President Bush is struggling to find an acceptable compromise position on global warming. For years, he has said that the time wasn’t right to act on global warming. He rejected the Kyoto Protocol, dismissed setting benchmarks for carbon dioxide emissions, and repeatedly claimed that the issue needed further study. Lately, he’s been [...]

Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears: meet the latest group of young starlets in trouble. “Entertainment” magazines revel in their partying and excess, while more legitimate news outlets scornfully deride the “message that they send to young women”.
It’s all a bunch of bull. Newsflash: college-aged kids get into trouble. They drink [...]

There is no such thing as the “literal truth” of the Bible. I say this in response to the numerous reports about the Creation Museum that just opened in a suburb of Cincinnati, which claim that the museum is based on the “literal truth” of the Bible. Now, to be fair, the articles [...]

There is an interesting situation going on in Texas right now, that I’m keeping an eye on and I thought was worth mentioning. The speaker of the house (Craddick) is unpopular for his strong-arm tactics, and using his authority in inappropriate ways.
So, his opponents want to unseat him by voting him out of the [...]

This new immigration compromise bill is quite the monstrous piece of legislation. I’ve been trying to get a good grasp on it for awhile now, and I still have no idea what all of its provisions are, or if it will be on balance a good or bad thing. My gut reaction is [...]

According to this article, the new postage hike is going to disproportionately affect some Alaskans in remote villages. The reason is that they live in villages for which there are no roads, and all their food has to be shipped to them by air. And so, since the 1970’s, the rest of America [...]

I’m sick and tired of the character assassinations of critics. The last straw, for me anyway, has come with the reaction from the right to President Carter’s scathing indictment of President Bush’s foreign policy. In case you missed it, Carter made the following statement in an interview, published by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on [...]

The average price of gasoline in the United States is now within a penny of the historical inflation-adjusted record, set in 1981. Now, personally this doesn’t bother me much. On a personal level, my wife and I drive a Honda Civic on which we put less than 500 miles a month, on average. [...]

I’ve heard a lot about Christopher Hitchens’ new book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. I spent a good deal of time today standing in the bookstore, reading the first few chapters of it–and while I certainly didn’t read all of it, I feel comfortable enough with the book to share my [...]

Wolfowitz needs to go. Not because he fought for invading Iraq, or because he got his girlfriend an absurdly large pay raise. He needs to quit because he is, and always has been, the wrong man for the job. To demonstrate, let’s go through his saga, from the time when he was [...]