Back in the days of silent films, the weekly thrill a minute serial kept audiences on the edge of their seats,ending each week with the heroine or the hero facing looming disaster. For the past three decades, there has been a steady claim that the earth was facing disaster unless the world’s leading economies made substantial changes in how their populations live.| MORE ›

Radical historian Howard Zinn has died. My sympathies go to his family. I will offer some thoughts about his work as a historian at a later time. This is not the time for a critical analysis of his work as a scholar. It is worth reporting that Mr. Zinn was a World War II veteran of the US Army Air Corps. Like Senator George McGovern, another World War II veteran Mr.| MORE ›

I am a strong supporter of the First Amendment right to free speech.| MORE ›

The special election in Massachusetts is over, and the unexpected has occurred. A conservative Republican has been elected to fill the senate seat held for 47 years by Robert M. Kennedy, who came to be called the Liberal Lion of the Senate. Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley should be a wake up call – to the leadership of both major political parties.| MORE ›

After his election, I wished President-elect Obama well in the Oval office, and encouraged him to remember that many of the people who voted for him were voting for a centrist government, not a progressive one. The general public approval was high, and people were excited about the new President’s plans.| MORE ›

Nearly two weeks after a close call on a Detroit bound flight, The President of the United States finally recognized something which had been obvious to most ordinary men and women in the street on December 25, 2009: The system failed. Dear Watson, that fact was elementary.| MORE ›

A short teaser. More later, when I have more time. There are several good posts and threads of comments on Man Made Global Warming (AGW for the PC) on the Volokh Conspiracy. Ilya Somin’s recent post, yesterday,entitled “‘Climategate’ and the Social Validation of Knowledge” is worth looking at.| MORE ›

Is the climate changing, and are we responsible?  It is a hotly debated question. However, the lack of readily accessible data, and the reluctance of some of the climate researchers to make all their data and research material available to skeptics has made some of the skeptics suspicious that perhaps the work wasn’t entirely up to generally recognized scientific standards.| MORE ›

It’s STILL the economy, and stupid decisions by sixty years of politicians are coming home to roost. California is in economic collapse, and it isn’t pretty. The only way to correct the state of affairs will be painful, and cost everyone some grief, and plenty of cold cash. Economic irresponsibility has been a fine tradition in the Golden State.| MORE ›

President Obama’s health care bill has been getting the majority of coverage for the last couple of months. It may not only be in trouble politically, but it is increasingly obvious that it is not going to reduce expenditures, and will probably increase the deficit. But the health care bill is small change compared to the other big bill pushed through by the Democratic party faithful.| MORE ›