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Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway
Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway DUBLIN, N.H. The Old Farmer's Almanac is going further out on a limb than usual this year, not only forecasting a cooler winter, but looking ahead decades to suggest we are in for global cooling, not warming. Based on the same time-honored, complex calculations it uses to predict weather, the Almanac hits the newsstands on Tuesday saying a study of solar activity and corresponding records on ocean temperatu...
Sep 21, 2008, 9:58 am - angelm

Found 20 light years away: The New Earth
Found 20 light years away: the New Earth It's got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there. Above a calm, dark ocean, a huge, bloated red sun rises in the sky - a full ten times the size of our Sun as seen from Earth. Small waves lap at a sandy shore and on the beach, something stirs... This is the scene - or may be the scene - on what is possi...
Apr 25, 2007, 7:28 pm - Coin Toss

Climate Change Raises Risk of Species Extinction
BRUSSELS, Belgium (April 7) - As the world gets hotter by degrees, millions of poor people will suffer from hunger, thirst, floods and disease unless drastic action is taken, scientists and diplomats warned Friday in their bleakest report ever on global warming . All regions of the world will change, with the risk that nearly a third of the Earth's spec...
Apr 7, 2007, 4:15 am - LOTTOMIKE

U.S.-Iran Tensions Could Trigger War
BAGHDAD (Jan. 31) - Citing Iranian involvement with Iraqi militias and Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the Bush administration has shifted to offense in its confrontation with Iran - building up the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf and promising more aggressive moves against Iranian operatives in Iraq and Lebanon....
Feb 1, 2007, 2:08 am - LOTTOMIKE

4 Page Obituary of Saddam
Link via Powerline. First page below, 3 more after that giving Saddam's historical climb to power with well researched background. Worth the read .... shows he was a common thug not much different from a mafia king. Also keep in mind that relatives of UN members, France and Germany were receiving payola from Oil For Food covered in previous blog entries so were against the US invasion...
Dec 31, 2006, 10:29 am - konane

Online Gambling Ban a Bad Bet for Republicans
In the wee hours of the last night of the last session of Congress, Majority Leader Bill Frist attached a ban on Internet gambling to a port security bill. It was a dubious maneuver, which not only prevented any real floor debate over the ban, but also attached an intrusive, unnecessary, big government measure to a bill that addressed important national security concerns. This meant that any senator who held the position that what Americans do with their own money in their ow...
Oct 24, 2006, 7:29 am - LOTTOMIKE

Why Jihad is Doomed
I read a good article on www.Haaretz.com the site for the Ha'aretz Daily Newspaper Ltd I'd like to share it. (These are not my words.) It is written by Bradley Burston called A Special Place in Hell Why the jihad is doomed Even before the American Ce...
Sep 29, 2006, 2:58 am - justxploring

"Gamblin' Man
Gamblin' Man By Keith Taylor Source Tech Central Station Daily The House of Representatives voted passed -- by a margin of 317 to 93 -- a...
Jul 29, 2006, 6:29 pm - konane

"CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada
CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada by Phyllis Schlafly, July 13, 2005 Source EagleForum.org The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let...
Jun 3, 2006, 9:27 pm - konane

A win/win for the planet
Setting the immigration issue aside momentarily I believe in giving full credit where it's due. This has been and will be a win/win for the planet....
May 26, 2006, 10:53 am - konane