Afghanistan, Bananistan

By Alan Caruba | 10/28/09

Though it pains me deeply, I have to agree with President Obama’s reluctance to send more troops into Afghanistan. Perhaps he is thinking about the problems the Soviet Union encountered even though they had an estimated 100,000 troops there in the 1990s? Perhaps he is wondering why the United States has been there now for eight years with not much to show for it? I am not interested in the “politics” of the... read more »

Democrat Lies and Healthcare Reform

By Alan Caruba | 10/27/09

Whatever healthcare legislation is passed will be (a) a pack of lies and (b) end up costing well beyond the estimates that range from hundreds of billions to beyond a trillion dollars. One way or the other, the DEMOCRATS led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will find a way to pass something, anything, called healthcare reform. It simply does not matter that most voters have concluded it is yet another liberal-inspired, utopian disaster.... read more »

Taking Away Your Choice

By Alan Caruba | 10/26/09

I am always amazed at the variety of choice that exists in my local supermarket. There are other supermarkets in the area, but the one I frequent most has lower prices on most items and almost anything you want to purchase allows one to select among several brands available. We Americans may not think much about choice when it comes to what we buy because we have so many choices. It is the mark of a free marketplace where competition ... read more »

How to be a Jerk

By Alan Caruba | 10/26/09

Let us begin with a fact that whole legions of global warming alarmists cannot wish away or hide from public view. The Earth has been cooling since 1998 and it is getting demonstrably cooler almost everywhere in the world. The cooling will continue for decades. So it follows that the best way to be a complete jerk is to have your book, “Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming”, published at the same time that a... read more »

Government List of Things that Could Kill You

By Alan Caruba | 10/25/09

  With the presidential announcement that H1N1, the “swine” flu, is now officially a national emergency, plus reports out of the CDC that not enough vaccine is available, I thought it might be helpful to provide a list of things that the government says could kill you. Right up there at the top is, of course, (1) global warming. President Obama and Al Gore says the entire planet is going to resemble a marshmallow at... read more »

Where are the Hurricanes, Mr. Gore?

By Alan Caruba | 10/23/09

That god among men and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, told us in “An Inconvenient Truth”, his Oscar-winning documentary, that we had to brace for increasing numbers of hurricanes as the result of global warming. So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore? The hurricane season that runs from June through October is about to end with nothing more than one weak to borderline moderate tropical storm that hit ... read more »

Using "Global Warming" to Steal your Rights

By Alan Caruba | 10/23/09

By now, anyone paying any attention whatever to the weather has begun to notice that it is getting colder earlier in the U.S. and that this is occurring around the world. On www.iceagenow.com, Robert W. Felix, the author of “Not by Fire, but by Ice” and “Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps”, reports on current weather events. A recent visit contains these items: Storm now heading for Ireland &... read more »

The Decline of U.S. Journalism

By Alan Caruba | 10/21/09

I was looking forward to reading Tom Fenton’s “Junk News: The Failure of the Media in the 21st Century”, a new book and part of a Fulcrum publishing series called the “Speakers Corner”; short books on contemporary issues. Fenton is a four-time Emmy winner from his years with CBS-TV news, but those years were during the era when Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather set the agenda and, as we now know, both were... read more »

The "Rent Seekers" - Green Corporations

By Alan Caruba | 10/20/09

In economics, “rent seeking” is a term that describes the process by which corporations, unions, trade groups, and individuals try to gain unfair advantages through politics and lobbying rather than via competitive trade in the free marketplace. Going “Green” has proven to be one of the favorite ways by which corporations position themselves to benefit. “Global warming” and the reduction of... read more »

Only Idiots Listen to these "Leaders"

By Alan Caruba | 10/19/09

Not long ago U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, told everyone they only had a few weeks in order to save the Earth from “climate change” and this week it’s the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Gordon Brown. Ever since he was Vice President and a defeated candidate for the presidency, Al Gore has been telling people the Earth is doomed. President Obama talks about climate change—remember when it used to be... read more »