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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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