The EPA is at it again: The Obama administration set stricter limits on the amount of nitrogen dioxide in the air for short periods of time along busy roads and is requiring states to install monitoring equipment in big urban areas in an effort to crack down on pollution during periods of high traffic. Vehicles …
Tim Tebow's Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad: So How Will They Block the Beer Commercials?
This coup has the left in apoplexy: Instead, when Tim Tebow and his mother agreed to tell their story (of how Tim was born even when his mother was advised to abort him) in an ad that’s a part of Focus on the Family’s “Celebrate Life, Celebrate Family” campaign, an ad that cost Focus on …
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We Already Have a Feminised Church
I see that The Times' Ruth Gledhill is on the trail of this issue: The charity is in the process of doing research into why men don't come to church, and their questionnaire makes, for this woman anway, pretty reading. Read on for some of the reasons they suggest why real men might not like …
Option for the Democrats: Nationalise Medicaid
Now that the necessary "supermajority" in the Senate (a tenuous concept at best) is gone, the Democrats, like Lenin a century ago, are wondering: what is to be done? Here's a suggestion: nationalise (or more accurately federalise) Medicaid. Currently a joint venture of the states and the Feds, making it an entirely Federal program would …
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Canning Ben Bernanke: Hope You've Got a Good "Plan B"
The opposition to his renomination is, in some ways, simply amazing: In a statement Friday morning, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, came out against Mr. Bernanke, who was named to his post during the Bush administration. She said she had “a lot of respect” for him and praised him for preventing the economic crisis …
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Wind Can Power 20% of Eastern U.S.. But Would They Let It?
Reuters assures us this is so: Wind energy could generate 20 percent of the electricity needed by households and businesses in the eastern half of the United States by 2024, but it would require up to $90 billion in investment, according to a government report released on Wednesday. For the 20 percent wind scenario to …
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Choose Life
Since this is the day we're supposed to think about these things, I'm going to feature an album from The Ancient Star-Song that's a favourite of mine: Choose Life, from the School Sisters of Notre Dame (in Mankato, MN.) Since the album dates from 1976, I would think that, when they recorded the title track …
Strange Bedfellows: Liberals and Muslims
On the first day of this decade, one Muslim extremist broke into the apartment of Danish political cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose “Muhammad-in-a-bomb” cartoon’s publication in Jyllands-Posten ignited another round of rage in the Islamic world. Westergaard joins Salman Rushdie, Geert Wilders and others who are forced to live underground because they have drawn the ire …
Going Rogue in Combat Boots, Indeed
This piece is one of the best pieces I have seen in a long time on the state of the U.S., and where we might be heading: Angry and desperate veterans and mercenaries already conditioned to violence, merging with "tea baggers" and other alienated groups, could one day form our own Freikorps units, rioting for …
Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Bois Caïman Ceremony
In the midst of all of the conservative dancing in the streets about Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, the tragedy unfolding in Haïti continues to require both prayer and assistance. It isn't without controversy either; we're still batting about Pat Robertson's remarks about a pact with the Devil and its consequences. There's no doubt that's …
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Positive Infinity 