The top 50 Christmas songs

The Ringer website has selected the top 50 holiday Christmas songs.  It's easy to take exception to the choices and the sequence, but this page has links to play every one of them. There are songs I've never heard of.

The Babylon Bee Christian themed satirical web site had an entry about Americans being shocked to discover Trump was still president. You can read it here.  As is often the case, the Bee turns out to be the paper of record, because lots of folk think he isn't president anymore.

Victor Davis Hanson says that the Democrats have made hate their agenda.

If you liked that, here's an even better analysis of the collusion in the dark state.

Social justice on the taxpayer's dime. Seattle is going insane.

A striking picture of the Apollo 17 lunar lander, the last one, landed 47 years ago on December 19.

For you media haters, here's a list of the twelve ways the media screwed up in 2019.

I believe the Constitution has a rule against cruel and unusual punishment. An Iowa man was sentenced to 16 years for burning an LBGTQ flag.

Christianity Today shot itself in the foot in an editorial by a guy who is about to retire and won't suffer for his actions.

How about a story about some people flying over Mt St. Helens during the eruption.

The climate con

This writer thinks the climate crisis is an attempt to take over the economy using Marxist ideas.

Of course the FBI spied on the Trump campaign. More here on the Horowitz report from the AP.

Here's a article about how the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand would devastate California.

If you haven't used up your free access to the New York Times, this oral history of technology is pretty interesting.  Click the icons to read the text.

Always informative and entertaining, a video of Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrat party debates.

A gentile guide to Chanukah and a Jew's guide to Christmas.

The California law  that makes it illegal to suspend disruptive students goes in to effect next year. The problem seems to be that black students are more disruptive than white students.  Now, nobody gets to learn.

The legacy of impeachment

If the Democrats vote to impeach, it will create a legacy of low-bar impeachment.

Trumps action pale in comparison to former presidents.

This writer says that there should not be another climate conference.

The Democrats seem to be the lying party.

A pretty entertaining analysis of the Democrat's problem with impeachment.

A new missile that uses swords instead of explosives kills the bad guys without collateral damage.

Remember Kaepernik's workout for the football scouts?  It actually led to a job, just not for him.

Academic standards are deteriorating, at least the traditional critical thinking skills.

If you've been watching "The Mandalorian" Star Wars series on the Disney channel, you've no doubt become enamored with Baby Yoda, an obvious blatant merchandising ploy. Here's where to order your plush baby Yoda, but you'll have to wait until 2020. Disney obviously screwed up and missed the Christmas buying season a surprising bit of incompetence by the master of merchandising tie ins.

More evidence that the government is funding worthless degrees.

The career State Department folks are unhappy and that's a good thing.

Trumps action pale in comparison to former presidents.

Mark Steyn says there's a point where a society is too stupid to survive.

Pensacola is another example of why "gun free" zones don't work.

Professor Karlan's testimony at the hearings went poorly for the Democrats.

The cache of Lessons Learned interviews broadly resembles the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's top-secret history of the Vietnam War.

This hardware store Christmas commercial has gone viral, starring a 2-year old managing the store.

Kind of an interesting article about Buttigieg's time at McKinsey Consulting.

Walmart is selling fire logs that smell like Kentucky Fried Chicken when burned.

Why is the World Bank lending money to China? Trump wants it to stop.

The Left hates most things good

The Left hates the Salvation Army. That's all you need to know about them.

LA is building homes for the homeless using shipping containers. It is costing $600K per home, more than a condominium in the area.

This is a fascinating article on the Cholera outbreak in Haiti.  Fascination because of the UN's efforts to cover up the cause, revealed by an reporter.  I especially enjoyed the part where some scientist tried to blame global warming.

How about a puppy found frozen in permafrost for 18,000 years.

The fired Navy Secretary reveals in an op-ed his problem with the chain of command.

A collection of the year's best pictures from National Geographic.

For global warming fans, did you know there are 100 different climate models from 47 different organizations.  Some of them predict much more global warming than others; probably because there's more research funding the more warming you predict.  I am skeptical that there are so many different models if these people are so sure about global warming.

An investigation in Ohio uncovered hundreds of illegal voters. We should do that in California.

A law professor schooled the Democrats on impeachment.

Do not miss what representative Matt Gaetz did at the impeachment hearings as he educates the Democrats.

Special Thanksgiving Edition

What happens when Irish people taste an American Thanksgiving dinner for the first time?

Ten reasons to be thankful for president trump.

And be thankful for private property.

Thanksgiving for dummies, or rather college professors.

Here's a more thorough explanation of the interplay between the Europeans and the native Americans.

WKRP's episode of the Turkey Drop was the best Thanksgiving episode of all time. Watch the episode on YouTube here. Turn up your sound.

And concluding, don't miss Power Lines roundup of Thanksgiving Day Memes, including this gem:

Climate Change

Why everything you hear about climate change is wrong.

Attorney General Barr gave a terrific speech about the damage to the nation by the resistance.  It got great reviews from reasonable analysts. The Left is of course over-reacting.

More on the whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella. It's like the Cheers bar, everybody knows his name.

When the villain is Obama and not Trump, suddenly the news isn't worth reporting.

If you have decent speed on the Internet, here are some very nice B&W photos of the hearings.

Sycophants who flatter child climate oracles deserve ridicule.

This ring galaxy is 600 million light years away. In the picture are more galaxies even much more distant. Kind of makes the universe seem really big.

Soldiers have been in the news lately. The most decorated soldier of the Vietnam war had almost as many article 15's and medals.

King Sobieski defeated the Muslims on the outskirts of Vienna, preventing them from taking over Europe in 1683. His statue is too controversial to be placed in Vienna.

A new Clint Eastwood movie is coming out. "Richard Jewell" paints the press as incompetent.

There are so many Muslim immigrants in Sweden that it's turning into a war zone. Of course the media doesn't even mention the demographics of the folk causing the problems.

Vaping isn't a good thing, but it's safer than smoking. The scary news you've seen lately has been the result of black market marijuana infused products, not commercial ones. Of course the media has failed to take recognition of that subtle detail. Trump was right to not ban vaping products.

The media is ignoring Hunter Biden's latest baby from an unwed mother, unlike the reaction to Bristol Palin's pregnancy. Joe Biden didn't appreciate getting a question from a reporter about it. Hunter has yet another kid from his late brother's widow.

Here's a review of a book detailing the deep state plot against the President

The Whistleblower and the Lt Colonel

Eric Ciaramella is the whistleblower and LTC Alan Vindman is the guy who was so concerned about the phone call that he told Eric about it.  Here's the real mystery of those two. On the same subject, here's ten reasons the hearing is really a coup.

Clint Eastwood has a new movie out: Richard Jewell, about the guy who found a bomb in Atlanta during the Olympics. The FBI decided he was the bomber and leaked the information to the press. He was innocent of course. The movie is based on this article in Vanity Fair.

Remember Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? Somebody made one.

It seems like a daily occurrence that California Governor Gavin Newsom does something stupid, though it may be more often than daily. Here's an example: California owns over 50,000 cars; Newsome has decreed that the state can only buy electric cars.

Jessica Meir is on the space station. She has a twitter page which is kind of interesting. The space station looks kind of junky in some photos.

Three Indiana judges were suspended after a brawl that left two of them wounded.

People in Zimbabwe are complaining that those Chinese manufactured condoms are too small.

These people had half their brains removed and they are still getting along fine. Of course they vote Democrat.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg claims to be a Christian, so we should vote for him even though he's gay. A close look at his theology makes one suspect.

How the Japanese bombed Michigan in WW2.

Why Trump held up the money to the Ukraine.

Much has been made about Trump firing some ambassadors. Obama fired every ambassador that had been appointed by Bush.

We have talked before about the SPLC. They have declared Franklin Graham as a leader of a hate group.

The Democrats and the media have been trying to spin the connection between old Biden and young Biden as much ado about nothing. Old Biden has a record of asking the government to do what young Biden's firm wanted.

Here's a guy who moved from LA to a small town in Idaho. He experienced culture shock.

Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia, delivered the annual Global Warming Policy Forum lecture in London on October 9. The title of his lecture was “Daring to Doubt.” He began with some general observations on our peculiar age.

A fascinating article on the K-T boundary

This article tells the story of how different scientific disciplines led to the understanding of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

This art critic says it's time for the Louvre to take down the Mona Lisa

Stilton Jarlsburg's commentary on guns in Mexico. If you link to his home page, you can see more from him.

A very nice picture of a Saturn rocket.

A project by Oregon State has rounded up signatures from 11,000 scientists warning us about the dangers of global warming.  One writer looked at the list, which includes all kinds of scientists, and found only 240 (2%) individuals with professions that can be construed as bona fide meteorologists, climatologists, or atmospheric scientists. Since there are 10,000 such scientists in the US, that seems like a minority. The list is currently unavailable while they purge it of names like Micky Mouse and Albus Dumbledore from Hogwarts. If you have the time, watch this analysis.

Here's more on the whistle blower who sparked the latest impeachment inquiry. He's a Democrat operative.

And you thought the Chevrotain was extinct. Scientists managed to get a photo on one in the wilds of Viet Nam.

Here's a cool photo of Mercury flying by in front of the Sun. If you want to see a closeup, go here.

An interesting article about the laws against eating on the subway platform.

Some cities are banning natural gas. I sure enjoyed having it while the electricity was off.

Universites are really going down hill.  Stanford students were triggered by having a conservative speaker. And The Daily Northwestern apologized for covering a Jeff Sessions event.

Three Marxists decided to share an apartment in the spirit of Marxism. They found out it doesn't work.

An honest leftist admits the truth about all those benefits. Higher taxes on the poor and middle class.

A compelling article about the 737 Max and the way pilots fly these days, by William Languische, son of the writer of the famous flying book "Stick and Rudder". The problem is that pilots don't really fly much, the computers do it and when something goes wrong the pilots don't know what to do.

A thorough article about the truth about the homeless in San Francisco. Hint: it's not the cost of housing. California's Proposition 47 has created a whole new problem with theft.

The Army is developing a new type of helmet--lighter and more protection.

The Babylon Bee is becoming the paper of record instead of a satire.  Consider this article on Baghdadi. There's a really funny aspect to this satire: the very last suggested headline was the one actually used by the Washington Post until the outcry forced them to change it.

The real reason the legacy media is freaking out over the Baghdadi mission.

The coming vindication of Donald Trump may lead to a restoration of the Consitution.

You will recall that in the movie Jurassic Park, they took blood from a mosquito trapped in amber to clone dinosaurs. Here's a collection of creatures trapped in amber.

More from the Bee: Texas is luring jobs from California with promises of electricity.

The UK has halted fracking. Boris Johnson’s government, which is preparing for a general election, said the ban would be in place until there was “compelling new evidence” that it could be carried out safely. There is plenty of evidence that fracking can be carried out safely, though there are many misguided activists who disagree. Elizabeth Warren plans to ban Fracking when she is elected president, surely attractive to her base of supporters. The US has become an exporter of petroleum since fracking took off; 90% of our oil comes from fracking and natural gas has become so cheap that companies have stopped drilling for it.

Natasha Lipman "My husband squeezed my hand to say he wanted to live, then I found a way to save him". A great first person article about phages.

California has much, much bigger problems than wildfires.

The House of Representatives acknowledged the Armenian genocide of 1915.

Not Trump would win in a landslide

Consider if Trump ran without being Trump.  With his record, he would win in a historic landslide.

Is this the whistleblower? Like in the sitcom "Cheers", this article says everybody knows his name.

Here's a moth pretending to be two flies sitting on bird poop. Scroll down for caterpillar disguised as bird poop.

I thought this cooking tip from the New York Times was worth sharing: the secret ingredient that makes meat better every time.

States are cutting university budgets. Taxpayers aren't interested in funding campus kooks.

FLASHBACK: Biden Lied for Years About the Driver Involved in His Wife & Daughter's Death.

New York state is having a natural gas shortage. Cuomo's answer? Pump imaginary gas.

Replica cars have difficulty meeting vehicle standards, so congress passed a law to allow them to be made. Of course the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is ignoring the law. I will never forgive them for making the Army chop up all those M151A1 jeeps that we had when I was in the National Guard. They were wonderful off-road vehicles.

The Babylon Bee features a new smart doorbell that will argue with Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon missionaries for you.

Here's a useful product for when you anticipate a hurricane or power shutoff, a bathtub water storage container.

This writer doesn't think that Trump sold out the Kurds for pulling out of Syria.

So liberal enclaves are banning plastic straws to save the oceans. The great majority of plastic debris comes from rivers in China.

When Hillary was a young lawyer working on the impeachment of Richard Nixon, she came up with four tests that should be applied first. Here's the list, and the current situation meets none of the criteria.

Obama made a rule requiring doctors to perform transgender surgery. A court struck them down.

White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Stephanie Grisham hit back at CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Sunday after Cooper ran a segment mocking her late last week.

Some global warming protestors decided to take their protest to an In-N-Out Burger. Some of the staff tossed them out.

Some parents stood up to the failing education establishment and the kids benefited.

Surely you have heard that the Polar Bears are dying out because of global warming. An expert on Polar Bears said no, there are more than ever. Of course she lost her job.

Anyone with an IQ higher than a rutabaga knows that Hunter Biden's job on the board at the Ukrainian gas company was a farce designed buy influence, but I hadn't realized that Biden didn't even go to the board meetings.

This article is a review of a video arguing for intelligent design. The Cambrian explosion is pretty difficult to explain with evolutionary theory.

As you may recall, the 6-mile wide Chicxulub asteroid collision wiped out the dinosaurs and most of the rest of the land creatures on earth about 66 million years ago. But what about the fishes? Shouldn't they be fine down in the cool ocean? Well, it turns out the asteroid also created an acid rain that wiped out most of the marine life at the same time. The article is worth linking to just to see the illustration in the NY Times of the crater.

And here's a follow-up article about the remarkably quick rise of the mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

How important is impeachment to voters in Iowa?  It turns out it's only important to 7% of them.

It seems that anybody who can is moving out of San Francisco because it costs too much to have a life.

The top James Bond films rated from worst to best.

If you are dying to know more details from Ronan Farrow's new book: "Catch and Kill", click this review.

The Aye-Aye in Madagascar has a pseudo-thumb to help him grip things. The rest of his hand is kind of interesting also.

An interesting photo of the Milky Way and other objects reflected in a rain-covered salt flat. Be sure and click on the photo to expand it.

In the latest Democrat debate, Biden bragged about defeating eminently qualified Robert Bork as a Supreme Court justice. This article has some excellent history for younger readers, espeically as the beginnings of the discourse we have in politics today.

Rolling Stone produces a list of the 100 best singers of all time. This author takes exception. You can read the list for yourself here.  As usual, Iowa Pundit had the best take on it:



The loudest bird in the world is the white bellbird. Listen here.

By the time you read this, it's probably too late to win Pete Buttigieg's contest for a free trip to San Francisco (the gay mecca) to see Hamilton with Pete's husband.

Frustrated with your Internet service? Fast affordable Internet is coming in 2020.

Probably you'll want to read this taste test of six vegetable-based hamburgers from the NY Times.

Abandoning the Kurds

Another take on the issue of abandoning the Kurds.

The Rolling Stone magazine, no admirer of Donald Trump, doesn't believe the whistleblower is real because of the reaction of the CIA.

I remember that during the 1955 flood, ham radio operators provided communications among the people working to handle the emergency. Now Cal Fire is working to dismantle the ham radio communications systems.

We teach nothing, we know nothing—and that could cost the United States everything.

Attorney General Bob Barr gave an important speech about religious liberty at Notre Dame.

Wildlife photographer of the year winners in pictures.

Adam Schiff (aka Pencil Neck) flipped on the need for the whistleblower to testify after it came out that his staff coordinated with the whistleblower prior to the complaint being filed.

California has rolled out an earthquake warning system with an ap that you can download to your smart phone. Unfortunately, earthquake waves move pretty fast, as much as a mile a second.  That means you will get lots of warning if the epicenter is a long ways away, and not much if it is close. So, if the earthquake is close enough to kill you, you don't get much warning. Download the program MyShake on your smart phone. Of course earthquakes don't kill people, improperly designed falling structures kill people.

Back in my youth, I worked on a survey crew measuring slip and creep on faults in California. One of these was the Garlock Fault, east of the San Andreas. It never went anywhere; all of a sudden it's moving.  This section of the San Andreas was the location  of the largest historical earthquake in California, the 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake.

What kind of watches do fighter pilots wear? Surprisingly, none of the watchmakers that advertise this claim are actually found on the wrists of fighter pilots.

Those of you in California may want to read what the CEO of PG&E has to say about power shutoffs.

If you watched the debate, you prob ably weren't too impressed with Biden's performance. His campaign seems to be faltering.

ABC wanted to show video of the alleged carnage in Syria, so they used some stock image from a gun range in the US. A less well-known journalist used some stock earthquake footage to show dead children.

Congress is spending billions at Boeing for rockets that private enterprise is building at a fraction of the cost.

Here's something you didn't see in the news: about one mile of the wall is built every day.

One of the impeachment witnesses says they tried to warn Biden in 2015 about the problem with Hunter working for the Ukraine gas company.

There's a new book out "The Bible is a Catholic Book". It's for Catholics that are intimidated by the Bible.

The media are claiming that the White House admitted to a "quid pro quo" on Ukraine. It appears to be an incorrect analysis of the actual statement.

Trump and Drudge

CNN thinks that Trump has lost Matt Drudge. Trump is losing me too.  The Ukraine thing was just stupid; Trump could have just tweeted the news about Hunter Biden's crooked deal. It's obvious that anyone with half a brain could figure it out without asking the Ukrainians to investigate, but abandoning the Kurds to the Turks seems to be unconscionable, at least as portrayed by the media.
However, read this interview with an expert on the Middle East.

An update on the whistleblower complaint. Shiff's committee advised the whistleblower how to file the complaint and the rules were changed to allow it.

Clarence Thomas opens up about finding God in a dark period in his life.

Want a private viewing of the Sistine Chapel? You can arrange one with the Vatican for a modest sum.

A central theme of the Biden campaign is a lie, and the media are supporting it with fake news. Here he is having fits of rage.

The Hogan twins are ten years old and joined at the brain. It makes for some strange connections. Here's their picture.

Five moons in this picture ours and four of Jupiter's moons.  Hint: look down in the bottom right corner.

There's a new fitness machine that works with virtual reality. Scroll down for the video of what you see while exercising.

Candidates agree on universal background checks, but don't want to address the issue of why gun homicides fell by nearly half.

Think the cost of housing in California is high?  How about $1050 a month to rent this shed in San Diego.

Portland is remodeling a government building eliminating urinals. This gender-neutral thing is certainly becoming stylish, as Dirty Harry would say.

The last Wooly Mammoths lived on an island in the Arctic Ocean, dying out just 4000 years ago. Maybe they were the behemoths in the book of Job.

A remarkable bridge design by DaVinci, tested by architecture students.

Tired of the hassle and expense of San Francisco? Move to Albuquerque and cut your expenses by 70%.

Costco is selling so many $5 chickens that they are building their own chicken factory. And of course the usual liberal activists are complaining.

People looking forward to Socialism in America should read this first hand account from Venezuela.

According to Newsweek, Greta Thunberg was denied the Nobel Peace Prize because Norway has lots of oil. Could it be because she is clueless?

Beto vows to strip tax exempt status from churches who don't support gay marriage, which I think is just about all of them.

Think health care is expensive? Americans spend more on taxes than on food, clothing and health care combined.

Be careful when buying tulips in Amsterdam.  Most of them never bloom and the vendors get away with it because the tourists don't come back.

When a DNA test reveals that your daughter isn't your biological child.

Howard Zinn is responsible for much of the bad press that Christopher Columbus gets. Turns out he lied.

The vaping crisis is a moral panic led by anti-smoking crusaders.

Californians had a chance last week to learn that solar panels don't work in a blackout.

And don't forget to visit the Babylon Bee for the latest satire.

Whistleblower roundup

Want to know who the whistleblower is? Sue Gordon was deputy director of national intelligence and wanted the director job. Trump appointed somebody else, and Gordon resigned in a snit. A few days later, the whistleblower complaint was filed. Who else could have heard the story from multiple leakers.

Even stranger, in August the rules were changed from "complaints had to be first hand knowledge" to "hearsay was OK".

This writer regularly publishes a column called the "clown car roundup" where he updates us on all the Democrats running for president. This issue has some interesting background on Hunter Biden. Scroll down.

The danger from 5G cell phone towers is in the news lately, with lots of opinions and very little science. Here's a roundup of research.

 How about an article on 12 airplane crashes that changed aviation.

In Seattle, the schools are changing the math curriculum to make it more woke. If you don't know what woke is, read the article.

I wasn't familiar with Napoleon Chagnon, but he was famous in archeology circles for reasons that won't surprise you.

Candidate Beto went to Kent State and argued that only the government can be trusted to have guns. I guess Beto is to young to know the history of the killings at Kent State.

Here's a fun story about a Lexus that went a million miles.

Duke University has been promoting Islam with out money.

A lot of Democrat voters are benefiting from Trump's economy, which might buy him some votes.

Les Miserables has been performed all over the world.  There was an anniversary concert, and at the end, they gathered 17 Jean Valjeans from different countries who performed vignettes in their native language. Watch this fun performance.

Global Warming

Dr. Mototaka Nakamura put out a small book in Japanese on “the sorry state of climate science”. It’s titled Confessions of a climate scientist: the global warming hypothesis is an unproven hypothesis, and he is very much qualified to take a stand.

More details on the Whistleblower from the New York Times. It was a CIA officer who worked at the White House.

This reporter suggests that Biden isn't telling the truth about the Ukraine, and there are memos confirming that.

China had a huge parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the revolution. 100,000 citizens and 15,000 soldiers participated. Here are some pictures.

Could President Trump be impeached and then run again?

The Sierra Club has some cool slideshows.  Here's one of the earth's weirdest landscapes. Other slide shows at the link.

Where does Trump get his ideas about illegal immigration? See if you can guess the names of these experts.

Citizenship is becoming meaningless. Illegal aliens can do just about anything and get free stuff.

Here's a fun video of Sheila Jackson Lee demonstrating her knowledge of firearms.

This is shocking. A major media actually covered Hunter Biden's gifts from foreign governments.

Ukraine round up

Ukraine has been in the news lately in relation to pressuring them to interfere with the coming election. Here's a roundup of some reports:

Apparently, it started with the Obama administration interfering in the 2016 election.

Back in 2016, there was a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating a company that funneled money to a firm run by Joe Biden's son.  Joe pressured the Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor by withholding one billion dollars in foreign aid in order to protect his son. Trump has been in the news lately for pushing the Ukrainians to reopen the investigation to get this story in the news. Joe denies it of course, but here's an article with a video of Joe bragging about getting the prosecutor fired.

The deep state's whistleblower complaint is all about deflecting from Biden's Ukraine scandal.

And of course the media is ignoring the details of Biden's problem to go after Trump.

The former carrier of the nuclear football says the leaker broke the circle of trust.

There is a widely told story of an Inuit who made a knife out of his feces and used it to skin a dog. A group of scientists tried to replicate the experiment.

A California winery declined to host a same-sex wedding, then recanted.

The economic fact of free government health care is that taxes have to be raised on everybody to pay for it. These taxes will replace all the private insurance paid by people and their employers, so the net cost to the public will decrease as government will ration health care and doctors wont be as rich. You have to give credit to Elizabeth Warren for dodging the question as Biden attacks her.

The story of the iconic stopwatch on 60 minutes.

A friend of mine, Brian Herridge, found a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver while doing a survey for unexploded ordnance off Martha's Vineyard. You can read about the plane in the Vineyard Gazette.

Did you know there is such a thing as "Sugar Daddy Science"?  Read how it distorts research.

Why do turkeys circle around dead things?

A ship full of climate change warriors was caught in the ice and had to be rescued.

Fact checking Al Gore's climate change predictions.

Progressive Christian Pete Buttigieg doesn't seem to understand his own faith. On the other hand, his brother seems to have a better grasp and tells Pete to stop using the Bible to justify abortions.

A couple spent 57 days looking for a lost dog.

Amanda Green of the Victory Girls blog is scared of the Democrat candidates.

Elizabeth Warren says that when she is president, she will end fracking in the US. Right now, fracking is producing about 90% of the oil and gas in America. It would be a mistake.

With all the talk about parents bribing their kids into college, not much has been said about the universities own methods of taking money to provide admission to kids with wealthy parents. I thought this was a little hypocritical and as usual the media don't provide any perspective in their focus on celebrities.

One more example of good things done by Trump: his labor board is overturning many of the rules make by Obama's labor board.

It's a sad thing that you can't get a decent bagel outside of New York (or Florida, where you find transplanted New York Jews). What is claimed to be bagels elsewhere is bread in the shape of a donut, though Saratoga Bagels in Saratoga CA comes close. Why can't people allegedly in the bagel business make one? They don't even boil them.

No surprise here, camera sales are crashing because everybody is taking pictures with their cell phone.

Les Miserables has been performed all over the world.  There was an anniversary concert, and at the end, they gathered 17 Jean Valneans from different countries who performed vignettes in their native language.

9/11 revisited on the 18th anniversary

An excerpt from the oral history of flight 93: "we may have to shoot this plane down".

The hostages on 93 understood they were aboard a flying bomb intended to kill thousands of their fellow citizens. They knew there would be no happy ending. So they gave us the next best thing, a hopeful ending. A triumph of American values.

And from The Onion satire site: the hijackers surprised to find them selves in hell.

On a personal note, as a fan of country music, Sunday night is the debut of Ken Burn’s “Country Music“ on PBS. Set your DVR to record the whole series. You can watch previews here https://vids.kvie.org/video/trailer-country-music-ken-burns/  The early episodes on the roots of country music are historical trasures.

By and large, Americans can't agree on anything. But, 95% do agree on one thing: the media sucks.

CNN had a story this week about the CIA pulling a spy out of Russia. The errors were so egregious that the CIA came out to debunk it.

The Democrat governor of Virginia defended late term abortions where the infants were born alive and then left to die. The supportive media changed his quote, but he was correct about the process.

Here's a nice picture of Pluto.  Bet you were wondering what it looked like.

Another cool photo: a selfie in the back seat of an F15.

The Democrats are mis-stating history again: murder is what you say it is.

The Army selected the SigSauer for the next generation of squad weapons.

The liberal media thinks that it’s easier to buy a gun than cold medicine. One of them tested that idea and found that it's not the case.

Victor Davis Hanson: "All in the Comey Family".

Everything you wanted to know about poo transplants.

A little nostalgia Duane Eddy plays Ghost Riders in the Sky.

Religious freedom won a court case in favor of Christian filmmakers that refused to make videos of same-sex weddings.

Did you know that male and female cells are different? And this affects how medicines perform.

Fun wildlife photos. Click on the first to enlarge, then click on the right arrow.

An electric truck that never needs charging.

Perpetual motion. A truck charges its battery hauling rocks down a hill, collecting enough energy to drive back up the hill. No diesel, no charging station required.

Bloomberg Business Week published a special issue on the periodic table, with an article on each element, starting with hydrogen and working up to the manufactured elements that don't occur nature.  Since there are so many of them, it's a long read but fascinating.

Here's a roundup of Muslim violence against Christians.

A researcher has found evidence that Greeks used cranes to lift blocks for building temples.

Probably you're not brushing your teeth properly. Surprise hint: interdental brushes are superior to flossing.

Many of the weather stations that were originally out in the open are now close to cultural heat sources. The newly built U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) consisting of properly located stations indicates no warming since it was installed 14 years ago.

Here's a reasonable solution to global warming: put your money into nuclear power instead of tilting at windmills.

There were disagreements between Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison on how to power the nation. Tesla won by powering a mine in Telluride with AC.

A compelling account of the eruption of Mount Tambora that gave rise to the year without a summer in Europe.

Joe Biden is famous for his gaffes. Here's a list of 35 gaffs by Obama to make him feel better about himself.  Here's how Jim Geraghty analyzes Biden's gaffes and what it might mean for his candidacy when he comes up against Donald Trump.

The WSJ has a paywall, but you can read the gist of this article before you hit it. The UN Climate Panel is lying about crop failures.

Beto O'Rourke thinks abortions are OK up to 24 hours before the normal birth. That seems a bit extreme.

In praise of Melania Trump, the first lady treated terribly by the media.

This is an ad, but I was rather struck by this made in America personal tractor.

Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson (D) has discovered that the left lies.

Another reason to send your kids to private school

Another reason to send your kids to private school or home school. California bill to ban schools from expelling disruptive students close to becoming law.

A great American, David Koch, passed away. He was hated by liberals, unjustifiably. Stilton's Place commented on one of these liberals and listed some of David's contributions.

Volcanologists are disputing historic eruptions, including the 1786 one at Mount Shasta.

The Omega Centauri globular star cluster has about 10,000,000 stars.

The first crime in space. An astronaut is accessing another person's bank account from the space station.

Tourists have beeb alerted to mysterious rolling balls of poop in Great Smoky Mountains. Read the story of the Dung Beetles. For extra credit, watch the video.

Who knew how much money there was in video games. This five-man team each took home more money than Tiger Woods got for winning the Masters.

The interesting history of the discovery of Lithium for Bipolar Disorder.

The reliably liberal Columbia Journalism Review published an editorial by Bernie Sanders on how to fix journalism.  After a general criticism of Trump, he proposes a solution which reflects his limited understanding of economics.

This is kind of surprising. Despite efforts toward diversity, minorities who "whiten" their resumes are twice as likely to get called in for an interview.

Here's an interesting interview for people who live in California: what will happen if the "big one" hits on the San Andreas Fault.

We're running out of helium; how will we fill those balloons at parties? Fortunately, a couple of guys found a big supply in Tanzania.

This baby space shuttle just broke a record by orbiting for 719 days doing what nobody is saying.

They opened the first COSTCO in China and the influx of shoppers overwhelmed the store. The chickens were popular.

Trump admin pushes religious protections for contractors, incurs LGBTQ wrath.

The Polar Star icebreaker is wearing out.

Does the future of health care include trips to Cancun?

Reportedly, the last 16 years of temperature measurement show no global warming.

Opinion: Red-light cameras undermine rule of law. But do they make things safer?

"The U.S. Air Force Blue" is a song composed in 1957 as an advertising jingle for recruiting ads. It became so popular that an  unsuccessful effort was made to replace the Air Force theme song. Click on the link in this article to hear and see the commercial featuring the song.

Recycling is dying because of economics. Recycling household waste never really made sense anyway, and finally the business model is failing.

The Babylon Bee takes on Christian Bible-reading habits.  The Bee has been having a little spat with Snopes, the alleged fact-checking web site that always favors liberal sources. Snopes has been fact-checking the Bee, which of course is pure satire. Here's how the Bee responded.

Something that reads like it came from the Babylon Bee: a FAQ about Christianity for the non-believer.

Things are getting worse in San Francisco. Some people are giving up and moving to Austin.

Sometimes even Bill Maher is right. Here he talks about Trump derangement syndrome.

When Trump made statements about problems in Baltimore, Nancy Pelosi accused Trump's son-in-law of being a slumlord. Here is a rebuttal to Pelosi's slur.

Dilbert took on global warming, as seen below. The climate scientist in the cartoon even looks like Michael Mann, inventor of the hockey stick temperature chart.

Green Energy Movie

Michael Moore has a new documentary that you will hear more about: ‘Planet of the Humans’. It's about green energy and the theme seems to be that green energy is a false promise. The film doesn't have distribution yet, so it may never make it to theatres. Naturally, since it's Michael Moore, it has an anti-corporation theme.

Allahpundit is prepared to listen to any and all conspiracies about the death of Jeffery Epstein.

Lindsey Graham explains to reporters why he needs an AR-15.

John McWhorter "We were lied to about what happened in Ferguson" and why it matters.

The founder of Accuweather says that the "record" heat waves are not new.

What is the greatest Christian book of all time? The Emerging Scholars Network started with 64 nominations and narrowed it down to one. View the tournament bracket here.

The Curiosity Rover stumbled onto a sedimentary rock on Mars. Sedimentary rocks have layers deposited by water or wind. That little machine has been running around Mars for seven years now.

Apparently Galileo toned down his theory that the earth orbited around the sun in an effort to stay out of trouble with the Pope. Scroll down to the timeline.

You can buy a small, solar-powered house from Amazon, only $24,000.

Who couldn't figure out that this was going to be a bad idea?  US Navy going to ditch touch screens in favor of physical throttles on ships.

The Democrat Party candidates with their wrongheaded opinions about global warming.

Victor Davis Hanson takes on Tucker Carlson and why the left hates him.

A hailstone almost 5-inches diameter set a new record for Colorado, but the biggest was 8-inches in South Dakota.

One way to reduce mass shootings: eliminate "gun free" zones.

The teachers union

The California teachers union spent $4M lobbying against charter schools.  And how about this hypocrisy: “All of this is to ensure that all students have a quality school and a quality education”.

The United States has the most generous immigration policies in the world.

Mosquitos are not just annoying, they changed everything in history.

Joe Biden has a little corruption problem that may come out if he gets the nomination.

While you were watching the Democrat debates, Mitch McConnell rammed through more judges.

Ridgecrest, California, roughly 154 miles from the Los Angeles area, experienced powerful earthquakes on July 4th and 5th, 2019. Here is a cool video of the surface rupture.

There's some debate in the Air Force between retiring the A-10 Warthog, a terrific ground support fighter (which works very well and is loved by the soldiers on the ground) and using one of the fancy new high tech fighters instead.  Now the Air Force is looking at something a little more down to earth, a turbine-powered supplemental fighter.

A little pushback against global warming frenzy, especially at the human cost.

Renewable energy has a problem with its need for carbon burning fuels. This article has some interesting graphs about how much energy actually comes from renewables.

The liberals are afraid of the Babylon Bee because they can't withstand humor. It reveals their foibles. Here's the Bee's fun take on global warming.

Is the NYT subject to the whims of the Democrat presidential candidates? They got the Times to change the front-page headline.

Basketball player uses girlfriend's urine to fake drug test, finds out he's pregnant

Here's something that's not a surprise: New York's $15 minimum wage is forcing businesses to cut hours, reduce hiring, even closing down.

Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok sues to get his job back -- With back pay

I just went back to my facebook photos and scrolled through them. There is some really good stuff there from over the years. Keep clicking through.

Can't we all get along

It is hard for half the country to feel much sympathy for the Left that sowed the wind and are reaping an ever growing whirlwind. The usual insightful commentary by Victor Davis Hanson. Read the whole thing.

Here's an interesting article in Nature debunking racial stereotypes in science.  It would be interesting to read the book, but the author is clearly wrong on some issues.

The new F-35 joint strike fighter isn't very good at its job.

Taking a cue from Obama, Elizabeth Warren’s single-payer strategy involves not telling voters the truth.

The Nordic countries so enamored by the Socialists depend on taxing the middle class, not the rich.

Here's Orkin's list of the most rat invested cities in the US.

Why are there so many tornadoes in Tornado Alley?

The scientist-spy who spilt secrets of the bomb: Frank Close’s chronicle of atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs and his betrayal.

A very nice collection of photos of whales.

Here's a really stupid quote from California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra about the Garlic Festival shooter: "The investigation may determine that the gunman broke a law by purchasing the weapon in Nevada and bringing it into the state. "That weapon could not be sold in California. That weapon cannot be imported into the state of California," he said. "There is a very strong likelihood, as we develop the evidence, that the perpetrator in this particular case, violated California law, on top of the crimes of homicide."

The rich and famous hypocrites are flying 114 private jets to a conference with a global warming theme.

The most expensive Navy ship ever built can't be deployed because the elevators don't work.

It probably won't surprise you to hear that the minimum wage is not about helping the poor.

Fact checks are generally about liberals fact-checking conservatives. The Washington Post only fact checks Republicans, ignoring Democrat mis-statements.

Here's another example of the decline in liberal education. Middlebury College is offering courses on zombies, misogyny, masculinity.

The Europeans are learning that they have a problem with what to do with returning Moslem terrorists.

Did you know it might be racially insensitive to hose poop off the city sidewalks?

Here's some background on Comey's misdeeds regarding Trump.