The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Culture, Global War on Terrorism, Politics
If there ever was a collection of idiots running amok with un-deserved power, the TSA airport screeners ranks near the top for stupidity. Of course when you talk about stupidity and Washington that created this agency it is not hard to understand how idiots run amok. I beginning to think that these airport screeners are [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Quote of the Day
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.” [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Middle East, National Security
Save Israel From Terror…A Prayer for our Israeli Soliders may God bring them back home safely You can learn a lot about a nation’s health by watching how it celebrates its national holidays. In Israel’s case, compare how we celebrated our 50th Independence Day in 1998 to what celebrations involve today. During the 1990s, Israel’s [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Economy, Energy Policy, Politics
Oil: First, some very good news on the energy front: Exxon Mobil is set to drill into a massive, 85-billion-barrel arctic oil reserve that will soon be gushing crude. Now the bad news: They’re doing it for Russia, not America. aclbfOn the surface, the $3.2 billion deal between Exxon Mobil and Russia’s state oil producer, [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Economy, Politics
BOSTON (MarketWatch)—Neither an inflationist nor a deflationist be. That, to mangle one well-known quote, sums up the view of some investment professionals who are struggling to make sense of current market conditions. “We are not currently forecasting a global deflationary environment, but rather an environment where subdued economic growth results in contained inflationary pressure,” said [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Culture, Politics
America is suffering from a lack of mastery over its own riches. Almost daily we read of America’s “waning power” and “inevitable decline,” as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises. Yet much of the new American “leading from behind” strategy is more a matter of choice than of necessity. Apparently, [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Need to Know
[...] About 40 percent of red dwarf stars may have Earth-sized planets orbiting them that have the right conditions for life. Red dwarfs – which are smaller and cooler than our sun – are extremely common, making up 80 percent of stars in the galaxy. Their ubiquity suggests that there are tens of billions of [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Humor
“CBS News reports that Greg Stokes, one of the agents fired in the Colombia prostitution scandal, ‘was recently listed on the internet as the supervisor of the Canine Training Section of the Secret Service.’ We hear they once asked Stokes to double as the president’s food taster, but he had to turn down the assignment [...]
The Bear on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Videos
Bill Whittle tells you why this is the greatest sentence ever written: “The love of theory is the root of all evil.” Whittle looks at the difference between fact and theory, and shows you the effects misguided theories have had on everything from warfare to climate science.