It may be time for the United Nations’ climate-studies scientists to go back to school. A group of 40 auditors — including scientists and public policy experts from across the globe — have released a shocking report card on the U.N.’s landmark climate-change research report. And they gave 21 of …
Read More »Internet Voting Arrives . . . But Is It Secret and Secure?
On Tuesday, for the first time, voters in 33 states will be able to vote using some aspect of the Internet. But no matter the outcome, experts say no one will be certain those votes haven’t been tampered with. “We are still a decade away from being sure that Internet …
Read More »'Idol' Recap: Steven Tyler faces cute 'Idol' gal's big, strong baseball pitcher dad
Steven Tyler was on his best behavior judging American Idol” Wednesday night as the Top Twelve girls performed during the live show’s semifinal round. He had to be, because pretty 16-year-old contestant Shannon Magrane’s big, strong, ex-pro baseball player father was in the audience. Earlier this season, Tyler earned the …
Read More »ObamaCare ruling: Supreme Court got it right on health care subsidies
So now what? We’ll leave it to the politicians, the lawyers and the talking heads to debate whether the Supreme Court got it right on King v Burwell. Our job is to keep in mind that ObamaCare – the Affordable Care Act – is supposed to be all about people’s …
Read More »C'mon America, we're bigger than our partisan divide — what Olympia Snowe's departure tells us
Tuesday’s retirement announcement by Olympia Snowe – who said that she was quitting because she was frustrated “that an atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions” – underscores just how divided and polarized we have become as …
Read More »Faces of the Arab Spring –The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Six months into the Arab Spring things have continued to deteriorate despite the rosy optimism voiced by the Obama administration and countless others since it began. Libya remains deadlocked in a bloody civil war, even though U.S. forces launched “kinetic military action” three months ago. Syria routinely dispatches tanks and …
Read More »Did GoDaddy reject applicant because he's a fat Christian?
Did Internet giant GoDaddy reject an Arizona software engineer’s job application because he was an overweight Christian? GoDaddy denies the charge. But an attorney for Arizona resident Keith Connolly says his client has rock-solid proof to support the jaw-dropping allegation. Connolly was recruited for a job with the Internet domain …
Read More »Iran: Nuclear agreement will create an economic superpower with malevolent, anti-Western aspirations
The nuclear deal with Iran will unleash economic forces that make it unenforceable. Tehran will become the dominant economic and military power in the Middle East and if it chooses, build nuclear weapons. President Obama held together a broad international coalition that imposed tough economic sanctions. Restrictions on the sale …
Read More »As Goes Egypt, So Goes the Middle East
What’s happening right now in Egypt is bigger than the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dominoes are falling in the Middle East; and as goes Egypt so goes the region. Egypt has been the heartbeat of the Muslim Arab world for millennia. The problem is we don’t yet which …
Read More »After Crimea, what's Putin's next move? Will he call NATO's bluff?
“They cheated us again and again, made decisions behind our back, presenting us with completed facts,” he said. “That’s the way it was with the expansion of NATO in the East, with the deployment of military infrastructure at our borders. They always told us the same thing: ‘Well, this doesn’t …
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