Science and Technology
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Fed knows best: Obama steamrolls Alaskan tribes to ‘save’ their land
America’s only lawmaker to be born in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is livid over President Obama’s plan to ask…
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Tweet of the Day: Meteorologists apologize for forecasting ‘historic blizzard’ that wasn’t
Meteorologists are scratching their heads today, trying to figure out how they could have gotten their forecast so wrong in re the…
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Oops! 1,700 private jets — including Al Gore’s — headed to World Economic Forum
“Billionaires, world leaders and pop stars,” Newsweek notes, are headed to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual World Economic Forum. And all will…
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SOTU fact check: Obama takes credit for low gas prices, says global #1 national security threat
Much of Barack Obama’s penultimate State of the Union address was about — and often made up of — hot air. But a facet…
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Crazy new technology may save lives on the battlefield (Video)
The Defense Department’s top researchers are working actively to put homing bullets, previously the stuff of sci-fi, into the hands…
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U.S. knew North Korea was behind Sony cyberattack because NSA infiltrated their computers
The reason the U.S. was confident that North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony was because the National Security…
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Selfies on stolen iPad help crime victim, cops ID thieves (Video)
If you got it, flaunt it — even if you stole it. Meet Dorian, of “the money team.” He and his…
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An Iranian nuclear weapons program in what used to be ‘Syria’
Enlarging the footprint of the prohibited and frozen Iranian nuclear program.
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Gone with the wind: 25% of wind turbine companies went bust in last two years
Business has not exactly been booming for some wind turbine companies, according to a new report that found that one in four suppliers…
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Feds spend big to understand why gay men do stupid things
Why do some gay men make poor life choices? The federal government wants to know, and is spending half a million taxpayer…
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Libs attack W. Va. school board for standards questioning manmade global warming
West Virginia School Board member Wade Linger didn’t want to cause controversy, but that’s what he got when he worked…
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Obama’s War on Coal has transformed Virginia from economic leader to laggard
After years of outpacing the nation in economic growth, Virginia is sputtering. Employment is lagging, real estate is flat, and…
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2014: Another year without global warming
There are now 219 months with no significant upward temperature trend, according to an analysis of satellite data, which is more…
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CDC warns of ‘anticipatory’ mental health effects of climate change (Video)
A short and bizarre video funded by taxpayers features John Iskander, MD, MPH and George Luber, PhD of the Centers for…
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Tip of the spear: Army to build airport expressly for drones
It didn’t arrive in time for Christmas, but a $33-million drone airport is in the U.S. Army’s bag of goodies. “The…
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FDA intends to allow gay men to donate blood
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday plans to remove the long-standing prohibition on blood donations from gay men. As…
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Study: Employees open about religion at work are happier
As the holidays near, many of us have noticed cubicles, desks, offices, and so on decorated with Christmas trees and…
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Now squirrels are being blamed for global warming
First it was beavers. Now squirrels are being criticized by climate scientists for their contribution to global warming. Researchers presented…
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Baltimore Co. police sent warning to NYPD that cop killer was on way, but wait till you hear how it was sent
Apparently, the Baltimore County Police Department’s fleet of carrier pigeons was earmarked for other tasks, and the Pony Express went out of commission…
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EPA hits coal industry with a massive regulation right before Christmas
While millions of Americans began their holiday travels last Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency had an early Christmas gift for…
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Liberal media watchdog calls ABC meteorologist ‘pornographer’ for not obsessing over climate change
Ginger Zee, an ABC meteorologist who appears on Good Morning America and World News Tonight, was likened to a “pornographer” by…
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Norks: ‘not responsible for Sony hack, want to join U.S. probe to find REAL guilty party’
The latest developments in Sonygate (or is that Norkgate?) include the possibility that North Korea was not a “lone wolf”…
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Can women make it in this man’s army? One military base aims to find out
In upcoming training events, Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs, Colo., is set to study the question of whether women are…
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Environmentalist says whale poo is key to the fight against global warming
First it was cow farts, except they were the enemy of planet Earth, we were told. Now it’s the emission…
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Emails suggest EPA and greens to use climate rule to usurp states’ rights
Senate Republicans have released more emails suggesting environmental groups played a key part in crafting the Environmental Protection Agency’s global…
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How liberal or conservative is your first name?
I’ll tell you my ranking if you tell me yours. Crowdpac, a Palo Alto-based group that monitors politicians and political candidates, claims…
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Obama to subsidize ‘green’ trains … in Mexico
Not content with subsidizing green technology domestically, the Obama administration is now spending U.S. tax dollars to upgrade Mexican freight…
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What makes an education system great?
Everyone has ideas about education since we all went through school to some degree, but some rely on misinformation. And,…
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Transgender ‘woman’ who can’t afford sex change performs ‘self-surgery’
It’s hard to say which is more disturbing — that a troubled soul who couldn’t afford a sex-change operation decided to…
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China ‘swindles’ Obama in re his war on coal
China’s agreement to reduce coal emissions isn’t worth the paper it was printed on, an energy research group says. Noting…
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The inevitable ‘Obama was right about Ebola’ article finally surfaces
It was only a matter of time before the other shoe dropped. The only thing that was unclear about the…
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Google applies for federal grant to pay off federal loan on failed solar project
The world’s largest solar electric generating plant, California’s Ivanpah, which is owned by some of the country’s wealthiest investors, is…
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NYT reports global warming has toppled governments, then deletes claim without issuing correction
The United Nations’s latest climate report says that manmade global warming is causing natural disasters, food crises, and the collapse…
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