March 9, 2010

Tapping palm oil without tapping out rainforests

Sustainable palm oil production shouldn’t be an [...]

March 8, 2010

A Tease from Spring

The daffodils just phoned in a complaint. If they make an early appearance to the party they may die from the future cold. The birds sitting on my windowsill refuse to shut up. They are discussing their friends who flew south and are missing the fine weather. The trees have decided to wait to see [...]

February 24, 2010

Climate change - Nah!

Despite shrinking ice sheets, melting glaciers and Island nations disappearing under water, many sensible people still find climate change totally unbelievable.  We’re not talking about some incomprehensible 3000 page theory here, we’re talking the disappearance of the North polar ice pack.  You know, where Santa lives?

February 7, 2010

I Prefer Local to Global

I Prefer Local to Global

By Alan Caruba

Perhaps it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience with the events of the world. Or perhaps it is the spin that has been added to the word “global”, endowing it with an almost spiritual quality.

Mostly, though, I think it is [...]

February 3, 2010

The National Madhouse

The National Madhouse

By Alan Caruba

If you think that you are going mad, based on the statements out of the White House and Congress, let me assure you that you are sane, but those in charge of governing the nation appear to have lost their wits.

The Democrat’s third-ranking House leader, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), during an [...]

February 1, 2010

Global Warming Makes the Case Against Global Government

Global Warming Makes the Case Against Global Government

By Alan Caruba

The utterly baseless case for “global warming” is melting a lot faster than the glaciers in India’s Himalayas which, by the way, are not melting.

It is time for the Nobel Committee to rescind the Peace Prize given to Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel [...]

February 1, 2010

The SWI Question of the Day (2-1-10)

Should there be a ban on smoking – if so – in what places or areas?

We welcome your thoughts and comments.

January 31, 2010

The Great Green Land Grab

The Great Green Land Grab

By Alan Caruba

All across America, various environmental organizations have been engaged in schemes to deter development such as housing, new energy plants, or the horror of a manufacturing facility that might actually employ people. In some states, the attack has been on farms and ranches, finding ways to punish their owners [...]

January 24, 2010

The Bill Comes Due for Socialism in America

The Bill Comes Due for Socialism in America

By Alan Caruba

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” — Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister

It began as a beautiful cruise to a land of “hope and change”, but it has become a nightmare in which the ship of state is [...]

January 19, 2010

A Daily Testimony of a World's Decline

My daily drive; today through pouring rain,
Behind road fog snaking towards me from the truck ahead,
Slowly approaching the cloud-shrouded glass and metal,
Framed by downtown’s bustling highways.

Graffiti on walls and overpasses define the city climate
Testimony of a divided space and time
Obscenities litter the viaducts and road signs
Racial slurs and sexual innuendos graphically apparent.

Beggars crowd each corner [...]

January 19, 2010

Deadly Earth, Deadly Humans

Deadly Earth, Deadly Humans

By Alan Caruba

The earthquake in Haiti is a perfect example of the arrogance of environmentalists who are always running around crying “Save the Earth” or making claims that any or all forms of life are going extinct.

For three decades we have listened to these charlatans claim that the Earth was heating up [...]

January 7, 2010

China in Transition, Where did all that Pollution come from?

China in Transition, Where did all that Pollution come from?
by Lloyd Lofthouse

Before anyone criticizes China for polluting the environment, learn about the history that caused today’s problems first. The First Industrial Revolution took place in England after James Watt developed the steam engine in the late 18th century. Coal and burning wood played an important part in [...]

January 6, 2010

Nopenhagen saviors US, China deserve praise

China and US have taken the lead in saving earth away from the UN and fellow travelers that were bungling the [...]

December 23, 2009

Mother Earth Will Provide

Here is something that may or may not spur more debate on our site. After seeing the latest costly (500 million dollars) and entertaining blockbuster, “Avatar”, I started thinking about the true concept of deities. Mankind has always known that we could not pull off life alone. A higher power was always required. For most [...]

December 20, 2009

Demography Decides Everything

Demography Decides Everything

By Alan Caruba

When I listen to politicians arguing the merits of some piece of legislation, I am usually 99% sure they have no idea how demography-—population—-will affect the outcome of their grand schemes.

This is particularly true of advocates of fixed and often flawed ideas about the environment. Most “save the Earth” true believers [...]

December 10, 2009

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

By Alan Caruba

One of the great ironies of the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen is that its focus is on “global warming” at a time when Planet Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the passed decade.

That fact alone is testimony to another one; the United Nations conference has [...]

December 9, 2009

Put Mother Earth on Your Holiday Gift List

Save the planet for the [...]

December 8, 2009

A Vital Difference Today Between China and America

A Vital Difference Today Between China and America

By Alan Caruba

“The joke among China hands goes like this,” says Michael Economides. “If the Americans and the Chinese start talking about a major project today, in two years the Chinese will be done and the Americans will still be talking and applying for permits.”

Economides is an internationally [...]

November 30, 2009

Let the Great Global Warming Cover-Up Begin!

Let the Great Global Warming Cover-Up Begin!

By Alan Caruba

Now that some enterprising and possibly conscience-stricken soul has served up the emails and other data of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, revealing the deliberate efforts to hide the corrupted research that justifies the “global warming” fraud, all the various journalists [...]

November 27, 2009

A Political Who’s Who of Global Warming Liars

A Political Who’s Who of Global Warming Liars

By Alan Caruba

As the global warming fraud unravels, it’s a good time to look at the politicians who have been some of the most outspoken advocates, using global warming/climate change to advance “Cap-and-Trade” legislation and other related laws and regulations.

Top of the list is President Barack Obama who [...]

November 25, 2009

Global Warming Fraud: Somebody Needs to Go to Jail

Global Warming Fraud: Somebody Needs to Go to Jail

By Alan Caruba

The revelations that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) doctored the data supporting the global warming claims of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) means that EVERYTHING attributed to or based upon “global warming” is invalid.

It means [...]

November 23, 2009

Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate!

Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate!

By Alan Caruba

For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?” The truth about some of the scientists behind the global [...]

November 22, 2009

The Global Carbon Footprint Scam

The Global Carbon Footprint Scam

By Alan Caruba

I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one “crisis” after another using wretchedly bad “science” to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24, the Global Footprint Network is going to “release new data on the Ecological Footprint of 100 nations and humanity as a whole, [...]

November 17, 2009

If Not in YOur Neighborhood Then Where?

 

There is a sewage treatment plant in Harlem located under a state park. When David Dinkins was Mayor the project was supposed to be built in a different area, somewhere downtown near West 72nd St. Those is that area got together and rallied against putting [...]

November 16, 2009

The Truth About Harlem

As a college student eager to explore the world outside the South I spent many winter breaks in New York City. My first was with my roommate Kaye who lived in Queens. I got to see a few of the sights and only visited Harlem once when we went to [...]

November 14, 2009

Solar Powered Lies

Solar Powered Lies

By Alan Caruba

I lived in Florida for some five years between attending the University of Miami and returning after service in the Army for a job I left on news of JFK’s assassination. Some five years ago my older brother, a resident of Boynton Beach, urged me to relocate.

As the exit doors of [...]

November 12, 2009

Polar Bear Balderdash

Polar Bear Balderdash

By Alan Caruba

I received an email from the Sierra Club urging me to sign a petition to declare the polar bear an endangered species.

The Department of the Interior is considering this and it would cover much of the Arctic, including the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean. The Sierra Club is worried because [...]

November 8, 2009

Wrecking America

Wrecking America

By Alan Caruba

I am always wary of conspiracy theories. Most can be explained away as shared ideologies which, in the case of the current and recently past Congresses and White Houses, can be described as socialism. It did not and does not matter which Party was or is in power.

The other explanation for the [...]

November 8, 2009

Energy ABC’s: Playing Americans for Fools

Energy ABCs: Playing Americans for Fools

By Alan Caruba

I have long harbored strong doubts about the knowledge that most Americans possess regarding the sources of energy they largely take for granted. We flip a switch and the lights go on. We pull up to the gas pump and drive away. We use machines that are totally [...]

November 2, 2009

The Economic Recovery Fantasy

The Economic Recovery Fantasy

By Alan Caruba

I freely confess that I regard it as a triumph if I can balance my checkbook. My Father was a Certified Public Accountant and surely despaired of his second son (the first became a CPA!) who had no head for numbers.

Like most Americans, though, I find it laughable, if not [...]

October 29, 2009

To Women in Neighborhoods in Fear

There are rapists and murderers everywhere. I have walked with eyes in the back of my head ever since the Hamilton Heights Rapist, now in prison awaiting trial, first attacked. These sick men are still out there. One has struck in St. Albans, Queens, New York. two rapes in as many days. And we are still [...]

October 27, 2009

How to be a Jerk

How to be a Jerk

By Alan Caruba

Let us begin with a fact that whole legions of global warming alarmists cannot wish away or hide from public view. The Earth has been cooling since 1998 and it is getting demonstrably cooler almost everywhere in the world. The cooling will continue for decades.

So it follows that the [...]

October 24, 2009

Taking Away Your Choice

Taking Away Your Choice
By Alan Caruba

I am always amazed at the variety of choice that exists in my local supermarket. There are other supermarkets in the area, but the one I frequent most has lower prices on most items and almost anything you want to purchase allows one to select among several brands available.

We Americans [...]

October 23, 2009

Where are the Hurricanes, Mr. Gore?

Where are the Hurricanes, Mr. Gore?

By Alan Caruba

That god among men and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, told us in “An Inconvenient Truth”, his Oscar-winning documentary, that we had to brace for increasing numbers of hurricanes as the result of global warming.

So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore?

The hurricane season that runs [...]

October 22, 2009

Using “Global Warming” to Steal your Rights

Using “Global Warming” to Steal your Rights
By Alan Caruba

By now, anyone paying any attention whatever to the weather has begun to notice that it is getting colder earlier in the U.S. and that this is occurring around the world.

On www.iceagenow.com, Robert W. Felix, the author of “Not by Fire, but by Ice” and “Magnetic Reversals [...]

October 20, 2009

The “Rent Seekers” – Green Corporations

The “Rent Seekers” – Green Corporations
By Alan Caruba

In economics, “rent seeking” is a term that describes the process by which corporations, unions, trade groups, and individuals try to gain unfair advantages through politics and lobbying rather than via competitive trade in the free marketplace.

Going “Green” has proven to be one of the favorite ways by [...]

October 19, 2009

Only Idiots Listen to these “Leaders”

Only Idiots Listen to these “Leaders”
By Alan Caruba

Not long ago U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, told everyone they only had a few weeks in order to save the Earth from “climate change” and this week it’s the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Gordon Brown.

Ever since he was Vice President and a defeated candidate for the [...]

October 18, 2009

Enemy of the People–Parable of Disaster

Stephen Sangirardi   Enemy of the People–Parable of Disaster   Bard715@aol.com
 
   Once upon a time there was a doctor who suspected that his town’s reservoir/resort was slowly being poisoned. The doctor was no alarmist and so he conducted test after test until he was certain that the water supply was contaminated. It is never an easy thing [...]

October 16, 2009

Airing Laundry

 April fresh smells and breezes have always been equated with laundry hanging on the line. Before their were dryers there was Mother Nature creating a breeze that scented the sheets, towels and shirts as they flapped on the line. Every one had clothes pins and every one had a clothes [...]

October 14, 2009

Global Warming? The “Deniers” are my Heroes

Global Warming? The “Deniers” are my Heroes
By Alan Caruba

It has been nearly three decades since I first wrote that “global warming” was a hoax and I have had to repeat myself countless times since then. Along the way I met many of the so-called “deniers” and dissenters. I had correspondence with others. We all knew [...]

October 10, 2009

Saving the Earth by Hating Humanity

Saving the Earth by Hating Humanity

By Alan Caruba

As the greatest hoax of the modern era, “global warming”, bites the dust around the world, it behooves us all to contemplate why environmentalists—Greens—would attempt to hoodwink the world’s population into believing they could do anything to “control” the planet’s climate.

One singular fact stands out in all Green [...]

October 1, 2009

America’s Best Idea is Us–Ken Burns Film

Ken Burns newest film is amazing. The parks are amazing. We watch and watch and I have been at it eight hours now after four episodes. At times it is like a marathon with the people and parks running by you in a mind stream of sequences of people and events that you struggle to [...]

September 30, 2009

Cap-and-Switch: Hello Sucker!

Cap-and-Switch: Hello Sucker!
By Alan Caruba

Here’s a look at the introduction of a draft bill co-sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), co-sponsored by John Kerry (D-MA). It is the Senate alternative to the horrid “Cap-and-Trade” bill authored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA). Call it “Cap-and-Switch.”

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
A [...]

September 26, 2009

Liberals are Killing America

Liberals are Killing America

By Alan Caruba

It is not a new observation, but it is one that needs review and repeating every so often. Why do liberals always seem to get on the side of any issue concerning America’s future? Its sovereignty? Its financial security? Its defense?

I think this question is particularly timely given the public [...]

September 23, 2009

Muslims, Jews join hands

The spirit of this holy season for Muslims and Jews, rather than the angry rhetoric of religious zealots on both sides, could help bring peace to the Middle [...]

September 18, 2009

No Friends of the Earth

The UN and green groups are sabotaging meaningful progress to combat climate change. [...]

September 15, 2009

Keeping Americans in the Dark

Keeping Americans in the Dark
By Alan Caruba

After endless speeches and the biggest protest march in recent U.S. history, one would think that the Obama administration would get the message that Americans do not want them or the present Congress to tamper with Medicare other than to eliminate waste.

The administration’s top spokesmen, however, professed to know [...]

September 13, 2009

Adult Bald Eagle Steals Juvenile’s Fish

An adult bald eagle seems to be teaching a juvenile bald eagle in lesson in who is boss on the tidal flats at Spanish Bank in Vancouver, BC [...]

September 13, 2009

The Great Copenhagen Liar’s Conference

The Great Copenhagen Liar’s Conference
By Alan Caruba

From December 6 through the 18th, a conference sponsored by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, to explore ways to “prevent global warming” and I would like to be among the first to tell all those idiots checking their passports and deciding [...]

August 26, 2009

Wheat, Yes, Wheat!

Wheat, Yes, Wheat!
By Alan Caruba

Today, we shall talk of wheat. Yes, wheat!

Since 98% of Americans have no connection to farming beyond a visit to the supermarket, most give no thought to how food products get to the shelves.

However, if you do a quick inventory of the foods you eat on a daily basis, you will [...]

August 22, 2009

Saturday’s Random Thoughts

Saturday’s Random Thoughts

By Alan Caruba

Nine Trillion Dollars. That is what the Obama administration now says will be the national budget deficit in ten years. Our current GDP, give or take a trillion, is fourteen trillion a year so you do the math. In seven months President Obama and his Democrat minions in Congress have plunged [...]

August 20, 2009

Signs of Sanity

Signs of Sanity
By Alan Caruba

I have this theory that nations go crazy from time to time. Collectively they lose their wits or, as is often the case, the people either elect or have imposed on them a complete lunatic, discovering it in slow stages as reports of various horrors make their way to the countryside.

These [...]

August 18, 2009

Cap-and-Trade Insanity

Cap-and-Trade Insanity
By Alan Caruba

To understand how insane the Cap-and-Trade bill really is you need to know that it based on the belief that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to avoid a global warming that is NOT happening.

The American Clean Energy and Security Act is a giant scam involving “carbon credits” to be sold and [...]

August 7, 2009

Column 666, about President Obama

Column 666, about President Obama

by John Armor

       This is the 666th column in this weekly series.  It had to be spent on an overarching   subject.  So it is.

       President Barack Obama is the most accomplished liar I have ever encountered, and that includes several pathological liars I faced in court.  The best of those I [...]

August 6, 2009

Supplements are All the Same – Right?

Abraham and Sarah of Bible fame never took vitamins and they were able to have a child when they were both well past child-bearing age – Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90! In fact, Sarah had been barren as a young woman and unable to conceive. You can read about it in Genesis chapters [...]

August 5, 2009

Killing Pesticides, Not Pests

Killing Pesticides, Not Pests
By Alan Caruba

We are going to go from cotton fields to bedrooms in order to connect the dots on the many ways the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups have conspired to deprive Americans of beneficial chemicals that protect crops and humans from insect pests.

Only a scant two percent of the U.S. [...]

August 3, 2009

Obama’s Big Lie: “Green” Jobs

Obama’s Big Lie: “Green” Jobs

By Alan Caruba

If there is one thing Americans began to rapidly conclude following his inauguration in January, it is that President Barack Obama lies all the time and that those lies are often blatant.

In pursuit of the “Cap-and-Trade” act that is a huge tax on all energy use in America, Obama’s [...]

July 18, 2009

Of Mice and Men (and Pest Control)

Of Mice and Men (and Pest Control)
By Alan Caruba

Among the many books in my office is the “Handbook of Pest Control”, seventh edition, edited by Arnold Mallis. Its contributing editors are a who’s who of the leading authorities on pest control and its encyclopedic text includes thousands of references to the diseases that insect and [...]

July 16, 2009

Liars and the Global Warming Lies They’re Telling

Liars and the Global Warming Lies They’re Telling
By Alan Caruba

It must be that the believers in “global warming” all live in caves and do not wander out to discover what is really happening on the planet.

The constant and hysterical cries from the global warming crowd claim that we have merely months, weeks and days before [...]

July 13, 2009

Greening Our Schools and Nation

Greening Our Schools and Nation
By Alan Caruba

If those of you who have doubts that the Earth is dramatically warming and that the planet is about to be plunged into the kind of heat that will likely destroy all life, then it must be puzzling that so many people continue to believe that “global warming” is [...]

July 12, 2009

The U.S. Weather Service Says…

The U.S. Weather Service Says…
By Alan Caruba

Below is a recent post by the U.S. Weather Service. I have added some boldface to elements of the text.
· Due to the unusually cool and wet conditions in June…here are some interesting facts to note:
· This June is tied for the 8th coolest on record. The average temperature [...]

July 12, 2009

Military ‘Food’ for Thought, America vs. China

 Is China a danger to the world? This is a topic I have wanted to write about for some time. I suspect my motivation for writing this comes from being sent to Vietnam to fight in [...]

July 3, 2009

Making Bush Look Good

Making Bush Look Good

By Alan Caruba

It’s taken barely half a year to make George W. Bush look good to a lot of Americans who experienced “Bush Derangement Syndrome” or, like myself, were critical of several of his policies while President.

I imagine Bush watching the evening news these days and just laughing as he watches Obama [...]

June 28, 2009

Betrayed by Congress

Betrayed by Congress
By Alan Caruba

Mark it on your calendar, June 26, 2009 was the date that the House of Representatives betrayed every American in the name of saving the nation and the Earth from global warming.

It was the day that 219 Representatives voted for the obscenely misnamed “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.” [...]

June 25, 2009

Save the Earth! Get Rid of Your Refrigerator!

Save the Earth! Get Rid of Your Refrigerator!
By Alan Caruba

On June 22, Greenpeace USA put out the word that “A new study published today in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences shows that refrigerant chemicals, so called F-gases, are a more dangerous global warming threat than previously predicted.”

Apparently, in order to save the [...]

June 18, 2009

Reasons to Distrust Your Government

Reasons to Distrust Your Government

By Alan Caruba

In the normal course of events, when voters no longer have confidence in the President, their Senators and their Representatives, they vote them out of office, but there are whole agencies of government that continue on no matter who is in office and, since their budgets and existence depend [...]

June 17, 2009

Goosed in the Garden State

Goosed in the Garden State
By Alan Caruba

In December 2005, the headline in the Star-Ledger read “Jersey declares war on Canada Geese: Plan could slash flocks 60 percent.” New Jersey’s largest circulation newspaper reported on “a new federal proposal” intended to reduce the state’s Canada goose population by 57,000 birds over a decade.

“New Jersey has an [...]

June 16, 2009

Bag People

There was a time when a shopping bag determined one’s status. Women took their lunches, extra shoes, whatever they needed that didn’t fit into their often enourmous purses, and placed it in a bag from a popular store. They didn’t know it but it was a way to recycle while looking important. You may have [...]

June 9, 2009

Taxing Cows

Taxing Cows

By Alan Caruba

Just how crazed is the Environmental Protection Agency? When I say “crazed”, I mean just how far out of touch with reality, with science, with the economy, with common sense, and with the American people is the EPA?

Ever since the Supreme Court made one of the greatest blunders since the Dred Scott [...]

June 7, 2009

Weather Malarkey

Weather Malarkey
By Alan Caruba

I have never been able to figure out why people who know that the forecast for the local weather is likely to be wrong by the afternoon of the same day or within 48 hours still believe that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can accurately predict what it will [...]

May 31, 2009

Paddling Furiously Against a Tide of Climate Lies

Paddling Furiously Against a Tide of Climate Lies

By Alan Caruba

The whole notion of “global warming”, a dramatic increase in the overall temperature of the Earth, always struck me as the most absurd nonsense.

I knew enough about climate trends to know that they are subject to cycles ranging from a full-fledged ice age to the interglacial [...]