Global warming could make Montana a wine region
CODY JENSEN/MissoulianVolunteer "plucker" Bryce Young searches the vine for more grapes to add to his tub at Ten Spoon in October 2011.Related DocumentsWine grape growing by 2050 mapClimate change...
View ArticleTeacher's resignation letter: 'My profession no longer exists'
Valerie Strauss, The Washington PostIncreasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they have had...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher, "The Iron Lady"
Margaret Thatcher1925-2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_thatcher***Alan: Although I support organized labor (always in theory and often in practice), a year in Liverpool (1976-1977) persuaded...
View ArticleLate Term "Survivable" Abortion. (My Fellow Leftists Should Be Ashamed.)
I will not "lead" with a photograph of an aborted fetus.However, such photos should be looked at, just as we should see soldiers' coffins returning to Dover Air Force Base and other evidence of...
View ArticleGun Cartoons (from The Washington Post)
If an abundance of guns makes us safe,why isn't America the safest place on earath?Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliographyhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons.html***"Gun Control...
View ArticleNew Science Standards Include Global Warming Curriculum
Christiaan Camilo, 14, left, an eighth-grader at Washington Irving Middle School in Los Angeles, checks out a three-dimensional model of a human body torso in the Energy Science Lab at the Sally Ride...
View ArticleWhy is widespread exploitation of shale oil having no downward effect on the...
Alan: Growing demand - coupled with relatively inelastic supply - will continue to boost the price of gasoline. Yes, there will be occasional dips in this trendline, but the overall trajectory is...
View ArticleQuotations (gleaned in the 1990s)
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? Stanislaw LecThe modern world is a culture of death. Pope John Paul IINecrophilia grows as the development of biophilia is stunted. Erich...
View ArticleTorquato Tasso: What he found in princely dwellings...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torquato_Tasso***"I thought that in princely dwellings folk would exhibit a highermoral quality since they possess all the copious plenitude that may adornour nature. I...
View ArticleEphemera, Alan Archibald (1997-2000)
(Alan: The following letters-to-the-editor were mostly submitted to Durham, North Carolina's Independent Weekly.October 26, 2000Editor (The Independent),I was encouraged by Hal Crowther's recent...
View ArticleCatholic Leaders Killed During Argentina's Brutal Dictatorship Could Be...
ALFREDO LEADENNacido el 23 de mayo de 1919 en Buenos Aires, Capital FederalALFREDO JOSÉ KELLYNacido el 5 de mayo de 1933 en Suipacha, Bs. As. PEDRO EDUARDO DUFAUNacido el 13 de octubre de 1908 en...
View ArticleJon Stewart Takes Hilarious Swipes At Kim Jong Un
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View ArticleRichard Cohen: The Death Penalty Is Insane
Human Sacrifice***By Richard Cohen, Published: April 9, 2013When it comes to the death penalty, the only thing the United States can do is plead the insanity defense. The rest of the advanced world has...
View ArticleGuilt Enhances Pleasures, Thus Contributing To Carnal Indulgence
"Sex without guilt is like an egg without salt." Pablo PicassoThe Weird Reason You OvereatYou know how this goes. You're aware that having a second donut is overkill, but you blissfully indulge...
View ArticleLest We Forget The National Lunacy
"At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax...
View ArticleRonald Reagan On The Separation Of Church And State
Ronald Reagan Was America's Only Divorced President: He was not a notably religious man.***What Would Reagan Really Do?http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/07/09/what-would-reagan-really-do.html
View ArticleUninformed, Presumptuous Republican Have No Clue Concerning Reagan's Record
What Would Reagan Really Do?http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/07/09/what-would-reagan-really-do.html
View ArticleRonald Reagan Supported Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants
What Would Reagan Really Do?http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/07/09/what-would-reagan-really-do.html
View ArticleRonald Reagan Supported Gun Control
What Would Reagan Really Do?http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/07/09/what-would-reagan-really-do.html
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