The big news in the climate-change world came not from Davos this past week, although the sirocco of gaseous blatherskite pouring from the mouths of the assembled climatistas and rushing down the Swiss mountainside had to raise the temperature of…
Let’s be polite and call Al Gore’s recent remarks “colorful.” As the former vice president addressed the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, he seemed to have tumbled off an Alp and into the deep end of Lake Davos. Gore spoke…
Do you remember back when you were in school and your math or science teacher gave a test in class in which you were asked to solve a problem or two and you were explicitly admonished to show your work?…
Tim Young was exactly right on Saturday. Young, the excellent conservative comedian and political commentator, took to Twitter after viewing the insulting Shanksville speech former President George W. Bush dropped onto the heads of the American people, and dropped some…
This week in New York City, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was raised. I’ve watched the video several times, and it’s like watching a train wreck — I can’t look away. As it was raised, many of the tree’s lower…
It is the clarion call, the siren call, from the Democrat-Media-Left Alliance: “Think of the good of the country. Now is a time for healing. Stop investigating ballot fraud. What we need now is unity.” You want unity? That’s fair….
Here’s a modest proposal for Berit Reiss-Andersen, Henrik Syse, Thorbjørn Jagland, Anne Enger, and Asle Toje, also known as the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee: why not give your prize, for a change, to somebody who actually deserves it? No, you…
Most popes urge austerity as a means of saving one’s soul. Pope Francis urges it for a different reason: to save the planet. In keeping with that temporal focus, he called this last week for humans to adopt “simpler” lifestyles…
At this point in the 1988 presidential cycle, it was taken for granted among pundits and professional prognosticators that Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis would defeat Vice President George H. W. Bush by a comfortable margin. Moreover, public opinion seemed to…