Category: Climate change

Leftist Insanity Charles Barkley

The Bookworm Beat 8/30/17 — leftist insanity of the day edition

The Leftist insanity never stops, whether it’s “black white supremacists” or the effect of climate change on anything and everything. Phew! I’ve been taking care of family matters, so I haven’t had the chance to read anything today, let alone write anything. Thankfully, Wolf Howling sent me a fascinating email

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Paper on spindle

The Bookworm Beat 3/15/17 — clearing the spindle, part deux, and open thread

I’ve cleared my spindle and the articles I linked are a feast for the hungry mind — the Middle East, climate change, policing, gender, Obamacare, and more. There’s land if the Palestinians want it. Did you know that President al-Sisi in Egypt has offered the Palestinians a state that would

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Scopes Monkey Trial March for Science

The March for Science is an attempted update of the Scopes Monkey Trial *UPDATED*

The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial was a show trial pitting science against faith. The upcoming March for Science shows that science has become a faith. In 1925, the “Scopes Monkey Trial” transfixed America. It wasn’t actually a “real” case, insofar as substitute teacher John T. Scopes did not even know whether

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President Trump's America oath of office

Bookworm Beat 1/26/17 – Life in Trump’s America round-up

You’ll notice that the title of this post — Life in Trump’s America — echoes previous round-ups I did called Life in Obama’s America. Those old posts were dystopian; in this, the new Age of Trump, things are a lot more cheerful when viewed through the prism of patriotism, rationality,

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Change the politics

Bookworm Beat 12/16/16 — the random politics edition

Thanks to my friends, I have an email box filled with links to fascinating, random politics. In keeping with that random spirit, I present to you this randomly organized post: Principled journalism versus American journalism. Conservatives have been understandably charmed by the meltdown that Kurt Eichenwald, a Newsweak reporter suffered,

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