REDUCING MAN-MADE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS is completely and utterly pointless if your goal is to change the future climate. On the other hand, if you’re looking to ... control the way the modern world makes energy, then it makes perfect sense....

IF YOU LIKE police officers having quotas for speeding tickets, you will love the Obama administrations' new health care regulations.

MORE LEGAL TROUBLES for NYC Mayor Bloomberg's gun grabbers. "The number of Bloomberg's group that are facing felony and lesser charges is simply astounding."

As Instapundit notes: "Well, not so astounding when you consider they're politicians."

AFTER MY LAYOFF and subsequent retirement, I thought I was a failure. I was wrong.

REFRAMING THE DEBATE: Some questions to ask progressive liberals.

PALIN NOT ON the same 'intellectual stage' as Obama.

The "Obama is smart" meme is getting tiring. As one commenter noted, an Ivy League degree is no substitute for thinking. More here.

THEY'RE BACK: the Death Panels return by regulatory fiat. Under the guise of helping you make the "proper" (read that as "preferred") decision.

AMERICA'S STUBBONLY LIBERAL LEADERS keep millions looking for work.

‘COMPLIANCE’: The word that sunk a million U.S. jobs.

And you thought tort lawyers were bad ....

ECONOMIST MATTHEW KAHN (Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future) offers more optimism than solutions to the problems of climate change.

But optimism leads to more solutions than does pessimism.

THE SKY IS FALLING. Do something!

More here.

A WHINY PAEAN TO PORK AND POWER: Sen. [Arlen] Specter on Tuesday wanted to show us what was wrong with Washington -- and, unwittingly, he did.

MICHAEL BARONE: States with no income tax grew faster in the last decade.

CANADA'S OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT gets (mostly positive) top-level review. Which annoys IEEE's resident environmental activist.

Never let facts interfere with your vision.

O HOLY NIGHT: some thoughts on the meaning of Christmas.

STANDING WATCH ON CHRISTMAS: attributed to Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Giles, U.S. Navy, Al Taqqadum, Iraq.

Read it all.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS from 42 years past.

THE SPIRIT OF SANTA is alive and well in America.

MERRY CHRISTMAS


The National Christmas Tree in front of the White House.


Our family tree.

A GOOD QUESTION: Would global warming be so bad? Myself, I've never heard a satisfactory answer.