Obama and Interracial Marriage
When Obama's parents married, one in one thousand marriages was interracial.Today, one in six marriages is interracial.The Party of Angry White Guys needs more than window-dressing.Unless American...
View Article"The Heart Leans To The Left"
The heart does not lean toward lunacy.(That would be the ideological head.)http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/borowitz-report-house-science-committee.html
View ArticleStanford scientists explore new technologies that remove atmospheric CO2
Molecular Weight of CO2 by ConstituentOne Gallon of Gasoline Produces 20 Pounds of Carbon Dioxide (26 pounds of gas are produced when "upstream" CO2 production is taken into account.) It seems...
View ArticleCarbon Footprints -Straightforward, useful calculations
Carbon Footprints http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS09-05.pdfhttp://www.communityenergyinc.com/fileadmin/EnvCalculator/Methodology.html
View ArticleWhy Is Denmark The Happiest Country In The World?
Hamlet, the melancholy Dane***Denmark, with a 70% (yes, seventy percent) tax rate, is the happiest country in the world.Find out “why” at "Talk of the Nation" Neal Conan interviews Dan Buettner, author...
View ArticleAmerican Conservatives: From "America, love it or leave it" to "Take up arms...
The chief difference between "now" and "then" is the skin color of the guy on the wall.Colin Powell Chief of Staff: "The Republican Party is full of racists."***See "The Paranoid Style In American...
View ArticleConservatives grant citizenship path to Islamic Kenyan
"And we don't even pay 'em to do this stuff!Keep it up, GOP.Don't change a thing!"
View ArticleObama Gladdened By American Conservatives
Dang! Gotta love those Republicans!Not only eager to hang themselves, but they make such beautiful nooses!
View ArticleTom Toles Cartoon: "A sinking ship lifts all tides"
We are a nation of "amputee diabetics," blithely devouring sugar, certain our situation can be managed by "adjusting the insulin" we've used in the past.
View ArticleWhich developed nation guarantees its citizens the least vacation time?
Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for TheAtlantic.com.July 2, 2012There's no wrong way to celebrate American exceptionalism, but this might not be...
View ArticlePistorious case proves homes with firearms more dangerous than those without
South African prosecutors revealed for the first time what they claim happened on the night Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend was shot dead.***Alan: "Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography" -...
View ArticleTwo Reasons To Have Guns In The Home?
Two reasons not to have guns in the house.When every problem looks like a nail, every tool looks like a hammer.When every threat looks like an armed attacker, every solution looks like a...
View ArticleGeneral Stanley McChrystal (ret.) says U.S. should reinstitute the draft. I...
Retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal speaking at a January 2013 Brookings Institute conference. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)Alan: I agree with General McChrystal. "Proposal For Two...
View ArticleTeen Suicide and Guns In the Home: An Epidemic Scourge
Teen Suicide and GunsProtect Your TeenagerMany teens attempt suicide on impulse, and there’s no second chance with a gun.Counting on a teen’s ability to resist strong emotional impulses when there is a...
View ArticleCopernicus and the ongoing quest for "rest" at The Center
Nicolas Copernicus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus***Excerpt: “At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.” -- CopernicusEven Copernicus wanted the center to be "still." But what...
View ArticleFrontline: "Raising Adam Lanza"
Alan: “Pistorius case proves homes with firearms more dangerous than those without” - http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/pistorious-case-demonstrates-that-homes.htmlHow do you make sense of a...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: "RINOs need to take back the Republican Party"
Conservative columnist Parker is right.RHINOs should forget about taking the country back and start by taking their party back.If Tea Bag lunacy continues, the GOP will go the way of the whigs and it...
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