Month: May 2012

Seen in Chester County, Pennsylvania: George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 while Barack Obama was a little-known state senator from Illinois. If you’ll excuse my language, the person who owns...

If you live in the United States, you have a 1 in 6 chance of being poisoned this year—by something you eat.  Chances are it will just be a “stomach bug”, but “too many food poisoning cases are more...

Guess who claimed that climate change scientists are just like Charles Manson, the Unabomber and Fidel Castro? Our good friends at the Heartland Institute, a notorious conservative think tank that promotes denial that man-made...

Over the weekend, I got into a couple of discussions on the Intertoobz about politics and warfare:  the same or different?  Discuss. I come down on the “different” side; and given the number of war...

If you open up a can of worms, someone else might open up a can of whoopass: By contrast, the Obama ad’s brief rebuke of Romney is at least factual and accurate: Not only did he say what the ad quotes, but he also said...