Today is Earth Day, the annual bacchanalia of self abuse invented by the environmental movement to remind everyone that the human race is a pestilence upon this planet. It is a celebration by the self righteous for the hysterical.
I drive a 12-year-old Pontiac, and make of that what you will:
Scientists have long wondered whether infidelity can be predicted by what's in our genes. But a new survey suggests it may come down to what's in our garage.
Finally, someone with the courage to ask the bold question: "Lincoln had one. So did Uncle Sam. Why don't politicians today grow beards?"
Somebody stop those wild and crazy nuns!
The Vatican has launched a crackdown on the umbrella group that represents most of America’s 55,000 Catholic nuns, saying that the group was not speaking out strongly enough against gay marriage, abortion and women’s ordination.
The logical next step for the Occupy movement is here:
In the spirit of spring rebirth, the Occupy movement is ramping up activities as warm weather blankets the country. But while the season is typified by a reawakening of life outdoors, demonstrators are using sleep to get their points across. They call it "sleepful protest."
Let's at least note in passing the end of an era this week as the space shuttle Discovery took a piggyback ride to its final museum resting place. I've seen two sets of strong opinions on this. One is a sad lament that perhaps we're done in space.
The usual hand-wringing victimologists harangue us over the annual celebration of a phony issue:
In Indiana, women earn about 72 cents to every dollar a man does; nationwide the average is 77 cents.
About 30 people gathered Tuesday morning to highlight those facts at an Equal Pay Day rally at the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, 2417 Fairfield Ave.
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Emblazoned on the Supreme Court building’s façade is the promise of “equal justice under law.” Yet the horrendously complicated tax code illustrates how far the government has strayed from that promise. Sadly, the purpose of those 73,608 pages of federal tax rules is not equal treatment but the top-down manipulation of society by Washington.
Don't worry, be happy! According to the first United Nations' World Happiness Report from the Earth Institute at Columbia University:
Today's food-for-thought article -- "The Real Reason for the Tragedy of the Titanic." It wasn't hubris or negligence, as the current wisdom suggests. Maritime regulations had not been updated to account for a ship that big, and the Titanic was compliant with all the exiasting rules.
