And we would thank the heavens above that gasoline didn't cost $4.00 a gallon like the Europeans would have to cough up. Well here we are at $4.00 a gallon.  It costs more to fill up a 25 gallon gas tank than to buy dinner for the family.  Do you rem ...

Unlike an athletic contest, with radiation exposure more is not good! If 6,000 counts per minute of radiation exposure in Japan was on the outer edge of okay as of yesterday, can 100,000 counts per minute now be okay today? This is apparently the fin ...

Do you want to know the number of barrels of crude oil that were consumed around the world since you arrived at this article? Have you ever thought about numbers so large that they become almost impossible to comprehend? In Washington that has become ...

I tried to explain the problem, but maybe Garfield can do a better job! "Scratch" that, Garfield can definitely do a better job. I am constrained by the facts as well as opinion whereas Garfield only has opinion to deal with. I had explained a week o ...

From The Political Commentator, written by Michael Haltman From a storm in Glasgow, Montana in July: The "Mothership" Taken by storm chaser Sean Heavey, this picture shows just how powerful mother nature actually is. ...

From The Political CommentatorIt took too long, the lawyers get too much (and wanted even more), the sick don't get enough, those who may one day become sick get little or very little and a bill for federal compensation wallows in Congress This is ho ...

"Cool It", the thinking man's version of An Inconvenient Truth  Al Gore strove to create international panic over the concept of global warming, ostensibly because he believed that the problem existed, and that by immediate and draconian respons ...

This is the kind of report that fuels a conservative's fire, doesn't it?  Leave it to the government to spend our tax dollars in a misguided attempt to "stimulate the economy."  Not only is the economy far from stimulated, but the job perfo ...

When the government regulates how much water a toilet can flush, or what kind of lightbulbs you can put in your table lamps at home, the Constitution looks pretty small in the rear view mirror.  Exactly where in the Constitution does it say that ...

We Americans haven't cornered the market on conspiracy theory aficianados!   A Russian "scholar" claims that the United States has some kind of a global warming/climate change weapon, which is the cause of the heat wave in Moscow. Yup. ...