Yea, we don’t want gramma living in the guest room. Have the tax payers put her away in a nursing home for good!  REP. NANCY PELOSI: If you’re a senior, you know almost half of Medicaid is about long-term healthcare. Do you want grandma living in the guest room? You repeal the Affordable Care Act. […]

More than a little irony here. He also sends his kids to a private school. 

The Washington Post Express caught all sorts of grief Thursday morning after it mistakenly used the male symbol in artwork accompanying its cover story about the Women’s March on Washington. Here’s how the original cover artwork looked: … The Express’ headline read, “The modest start of a massive march.” The subhead read, “More than 150,000

The union for the United States Postal Service has managed to force Staples to end its program where non-union private employees of the office supply store provided mail services. Following union-backed boycotts and an adverse labor board ruling, the United States Postal Service has agreed to curb a controversial arrangement allowing private employees to provide

A principal in Kentucky took students’ phones and then sold any pornographic images he found on them (meaning the pics were of teens). Yet another argument for school choice.  A fired Kentucky high school principal took students’ phones so he could steal porn images and trade them online, according to authorities. As principal of LaRue

Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are needlessly suffering in pain while they wait for hip operations because care is being rationed by the National Health Service (the UK’s publicly funded national healthcare system). The waiting list for hip, knee and other orthopedic operations has risen by a quarter over the past eight years to more

Communism has killed a million people a year on average for a century, far more than any other ism, let alone what Marxists call “capitalism,” and the rest of us call freedom.

In Chicago, a teachers union gives students and parents a giant middle finger by not allowing parents to volunteer and keep the school library open after the school librarian was laid off. The library is currently being used for dance classes, but students are not allowed to check out any books.

“Arctic Sea Ice The Same Thickness As 1940,” says realscience.com. “In 1940, Arctic sea ice was two meters (almost 7 ft) thick,” “In 1958, Arctic sea ice was about two meters (almost 7 ft) thick. And today? “Arctic sea ice is two meters (almost 7 ft) thick.” “All of the official fake news agencies and fake

This is a sad day for science. Dr. Judith Curry, a respected climate scientist, has announced her resignation from her tenured position at Georgia Tech. She’s had enough of the politics and propaganda that beset climate science. Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech. Before reflecting on a range of

A 1 in 10 year storm event is expected to hit Northern California this weekend. Rainfall totals could easily be twice the average precipitation for January. An atmospheric river will take aim with heavy precipitation, high snow levels and soils that are already saturated from recent storms. Precipitation starts Saturday, but the brunt of the

We’ve known that the USA is in for a bi-coastal blast of cold air, snow, and heavy rains, but this map by Jesse Farrell shows just have much of the contiguous USA have below freezing temperatures this morning. Here is a summary of temperatures seen this morning by states: All States except Florida (80% of

The Huffington Post is worried that faltering faith in the field of Economics, whose experts spectacularly failed to predict the 2008 crash and the post Brexit economic boom, might spill over into skepticism about predictions of climate driven economic collapse.  With Economics In Disarray, It’s Time To Rethink Climate Change We heard this week that

As predicted here ten days ago, portions of all of the Lower 48 states are below 32 deg. F at 6 a.m. EST this morning (animation here ).  Surface temperature and wind patterns at 6 a.m. January 7, 2017. The spatial average temperature over the Lower 48 at 6 a.m. is 11 deg. F, which

This is a far cry from the temperatures predicted. Globally, 2016 edged out 1998 by +0.02 C to become the warmest year in the 38-year satellite temperature record, according to Dr. John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Because the margin of error is about 0.10

Germany’s Vice Chancellor accuses Saudi Arabia of financing terrorism in the West. Germany’s vice-chancellor has publicly accused Saudi Arabia of financing terrorists in the West. Sigmar Gabriel claimed the country was funding mosques linked to extremism, which he said were becoming a threat to public security. In an interview with German newspaper, Bild am Sonntag, Mr