We now have official numbers for the federal deficit for the last fiscal year: a record $1.4 trillion. According to the Washington Post, this comes to 10% of the entire economy. This is four times the already large deficit last year. In fact, it’s more
If you try to pull off a scam, do not trust your six year old to back you up. He is likely to let slip the truth. See Colorado sheriff says parents concocted tale of boy’s flight in balloon, charges expected.
More anti-conservative, Bible-hating conservatism: Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, is sponsoring a Book burning for Halloween. And what they are burning, like the devil’s own children, are Bibles. Here is a copy of the announcement: Come to our Halloween book burning. We
Carl Cannon on Rush Limbaugh not being allowed to own a part of the St. Louis Rams: Conservatives suggested this week, not unreasonably, that if one of their own is ever to be awarded a peace prize, an organization other than the Nobel committee is
You know that new particle collider that was supposed to isolate the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” which supposedly gives particles their mass? And how some people worried that the experiment might create a black hole that would destroy the earth? Well, the collider
T. S. Eliot said it best: I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. I will celebrate this day by not provoking any arguments on this blog and by spreading good cheer with the recommendation
I have just finished a book that I am going to count among my favorites of all time. It is that good. You have GOT to read it. It’s entitled Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of
There are now more U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than there ever were during the Bush administration. From The Washington Post: President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House
A previously obscure painting has been identified as a work of Leonardo da Vinci with the discovery that the artist’s fingerprint is on the painting. Here it is:
The Senate now has a specific health care reform bill to consider now that the Senate Finance Panel Passes a $829 Billion Health Plan: The Senate Finance Committee approved an $829 billion plan to overhaul U.S. health care, clearing the way for a full Senate
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