Author: DougWatts

When my cousins Todd and Pete Heino and I were little kids in Massachusetts, we thought the most fun thing in the world to do was looking at the 1,500 page Baseball Encyclopedia and looking up baseball players from the 1800s...

Bill Gates, whose charitable foundation has given away more than $3 billion since 1999 for educational programs and scholarships, noted that about 30 percent of U.S. ninth-graders fail to graduate on time. “As a nation, we...

Powerline, March 2, 2007: “In the absence of another first-tier Republican candidate with a longer track-record of up-front social conservatism, Romney is the social conservative in this race as far as I’m concerned....

There is no difference between global warming deniers and evolution deniers. If only because they are usually the same people. Like the Rev. Jerry Falwell, for instance. As a matter of introduction, I won all of my...

“He replied, that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not. (For they have no Word in their language to express Lying or Falsehood).”  — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms,...