The death throes of political correctness

Is political correctness on life support

Not everyone, not even a majority, is comfortable with the bizarre and dehumanizing ideas routinely foisted on less militant citizens in the name of self-affirmation for one group or another. The public is not interested in cultivating obsessive concern over microaggressions. Not everyone agrees when they are told, often angrily, that belief in marriage as a sacrament is merely a centuries-old excuse for oppression. Not everyone heeds the command to pretend that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman

Reprehensible conduct by the Obama administration

In 2012, Frank VanderSloot gave money to the Romney campaign. Obama blogged about him, and the power of the US government was aligned against him: the IRS, the Department of Labor, and of course the liberal media. This is not right in America.

Global warming may get real research now

In the world of climate science, the skeptics are coming in from the cold. Researchers who see global warming as something less than a planet-ending calamity believe the incoming Trump administration may allow their views to be developed and heard. This didn’t happen under the Obama administration, which denied that a debate even existed. Now, some scientists say, a more inclusive approach – and the billions of federal dollars that might support it – could be in the offing.

Suddenly, the global warming debate may get actual debate.

Dave Barry's Year in Review

All year long, humorist Dave Barry keeps careful notes about what noteworthy events happen each month. At the end of the year, he summarizes the year in an article widely picked up by newspapers every where.

In the future, Americans – assuming there are any left – will look back at 2016 and remark: “What the hell?”

They will have a point. Over the past few decades, we here at the Year in Review have reviewed some pretty disturbing years. For example, there was 2000, when the outcome of a presidential election was decided by a tiny group of deeply confused Florida residents who had apparently attempted to vote by chewing on their ballots.

Then there was 2003, when a person named “Paris Hilton” suddenly became a major international superstar, despite possessing a level of discernible talent so low as to make the Kardashians look like the Jackson 5.

There was 2006, when the vice president of the United States, who claimed he was attempting to bring down a suspected quail, shot a 78-year-old man in the face, only to be exonerated after an investigation revealed that the victim was an attorney.

And, perhaps most inexplicable of all, there was 2007, when millions of people voluntarily installed Windows Vista.

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Leftists at the University of Wisconsin

This writer takes the position that conservatives can defeat campus radicals. The article is interesting and anecdotal, but doesn't make it clear that conservatives can succeed at the University of Wisconsin. Read the whole thing. It seems to say that college is a lost cause.

A high-visibility vest will get you anywhere

These folks tried an experiment: wear a high-visibility vest and see where you can go. It turns out you can go most anywhere: movies, zoos, rock concerts. Try it yourself, they're not expensive

The most dangerous dam in the world

A flood of Biblical proportions could inundate the traditional site of the Garden of Eden. The Mosul Dam on the Tigris River holds back a gigantic reservoir, but like the parable in Mathew 7 about the man who built his house on sand, the Mosul Dam is built on soluble rock. The gypsum beneath the dam is dissolving, leaving caverns underneath. If the dam fails, and the 8-mile long reservoir floods down the river to Bagdad, hundreds of thousands could be killed.

This is a can't-stop-reading article