Gas Taxes By State
The Periodical has a map showing gasoline taxes on a state-by-state basis. New Yorkers top the chart by paying 63 cents per gallon in state (44.5 cents) and federal (18.4 cents) gas taxes combined. (As bad as that is, it pales in comparison to Great Britain's tax, which is the ...
Killing Rainforests — Kyoto Style
Peyton Knight writes to say: New Scientist reports that the current push by the European Union and Britain to meet their Kyoto Protocol emissions reduction targets is "having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests."Both the EU and Britain require their conventional fuels to be blended with ...
Insider Iraq Info in New Talisman Gate Blog
Robert Stevens of Alphabet City writes to recommend the new blog Talisman Gate by Iraqi writer and analyst Nibras Kazimi. Nibras is a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute, a highly-regarded think-tank, and a weekly columnist for the New York Sun. I checked his blog out, and it is indeed ...
Nobby Zoologists, Climate Change and American “Loonies”
"Impact of Climate Change 'Can be Likened to WMD'," screams a headline based on remarks by Lord Robert May in Britain's left-wing Independent newspaper. So, have they found the WMDs? The Independent says this nob is criticizing George W. Bush "for failing to follow through on the climate change commitments ...
Route to Wealth and Happiness
Patrick Hynes of Ankle Biting Pundits has a column saying: Americans who attend church with greater frequency than their neighbors tend to be richer, healthier, and happier, less prone to commit acts of crime, and more likely to get and stay married; possible explanations include educational background and the influence ...
Judges’ Creative Sentences May Be Funny, But Also Unconstitutional
Paul Jacob takes aim against judges who sentencing "creatively," and concludes the practice is unconstitutional. Cases in point: Judge Michael A. Cicconetti's sentencing two individuals to spend the night in the woods, and "forc[ing] a man who called a policeman a 'pig' to stand on a street corner next to ...
“Good Divorce” a Myth for Kids
Elizabeth Marquardt, writing in the Boston Globe, explains why even low-conflict divorces are extremely difficult for children: In a first-ever national study, the grown children of divorce tell us there's no such thing as a ''good" divorce. This nationally representative telephone survey of 1,500 young adults, half from divorced families ...
Fat People Lose Access to Some Surgeries as Cost-Saving Measure in Britain’s Government-Run Health System
The British nationalized health care system has decided to halt knee and hip replacements to overweight people in at least one part of Great Britain. Specifically, a woman 5' 2" who weighs 168 pounds or more or a man 5' 10" who weighs 210 pounds or more would be ineligible ...
The Peace Movement’s Moderate Face
As Cindy Sheehan is once again protesting in Crawford, Texas, I thought it a good time to share some pictures that show -- as the mainstream media often does not -- the message of the anti-war protesters. These photos, of another anti-war rally in which Cindy Sheehan participated, were taken ...
Oliver Willis Cries Liar
Oliver Willis gets more than one fact wrong in this post, but I'll zero in on one: He claims Kevin Martin, the Project 21 member I quoted here is a liar -- but Willis provides no evidence whatsoever. Sheesh. Even Mary Mapes provided forged documents as "evidence." Willis offers nothing ...
Last Witness to World War I Christmas Truce Has Died
The last known witness to World War I's Christmas truce has died. Less than ten British World War I veterans remain alive; less than 50 American World War I vets are wtill with us ...
Barely Newsworthy, If That — But I Admit, I Voted for the Ship
If you have absolutely nothing better to do, the Commonwealth of Virginia is inviting the public to vote on the design of it's new welcome-to-virginia signs. The commonwealth wants to install the new signs before the start of Historic Garden Week -- which certainly is understandable. Go here to vote ...
Doctor Kills Self After Learning He Euthanized a Woman With Depression, Not Terminal Liver Disease
A doctor has committed suicide after learning that a woman he euthanized was not terminally ill -- she had depression and a false medical report. Hat tips: Kevin, M.D. and its source, Relapsed Catholic ...
Reporters Give Thanks
Various media folks tell the world what they are thankful for this year. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank, for example, is thankful for Dennis Kucinich ...
Michael Steele Oreo Incident Eyewitness Report
Various lefties have questioned (see Dave Pierre on NewsBusters for a roundup) whether other lefties ever threw Oreo cookies at Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, a black conservative, during a gubernatorial campaign debate in 2002. Project 21's Kevin Martin was present at that debate and an eyewitness. We asked him ...
The Shape of Days is Back
Jeff Harrell is back -- and is he ever! Complete blog redesign to the epitome of gorgeousness (that's the blog, not you, Jeff). Seriously, even if you don't like interesting posts, just go look at Jeff's blog to see the ways he used color. (Or you could go there to ...
GM Layoffs Linked to High Gas Prices
Peyton Knight sent over this observation: High fuel prices are among the contributing factors forcing General Motors to lay-off 30,000 employees and shut down 12 plants and parts facilities. Ford also announced that it would be eliminating 4,000 jobs, a full ten percent of its North American white-collar work force, ...
Don’t Let the Moonbats Get you Down
Michelle Malkin takes on some of her moonbatty critics: The racist and sexist "yellow woman doing a white man's job" knock is a tiresome old attack from impotent liberals that I've tolerated a long time. It is pathetic that I have to sit here and tell you that my ideas, ...
Wall Street Journal: A Bridge Too Far
A perfectly nice editorial in the Wall Street Journal today has one heck of a kicker in its ending line: It would be nice to think that this bridge humiliation would teach Congress about the folly of spending earmarks. The uproar has done enormous damage to the GOP majority's public ...
BizzyBlog: More Kelo v. New London Updates
BizzyBlog has two very interesting updates today on the continuing saga of New London v. the People, otherwise known as Kelo v. New London. Access them here and here. Apropos of the information in the first link, I guess the standard for becoming president of the Connecticut Bar Association is ...
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