Wow. I didn’t think we needed studies to prove that Carson’s environmental advocacy was responsible for millions of deaths, all so she and her acolytes could preen about their concern for the planet (well, except for the human component of the planet, I mean).  CEI: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book credited with launching the modern environmentalist movement. Carson famously warned man-made chemicals,

This is actually quite interesting:  “The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing four military women and the activist Servicewomen’s Action Network (SWAN), has filed a San Francisco lawsuit demanding that female soldiers be forced into direct ground combat (infantry) battalions.”  This despite  “numerous studies and tests conducted over the past 30 years, in the direct ground combat environment” showing “women do not have an equal opportunity to survive, or to help

Darleen points to Krauthammer’s advice to the GOP (mirroring the more sternly-worded advice offered here ever since talk of the “fiscal cliff” got John Boehner’s delicious orange tears of imminent surrender flowing) that Republican leadership merely walk away from what Krauthammer rightly notes is an “insulting” offer from Geithner and the President, who are not only offering no cuts, but want increased taxes and an increase in spending by calling

… that just marks you as an ignorant snowbilly engaged in teh raaaaacism A British physician’s disturbing testimony is shedding light on the increasingly common practice of National Health Service (NHS) hospitals sending sick or severely disabled newborn babies home or to hospices to die of starvation or dehydration. Newborn babies are being being placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway for end-of-life care, a system originally allotted and designed for

Quick, how many of you answered “truth”? Good for you!  Precisely right! Now, the rest of you?  Should be ashamed. Unless your first thought was either “Michelle” or “spiders.”  In which case, you get a pass.  This time. (h/t JHo)  

This opens Israel up to endless prosecutions before the ICC, and gives a terror state the imprimatur of legitimacy.  Which was a predictable move in  the trajectory of transnational progressivism, the disease that will in the end kill off any free country, delegitimize national sovereignty, and create an untouchable permanent bureaucratic ruling class, a crony class, and the “masses” to be administered to in ways the betters see fit. Sadly,

Big government math: Two lucky individuals won $587.5 million last night by matching all six numbers in the Powerball lottery.  This represents the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. To put this amount in perspective, and to shed light on the United States’ spending problem, the math below shows that the federal government’s pace of deficit spending would consume this amount in just four hours. In fiscal year 2012, the debt of the U.S. government

Oh, goodie! That must mean Obama has given in and decided not to raise taxes at all — and that the Republicans held firm, letting Obama know that they’re happy to go over the fiscal cliff, getting rid of Bush’s tax cuts “for the rich” and taking us back to the Salad Days of the Clinton rates and all the Democrat mythology built up around it! Right? Right? I mean,