If you were to believe the mainstream media, you may think President Trump just proposed slashing federal spending and decreasing the size of government. Bless your heart. Here are the actual numbers: Trump's proposed budget plan: FY2018 outlays: $4.094 trillion FY2027 outlays: $5.708 trillion That's a 39.4 percent increase in federal spending over the next … Continue reading ‘Trump cuts spending’ is Fake News. He’s increasing it worse than Obama.
President Donald Trump has arrived in Italy for the G-7 summit, where foreign leaders will press him to abandon core elements of his “America First” agenda in favor of a more globalist agenda. As National Public Radio reported last week, “President Trump is expected to face pressure from European Union leaders … to keep the … Continue reading Trump Must Resist Pressure From Foreign Leaders to Cave in on Global Warming
When the American colonists complained that the British subjected them to taxation without representation, the British responded that the colonists’ interests were represented in Parliament. The colonists rejected that argument on the grounds that they didn’t consent to that representation. The principle of no taxation without representation doesn’t constrain government if government can impose unwanted … Continue reading No Representation without Consent – Not Even from Unions
In 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist in England, claimed he’d made one of the most important fossil discoveries ever. Ultimately, however, his “Piltdown Man” proved to be a hoax. By cleverly pairing a human skull with an orangutan’s jaw – stained to match and give the appearance of age – a mysterious forger duped … Continue reading Behind closed doors: What the Piltdown Man hoax from 1912 can teach science today
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday that “the president is the CEO of the country,” and thus “he can hire and fire whoever he wants. That’s his right.” Leaving aside the question of whether the president can fire everyone in the federal government, … Continue reading The President Is Not the Commander in Chief of the United States, Nor Its CEO
The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. According to a Pew survey, the percent of Americans having no religious affiliation reached 23 percent in 2014. Among such “nones,” 33 percent said that they do not believe in God – an 11 percent increase since only 2007.Such trends have … Continue reading Arguments why God (very probably) exists
Bill Nye has been in the news a lot lately, mostly as the result of the hyperbolic predictions he is prone to making, many of which are backed up with very little science. Whether it’s on gender identity, global warming, or philosophy, Nye can often be found serving up “a gold mine of fallacies, half-truths, … Continue reading Bill Nye’s Doomsday Predictions on Overpopulation Get Lambasted
When I asked a colleague if he knew about fidget spinners, he responded: “I’d never heard of them until last week, when my daughter told me she had to have one.” Many parents must be having that conversation with their elementary school-age kids; as of this writing, fidget spinners held the top 16 spots in … Continue reading What’s behind the fidget spinner fad?
.. --- A recent Science paper by J-F. Busteri and 30 named coauthors assisted by 239 volunteers found, looking at global drylands (about 40% of land areas fall into this category), that we had undercounted global forest cover by a whopping “at least 9%.” 239 people were required to examine over 210,000 0.5 hectare (1.2 acre) sample … Continue reading The Earth is getting greener. Environmentalists want to stop that.
.. __ While there’s been thousands of legacy media stories about the very real decline in summer sea-ice extent in the Arctic Ocean, we can’t find one about the statistically significant increase in Antarctic sea ice that has been observed at the same time. Also, comparisons between forecast temperature trends down there and what’s been observed are also very … Continue reading Scientist: Sea Ice Expanding, Driven by Falling Temperatures
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