Burning plants for fuel doesn't work forever.

It almost doesn't matter what the topic is, the argument may already be lost. We've already established there is little national virtue left. We're now just talking about the price.

If we're losing jobs and the Chinese are losing jobs, where are they going?

Hillary is right in pointing out that most parents could use some help, but it doesn't take a village. It especially doesn't take a village of government-funded social workers, most of whom are either not yet married or divorced.

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?

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 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%.