by Will Durst Dear Canada. Way to go, you hosers. Did yourself proud and put on one heck of an Olympics. Congratulations for providing an incredible 17 days of thrills and spills on the ice and snow and in the slush and fog. That was a winter games for the ages, except for that excruciatingly obvious [...]

By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann All aspects of President Obama’s Chicago-style tactics are on display as he cajoles, bullies, and bribes the House to pass his health care proposals despite the overwhelming public rejection with which they have been met. To some, he offers bribes.  Congressman Jim Matheson, endange

“President Obama’s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall. The 10-year outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Offi

NEW YORK (AP) — “As planes waited to take off from Kennedy Airport, the jargon-packed radio chatter between controllers and pilots was interrupted by a young boy’s voice: ‘JetBlue 171, cleared for takeoff.” An air traffic controller who brought his son to work let the youngster read a few r

ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2010) —” Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a “snowball Earth” event long suspected to have taken place around that time. Led by scientists at Harvard University, the team reports on its work in the

“Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be “an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach” to gut the credibility of skeptics. In private e-mails obtained by The Washing

Three friends married women from different parts of the country….. The first man married a woman from Utah . He told her that she was to do the dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day, he came home to see a clean houseand dishes washed and put away. The [...]

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try again. With Plans A, B and C hav ing failed miserably, President Obama yesterday unveiled his latest “new and improved” version of health-care reform. He says that this incarnation “incorporates the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans

“The assassination of senior Hamas militant leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on Jan. 19 is still generating a tremendous amount of discussion and speculation some six weeks after the fact. Dubai’s police force has been steadily releasing new information almost on a daily basis, which has been driving the news cycle [.

These spectacular ‘blue marble’ images are the most detailed views of Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite images, scientists painstakingly stitched together months of observations to create these montages which show the surface of the continents and oceans in stunning detail. Read more: http://w

“A string of electoral defeats and the great unpopularity of ObamaCare can’t stop Democrats from their self-appointed rendezvous with liberal destiny—ramming a bill through Congress on a narrow partisan vote. What we are about to witness is an extraordinary abuse of traditional Senate rules to pass a bill mere

By Tom Purcell It’s frightening, if you want to know the truth. I speak of the reversal of fortunes in the housing market. Research firm First American CoreLogic reported last week that 24 percent of all homes with mortgages — some 11.3 million — are “underwater,” worth less than what their own

Christopher Booker has written a fascinating article in the Telegraph entitled: “A Perfect Storm Is Brewing For The IPCC“.  Here, in part, is an enticement to have you read the entire article: … “The chief defence offered by the warmists to all those revelations centred on the IPCC’s last 2007

by Will Durst You’ve seen “ER” and I’ve seen “ER” and I think we can both agree that if bipartisan health care reform were a patient, Doctor Obama would be dejectedly dropping the paddles, ripping off his mask and asking Nurse Pelosi to call it. Oh, yeah. It’s finished. Done with. K

For several years, a man had been having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided to him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go back to Italy to secretly have the child. Also, if she [...]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – “A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fat

Fun Goes Downhill By Tom Purcell Now that thick snow has blanketed much of the country, we all know what that means: more sledding bans. In Massachusetts, says The Week Magazine, a movement is afoot to crack down on the pastime. Many Massachusetts communities are posting warning signs or issuing outright bans. A state lawma

“A big study finds that people with narrowed neck arteries that could lead to a stroke can be safely treated with a less drastic option than the surgery done now. Doctors say that hundreds of thousands of Americans a year might be able to have an artery-opening procedure and a stent instead of surgery to remove [...]

Washington (CNN) – “A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll. Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and power

“The House ethics committee’s decision to admonish New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel over improper corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean leaves Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the ethics committee itself facing difficult questions. When then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was admonished by the ethics co

Hinsdale Central’s Avery Anderson has the ball ripped from her grasp by Bolingbrook’s Morgan Tuck. Bolingbrook used a strong third quarter to defeat Hinsdale Central 61-42 in the Class 4A Oswego East Sectional semifinals Monday. Leading Bolingbrook were Morgan Tuck (21 points, 10 rebounds) and Ariel Massengale

…. “A large laser mounted to the front of a modified 747 jet successfully detected and shot down a ballistic missile while both were in mid-flight. The airborne laser program – part Star Wars (the sci-fi flick) and part Star Wars (the Strategic Defense Initiative) – has taken years of work and billions of do

So, it wasn’t just me yesterday dealing with a quirky Facebook Application, read on: NEW YORK (AP) —Users in the U.S. and other countries reported problems beginning Saturday morning. Some could not log in, and the site was unusually slow and glitchy for others. Users in London, Bangkok and Mexico City reported

… “President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are preparing to begin the reconciliation process after next week’s bipartisan White House health care summit. “They are coming out of the summit guns-a-blazing and they’re committed to reconciliation,” said

Charles Krauthammer, in an article entitled “Excuses for Obama’s Failure to Lead“, writes in part: …. “It’s 2010 and the first-year agenda of a popular and promising young president has gone down in flames. Barack Obama’s two signature initiatives — cap-and-trade and health ca

… “Green Bay finished 31st out of 32 teams, marking the fourth time in the past five seasons in which the Packers have fielded one of the league’s worst special teams units. They were last for both the 2005 and ’06 seasons and 26th in 2008. The 2009 Packers were charged with 460 1/2 points in [...]