By Alan Caruba It’s taken since 2008 and two elections, but as Obama moves into his second term he is beginning to lose traction with Americans, including those who have supported him and who give him approval ratings in the fifty percent bracket. Previous second term presidents have enjoyed comparable ratings, but they tend to…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Goodbye to a very GREEN Business Week
. By Alan Caruba In late 2010 I let my subscription to The Economist expire and now I am going to do that for Bloomberg Business Week. In the February 18-24 edition of Business Week, an editorial, “The Right Way Forward on Climate Change”, contained this gem: “Still, the U.S. accounts for about 19 percent…
What the Sex Lives of California Mice Can Tell You
By Alan Caruba According to Cheryl Rosenfeld, an associate professor of biomedical sciences in the University of Missouri’s Bond Life Science Center, loading up a bunch of California mice with a mega-dose of bisphenol A (BPA) showed researchers that “What we have observed in those models is that BPA affects male rodents differently from females.”…
Obama’s Carbon Dioxide Lies
By Alan Caruba The utter desperation of the “Warmists”, the advocates of global warming—now called climate change—is evident in a recent “study” reported in the Daily Caller in which “an international team of researchers” concluded that “earthworms could be contributing to global warming.” Earthworms! That’s how stupid they think the public is. It is useful…
Losing the Battle with Islam
By Alan Caruba “Egypt, the largest Arab state, the second largest recipient of U.S. military air, and our second most important ally in the Middle East, is now in the hands of a hostile regime—an elected one at that—which we continue to treat as a friendly one,” says Raymond Stock in a recent article published…
The Worst Little Town in America: Coburg, Oregon
Worst Little Town in America: Coburg, Oregon By Scott Rohter, February 2013 When I was a young man I traveled from Chicago to the Deep South. The year was 1971. I had just lost my job at the United States Post Office.. Yes in those days there actually was a United States Post Office!…
Enemies of the Constitution
By Alan Caruba Perhaps the stupidest idea given an airing in a recent edition of The New York Times is Prof. Louis Michael Seidman’s opinion, “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution.” According to his commentary, Prof. Seidman has “taught constitutional law for almost 40 years” and he was “ashamed” it took him that long to…
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