Over time, it's been both much colder and a good bit warmer, than it is today. It's been reported that the hottest years of the past century was 2006 until NASA found their math was wrong: it was actually 1934.

The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's classic "Silent Spring" marks the beginning of a sea change: the mass attack on technology and progress as a whole, for environmental reasons.

How come all the environmentalists keep proposing things people don't want to do? Real solutions nedn't require deprivation.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, stirred up a storm when he spoke of the Nativity as a "myth." The Pope didn't have that problem. Perhaps the Pope has a stronger brand identity than does the Church of England?

Somebody in Europe has realized what's crystal clear to anyone with a brain: reducing carbon emissions destroys your economy.

The Omaha mall incident adds 9 more victims onto this year's tally of innocents who died because of gun control.

Armed citizens make it a bit harder to do evil.

The secret of safety was and is crime prevention, not crime investigation.

A nation has to be unified enough that people want to share a government.

Never ascribe to hostility what can be explained by stupidity.