Sunday, January 31, 2010

Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. Taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Republicans plan to take a page out of the successful 1994 Contract With America this year and formulate a new statement telling the American people what they will do differently if they retake Congress this fall, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, tells Newsmax TV.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Lots of people will find jobs in the ‘moving’ industry as companies and people flee the state.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

WASHINGTON - Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Of all the responses to the devastation in Haiti, the most copy-worthy is televangelist Pat Robertson’s claim that the earthquake was divine retribution.  In making his case, he told a story about how Haitian leaders long ago made a pact with Satan, promising to serve him if he would help vanquish their French oppressors.  The Devil delivered, said Robertson, but the consequence is that the nation has ever since been cursed, with one disaster befalling it after another.  It was reminiscent of when the late Jerry Falwell said - and Robertson agreed - that those who have authored America’s descent into sin were partially responsible for 9/11.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Arizona state parks continue to make news and be used as a pawn in the budget chess game. Budget reductions approved by the legislature in December will likely result in some park closures. Parks that make money like Kartchner Caverns, Slide Rock, and Lake Havasu will stay open, while money losers will close. Many legislators continue to decry budget reductions to the Parks department, but also refuse to look at realistic alternatives.

In a one-two series of Climategate aftershocks that assuredly will further rattle the global warming community, a report has been issued by U.S. researchers accusing government agencies of cherry-picking temperature readings used to assess global temperatures, and a series of embarrassing e-mails were released revealing what happened when a blogger dared to point out a mistake by NASA climate scientists.