Twenty-nine years ago record drought and fires hit the West and no one seemed to notice. Frustrated, I sent query letters to the three largest East Coast newspapers, and to my surprise, The New York Times answered. My article on the West’s drought and fires ran in August 1988 in the New York Times Magazine…
Featured Posts, Larry Bell
Stop China From Playing Both Sides on NKorea
I posted an article last Monday arguing that we cannot forever place our nation’s future in the hands of a paranoid nut job with his finger on the launch buttons of missiles capable of detonating nuclear warheads over the continental United States. The following day, Kim Jong Un demonstrated a capability to make good on…
Calvin Beisner, Featured Posts
Who Is this Humble, Brilliant Scientist, and What Makes Him a Revolutionary?
When I watched Revolutionary, two things struck me about Michael Behe: his amazing brilliance, and his even more amazing humility. Michael Behe is an extraordinary microbiologist, but he’s more. He’s a disciplined, persistently logical thinker, and he understands well what marks off the fruit of intelligence from the fruit of non-intelligence. It’s not complexity (the…
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Huckabee calls for Drastic Louis Lerner Action
By Ben Marquis The IRS agreed in October to settle legal challenges filed against them that stemmed from the group’s years-long targeting and bullying of conservative and tea party groups that sought taxexempt status. According to The Washington Times, former IRS official Lois Lerner–who headed up the division that oversaw tax-exempt status applications–as well as…
Viv Forbes
Letter to the Editor:
Back to Bolted-Down Industries Once upon a time Australia was attractive to processing, refining and manufacturing industries using our abundant mineral and food resources, our reliable low-cost coal-fired electricity and a workforce trained in technical skills. No longer. Australia used to have 11 oil refineries, spread around the country. There are just 4 left, all…
Janice E Hood, Visitor Posts
To The Editor
Here is my response to “bow the knee.” I was appalled last year when I heard that an NFL football player refused to salute the American flag. The same player is this year’s “citizen of the year,” according to Gentlemen’s Quarterly magazine. Well, as you know this has escalated into a type of “movement” that…