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Trust me—you really don’t know what you’re missing.
So says a report from Columbia University. The study shows that small changes in the amount of solar radiation have a large effect on our climate. This effect may be just as important as the amount of so-called “greenhouse gasses” humans put in the atmosphere. Or it could be large enough to overwhelm anything we humans do.
Senators Daschle and Gephardt, and Support Open Borders think that Legalizing Illegal Immigrants is a good idea. When will this nonsense stop? We must protect our borders, and we must not make it OK for those who broke through our borders to stay here. We need to find them, then ship them back to their homelands so that we have the resources to properly integrate legal immigrants into our country, by providing them the freedom that citizens enjoy.
Wednesday’s SF Chronicle reports (page A16, 5 star edition) that L.A. Mayor James Hahn believes Mexicans who had established themselves in California should get some sort of legal recognition. Hey, I’d like to be able to break a serious law and have the government forgive me too. So can I stop paying my anual car registration and ignore the smog checks, and then expect not to be pulled over by a cop or have my car confiscated? Cool.
Slate.com: Why national ID cards won’t work.
CNN.com: Study lowers likelihood of asteroid hit. Sounds like good news, until you find out that the odds are still 1 in 5,000—very high as compared to winning the lotto, for instance.
SF Chron: Mineta promises sweeping changes in airport security.
I found this environmentalist Op-Ed about the Qunicy Library Plan while doing some research. It offers an interesting take on why the plan was so derided by the eco-freaks.
Bush warns of nuclear threat. Headline from today’s SF Chronicle.
MSNBC.com has posted a surprisingly balanced article on the health of “Unnatural Forests”. It admits—quite bluntly—some of the things Dr. Wattenburg has been saying for years.
I voted today, and was bothered by something—I had to sign the voter roll with a pencil. Isn’t this insecure? Doesn’t this make it ripe for fraud? Can someone please explain this to me?
Just saw a news report that U.S. forces have started using the Daisy Cutter bomb in Afghanistan, dropped from C-130 cargo planes. More on the Daisy Cutter (a.k.a. Blu-82 Commando Vault).
Partial victory in WA state salmon killings! A bill authored by Rep. Barb Lisk (R-Zillah) has been signed by Gov. Gary Locke—although he vetoed part of the billthus delaying its implementation. Locke’s veto message indicates that he believes that wild salmon and hatchery salmon are distinct and genetically different, so how this bill actually gets implemented will be telling. Rep. Lisk’s press release on the signing.
TIME.com: The “Dirty Bomb” Scenario—Could Usama bin Ladin create a nuclear weapon? This story gives a good, but scary indication of why we must eradicate the terrorists that have struck us.
Scientific American has a very good article describing why the World Trade Center towers collapsed. As you might expect, it has far more details than any of the mass-media press reports you’s seen.
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