When Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the west, he took American and British missionaries along. In addition to translating, they also helped with education.

This video just gave us the best news we've heard out of the Middle East in a long, long time -- Iraqis are beginning to laugh at their leaders.

In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

Who needs a "first black president" who is actually white when you can have a "first black president" who really is black?

Scientists want research grants, more published papers, and to be listened to by the general public. Bureaucrats want a bigger department and more clout. Politicians want a crisis - any crisis - so they can ride to power with a "solution".

Sure, global warming seems unlikely; but if it's true, it's so awful, shouldn't we take action just in case?

The left-wing blogsphere claim that Hillary's people stole the election from Obama. The evidence, if true, is staggering.

The ocean levels are not going to rise by 20 feet by 2100. According to the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, it's more like a single foot, or maybe 18 inches.

Government proposals to fix global warming won't work, at great expense.

Out of every million pounds of atmosphere... we are adding 6 pounds of carbon. That's .0006%.