The left-leaning New York Times laid off another eighteen “newsroom” employees this week. This is part of 100 “newsroom” jobs which the newspaper targeted for cuts in 2009. These cuts are necessary because ad revenue is down because readership is down. And why is readership...

I don’t normally write about Scientology.  My general feeling is that people who are weak and stupid enough to get involved with Scientology get what they deserve and deserve what they get. Reading an interview with Marc Headley at Wikinews reminded me of one important exception to that rule....

A few years ago, I casually mentioned that I remembered back in elementary school in the 70′s how our textbooks had pictures of woolly mammoths and terrifying descriptions of the coming ice age — which was caused by man-made pollution.  The lesson was clear, unless humans stopped living...

The funsters at CFACT (Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow) executed a couple of humorous pranks at the expense of Greenpeace this week. The activists from CFACT posted the “Propaganda Warrior” banner on Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior flagship to highlight Greenpeace’s practices...

It looks like Americans are going to have to learn to live under a government-run medical system. For several decades, the U.S. Congress has been passing laws which control more and more medical decisions — forcing health care costs to rise. In addition, the executive branch has created hundreds...

“… and call off Christmas” is one of the most memorable lines from 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The line was intended to display the sheriff of Nottingham’s mean spirited nature, but today the line evokes a very different meaning. This also is not an attack on...

Kareem Amer is a young Egyptian blogger.  Much like other young people, Kareem is unhappy with certain parts of the society in which he lives.  Like many young people, Kareem posted these thoughts to his blog. For this crime of self-expression, Kareem has now been imprisoned for 1,127 days. Here’s...