Earnest Expostulations

Maybe they could think up better goals than this . Or at least come up with a reason why manned spaceflight matters. Why should we try to ...

Other than to say that this seems like the type of book both Christians and non-Christians should check out.

Listen, if some woman wants to be buried in an Obama t-shirt, I'd say she has problems, but its her business. But for the president to ...

Any New Yorker who votes for Harold Ford thinking they're getting a liberal is a moron. Any New Yorker who votes for Harold Ford thinki...

Apparently it is because the GOP exercises such rigid control over its members . Unprecedented control that no party has ever exercised be...

How about we all just agree that this survey doesn't prove Republicans are more well-informed than Democrats, but rather that they are ...

I think Rod Dreher makes a good point when he says that evangelization tools like this are a sign of a deeper need. Ironically, the faith...

Carly Fiorina's attempt at an attack ad against Tom Campbell is so bad that it is almost sufficient in and of itself to keep me from vo...

I'm sad to say a Republican Senator, Orrin Hatch, is also involved in this stupidity.

Why in the world would you ruin Captain America? Jerks.

Am I being too boring if I'm not as shocked as some by either man's behavior? Obama's statement was false and demagogic , bu...

The size of everything.

One of the most valuable scientific tools around is in danger during the upcoming Martian winter. Spirit seems to be permanently stuck in ...

When I visited NASA, one of the impressions that hit me most strongly was an aura of neediness. NASA desperately wants what it does to seem...

Remember back when I wondered about the wisdom of Tom Campbell's jump into the CA Senate race? Yeah, next time I should keep my mouth s...

-I thought the opening was problematic. The imagery he started off with should have lent itself to an "America has been through tough ...

Brits don't know where bacon comes from . In related news, Homer Simpson rolls over in grave.

The IPCC starts taking water from within . But don't worry, there are years of government cap-and-trade schemes, ethanol boondoggles, E...

The IPCC, the body whose work is supposed to convince us to sabotage the economies of the major industrial powers, is in a bit of trouble fo...

Mike Huckabee currently leads Barack Obama in PPP's 2012 election polling. Of course, this type of polling is worth less than nothin...

Gubernatorial candidate Tom Campbell is expected to announce tomorrow that he will jump into the Republican primary race to face Barbara Bo...

The resignation of Senator Dodd puts Connecticut's Senate seat squarely back in the column of a "Safe Democratic" race. The s...

Please read the next sentence carefully. THERE WILL NEVER BE TOTALLY OPEN AND TRANSPARENT NEGOTIATIONS ON A CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL ISSUE. ...

Here's a video of them sinking a boatload of morons. As a warning note, the drug-addled hippies filming this incident demonstrate that...

http://wisertime.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/coexist/

So the president is objecting to his picture being used for commercial purposes on a billboard ? Ok, it's silly to think that the most ...

Jon Stewart sums things up nicely.