"We had spent so much time building up the levee, and it didn't hold. We would have been better off getting stuff out of there," Sherburne, 29, said Thursday. Perhaps it might be better if private charity supplanted government welfare. It might be better if all nuclear weapons were privately owned. It certainl...(Read more...)
When France & Holland voted down the EU Constitution, rules called for it to be dropped. Unhindered, the Eurocrats redubbed the same sovereignty stripper as a "treaty" requiring no popular vote. Except in Ireland, whose constitution mandates a popular vote. Once again, Ireland has saved Europe from the barbarians.(Read more...)
From The History Channel: Not so long ago, civilization learned that it was no match for just a few degrees drop in temperature. Scientists call it the Little Ice Age--but its impact was anything but small. From 1300 to 1850, a period of cataclysmic cold caused havoc. It froze Viking colonists in Greenland, acce...(Read more...)
Will Al Gore now demand that we increase our carbon footprint? Here are a few interesting excerpts from the article: "Although periods of [sunspot] inactivity are normal for the sun, this current period has gone on much longer than usual and scientists are starting to worry — at least a little bit. [...] ...(Read more...)
Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.(Read more...)
PARIS, France (AP) -- A Paris court on Tuesday convicted Brigitte Bardot of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.
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