Europe Syndrome in America?

Last month Charles Murray gave a speech to the American Enterprise Institute titled:
        “Europe Syndrome”

It’s a good speech, and I would have liked to hear him deliver it in person.

Many of you might remember Randy Pausch – the Carnegie Mellon professor who developed terminal cancer. He gave his last speech “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” to a packed hall filled with students and friends, and before dying he expanded it into a best-selling book “The Last Lecture.”

Charles Murray’s speech was equally compelling to me, but discusses the “meaning of life” concept from a different perspective.

A Better Commander-in-Chief?

Say what you will about George W. Bush, but following September 11, 2001, he took whatever steps he felt necessary – with the consent of both parties in Congress – to secure and defend our country.   The record shows that he was successful;   we were not attacked again while he was in office.

Three news stories today painted a disturbing picture of our new Commander-in-Chief’s program:

1. Medvedev Announces Plan to Rearm Russia

2. Gates readies Big Cuts in Weapons

3. Obama might make wounded vets pay for treatment

Read them carefully – they may chart our country’s new direction. Each article sheds a little light on the “Obama Way”, which sadly reminds me of a world leader during the 1930’s.

Was Global warming Disproved in 2008?

Recently I e-mailed some friends a link to a story in The Telegraph
(London, England) by a fellow named Christopher Booker:
Man-made Global Warming Disproved in 2008

One of my friends replied:

Utter nonsense. Christopher Booker has no scientific
credentials whatsoever:
Denialists scraping the bottom

Here is my response (with a few edits and corrections since I first sent it off). What do you think?