Hurricanes Not Linked To Global Warming

Expert disputes storms' link to global warming Chris Landsea, science and operations director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said the notion that global warming is causing an increase in hurricanes gained widespread attention after the stormy seasons of 2004 and...

Reactionary Science Debunked

Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st CenturyIs this really the end of the world?  Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods? No, we simply live on an active planet.  Earthquakes are continuous, a million and a half of them every year, or three every...

NYTimes Misleads About Global Warming, Again

"In very large type, the New York Times Jan. 16 proclaimed "The warming of Greenland." But as has become increasingly typical of their reporting on climate change, that's only about half the news that's fit to print. " In other words, they make it up as they go.

Universal Health Care - Another Stupid Idea Out of California

"The California governor's plan would require employers with 10 workers or more to buy insurance for their workers or pay a fee of 4 percent of their payroll into a program to help provide coverage for the uninsured.Schwarzenegger would tax doctors 2 percent of their...

Chinese Kill 18 Terrorists on Pakistan Border

"Chinese police raided an alleged terrorist camp in a western mountain region near the border with Pakistan, killing 18 suspects and arresting 17, a police official said Monday. Song Hongli, director of the general office of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, said the raid...

Communist Archbishop Resigns

"The hand of history in Eastern Europe continues to reach from the communist past - most dramatically in Sunday's resignation of Stanislaw Wielgus, Archbishop of Warsaw, a half hour before his inauguration as the central figure in the powerful Polish Catholic Church. Mr....

France Should Face Trial, For Genocide

"There seems to be an unwritten rule among Western leaders not to question each other’s foreign policies too closely. But genocide cannot be allowed to be so cynically forgotten. Tony Blair has a duty to ask some deeply troubling questions about how and why the...

Climate Shift Helped Destroy China's Tang Dynasty

"The first two periods occurred at key moments during the last Ice Age, while the last ran from around 700 to 900. Each of these monsoon shifts coincided with what was, relative to the climate epoch, unusually cold weather.The twilight of the Tang began in 751, when the...

UN Peacekeepers Accused of Raping 12 Year Olds

"The first indications of sexual exploitation emerged within months of the U.N. force's arrival, and the Daily Telegraph has seen a draft of an internal report compiled by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF in July 2005 detailing the problem. But the United Nations has...

Homeless Go Hungry, Health Dept. Shuts Down Church Kitchens

"The county health department wasn't being capricious. It was just enforcing its rules. There had been a complaint. No one had gotten sick, but an "advocate for the homeless" noticed that church kitchens, which appeared sparkling clean to my ABC team, didn't...

America Was Based on Religion

"Once almost universally acknowledged to be founded by religious men whose values were grounded in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, the average college graduate is now ignorant of the religious bases of this society, and certain that it was founded to be, and has always...

The Fradulent Claim of Palestine

"Candor requires a straightforward recognition that 2007 won’t see the Palestinians realizing their cherished dream of re-establishing their beautiful, noble, once flourishing homeland since that homeland never existed as a nation state and most certainly never flourished....

Saddam's Execution: God's Gift to Iraqis

"During a Friday sermon, the sheikh described Saddam’s execution as ‘‘God’s gift to Iraqis’’ and prayed ‘‘Oh God, you know what Saddam has done. He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he...

Somali Immigrants Want Airport Prayer Room

The airport suggested that Somalis use the room already set aside for that purpose, the Somali response: “Where you have Christians and Muslims praying at the same time, it will create a problem,” Original story is here, subscription.