, former Navy SEAL and aviator Gabriel Gomez in the special senate election that puts the latter’s image next to that of Bin Laden.
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Mark Sanford Beats Colbert Busch, Sparing Republicans a HumiliationThere are a number of takeaways from the easy victory of the formerly disgraced and now thoroughly redeemed Mark Sanford, former governor of South Carolina, over Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the special congressional election.
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Terrrafugia Mulling Next Generation Flying Car Before the First Goes to MarketTerrafugia, a company that has been developing the first operational flying car, the Transition, is already thinking ahead to the next generation of personal aircraft, the TF-X which will fly more or less autonomously, according the Xconomy.
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Treatment Discovered for Gray Hair, Vitiligo Skin DiseaseNature World News reports that a group of researchers in Europe have discovered a treatment that, in essence, cures gray hair as well as a skin condition called vitiligo. The findings were published in the FASEB Journal.
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'The Last Ship,' a Post Apocalyptic Sea Story, Coming to TNT in Summer, 2014“The Last Ship,” based on a 1988 novel by William Brinkley, has been greenlit for a TNT dramatic series to air in the summer of 2014. The TV version takes a somewhat different approach than the book.
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Ray Harryhausen, Stop Motion Special Effects Master, Dies at 92Ray Harryhausen, the legendary special effects artist who used stop motion animation to bring to life monsters and mythical creatures on the big screen, has died at the age of 92, according to a story on SyFy’s Blastr.
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Time for the House to Kill the Internet Sales Tax BillThe Associated Press reports that the Senate, overriding objections from conservatives such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has passed a bill authorizing states and local governments to extract taxes from internet businesses.
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'Castle' Goes Political by Dropping a Drone Fired Missile on the VictimLeft-wing politics once again reared its ugly head in the “The Human Factor” episode of “Castle” which depicted a left-wing crusader for the truth, a man named Dale Tanner, being taken out by a predator drone in the middle of Manhattan.
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Obama Likely Comes to Texas to Teach Rather Than Learn About EconomyPresident Obama, having dabbled in niche issues ranging from gun control to same sex marriage, has decided to focus on the economy again with a “Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour,” according to the Washington Post. First stop, Austin, Texas.
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Princeton Researchers Create First Bionic Ear PrototypeScience fiction is once again on the verge of becoming reality, according to a recent story in SciTechDaily. Researchers at Princeton have created a bionic ear that mixed biological materials and nanoelectronics via 3D printing.
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Anti-Bullying Crusader Dan Savage Tries to Bully Sarah PalinDan Savage recently tweeted that, in effect, he wished that Sarah Palin would get cancer. He was reacting to Palin’s displaying a tin of chewing tobacco to counter New York Mayor Bloomberg’s latest crusade against the public display of tobacco products.
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Pray with Nancy Pelosi that Hillary Clinton Runs for PresidentThe Hill recently reported that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi prays that Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016. Recent revelations surrounding the Benghazi Massacre suggest that conservatives should pray for that very same thing.
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As Obamacare Impacts Head Start, What's a Poor Liberal to Do?Head Start, a Great Society era program that is designed to help underprivileged preschool children develop the skills they need to continue in school, is considered sacred by the left. According to the Daily Caller it is about to be impacted by Obamacare
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Researchers Discover a Way to Create Immune Cells DirectlyAccording to a recent article in SciTech Daily, researchers at Cornell University have found a way to create preprogrammed immune cells that can fight specific infectious diseases, potentially revolutionizing the way people are vaccinated.
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Bill Maher Thinks that Obama Should 'Evolve' on Legalized PotHBO ranter Bill Maher, who once gave $1 million to a pro Obama super pac, is somewhat less than enthralled with the president he supported, as illustrated by an account in the Daily Caller about Obama being less than supportive about pot legalization.
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While Obama Dithers, Israel ActsWhile President Obama dithers about whether Syria crossed the “red line” by dropping sarin gas on its own people, Israel acted to counter a different threat, the delivery of missiles from Iran to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
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Will Democrat Napootlian Suffer for Racially Charged Remarks Against Nikki Haley?Racial politics reared its ugly head in South Carolina when Dick Harpootlian, that state’s Democratic Chairman, made an incendiary remark about Gov, Nikki Haley at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in support of gubernatorial candidate Vincent Sheehan.
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'Rocky the Musical?' Why Not 'Rambo the Musical?'Hot Air’s Allahpundit notes that “Rocky the Musical” is coming to Broadway, which raises the specter of Rocky Balboa, the obscure pug who gets a shot at a boxing title, breaking out into show tunes in the middle of his training regime.
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Details of Benghazi Massacre Cover Up Begin to EmergeThe Weekly Standard has an explosive article that seems to document how the Obama Administration sought to mislead Congress and the public about the events that led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, including a U.S. Ambassador.
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Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz Address NRA Meeting While Protestors CounterThe national meeting of the National Rifle Association took place in Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center and featured a number of speeches by conservative favorites, including Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz.
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'Iron Man 3' Has a Weak Plot to Hold the Action and Special Effects Together“Iron Man 3,” the latest in the movie franchise about Tony Stark, the billionaire industrialist, playboy, and all around great guy (just ask him) sometimes gets muddled in the plot that is supposed to hold together all the action and special effects.
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Sarah Palin for Senate? Maybe NotThe Los Angeles Times notes that some tea party activists are pushing a Sarah Palin run for the United States Senate against Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska who is up for reelection in 2014. There are some advantages and disadvantages.
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American and Israel Gains in Natural Gas Boom at Expense of Their EnemiesWriting in the American Interest, Walter Russell Mead notes that the fracking boom in the United States is already achieving dividends in Eastern Europe, undermining Russia’s natural gas monopoly and thus its ability to influence events.
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Gomez Trails Markey Narrowly in Massachusetts Special Senate ElectionThe first poll taken of the special election to fill the Massachusetts senate seat held by now Secretary of State John Kerry shows that the Democrat Ed Markey has a narrow lead over the Republic Gabriel Gomez, according to the Daily Caller.
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Port Gibson: First Battle of Grant's 1863 Vicksburg CampaignThe Battle of Port Gibson was the first action of General Ulysses S. Grant’s 1863 Vicksburg campaign that ultimately captured the fortified city and divided the Confederacy in two, opening the Mississippi to Union boat traffic.
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Will Spielberg's 'American Sniper' Be Another 'Saving Private Ryan' or Another 'Munich?'Coming Soon has announced that Steven Spielberg will direct and coproduce the film version of “American Sniper,” the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL sniper so feared by insurgents in Iraq that they called him “Al Shaitan” and placed a prize on his head.
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'The Colonel' Leads to Mayhem and Betrayal in 'The Americans'“The Americans” ended its first season in an episode called “The Colonel” which features a piece of work who has decided to betray his country because he doesn’t like Ronald Reagan or the SDI program.
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What was Mountain Dew Thinking with Its Racist, Sexist Ad?Apparently Mountain Dew has managed to promote both racist stereotypes and to make light of violence against women in an ad promoting their product. As Ed Driscoll suggests, Don Draper would not have approved.
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Atheism in Fox Holes Should Not Be RequiredIt s a cliché that there are no atheists in fox holes, the theory being that the threat of death in combat makes all turn to the solace of a deity. But a Fox News commentator, Todd Starnes, suggests that may change due to Pentagon edict,
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VGo Robot Helps Children Go to School Virtually, Making Life BetterFox News has a story about how a young girl named Lexie Kinder, unable to go to school because of a heart ailment, is able to attend class virtually through the use of a VGo robot. It is a marvelous example of technology making life better.
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A Martian HaikuNBC reports that NASA has started a contest, inviting people to submit their names and a message in the form of a haiku on the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) probe to shortly head for Mars.
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How Tax Reform May Happen Despite ObamaThe Hill newspaper reports that Republicans are working on a tax reform measure that would be linked to the extension of the debt ceiling. Many Democrats are not amused, but Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. seems to be receptive to the idea.
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Gomez an Attractive Massachusetts Senate Candidate, Despite Anti-Tea Party RhetoricAs expected Massachusetts Democrats have nominated Ed Markey, a veteran pol who has been in Congress almost forever, to replace John Kerry in the United States Senate. But the more interesting candidate is on the Republican side.
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Anne Frank, Morning After Pill Controversies Government Encroachment on Family LifeUpon hearing about how a mom in Michigan objected to her seventh grade daughter reading “The Diary of Anne Frank” one had to wonder if the lady was just a little daft. However, according to the Daily Caller, she has a point
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Los Angeles Times Reporters Should Welcome Their New Koch OverlordsThe Huffington Post reports that there is a great deal of discontent among the employees of the Los Angeles Times over the prospect of working for the Koch Brothers. Indeed half have vowed to quit rather than to suffer that horrible fate.
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Obama Has to Go All in If He Arms the Syrian RebelsOne of the subjects that came up during President Obama’s most recent press conference was the vexing problem of Syria and chemical weapons. Syria has crossed the red line, it is reported, and has used chemical weapons.
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Obama on Obamacare: 'Remain Calm. All is Well.'During his more recent press conference, President Obama, when asked about Senator Max Baucus terming the implementation of Obamacare as a “train wreck,” was remarkably nonchalant.
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Japanese 'Magic Mirror' Lets One Try on Clothes VirtuallyDVICE reports that a Japanese company called the Active Lab has developed the latest technology in clothes shopping. It’s called the Magic Mirror and it allows someone to try on clothes virtually.
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New Theory: Earth-Like Moons in Other Star Systems Could Harbor LifeIt has been conventional wisdom that the best candidates for a habitable planet in another star system would be one that is approximately Earth-sized orbiting around a star’s “habitable zone” where liquid water is possible.
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Ron Paul Claims 'Liberty was Also Attacked in Boston'Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul has weighed in on the Boston Marathon Bombing and the police response to it. The libertarian leaning former presidential candidate is not happy about the latter.
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In 'Bones' and 'Castle' Peril Makes the Heart Grow FonderRecent episodes of both “Bones” and “Castle” illustrates a principle that peril makes the heart go fonder. In each case it is peril that is striking at one member of an iconic crime fighting couple.
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Coming Era of Natural Gas Abundence to Confound Central PlannersThe Atlantic has a story with the somewhat misleading title “What if we never run out of Oil?” What is meant, however, if what if we never run out of natural gas, from hydraulic fracking and from the more exotic source of methane hydrates.
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Intimidation Allegations Could Send Benghazi into Cover-Up PhaseFox News is alleging that the Obama Administration is intimidating whistle blowers at the State Department and the CIA to prevent them from revealing what they know about the Benghazi Massacre when an American ambassador and three others were murdered,
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NASA's Cassini Discovers Hurricane on Saturn, Meteor Strikes at the RingsCassini, the joint NASA/ESA space probe now orbiting Saturn, has returned some stunning images from the iconic ringed planet, including a massive hurricane near the planet’s North Pole and meteors colliding with its rings.
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West, Texas, Political Cartoon Causes Political FirestormThe Sacramento Bee has created something of a firestorm for running an editorial cartoon that seems to blame Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s small government philosophy for the explosion in West, Texas that has killed at last count 15 people.
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Prohibition Against Catholic Women Priests Not Likely to ChangeThe “ordination” of a woman named Rosemarie Smead as a Roman Catholic priest is something of mild interest to people who don’t happen to be Catholic. The ceremony was not sanctioned by the Catholic Church and will earn Smead excommunication.
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How the 'Mad Men' Episode 'The Flood' Shows 1968 as the End of CivilizationThe latest episode of “Mad Men,” “The Flood,” is one of those iconic episodes in which the 1960s intrudes on the lives of the denizens of Cooper, Sterling, Draper, Pryce and their various family members and friends.
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Sarah Palin Hits Populist Target in Swipe Against Media 'Nerd Prom'The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is one of those glitzy affairs that take place every year inside the Beltway where media types get to hobnob with politicians and Hollywood celebrities. Sarah Palin was not amused.
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Researchers Stumble Upon a Way to Create Brain Cells from Bone MarrowUS News reports that researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California have found a way to make adult brain stems cells from bone marrow by injected antibodies. The procedure was found quite by accident.
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New Treatment for Degenerative Disk Disease Using Stem Cells and 3D PrintingDvice.com reports on some promising research being conducted a Cornel University that should, in the fullness of time, result in an effective treatment of Degenerative Disk Disease using stem cells and 3D printing.
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NASA's Asteroid Mission Takes Shape as Congress Remains SkepticalNASA’s proposed mission to snag an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit to be visited by astronauts is beginning to take shape even as arguments over its rationale continue. NASA is asking for $100 million for the mission for FY2014.
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President Obama Ventures to Texas as Head of State and Party LeaderPresident Barack Obama ventured to Texas to fulfill some of his duties, both as the head of state and the leader of his political party. He attended a fundraiser in Dallas, the opening of the Bush presidential library, and a memorial service in West.
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Obama's Air Traffic Controller Furlough Strategy BackfiresAccording to RealClearPolitics, the Obama White House has been playing “Washington Monument” games with air traffic controllers in order to make sequestration as horrible as possible for ordinary Americans.
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The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up in SyriaAccording to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.
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'The Americans' Feature How 'The Oath' Can Cause TroubleIn ‘The Oath,” the latest and second to the last episode of the current season of “The Americans,” there are more lies, betrayals, and double crosses than exist in a dozen or so John Le Carre novels.
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NASA's Bolden Tussles with House Panel Over James Webb Space TelescopeNASA Administrator Charles Bolden appeared before the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee and came under pointed grilling on a number of NASA projects, including the James Webb Space Telescope.
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George W. Bush Will Be Remembered for War and Space ExplorationPresident George W. Bush will always be defined by the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and what followed. Al Qaeda, by attacking the American homeland, had not only messed with the wrong country, but messed with the wrong president.
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President George W. Bush Gets a Second, Mostly Favorable LookWith the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas, some are starting to take a second look at the 43rd president of the United States. The reevaluation depends on who is doing to reevaluation.
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Barney Frank's Comparison of the Tea Party to Al Qaeda DespicableThe Washington Times reports that former Rep. Barney Frank is still striving to be one of the most obnoxious people in public life. He recently compared Al Qaeda to the tea party, suggesting that both are against same sex marriage.
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Congress' Attempt to Exempt Itself from Obamacare HypocriticalPolitico is reporting about a brazen attempt by members of Congress to exempt itself and certain congressional staffers from the provisions of Obamacare that require them to join a health insurance exchange.
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NASA Asteroid, Mars Missions to Be Impacted by SequestrationAccording to USA Today, NASA officials have warned the Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space that if the sequestration cuts for NASA continue into FY2014, a number of long term deep space exploration projects will be put at risk for delay.
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The Lawsuits Begin in the Wake of the West, Texas, Fertilizer ExplosionIn the wake of the explosion at a fertilizer plant that devastated the town of West, Texas, a new explosion, this one of law suits against the owner of the plant, has begun. Time Magazine suggests that law firms are already scrambling to cash in.
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Rand Paul's Nuance on Drones Should Be ReassuringThe Daily Caller reports that Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY. is attempting to explain some remarks he made concerning the domestic use of drones in certain situations on Neil Cavuto’s show on the Fox Business Network.
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House GOP Benghazi Report Spells Trouble for Obama, Hillary ClintonA report issued by five House committees concludes that President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are responsible for the failures surrounding the Benghazi Massacre and that they tried to cover it up.
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Keystone XL Pipeline Mired in Bureaucratic Wrangling, Civil Protest, Legal ChallengesThe Keystone XL pipeline, designed to convey tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada to oil refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast, still remains mired in controversy, finger pointing, and what many consider to be bureaucratic foot dragging.
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Mars One Colony Scheme Features Aggressive Schedule, Low Cost EstimateAccording to Space.com, a Dutch nonprofit company called Mars One is now accepting applications for the first Mars colonists. These colonists would travel to Mars and live there for the rest of their lives.
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The Rise of the Obamacare Scam Another Argument for RepealOne of the many unintended consequences of Obamacare, according to Kaiser Health News, is the proliferation of health insurance scams targeting the elderly, still confused about how the law will affect them.
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Internet Sales Tax Bill Violates Obama PledgeBack during his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged that there would be no tax increase for families making less than $250,000. By endorsing what amounts to sanctioning an Internet sales tax increase, President Obama is violating that pledge
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'Veep' Episode 'Signals' Deals with Southerners and IsraelisIn “Signals,” the latest episode of the series “Veep,” another window is opened upon the attitudes of the liberal political elites toward two different groups of people: white southerners and Israeli Jews.
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Rick Perry Headed to Illinois in Search of Businesses to Move to TexasAccording to the Associated Press, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has traveled to Illinois in order to urge companies there to relocate to the Lone Star State. His visit in accompanies by an $80,000 ad campaign and a speech to 2013 BIO International Convention.
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Orbital Sciences Antares Rocket Successfully Launches from NASA WallopsOrbital Sciences successfully launched its new Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Space Port, located at NASA’s Wallops flight facility in Eastern Virginia at 5:00 p.m. EDT on April 21, 2013, according to the company.
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The Koch Brothers May Bring Ideological Diversity to NewspapersThe American Interest is reporting that the Koch Brothers, a pair of libertarian/conservative billionaires are making a bid for the newspapers controlled by Tribune Media, including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Orlando Sentinel.
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How the Boston Bombing Will Affect Gun Control and ImmigrationWhile the casualties of the Boston Marathon bombing are being dealt with and law enforcement authorities are mulling over what to do with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the question of how the terror attack will affect gun control & immigration has arisen.
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Chancellorsville, the Death of Stonewall Jackson, and the Gettysburg QuestionThe Battle of Chancellorsville started with a well executed crossing of the Rappahannock River by the Army of the Potomac under General Joseph Hooker upon the flank of the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee on April 30, 1863.
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Chair of House Science Committee Skeptical of NASA Asteroid MissionIn a sign that President Obama’s plan to capture and then visit a small asteroid is going to face skeptical congressional scrutiny, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the chairman of the House Science Committee, raised some questions about the scheme.
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Obama Offers Perry Federal Aid for West, Texas, Disaster ReliefAccording to the Houston Chronicle, President Barack Obama pledged to Texas Gov. Rick Perry that the full resources of the federal government would be made available for aid and recovery in the wake of the West, Texas disaster.
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The Marathon: Born in Battle, Marred by TerrorismIt is a matter of bitter irony that the 2013 Boston Marathon has been marred by a terrorist attack. The very first Marathon, which took place in the year 490 B.C., was born in a battle in which the future of Western Civilization was at hazard.
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Marco Rubio is Blowing it on Illegal ImmigrationSen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took to the conservative radio airways to try to sell the emerging immigration bill that he and seven other senators are developing. According to Politico, he is finding the sale a tough one indeed.
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In 'The Americans' Elizabeth Wages 'Covert War'“Covert War,” the latest episode of “The Americans” starts with the assassination of a Soviet KGB general named Gukov in Moscow by a CIA hit man as part of the continuing policy of showing the godless commies we’re not to be messed with.
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Stephen Hawking: God Not Necessary for Big Bang to Have OccurredAccording to Space.com, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking delivered a lecture at CalTech in which he stated flatly that the Big Bang, the sudden explosion thought to have created the universe, did not need God to have occurred.
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Obamacare 'Train Wreck' Could Define the AdministrationThe Hill reports that yet another politician is warning that Obamacare is going to be a “train wreck.” What is remarkable is that the politician is Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who helped to write the bill.
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Why President Obama Raged Against the Dying of Gun ControlPresident Obama did not take the defeat of gun control legislation well. Obama strode forth before the TV cameras and, with some of the Sandy Hook bereaved and Gabby Giffords looking on, let loose with rare invective.
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Fertilizer Plant Explosion Decimates the Town of West, TexasThe Associated Press reports that an explosion at a fertilizer plant has leveled several blocks of West, a town located just north of Waco, Texas. Hundreds are feared to be injured and as many as five to 15 people may have lost their lives.
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NASA: Titan's Methane Lakes May Be Slowly VanishingTitan, the largest moon in the Solar System orbiting Saturn, is a unique world with lakes and streams that flow with liquid methane. Now NASA suspects that the methane may be gone from that moon in a few ten of million years.
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Arrest of Texas Soldier Raises 2nd Amendment and Police Misconduct IssuesAn incident involving a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Temple, Texas police has started a row over the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms and accusations of police misconduct.
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Media Strangely Shocked that Americans like Reagan More Than ObamaIf one ever wonders why Sarah Palin constantly refers to the “lamestream media,” one can look no further at a Washington Times story about the utter shock some "Today Show" talking heads had at the relative popularity of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
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By Snubbing Margaret Thatcher, Obama Makes Himself SmallAs Margaret Thatcher, without a doubt the greatest prime minister that Great Britain has had since Winston Churchill, is laid to rest there will not be a member of the Obama administration in attendance.
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A Return to the Moon Could Be a Commercial Enterprise, Supported by NASAWhile NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has flatly declared that an American led return to the moon will not occur in his lifetime, a number of parties in Congress, NASA, and in the private sector are working on that very thing.
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'Buckwild' May Be Revived in TexasA report in TMZ suggests that “Buckwild,” the now cancelled reality show that depicted the hi-jinks of young people living in West Virginia, may be coming to Texas in a revived form. Alaska is also being considered as a venue.
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Justin Bieber Shows Excessive Self-Obsession Regarding Anne FrankThe Washington Times relates how Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam and was so impressed he said, “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a Belieber.”
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Boston Marathon Bombing: Not the Finest Hour for Some MediaThe Boston Marathon Bombing was a pinprick compared to – say – 9/11. That is cold comfort for the death, the dismembered, and the wounded. It was the first terrorist outrage of its kind in America since the twin towers fell.
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'Defiance' a Science Fiction Western Worth a LookOne should give props for the people who created “Defiance,” whose pilot aired on the SyFy Channel for the first time recently. While it has echoes of “Babylon 5” and every western ever made, its setting has some originality.
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NASA Engineers Developing New Version of the Apollo Era F-1 Rocket EngineEngineers working on the heavy lift Space Launch System, envisioned to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit, are pursuing a back to the future approach by examining the engines that sent astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.
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In 'Walk of Punishment,' 'Game of Thrones' Gives a Lesson in Fiscal PolicyIn the latest episode of “Game of Thrones,” entitled “Walk of Punishment,” along with the usual murders and at least two attempted rapes, there is a nice and easy to understand lecture on fiscal policy and the perils of debt.
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'Veep' Returns with 'Midterms,' a Disaster for Some, an Opportunity for Selina“Veep,’ the dark comedy about a hapless female Vice President, Selina Meyer, played by Julia-Louise Dreyfus, has returned for a second season with “Midterms,” which turns out to be both a disaster for the party in power and an opportunity for Meyer.
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Gov. Rick Perry Invites Connecticut Gun Maker to Come to TexasPTR, an arms manufacturer based in Bristol, Connecticut, has announced its intention to leave that state thanks to the recent passage of gun control laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook Massacre, according to the Harford Courant.
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No Reforms to Entitlements Pledge Shows Political InsanityThe Daily Caller reports that a group of liberals is circulating a letter for Democratic office holders to sign that would pledge not to vote for any reforms to entitlements, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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Howard Dean Should Run in 2016 as an IndependentHoward Dean, the former Vermont governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has offered a version of his famous scream as he threatened to leave the Democratic Party over Obama’s budget proposal, according to Newsbusters.
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'Payback': A Guilty Pleasure of Crooks and Worse Crooks Starring Mel Gibson“Payback” which starred Mel Gibson in his prime as a criminal named “Porter” (he was “Parker” in the books) is one of my guilty pleasures. Porter is a character without a whiff of redeeming values, except that his victims tend to be other crooks.
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Critics Decry Cuts in Planetary Science in NASA Budget ProposalThe FY 2014 NASA budget proposal recently presented by the Obama administration has drawn fire from at least one influential space organization. The Planetary Society believes that NASA is being profoundly austere where planetary science is concerned.
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Tesla Hints at Texas Assembly Plant to Build Electric Pickup TrucksIn his efforts to influence Texas lawmakers to see things his way on issues like allowing factory owned dealerships, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is dangling the possibility of building an assembly plant in Texas for his line of electric cars.
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Media Blackout of Gosnell Trial Gives Support to Pro-Life PositionThose reading this who have not heard of Kermit Gosnell or his trial for murder that had been going on for almost a month as of this writing might be forgiven for that. But the matter of Dr. Gosnell deserves to be the trial of the century.
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North Korean Nuclear Missiles: Time for Concern but Not Yet PanicThe revelation that North Korea may have developed a way to put a nuclear warhead inside a missile is a reason for concern, albeit not panic. The New York Times is comparing the news to assessments over 10 years ago that Iraq had WMDs.
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In 'The Americans' Gregory is Told 'Only You' Can Take the FallIn “The Americans” latest episode “Only You” another death occurs as a result of the murder of Amador by Philip and the subsequent murder of a young KGB agent named Vlad by Stan in an act of revenge.
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Speculation Mounts on Rick Perry Being 'Comeback Kid' for 2016 RunThanks to his less than stellar performance in his abortive 2012 presidential bid, whatever political future Texas Gov. Rick Perry might have was all but written off by the media. But there are some indications that he may become the latest comeback kid.
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NASA Proposal Reignites Asteroid vs. Return to the Moon ControversyNASA’s FY2014 budget proposal contains $100 million to snag an asteroid, bring it closer to Earth, and then visit it with astronauts, a relatively cheap way of fulfilling President Obama’s mission to an asteroid mandate.
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Rand Paul Brave to Sell Libertarianism at Howard UniversityThe late Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil used to say that if a politician does not ask for someone’s vote, he or she is not likely to get it. It was in that spirit that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. went to Howard University, a historically black college.
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MTV Cancels 'Buckwild,' and a Good Thing, TooThe Hollywood Reporter relates that MTV has cancelled the “reality show” called “Buckwild” after one of the cast members, Sain Gandee, was found dead in his truck from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Lone Star College Stabbing Spree Sparks New Gun Control DebateA mass stabbing at a Houston Area community college, Lone Star College at Cy-Fair, has resulted in 14 injuries and yet another debate on gun control. Lone College is, as are many colleges, a gun free zone.
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NASA Capturing an Asteroid: Do it in House, Do it Commercially, or Don't Do ItAs reported in a number of media sources, the new Obama budget proposal will include a $100 million down payment for a plan to capture an asteroid, bring it closer to Earth, and then visit it with astronauts.
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Obama Budget Proposal Proves He'd Rather Fight Than Fix the DeficitPresident Obama is releasing a new budget proposal for FY 2014 that features new taxes on the rich, “modest new investments” (i.e. more spending) in infrastructure and education, and some entitlement reforms, according to the Washington Post.
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Why Iraqis Think that the Liberation of Iraq was Worth ItIt has become a kind of cliché in the United States that the liberation of Iraq was not worth the blood and treasure expended on it, that it was President George W. Bush’s biggest mistake, if not his biggest atrocity.
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NASA-Funded Fusion Rocket Project Under DevelopmentAccording to Extreme Tech, researchers at the University of Washington are attempting to develop a prototype of a fusion rocket which, if it works, could propel humans to Mars in less than a month rather than several months.
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How a Ship with a Laser Cannon Will Change Naval WarfareWhen the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport dock ship converted to an Afloat Forward Staging Base, sails to the Persian Gulf next, she will be making as much history as the first warship to mount cannon.
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Houston Pastor Joel Osteen Victim of Internet HoaxHouston pastor Joel Osteen of the Lakewood Church was the victim of an elaborate internet hoax that falsely suggested that he had not only left the church he founded in 1999, but Christianity itself, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin: Sadly, the Sit-Down that Never WasOne of the regrets surrounding the death of Margaret Thatcher is that one of the great summits between two female statesmen never took place. It is well known that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wanted to meet Thatcher. But it was not to be.
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'Hannibal' the Series Begins with a Bite“Hannibal” the series brings back the iconic serial killing Dr. Hannibal Lecter, most famously portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in a series of movies. The artistic choices that the series makes are interesting to say the least.
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Russia Turns Its Sights to the Moon While NASA Vows to 'Lead from Behind'A piece in Space-Travel.com reports that Russia, in the wake of the failure of its latest robotic probe to the Mars moon Phobos, is directing its deep space exploration efforts toward the moon with at least three robotic probes planned.
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'Mad Men' Steps Through 'The Doorway' Toward 1968“Mad Men” has returned for a new season with a two hour episode “The Doorway” which is set just before and during New Years, 1968. That means that the ad men and women and those who love them have interesting times ahead.
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Ron Paul Starts a Home-School CurriculumAccording to a story in the Daily Caller, Ron Paul, a libertarian-minded former congressman from Texas, has developed his own home-school curriculum for grades K-12 based on his ideas of individual liberty.
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Why the Government Should Be Told: Hands Off Our ChildrenLegal Insurrection points to a video from MSNBC in which someone named Melissa Harris-Perry laments the quaint notion that children belong to their parents and not, as she puts it, to the “entire community.”
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Is it Really Time for 'Crossfire' to Return from the Dead on CNN?Politico is reporting that CNN is mulling bringing back “Crossfire,” one of the original partisan, political screaming, yelling over one another talk shows. It started in 1982 and ended in 2005 in its original form.
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Margaret Thatcher is Now with the AgesMargaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female prime minister, has died of a stroke at the venerable age of 87. Considering her frail health, it was not unexpected, but at the same time her passing is soul stirring in its astonishment.
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Gambling Expansion Debated in TexasThe Houston Press notes that two bills have been filed in the Texas Legislature that would expand opportunities for Texans to legally gamble. Both pieces of legislation face an uphill battle in the conservative Lone Star state.
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Inspiration Mars Mulls Launch Vehicles, Other Issues for Interplanetary FlightThe Inspiration Mars Foundation recently made a presentation to the Future in Space Operations Working Group which discussed the various issues surrounding its scheme to send astronauts on a 501 day flyby mission to Mars.