Alan Caruba
Dumbing Down America's Colleges
MichNews.com-- The process that began in the 1960s to transform America’s elementary, middle and high schools into places where students could literally graduate without being able to read their diploma, where the teaching of mathematics was reduced to mush without rules, and where it was more important for students to feel really good about themselves than having to measure up scholastically with millions in foreign nations, has now reached the campuses of America’s colleges and universities.
Jul 7, 2008, 21:19
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Alan Caruba
Real Independence Means Secure Borders
MichNews.com-- As we celebrate our nation’s independence, it is worth keeping in mind that real independence depends on having secure borders. A nation that cannot or will not protect itself from a massive and intentional invasion for the purpose of changing its population and politics is a nation that will not exist very long.
Jun 30, 2008, 21:31
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Alan Caruba
Venezuela Goes to the Dogs
MichNews.com-- Coming just a week or so after Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) publicly said the U.S. government should nationalize the nation’s oil refineries, echoing a similar earlier threat by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) to nationalize the entire industry, it is instructive to see what has happened in Venezuela where a Communist wannabe dictator, Hugo Chavez, nationalized that nation’s oil industry.
Jun 23, 2008, 12:46
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Alan Caruba
Is the Democrat Party the CPUSA in Disguise?
MichNews.com-- It’s no secret that Democrats are liberal, but when you peel away their devotion to environmental policies that have left America vulnerable to foreign nations on whom we depend for the importation of oil, what has been revealed is an intention to nationalize our nation’s oil industry. That, simply stated, is communism.
Jun 23, 2008, 08:46
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Alan Caruba
A World Afloat on an Ocean of Oil
MichNews.com-- Considering how much untapped oil is known to exist, not just in the United States, but worldwide, one would think that its current price was some kind of anomaly and it is. It is more the result of speculation than anything else.
Jun 16, 2008, 07:41
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Alan Caruba
Why Can't McCain Say "Oil"?
MichNews.com-- While grabbing a bite to eat for lunch, I turned on the television and MSNBC was broadcasting live a presentation John McCain was making somewhere. He does well in these relatively unscripted events, but when he got to the topic of the price of gasoline and how to reduce current and future pain at the pump, he could not bring himself to say “oil.”
Jun 12, 2008, 15:00
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Alan Caruba
Why the Electoral College Decides
MichNews.com-- Call it the Gore Curse. In 2000 Albert Gore had a slim margin of popular votes nationwide until the Supreme Court shut down what had already become an endless process of re-counting votes in Florida. When, as Vice President, Gore presided over the counting of the Electoral College votes in the Senate, it was George W. Bush who was the winner.
Jun 9, 2008, 15:32
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Alan Caruba
The Greenpeace Scam
MichNews.com-- Being attacked by Greenpeace should be considered a badge of honor. In May, the Heartland Institute was the subject of a Greenpeace news release that described the Chicago-based think tank as “a free-market, anti-regulation right wing think tank” funded by leading American corporations and reputable foundations.
Jun 3, 2008, 10:43
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Alan Caruba
Non-Solutions to Non-Problems
MichNews.com-- A desperate push is underway to enact the Climate Security Act sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CN) and Sen. John Warner (R-VA). It would impose cap-and-trade mandates on anything that generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and that pretty much includes everything involving energy use, including backyard barbequing.
May 30, 2008, 18:13
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Alan Caruba
Mexico is Soon to be a Bigger Problem
MichNews.com-- As if the constant flow of illegal aliens and drugs from Mexico were not already a huge problem for the United States, it is about to get worse. When Business Week took notice of Mexico’s dwindling oil reserves and failed national oil company, Pemex, in its May 5th edition, it signaled a problem whose significance is as great as the one involving an invading population.
May 26, 2008, 12:29
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Alan Caruba
Hollywood Rewrites History... Again
MichNews.com-- The movie, “Recount”, arrives at a time when the Democrat Party is trying to determine whether the “popular” vote in its primaries takes precedent over the actual number of delegates, whether “pledged” or “super delegates” whose only allegiance is to (1) retaining their power in Congress and the Party and (2) actually trying to win the national election in November.
May 24, 2008, 22:16
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Alan Caruba
The Nightmare We Call Our Schools
MichNews.com-- A friend of mine recently wrote to me saying, “My wife is retiring in June after thirty years of teaching. A high school degree means nothing. No Child Left Behind is an even bigger joke. It is a scary situation that could lead us to third world status, but we are prepared for that since we already teach English as a second language.”
May 19, 2008, 21:57
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Alan Caruba
When Candidates are Dangerously Wrong
MichNews.com-- Americans have painted themselves into the corner on energy and the two presumptive candidates for President are ready to finish off the nation with the worst possible “solutions.”
May 15, 2008, 19:47
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Alan Caruba
Living on the Edge of Destruction: Israel's 60th Anniversary
MichNews.com-- “Trusting in the Rock of Israel we now place our signatures in witness to this proclamation, sitting as the Provisional State Council, on the soil of the homeland, in the city of Tel-Aviv, this day, Friday afternoon, the 5th of Iyar, 5708, the 14th of May, 1948.”
May 13, 2008, 14:38
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Alan Caruba
Forecasting Hurricanes. Not!
MichNews.com-- In late April, AccuWeather.com, led by Joe Bastardi, its chief meteorologist, issued a news release that was, to be kind, pure mush. The early warning forecast for 2008’s June to November hurricane season said that conditions like La Nina and a “continued warm water cycle in the Atlantic Basin” held forth the “chance for U.S. landfalling storms.”
May 5, 2008, 10:12
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Alan Caruba
Ten Simple Truths About Oil
MichNews.com-- Having written about the energy industry and issues now for a long time, I hope I can be forgiven for being enraged by the comments by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) in response to President Bush’s press conference Tuesday morning. There is simply no way to describe them other than false.
Apr 30, 2008, 12:33
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Alan Caruba
From the Soviet Union to Putin's Russia
MichNews.com-- When the government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the fall was attributed to all kinds of reasons. There was the failed invasion of Afghanistan, the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and, after some desperate efforts by Mikhail Gorbechev, Communism as a guiding principle and economic system simply imploded. That’s the thumbnail version that passes for history, but Michael J. Economides and Donna Marie D’Aleo have another answer and it’s one you may not want to hear.
Apr 28, 2008, 14:57
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Alan Caruba
Earth Day Is a Holiday For Liars
MichNews.com-- Earth Day is a holiday for liars. I have followed the apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement since the 1970s and their single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements the Green agenda.
Apr 21, 2008, 09:34
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Alan Caruba
Global Food Fights
MichNews.com-- It takes a decent respect for the obvious truth to admit that mankind has no control over the climate. What is occurring, however, based on actual and anecdotal information, is a trend toward global cooling. Between rising food costs driven by an environmental agenda and real, not imagined climate change, the word famine is going to be heard more often.
Apr 14, 2008, 00:09
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Alan Caruba
Universal Health Insurance: Just Don't Get Sick
MichNews.com-- Okay, let’s say that President Obama or Hillary is in office and Congress has passed a bill that requires everyone to have health insurance. Gas is up over $4.00 a gallon, food prices are sky high, and, if you’ve recently graduated from college, you are paying off loans at $1,000 per month.
Apr 7, 2008, 22:59
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