Recently, a group of retired military leaders expressed alarm that many recruits to the military are too fat to fight. You can read more about this here.  They find the National School Lunch Program to be the culprit of this disturbing trend.  Every news organization that reported this story had to point out the irony [...]

A few months ago I wrote a post about the potential of a Chinese Collapse.  Since then, China has advanced to become the number two economy in the world, and many are predicting that they will surpass the US GDP in about 20 years. I am curious what everyone thinks of China.  Are they going [...]

During the presidential campaign of 2008 Obama was asked why he supported raising the capital gains tax despite much proof that when the capital gains tax rate was lowered revenues increased and when the capital gains tax was raised revenues decreased. Obama says he would raise the capital gains tax because of fairness.  He then [...]

In his most recent column, George Will said the following: So, two final numbers: Two decades, five factors. Two decades have passed since Barton wrote “America’s Smallest School: The Family.” He has estimated that about 90 percent of the difference in schools’ proficiencies can be explained by five factors: the number of days students are [...]

About 4 years ago, I bought stock in a company called XTO.  At the time they were seen as a great long term play in the alternate energy field.  They are one of the leading companies in extracting natural gas with non-traditional methods.  Recently, XTO announced that we were being purchased by Exxon Mobil.  Experts [...]

I recently read an article about an impending Chinese Collapse by Peter Zeihan of Stratfor.  It seems like for the last ten years I have been hearing about the rise of China and the impending collapse of America.  While the Sinophiles have made compelling cases that China has been emerging as a notable power, it [...]

In the movie, Far and Away, there is a scene where Tom Cruise (Joseph Donnelly) tells Nicole Kidman (Shannon Something) in a perfectly articulated Irish accent, “America has got so much land they’re givin’ it away for free.”  Her response is to express incredulity.  To which Joseph replies with something like, “You’re a corker, Shannon.” [...]

In a recent email update from George Friedman of Stratfor, he discusses the recent economic crisis in Greece as a manifestation of the inherent weakness of the experiment we know as the European Union: The European experiment originated as a recoil from the ultranationalism of the first half of the 20th century. It was intended [...]

Watch this video of Tim Bridgewater on Glen Beck before you vote on June 22 between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Below the video is a link to help you find your polling location: Find polling location here.

   reality: i respect it too much to believe in it. -Jean Baudrillard In my most recent post, I discussed the problematic nature of scientific consensus in response to a comment on a previous blog from my friend, Jake.  The dubious nature of the scientific consensus that confirms the dangerous potential of anthropogenic global warming [...]