More counterexamples. The average temperature in European Russia, the Ural Mountains and Siberia is 10 degrees, or lower, below normal. 21 Dec 2016 – During all days of December, the average temperature has not come close to normal. The temperature in the Khanty-Mansiysk dropped to -43ºC, setting a new daily record. The previous record was […]

 Spying on us for our own good and safety.  Requests by governments around the world for Facebook account data went up 27 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the latter half of 2015, the social media giant said.  Read Full Article

Documents released from a lawsuit tie Palantir to data-mining tools currently used by immigration agencies. Data-mining and analytics firm Palantir, co-founded by Gawker-bankrupting tech billionaire Peter Thiel, remains a secretive purveyor of intelligence-gathering tools. While a May report revealed the company’s struggles retaining blue chip commercial clients, it still retains contracts with some government agencies. Recently-released documents uncover that

Heaven forbid! A conservative shows up at WSU and the progressives lose their minds.  The College Republicans better have money put aside to get the snowflakes some therapy dogs, Play-Doh, safe spaces, school counseling, and safety pins. I’m sure that will be demanded.  Links to Yiannopoulos’ speeches on YouTube are posted to Breitbart.com, where transcripts

He was found dead just hours before Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was assassinated.  Polshikov was a senior member of the Latin American department of the Russian foreign ministry. So this doesn’t make much sense to me, unless he was a target of opportunity.  A high-ranking Russian diplomat has been found dead from gunshot wounds in

The NSA is eroding American’s internet privacy by using a distorted definition of the word search to justify the spying program on Yahoo’s user’s emails that was exposed earlier this year. The NSA said that because computers scanned the emails before they were read not all emails were searched. Legal Experts: Policy ‘Unrecognizable From a

Obama will use a 1953 law to prevent future offshore drilling in large areas of the Atlantic and Artic oceans. Trump would not be able to simply undo this move by Obama. It must be good to be king, to create a law (which the President is not allowed to do) that blocks drilling thru

Via CNN Police are searching for a Tunisian man in his early 20s in connection with the Berlin Christmas market attack, German officials said Wednesday, as questions were raised about his possible ties to Islamist extremism. The suspect’s identity papers were found inside the cabin of the truck used in Monday’s attack, which left 12 people

The average life expectancy in the US decreased in 2015. Experts predicted that this would be an effect of Obamacare.  Via FEE:  The death rate increased 1.2% last year, and life expectancy fell in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available. Female life expectancy dropped from 81.3 to 81.2 years, and male

The US government is taking money from Social Security recipients checks to recover unpaid student loan debt. So far the government has collected $1.1 billion. The federal government is increasingly taking money out of Americans’ Social Security checks to recover millions in unpaid student debt, a trend set to accelerate as more baby boomers retire.

The General in charge of the F-35 project criticized Trump for his Tweet saying the F-35 is too expensive. The General reports that the project only needs another half a billion dollars. The F-35 project will cost over $1 trillion dollars total. One week after president-elect Donald Trump criticized the high cost of the F-35 Joint

Household formations by millennials lag behind other economic recoveries; high rents, mortgage standards cited.  Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015, the largest percentage since 1940, according to an analysis of census data by real estate tracker Trulia.

You can’t make this stuff up. It’s like The Onion owns the news these days.  Before they took a turn toward the psychedelic in the mid-1960s, the Beach Boys were about as uncontroversial as you could get in American pop music. But what was acceptable for teenyboppers in the early ’60s may be too sexually taboo

These comments echo my own on the partisan hypocrisy and how the partisans have politicized their conscience.  Liberal commentators are aghast at President-elect Donald Trump’s bullying tactics to prevent American companies such as Carrier from leaving for cheaper climesTrump and Bernie elsewhere. But when it comes to similar behavior on the part of liberal heroes,

There are a lot of hot battles to watch out for in 2017. But one of the most explosive of all may be Trump versus the bureaucracy, writes Ira Stoll. The executive branch civilian workforce numbers about 2.7 million; the uniformed military are another 1.5 million. Against that more or less permanent federal workforce of roughly 4

President Barack Obama wants President-Elect Donald Trump to be careful about using his executive power in today’s “Do as I say, not as a I do” news. President Obama warned President-Elect Trump about overusing executive orders to get his domestic agenda through. In an interview with NPR that aired today, Obama explained that “the legislative process is always better”

The USA is no longer under the sword of OPEC.  A couple of weeks ago, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) along with Russia agreed to cut back their crude oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day. The goal is to reduce supplies and thereby boost prices. Since the OPEC agreement, the price of West