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Alan Caruba's Blog – May 2011 Archive (9)
Global Warming Charlatans Feel the Heat
The University of Virginia, after vigorously resisting a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request for data related to the emails of Michael Mann, was the subject of a court order to make them available. While global warming is known worldwide for its claim that manmade warming would doom the Earth, the names and machinations behind the fraud are far less well known.
Mann, a climatologist, was part of a relatively small clique of charlatans who, working for… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 31, 2011 at 7:23pm — No Comments
John Wayne's Birthday
It’s not a national holiday but, for some, it should be. On May 26, 1907 Marion Robert Morrison came into the world in Winterset, Iowa. When he left on June 11, 1979 he was John Wayne, an American icon.
Men of a certain generation or two, fortunate to grow up going to the many movies he made in a long career owe him a great debt.
By his very presence on the silver screen he taught us all what it meant to be a man. Wayne was masculine without having to… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 26, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments
Time to Leave Afghanistan
The Greek philosopher Plato said, “Only the dead know the end of war.” I doubt that in the five thousand years of what we call civilization there has ever been a day when war has not been taking place somewhere on the planet. All wars, in one fashion or another, however, have to come to an end.
The war in Afghanistan has degraded into a distraction from the nation’s desperately deteriorating financial situation. Even worse, it is part of that problem. On… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 24, 2011 at 5:37pm — No Comments
The United States of Stupid
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report titled “A Nation at Risk” that documented nationwide failure in American schools. Not much has changed since then and the federal takeover of school curriculums and testing methods has mercilessly continued with the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind and the Obama administration’s Race to the Top.
They are the top-down approaches to learning that have played a large part in… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 17, 2011 at 5:21pm — 3 Comments
Obama vs. Israel
Is Obama a Muslim? Does Obama hate Israel? Will Israel be attacked again? Will Iran nuke Israel? Has Maghreb and Middle Eastern turmoil flummoxed the White House? Why did Obama bow to Saudi Arabia’s king? Questions, questions, questions?
Watching President Barack Hussein Obama try to pick winners and losers in the Middle East would be amusing if it were not so deadly serious. Not a word about Syria’s slaughter of its protestors. A demand that Libya’s Gadhafi… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 15, 2011 at 7:30am — 5 Comments
The White House Official Spokesman
I really miss Tony Snow who served as George W. Bush’s White House press secretary until cancer took him from us too soon. Snow was a journalist with an impressive resume, but beyond that, he had a charm that made him the master of that ugly little pit of hell where White House correspondents gather to report on its events.
I was no fan of Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s first press secretary. I used to call him Glib Gibbs and often wondered if some of the… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 9, 2011 at 3:09pm — 1 Comment
The Pakistani Pit of Deception
Even Pakistanis do not believe that their political and military leaders did not know bin Laden was living, as one columnist put it, “wrapped in the bosom of the Pakistani security establishment.”
Cyril Almeida, writing in the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, a few days after the killing of bin Laden noted that, when the question is asked privately, “No one will say anything but, yes, they knew he was there.”
For 34 of its 64 years, Pakistan has been… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 8, 2011 at 9:02am — No Comments
Jihad is Forever
Americans greeted news of Osama bin Laden's death with a celebration of the payback it represents for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001.
As former Vice President Dick Cheney said on hearing the news, “Today, the message our forces have sent is clear—if you attack the United States, we will find you and bring you to justice.”
This is part of the American psyche. A great power cannot allow itself to be attacked and harmed… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 2, 2011 at 7:41am — 1 Comment
Pageantry, History and Change
Last week ended in pageantry that altered history in ways the whole world could take notice, vicariously participate, and absorb into the collective conscience. On Friday the heir to the British throne married and a former commoner became the future queen of England. The world rejoiced.
On Sunday, Pope John Paul was beatified, a step toward sainthood, in an expedited Vatican process that was a response to the crowds who gathered at his funeral on April 8,… Continue
Added by Alan Caruba on May 1, 2011 at 7:34am — 2 Comments
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