Politics | The American Experiment

FPI Analysis: What U.S. Officials Said on Iran, What We Know Now | Foreign Policy Initiative

The United States remains the world's indispensable nation -- indispensable to international peace, security, and stability, and indispensable to safe-guarding and advancing the ideals and principles we hold dear.

The Iran deal is NOTHING like what Obama has promised repeatedly. Will ANY Democrats care? Will ANY Democrats vote against the deal? Do ANY Democrats care if Iran has nukes pointed at Washington and Jerusalem?

Politics | The American Experiment

Kerry’s absolute idiocy | Power Line

The Obama administration's rush to sell us out to Iran presents a spectacle of deception, prevarication, and idiocy the likes of which we have never seen. It is as though Henry Wallace had been giv...

The collapse of the fig leaf on the Iranian nuclear deal sellout by Kerry and Obama.

No deal is better than the deal they are negotiating. Increased sanctions coupled with military action against their proxies in the region and Iranian forces throughout the region is in order. Take their money and show them as failures in jihad to their friends. Then coordinate with Israel on a strike at their nuclear facilities - either military or sabotage, whatever works best.

Would you sleep better at night with a nuclear Iran? I know I wouldn't.

Politics | The American Experiment

Feds Can’t Verify $2.8 Billion in Obamacare Subsidies | Washington Free Beacon

The federal government cannot verify nearly $3 billion in subsidies distributed through Obamacare, putting significant taxpayer funding “at risk.”

Does the Obama Administration even care that they throw out money with no accountability?

Politics | The American Experiment

ICE: 121 migrants awaiting deportation charged in deaths

Between 2010 and 2014, 121 undocumented immigrants who committed crimes but were released awaiting deportation were later charged with homicide.

Does Obama believe that American lives matter?

Politics | The American Experiment

57% Think Enforcing Current Gun Laws More Important Than Creating New Laws - Rasmussen Reports™

Rasmussen Reports - The best place to look for polls that are spot on

What a novel idea!

News | Societal Evolution

Houseplants That Purify Air - Air-Filtering Houseplants

NASA research has shown that these houseplants purify the air in your home.

News you can use!

News | Societal Evolution

An Uber for Doctor Housecalls - NYTimes.com

A number of new apps offer medical consults with doctors via a smart phone, and some of them even make house calls.

Free markets creating value in health care!

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Three Reasons We Need the Oxford Comma | National Review Online

I agree! Bring back the comma or expect unintended meanings!

News | Societal Evolution

Norway First Country to End FM Radio in 2017 - Hollywood Reporter

Steely Dan, the jazz-rockers who scored a hit in 1978 with their single FM (No Static At All), would not be pleased.

Internet broad band wins out over FM radio!

Who would have predicted this 10 years ago? Coming to the U.S.?

News | Societal Evolution

The Free-Speech Crisis - The New Yorker

The murder of Washiqur Rahman highlights a trend: around the world, free speech is under threat. George Packer on the dangers of censorship.

Important commentary on the left's attack on free speech. Political correctness is an invidious movement designed to enforce conformity to the progressive/liberal movement.

History | History

Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel

A text that may be the oldest copy of a gospel known to exist — a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that was written during the first century, before the year 9...

Another great achaeological find!

History | History

Unlocking Scrolls Preserved in Eruption of Vesuvius, Using X-Ray Beams

Researchers say that for the first time, they can read letters inside the scrolls without unrolling them, by using a laserlike beam of X-rays.

Technology is opening up the past!

History | History

Time capsule that was in Massachusetts State House is opened - The Boston Globe

The container had not seen the light of day since 1855, when it was removed for cleaning and additions.

Great stuff!

History | History

Tutankhamun’s Blood

Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece of the Pharaoh

"The most jaw-dropping revelation was the secret that had felled the 18th Dynasty: Tutankhamun’s parents had been siblings .The union between Akhenaten and his sister “planted the seed of their son’s early death,” he wrote. “Tutankhamun’s health was compromised from the moment he was conceived.” For political reasons, the rest of the DNA analysis was cut short due the political implications of any findings that King Tut was not solely Arab in DNA. Possibilities include DNA from Caucasians and Jews.

Business & Finance | Economy

By Its Own Criteria, the Obama Administration Is An Economic Failure | Power Line

Lately there has been a fair amount of happy talk from liberal pundits about our supposedly robust economy. Such optimistic evaluations have been guarded, since everyone knows that the jobs picture...

Now you know why the middle class does not feel like the recession is over. Obamanomics had hurt Americans greatly.

Business & Finance | Economy

This Chart Shows How Labor Force Dropouts Mask The Unemployment Rate

If you take labor force dropouts into account, the U.S. unemployment rate picture is a lot uglier than it appears.

Management learned long ago that they would destroy all value in a company if they ran it exclusively using a ratio like Return on Investment. Evaluating the health of the job market using a ratio like the unemployment rate absent those who gave up hope of finding a job is a similar mistake.

Business & Finance | Economy

Solving the Puzzle of Stagnant Wages

In The Wall Street Journal, Ed Lazear writes that evidence points to growing government regulation like Dodd-Frank and policies that discourage investment.

More research evidence that government regulation is a driving force behind stagnant wages.

Business & Finance | Economy

Thanks Obamacare: This Is What Americans Spent The Most Money On In Q4 | Zero Hedge

If readers need clarification on what was the primary source of spending-based "growth" for the US economy in the fourth quarter, the same source that bumped up final Q3 GDP from 3.9% to 5.0%, please ping us: we will gladly explain the chart bel

The largest component increase in Q3 GDP was spending on healthcare!

Business & Finance | Economy

Don't Believe the Hype—We're Not Even Close to Full Employment | Boston Review

People sense the great divide between government hype on the economy and their reality. Here are some facts to put the economy in perspective.

Science & Technology | Global Warming

An Estimate of The Centennial Variability of Global Temperatures: Energy & Environment: Vol 26, No 3

A former Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) lead author.studies temperature data and concludes: "while some portion of the temperature change observed in the 20th century was probably caused by greenhouse gases, there is a strong likelihood that the major portion was due to natural variations." The science is far from settled and the climate alarmists are put on their heels by the science.

Science & Technology | Global Warming

Temperature Fibbers Being Investigated | Heartlander Magazine

More unscientific adjustments to temperature data being caught. It's almost like these guys are changing the data to fit their narrative. Actually, not almost.

Science & Technology | Global Warming

151 Degrees Of Fudging…Energy Physicist Unveils NOAA’s “Massive Rewrite” Of Maine Climate History

NOAA caught manipulating Maine's historical temperature data to create a warming trend - more fraud from the global warming alarmist "scientists".

Science & Technology | Global Warming

Hilarious: EPA Chief Gina McCarthy Says Climate Change Is A “Science Fact”; Can’t Verify Predictions Are Accurate�

Senator Jeff Sessions exposes the head of the EPA as ignorant of the climate change facts in this entertaining clip from a Congressional hearing. Sessions is sly in the way of the small town lawyer.

Science & Technology | Global Warming

Touchy Feely Science - one chart suggests there's a 'pHraud' in omitting Ocean Acidification data in Congressional testimony

Another case of selective use of available climate data in order to "prove" global warming. Is that science? Of course not.

Science & Technology | Medicine, Science & Technology

Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence : Nature News & Comment

Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines.

Artificial intelligence brings huge issues of how to protect against abuse.

Will society come to grips with this or will the Terminator singularity (Judgment Day) occur?

Science & Technology | Medicine, Science & Technology

Killer robots will leave humans 'utterly defenceless' warns professor - Telegraph

Robots, called LAWS – lethal autonomous weapons systems – will be able to kill without human intervention

The Terminator is almost here!

It's going to be a Brave New World.

Science & Technology | Medicine, Science & Technology

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees: How soon will robots take over the world? - Telegraph

An explosion in artificial intelligence has sent us hurtling towards a post-human future, warns Martin Rees

These predictions are becoming a trend. Must be some real technological breakthroughs behind it. HAL? Is that you, HAL?

Science & Technology | Medicine, Science & Technology

More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think - NYTimes.com

A review of studies shows that coffee’s reputation as being unhealthy is undeserved, with the potential health benefits surprisingly large.

Coffee - what doesn't it do for you? I now drink 2 cups a day for health reasons. I also like it a lot as a drink.

Science & Technology | Medicine, Science & Technology

New machine could one day replace anesthesiologists - The Washington Post

Four U.S. hospitals are using the Sedasys machine, which is limited to simple screenings in healthy patients.

This is how the cost of medicine will go down - not through major bureaucratic boondoggles like Obamacare. Dropping the cost of anesthesiology from up to $2,000 down to $200!