Science and Technology
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Climate activists tout effectiveness of brainwashing schoolchildren
Climate change activists are touting new evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of educational programs that seek to transform American schoolchildren into…
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Experts fear as many as 130 U.S. cases of Ebola by year’s end
Medical experts attempting to get a fix on magnitude of the Ebola crisis here in the U.S. say there could be…
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Now they tell us: Difference between ‘airborne’ and ‘droplet’ spread of disease
Howard has covered the administration’s latest stumblebum approach to messaging on how Ebola is spread here. Let me add my…
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Study finds West African burial rituals to be ‘super-spreaders’ of Ebola, risk full-blown pandemic
A health warning quietly added this week to the CDC website advising that the Ebola virus could be spread by “droplets” of…
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Ebola nurse’s 15 minutes of fame temporarily restrained by Maine
Nurse Kaci Hickox’s 15 minutes of fame came to an abrupt, albeit temporary, halt Thursday when a court granted Maine…
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Old CDC: You can’t get Ebola though the air. New CDC: Oops, you can
Now will the Obama administration impose a ban on incoming flights from West Africa or at least insist on an…
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As WH sends mixed signals on quarantines, research suggests Ebola virus can live on surfaces 50 days
Having long resisted a travel ban to the U.S. from the hot zone in West Africa, the White House dug in…
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What kind of parents take their 5-year-old to a country with an Ebola outbreak? *UPDATE*
The latest potential victim of the Ebola virus is also the youngest. He is an as-yet-unidentified 5-year-old who just returned with…
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Report: Obama plans to bring Ebola-infected Africans to the U.S. for treatment
I have the utmost respect for Judicial Watch. Without that group’s tireless efforts to expose the seamy underbelly of the Obama…
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Tweet of the Day: CDC guidelines for reducing Ebola risks among health professionals riddled with errors
As LU Staff noted in an earlier post, an “Ebola situation assessment” released by the World Health Organization reveals that the incubation…
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Ebola scare at Pentagon after recent traveler to Africa vomits in parking lot
As the president and his acolytes in the press continue to peddle the idea that banning air travel from West Africa…
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As two more dominoes fall in the Ebola travel ban debate, Obama stands pat in weekly address
Yesterday, North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan, who had previously praised the CDC’s “guidance” on Ebola, joined the growing chorus of voices calling for…
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MSNBC says calls for travel ban from Africa so racist they’re ‘not even thinly veiled’ (Video)
Time for conservatives to give up the charade. We’ve been found out. The fact of the matter is that we on the…
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Latest Ebola patient traveled on commercial airliner day before symptoms surfaced
The bad news about a second health care worker in Dallas testing positive for Ebola just got worse. CBS Dallas/Fort…
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‘West African musicians drawing on danceable tunes to fight spread of Ebola’ (Audio)
According to a CBC article, estimates warn that as many 1.4 million people could become infected with the Ebola by early…
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BREAKING: Second Texas health-care worker has tested positive for Ebola (Video)
Heckuva job, Friedy! That’s CDC Director Thomas Frieden, who said yesterday that “in hindsight … the nation’s health protection agency…
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Hollywood maxes out on donations to Grimes’s Senate campaign
Hollywood actors and movie industry moguls are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes’s Senate…
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World Health Organization official makes deadly Ebola predictions
A World Health Organization official announced that the death rate for patients inflicted with the Ebola virus has risen dramatically,…
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NIH director turns Ebola into political football; Twitter explodes
During an interview published Sunday evening, the director of the National Institutes of Health, which conducts bio-medical research and funds…
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CDC did not consider new US Ebola victim ‘high risk,’ wore ‘full’ protective gear (Video)
An unnamed Texas health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian Ebola patient who later died, is now…
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The Snappening: Hackers threaten to post thousands of nude pix of kids as young as 10 online (Video)
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? If the unstoppable force is the use of cell phone cameras…
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Report: EPA’s Clean Power Plan to impact black families hardest
Environmental Protection Agency power plant regulations are projected to raise electricity prices in the coming years, forcing struggling families to…
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How is Jesse Jackson like Jesus? Let him count the ways
Race huckster Jesse Jackson is in Dallas today to see to it that Ebola patient Thomas Duncan gets the best medical care…
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Obama trashed 2005 proposal to prevent entry of Ebola via international travel (Video)
In 2010, the Obama administration quietly trashed a comprehensive system of quarantine regulations designed to prevent the spread of disease…
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If Ebola is under control, why has U.S. gov’t ordered 160,000 HazMat suits?
Apropos of Howard Portnoy’s post this morning on the Obama administration’s decision to allow travel to the U.S. from countries…
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In potentially deadly move, WH nixes travel restrictions on countries with Ebola outbreaks (Video)
Writing at the Daily Mail, former CNN host Piers Morgan opined yesterday that the Secret Service lapses that cost director Julia Pierson her…
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Picture of the Day: More math fun with Common Core
To this method’s credit, it doesn’t have the kids draw a bajillion little boxes to represent the numbers. To its…
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Ambulance transporting Ebola patient remained in service for two days
An ambulance crew that transported the first person diagnosed in the United States with the deadly Ebola virus to a…
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Anti-fracking Dem uses pro-fracking money to fund anti-fracking ads against pro-fracking opponent
Despite reports out of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that indicate upwards of 80,000 jobs could be created through…
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Latest climate lunacy: Global warming created ISIS
In recent weeks, Barack Obama has blamed his predecessor, George W. Bush, and more recently his own intelligence team for the…
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Department of Homeland Security pledges to keep Americans safe from … climate change?
An Obama administration official announced Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security will be focusing more of its efforts on…
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Tweet of the Day: Polar bear arrested at global warming rally
The oft-maligned polar bear suffered another setback at New York City’s recent global warming rally, being hauled away by police…
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