Michael Fumento
In retrospect, you knew there would be trouble when you put the people responsible for the Space Shuttle program in charge of tracking U.S. temperatures. So perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a big surprise when it was revealed that…
What makes you fat? Eating cheesy-poofs while watching Sex in the City reruns? Wolfing down a Wendy’s “Baconator,” comprising a double cheeseburger with six strips of bacon that could feed everyone in Darfur for a week? How about when you…
“Breast Cancer Link to Racial Discrimination.” No doubt that Reuters headline, and others like it, pleased race-baiters who would have us think every problem blacks have is due to persistent prejudice. Sadly for them, the report is politically correct trash…
“This war is winnable.” I can’t say how often during my recent embed in the southern Afghanistan Province of Zabul, just north and east of Kandahar, I heard officers and noncoms say that. Implicit is that it’s also losable; but…
This article appears in the May 2007 issue of The American Spectator. Click here to subscribe. If you or a loved one is currently ill or planning to be so in the near future, don’t bother looking to embryonic stem…
The fatter we become the greater our desire to blame that fatness on something — anything — other than eating too much and moving too little. The entire gazillion-dollar diet book industry is based on this premise and people keep…
John Edwards, being neither a woman nor a racial minority, isn’t doing especially well in his campaign to become the Democratic Party’s candidate for the U.S. presidency. Alas for him, if he were half as successful in campaigning for America’s…
“Religious Right Cited False Report to Combat Embryonic Stem Cell Legislation.” So reads the lede of a thread (an Internet posting followed by commentaries) of a group called “DEFCON: Campaign to Defend the Constitution.” Translation: DEFCON hates the religious right…
It’s enough to make you want to arf. Our pooches are growing paunches at an alarming rate. Five percent of the over 60 million dogs in this country are considered obese, meaning at least 20 percent over ideal weight. Almost…
As flu season arrives in North America, the media and their anointed health experts are squawking once again about how we could be blindsided by an avian flu pandemic that some have estimated could kill a billion persons worldwide. New…
