Fresh material — subjects which are currently
in the news.
Some of the newest subtopics are shown in bold.
The most frequently visited pages on this site
Listed in (roughly) decreasing order of popularity:
The History of Postage Rates in the US
Causes and Effects of High Gas Prices
Pork Barrel Politics
Deleted Files Can Be Recovered
The Media Bias Page
Specific Examples of Biased News Coverage
The Crash of TWA 800
The Oklahoma City Bombing
Causes and Effects of High Oil Prices
Huge List of Government Agencies, Bureaus, Departments and Offices
The No-Frills Technical Links Page
The EBS Authenticator Word List
The Global Warming Page
The Macbeth Color Checker
Social Security is Already Bankrupt
The Zero Tolerance Page
Feminism and Abortion
Technical topics:
The No-Frills Technical Links Page featuring
numerous technical subtopics:
GPS background material and GPS-related web sites
GPS applications
Other material related to geography, latitude/longitude, GPS
Test Patterns for Computer / Video Monitors
Test Patterns, Broadcast, Historical
Telegraphy (Morse Code)
Radio engineering
Shortwave and Longwave Radio reception
Super-bright LED's
Antennas Helical, Beverage
Time signals and the science of precise time and frequency measurement,
including leap seconds.
Web sites of other Time & Frequency fanatics
Reference Section
Numbers
Nauru and other tiny islands
Aviation
Crypto
Words
Old telephones and phone systems
Other unusual stuff
Other technical stuff
Telephone Time-of-Day
New!
Historical Pictures from KRLD Radio and TV, including
a few pictures that show the arrival of the first videotape machine at KRLD-TV, and other photos from
that era.
My Benchmark Hunting Page: Hunting for survey markers using GPS. Great fun!
In Search of ARL5: All about my field trip to a reference benchmark in Arlington, Texas.
Return to ARL5: The sequel, with more photos.
The 216 Browser-Safe Colors: Important information for HTML designers.
The Macbeth Color Checker: A handy tool for serious photographers.
An HTML sketch of a Macbeth Color Checker: An ae5d.com exclusive!
Here is a page about The Beverage
Antenna Memorandum, a 1958 FCC report about the Beverage antennas used
at the FCC Central Monitoring Station at Grand Island, Nebraska.
My experiences with long strings of
super-bright LED's fed in series.
Updated:
The EBS Authenticator
Word List, and a number of associated documents from the early 1970's, including
the scripts that all radio announcers were to read in the event of an
attack on this country.
My 1984 visit
to Loran-C Raymondville!
Political topics:
Editor's Note:
You'll love these pages, or you'll hate them. Either way, I intend to
exercise my free press and free speech rights while I still can, and balance
out the distortion, half-truths and propaganda in the "mainstream" national news media.
Interesting News Items ...most with political implications.
New:
Ron Paul is the Republican / Libertarian
presidential candidate.
Hurricane Katrina news and analysis, including
the following subtopics:
Looters, thugs, gangs, and their enablers
Other accounts of widespread misery
News media pessimism, misinformation, bias and opportunism
Opportunism on the part of celebrities and politicians
Drummed-up racial strife
The Great Debit Card Giveaway and the rise of the welfare state
Gun seizures, property seizures and other attacks on the Bill of Rights
FEMA: Audacity, incompetence and political correctness
Learning lessons and planning for the future
Congressional investigations and independent analysis
Misdirected money, corruption, mismanagement by local officials, and preventable levee failures
Odd news items connected to Katrina
Post-Katrina politics and election plans
People who helped, and people who didn't
Red Cross issues
More Red Cross issues
The Causes and Effects of High Gas Prices
The Return of the 55 MPH Speed Limit
The Federal Price Gouging Protection Act
Causes and Effects of High Oil Prices
Oil and Politics
The Democrat-controlled Congress is obstructing the flow of oil
How to lower gas prices: Produce more oil!
Everything but oil is subsidized
Big Oil: Hero or Villain?
"Windfall profit" taxes
Refineries
Offshore oil drilling
OPEC and other external influences on the price of oil
OPEC
Terrorism, accidents, and military intervention drive up the price
There is no shortage of oil
The United States has plenty of oil
Alaska is floating on oil
The world is not running out of oil
Past, Present and Future Oil Prices
Day-to-day price jumps
Predictions for future oil price trends
Petroleum Sub-Topics
Oil sands, oil shale, and other unconventional petroleum sources
Oil is out there, but in difficult places
Oil in or near the Arctic Circle
Positive and negative effects of oil price fluctuations
Supply and demand
Broader energy issues
Other related topics:
The Causes and Effects of High Gas Prices
Ethanol is not such a great idea
Environmentalists Oppose Every Practical Source of Energy
Environmental False Alarms about Oil and Gas
New!
Poverty in America
How much money has been spent on the "War on Poverty"?
The Editorial Page
including sections about
The Barrett Report,
The Law of the Sea Treaty,
Terri Schiavo.
Judicial vacancies, confirmation hearings, and filibusters
The Supreme Court: Vacancies, nominations, confirmation. What's at stake?
with a subsection about the case of Boumediene v. Bush.
Lawyers in general and frivolous litigation in particular.
The John Kerry Page: I disagree with many
of President Bush's policies and decisions, but
the last thing this country needs is another Bill Clinton in the White House. The
news media generally support the Democrats, so they have intentionally suppressed a lot of the
news items on this page. You may find some of it quite surprising. Wherever possible,
I have tried to avoid ad hominem attacks on the candidates themselves and have
focused on the facts and the issues.
There is a lot
of new material about Senator
Kerry's blanket criticism of the troops in Iraq, which he later tried to excuse as a poorly
delivered punchline. We know better.
The John Kerry Page has grown quickly and it may take a long time to load into your web browser
unless you have really fast internet service, so please be patient. Also notice that there
is a rapidly-growing subsection about
violent attacks on Republican campaign offices around the country.
There is also a spin-off page about
the CBS "Memogate" controversy as well as other examples of media bias in John Kerry's favor.
Editorial comment: It's Time to Scrap
NASA. NASA spends billions of dollars every year to accomplish
next-to-nothing. Recently they spent $700 million to try to get close-up pictures of
Pluto. NASA squanders taxpayers' money at the rate of $18 billion a year.
The NASA page includes a subsection
about The Misconception of
Space Research Byproducts. Many people believe that we wouldn't have Teflon,
Velcro, Tang, or microwave ovens if it were not for the manned space flight program. They're
wrong!
Other Space Exploration News and Commentary is
now on a spin-off page.
Organized Labor Issues: Most labor union members
do not endorse or condone the kind of radicalism and perversion found in the Democratic
Party platform, but their union dues
are used as political contributions to the Democratic Party.
Subcategories:
The Illegal New York City transit strike of 2005
The teachers' unions
The minimum wage
Abuse of Power: This is a page about
heavy-handed government agencies with too much power and too little restraint.
The Road to Tyranny is All Downhill From Here
FEMA Subsection ...very interesting!
The Food Police
Campaign Finance Reform - an assault on free speech
Snitch on Your Neighbor
Incompetence and Absurd Application of the Law
Uncle Sam is afraid to say what he means
The George Norris Subsection
The Steven Hatfill Subsection
Property Rights and Property Seizures
The Bill of Rights is Taking a Beating
Invasion of Privacy
War-related privacy issues
The Government's Role as Overprotective Nanny
... including The Smoking Section
Texas Governor Perry's Vaccination Mandate
Money Down the Drain
... specifically, Amtrak,
and The V-22 Osprey,
and The Big Dig in Boston.
The use of Traffic Signals as Fundraisers
Taxes and The IRS
... specifically, Cigarette taxes
... and the proposed odometer tax
... and More about odometer taxes
The Americans with Disabilities Act
The Endangered Species Act
Waco and Ruby Ridge
Other Items of Interest
Hate Crimes: Orwellian
thought crimes which make some victims more important than others.
The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007
The department of hate speech
The Mark Steyn subsection
Zero Tolerance often
translates to Zero Common Sense. Zero Tolerance is a trojan horse which is
being used to promote gun control and to normalize and promote homosexual behavior.
Gun Control Issues:
News media bias related to gun control issues.
Airline security, especially the debate over arming pilots.
Legitimate concerns about Constitutional issues - 2nd Amendment debates.
Cases in which guns saved lives
Notable Gun Control Failures
Leftist lies, misconceptions and disingenuousness
Zero Tolerance: Gun Regulation Taken to its Extremes
Civil Litigation, Boycotts and Other Organized Action
The United Nations efforts to disarm the U.S.
Recommended reading; book reviews.
Web sites about gun control and gun ownership
Airline Insanity resulting from the frantic quest for security.
Big Brother Waits at the Airport
Abusive and Invasive Searches
The Transportation Security Administration
and the secret No-Fly List.
Airline Inconvenience, Theft, and Health
Hazards
The Lack of Common Sense at the Airport
Airline bailouts,
security lapses and false alarms.
Anti-terrorism policy debate and
airport security strategy.
Related topic: The debate over arming pilots.
What Happened on Northwest Flight 327? Was this a dry run for a hijacking?
Judicial Activism, Filibusters and Lawyers in General: This is about obstructionism
in the Senate, judicial vacancies, litigation and lawyers in general.
Privacy Issues
The Use of Biometrics to
Invade Privacy: fingerprints, face scans, retina scans, etc.
Commercial and Industrial Threats to Privacy
Deleted Files Can Be Recovered and can be used against you!
Supermarket Discount Cards
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology and
its impact on privacy.
Privacy Compromised by Big Government
We must learn from other countries' experiences
Toll Road RFID Tags and license plate scanners are a threat to
privacy, anonymity and individual liberty.
War-related privacy issues
The Privacy of Medical Records
Cryptography and Internet Anonymity
A Brief Explanation of Cookies
Wiretaps
Domestic surveillance
Carnivore: This is a
topic which is both technical and political. Includes sections about Tempest, Echelon,
Einstein, and Information Fusion Centers.
The Proposed National ID Card: Would
you sell your liberty for the appearance of security?
Subcategories:
General background
information about the National ID Card system.
Technical Problems with National ID
Cards that make the whole idea infeasible.
Political Problems with National ID
Cards that make the system un-American.
What could possibly go
wrong? Identity theft, loss of privacy, things like that.
Massive interactive databases that
sometimes interact and are sometimes hacked into.
Disingenuousness. Your
elected representatives aren't likely to tell the whole truth about
standardized driver's licenses and other ways the US government is trying to
implement National IDs.
Other countries' experiences with
National ID systems.
The US isn't the only country implementing such a plan.
Other items yet to be categorized.
Electronic Voting and Other Election Day Issues - What's wrong with
paper ballots? When you use a touch-screen system, you can never be sure that
you actually voted.
Voter ID requirements might keep dead people from voting. Guess who's opposed to the idea.
ACORN is an organization that makes Voter-ID laws necessary.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Tampering with the Electoral College - Guess who's in favor of abolishing it.
The Oklahoma City Bombing: …is beginning to look like an act of Iraqi terrorism. At
least the official explanation is full of holes.
The Crash of TWA 800: The official government explanation doesn't add up here, either.
The Crash of American 587 was another case
where something was especially fishy about the government's official explanation.
Wasteful Government Spending: The federal government
does only one thing well: it grows. One reason is the amount of "pork" in the budget. There
is a special section about Senator Lott's Railroad Line
Pork Barrel Politics
Subtopics including ...
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.
The Big Dig in Boston.
Senator Lott's Railroad Line — The Railroad to Nowhere.
Sweetheart deal for Boeing.
The National Endowment for the Arts.
Amtrak.
The V-22 Osprey.
Other specific examples of pork projects.
... such as Farm subsidies.
Cutting the Federal Budget To Prevent U.S. Bankruptcy: A
series of excellent articles by Jim Grichar.
Specific Examples of Pork Barrel Politics, other
than those listed on the pages above.
The CAGW Section: A collection of
useful information about pork barrel projects from Citizens Against Government Waste.
Huge list of government agencies compiled
right here in the A.K.Dart research center. This list is enormous, but it is
still incomplete.
Liberalism in General and the Socialist
Platform of the Democratic Party.
This page grew to over 145 k-bytes, so it has been split up to cover the following subtopics:
The Democratic Platform
and the avoidance of the word "Liberal".
Liberal leaders
have no new ideas.
Nancy Pelosi is the new Speaker of the House!
Socialism, the welfare state, and
big expensive government.
The war on Wal Mart.
Humanism and Abortion.
The Ultra-Rich Liberal Elite pretend
to watch out for the little guy.
Leftist Anti-capitalism and
"Corporate Social Responsibility"
Liberals have difficulty telling the
truth.
Liberals make decisions based on
emotional outbursts rather than sound reasoning.
Liberals are lying about the U.S. economy.
Which party has a "Culture of Corruption?"
Congressman Jefferson's Brush with the Law
Cynthia McKinney's Scrape with the Capitol Police.
Patrick Kennedy's narrow escape.
Democrats are disingenuously courting
the minority vote.
For example,
at the Coretta Scott King Funeral.
Liberals are out of step with
the American mainstream.
Jimmy Carter is a prime example.
Hillary Clinton is another.
Liberals, who thrive on panic and ignorance, say conservatives are trying to establish
a theocracy.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean is
the spokesman for Socialist Democrats in America.
News and Opinion about Barack Obama
Obama and Associates, P.U.
Overviews of Obama's unsavory associates.
Jeremiah Wright and the TUCC -- This alone should have sunk Obama's campaign.
ACORN
Michelle Obama
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
What evidence lurks at the University of Illinois?
Frank Marshall Davis
Tony Rezko
Other questionable associates and endorsements
Important questions about Mr. Obama
Is Obama a Christian? (He says he is.)
Is Obama a Muslim? (He says he isn't.)
Is Obama a natural born citizen? (He doesn't say.)
Other relevant topics
Examples of pro-Obama favoritism in the press
Obama the Big Spender
Extreme left-wing radicalism
The most liberal voting record in the Senate
Liberal ideology, Marxism and Anti-Americanism
Nationalizing and radicalizing the public schools
Making America bilingual
Petty partisan politics — he's just another politician
Reparations for slavery, affirmative action
Pie-in-the-sky plans for a leftist utopia
Gun control
Special rights and privileges for homosexuals
Radical environmentalism
Socialized medicine
... and especially on the issue of abortion.
Errors
Flip-flops, Campaign Finance, and "Rushing to the Center"
Gaffes and blunders on the campaign trail
Joe Biden brings his own gaffes and baggage
Dishonesty
Prevarication, double-talk, deceptiveness, secrecy, chicanery, and empty rhetoric
Accusations of plagiarism
Secrecy and obfuscation
Vague references to religion without a religious track record
Obama's voting record is sketchy at best
Obama makes impossible promises and his supporters expect too much
(Dis)qualifications
Lack of qualifications and experience
"Community Organizer" — Big Deal!
The self-centered opportunist, his unjustified self-esteem and easily bruised ego
Many people have expressed multiple concerns
Can Obama handle the threat of Islamic terrorism?
Just imagine Obama's nominees to the Supreme Court
Miscellaneous scandals, suppressed news, and Obama's Chicago background
Fundraising scandals
Obama's long lost radio interview
Obama's -- well, somebody's -- long lost videotape
Barack's half-brother George
Barack's Aunt Zeituni
The dog ate my thesis
Obama favors free speech -- but only for himself.
Prepare for an Obama Thugocracy
( ... featuring commentary about Joe the Plumber.)
It pays to be obsequious
Hiding behind the race card
Obama the victim
Is Obama black?
Obama talks a lot, but he says nothing.
Reaction to Obama's speech in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008.
Reaction to Obama's speech in San Francisco on April 6, 2008.
Reaction to Obama's speech in Berlin, Germany, July 24, 2008.
Reaction to Obama's acceptance speech, August 28, 2008.
Reaction to Obama's address to Congress on February 24, 2009.
Post-election commentary about President-elect Obama.
Comparisons to previous leaders and political figures
What can we expect from the Obama administration?
The stock market's reaction and other economic issues
Obama made a lot of impossible promises
Remarks about the 2008 election itself
The unmitigated media favoritism continues
He's surrounded by Washington insiders -- So much for "change"
Obama carries the Clintons' baggage
In many ways, Obama is just another Democrat
Obama opposes school choice for you -- but not for him
Who's really happy about Obama's presidency?
Obama's cabinet, staff and other associates:
Eric Holder, Tom Daschle, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, etc.
Prepare for four years of minor scandals
An inauguration is not an emergency
What can we expect from the Obama administration?
The Liberal Laundry List
The use of executive orders to bypass checks and balances
Dealing with terrorists
More influence for the UN
Censoring conservative radio
Paying back the labor unions for their support
Radical environmentalism
Abortion
Property seizures
Packing the courts with liberal judges
Revenge and reversal
Racial quotas and reparations for slavery
Higher taxes and massive spending
Gun control
Nationalizing and radicalizing the public schools
Constantly expanding government
Totalitarianism / Ruling by Thugocracy
Bringing back the draft
Dealing with Cuba
Trying everything until something works
Popularizing cigarettes
Four years of minor scandals
The Obama administration, year one
Commentary on the inauguration itself
An inauguration is not an emergency
Reaction to Obama's inaugural address
All this adulation is a bit much
President for life?
Obama shows great potential — as a Communist dictator!
Disillusionment sets in: the wheels are already coming off.
Obama and his team are incompetent.
Obama is helpless without a teleprompter.
This is "hope"?
This is "change"?
Obama's Narcissism
Smoke and mirrors: An atmosphere of disingenuousness.
Outright hypocrisy
Reaction to Obama's address to Congress on February 24, 2009.
The media favoritism continues
Tampering with the Census
President Obama is the stock market's worst nightmare
Bad ideas and bad decisions
Weakening America's defenses
Obama and the Muslims
Abortion
Gun control
Rabid environmentalism
Socialized medicine
A rapidly expanding welfare state
Nationalizing the banks
A Congressman for the District of Columbia
Obama's Culture of Corruption
The So-Called Stimulus Bill
Obama the gas-guzzling limousine liberal
News and Opinion about Bill and Hillary Clinton
Coleman vs Franken
The ACLU Page
The ACLU Goes Shopping for a Friendly Judge.
The Aftermath of the 2004 Election
Translation Table - Liberal Code
Words to Plain English. Provided as a public service, to help you decrypt the
Orwellian doubletalk used by the Left.
The Sports Page: This is a page
about the millions of taxpayer dollars being given to professional sports teams, even though
the municipal investments never reap the positive results that the teams promise, and even though
all the teams are owned by multi-millionaires.
The Sports Page includes a section
about the NCAA versus politically incorrect mascot names.
And another section about the Olympics.
An excerpt from "How to Get Spending Under Control"
Social Security: Enron stock looks
great compared to this.
The "Patient's Bill of Rights" and other socialized medicine issues.
SCHIP The State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Medicare, Medicaid, and prescription drug benefits for senior citizens.
The Corporate Scandals Page: a discussion
of the billion-dollar accounting scandals, the proposed government solutions which will
probably only make matters worse, and comparisons between these billion dollar frauds
and the trillion-dollar "risky schemes" being run by the federal government.
(You might get the idea that I'm a little distrustful of the federal government. But whether you
agree or disagree with the points I try to make on these pages, it will make interesting reading.)
George W. Bush Won the Election - but
how can you tell? We still have 1.6 gallon toilets! We still have the
National Endowment for the Arts! We still have pork barrel projects of every kind, because
President Bush hasn't vetoed anything! Except for the nominations to the Supreme
Court, how would thing have turned out any differently under Al Gore?
Subsections:
Sending a manned mission to Mars.
Trying to give control of major US ports to the UAE.
Spending $15 billion to fight AIDS in Africa.
The Election Turmoil of 2000: There are many lesson to be learned from this attempt to
overturn the presidential election through lawsuits and propaganda.
The Clinton Body Count: A long list of people
associated with Bill Clinton who have ended up dead.
...with particular emphasis on Mary Mahoney, Shelly Kelly,
Ron Brown, and of course,
the Vince Foster case.
Education Issues: This is the overview and index page; Here are the subtopics:
Bad Ideas in Public Education
The Ritalin Section
The Pledge of Allegiance is Expelled
Lowered Standards and Dumbed-Down Schools
Liberalism and Political Correctness
Now sub-sub-categorized as follows:
Revising history to fit the template of socialist politics
Animal rights activism
Affirmative action, diversity, and multiculturalism
Feminism and abortion acceptance
Socialist and communist indoctrination
Darwinism and humanism
Speech codes and other rules that only apply to conservatives on campus.
Gun control indoctrination
Anti-American and anti-war indoctrination
Pro-Islam indoctrination at Yale University
Political Correctness and Moral Relativism
Sex Education
Acceptance of Homosexuality
Zero Tolerance Displaces Common Sense
Spending More to Get Less
The War on Tradition
Religious Studies Exit the Schools
Home Schooling and Other Alternatives
Vouchers, Charter Schools, and School Choice
Other factors acting upon the public education system
The teachers' unions
The pressures on parents
Other news items about education issues
Recommended Reading for those interested in education issues.
The War on Terror / Iraq War: Again, this is the overview and index page; Here are the subtopics:
The USA Patriot Act
The War vs Liberty and Freedom
The War on Privacy
Immigration Issues Related to the War
Pacifists and Anti-American Protests
… specifically, Cindy
Sheehan and Jane Fonda.
Intelligence lapses and other factors which may have contributed to this mess.
News stories and opinions kept quiet by the mainstream press
… specifically, information about Guantanamo Bay
Other news media issues related to the War on Terrorism
Analysis of The New York Times
Foreign and Domestic Policy Debates
Domestic surveillance
Political Opportunism and Wasteful Wartime Spending
That PC Statue
The Events of September 11, 2001, and the immediate aftermath
The Mysterious and Under-reported Collapse of World Trade Center Building Seven
The Mystery of Flight 77 and the Pentagon Impact
The United Nations
… including the Oil-for-Food scandal,
… the Law of the Sea Treaty,
… and The UN
Climate Change Conference in Bali.
Reference Material and links to other sites related to the war
Islamism / Islamic Terrorism: Is it really
a "religion of peace"? What kind of peace does a person experience aboard a
hijacked airliner as it crashes into an office building? Make no mistake
about it: The ultimate goal of Islam is the forcible conversion of the world to
the Islamic way of life.
Subsections now on their own pages:
Islam is not a "religion of peace"
Muslim-only "No-go" zones
Islam is the Religion of the Easily Offended
Geert Wilders and Fitna
The Islamic Threat is Still Growing
The French Riots of 2005
Islam in Prison
Islam in American Schools
Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
The Mohammed Cartoons
Terrorist attacks reported as "isolated incidents"
New! Islam vs Feminism
There is also a page about Pro-Islam bias in the media.
And a new subsection: Pro-Islam bias at Google.
Other issues about which you never hear the whole truth in the news media:
Environmental Issues: Most of
what you hear in the news media about SUVs, fossil fuels, animal rights and DDT is leftist
propaganda. This page is provided as an educational public service,
and includes the following subsections:
Leftist politics and bad ideas which sometimes lead to bad laws
Environmentalists vs. Military Preparedness
The UN Earth Summit of 2002
The UN Climate Conference in Bali
Lies, propaganda, distortion and exaggeration
Environmental False Alarms about Alar, arsenic, mercury, freon, radon, etc.
including a section about oil and natural gas
and a section about second hand smoke
DDT and Other Pesticide Scares
... including a subsection at the bottom about Rachel Carson.
Low-level environmental terrorism ... keeping people alarmed helps retain political clout.
Supposedly good ideas that may not be good at all, like
windmill generators,
recycling,
... and mass transit,
... and ethanol.
Eco-terrorism
The Endangered Species Act
Property rights issues
List of troublesome organizations
ANWR - The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - a big bunch of frozen-over dirt with lots of oil under it.
CAFE - Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards and the leftist campaign against SUV's.
The EPA
Media bias related to environmental issues
Environmental Propaganda Movie Reviews
Global Warming (see subtopics below)
Animal Rights vs. Human Rights
Volcanos - a major source of natural "pollution."
Other Environmental Topics
including the Mass Transit / Car Pooling Section
Recommended Reading
Global Warming and its many subtopics:
Overviews of the Global Warming issue
Global Cooling: Reports of record
snowfall, unusual icing and brutally cold weather.
Global Warming has halted, at least temporarily.
Global Warming is Blamed for Everything
...including a section about the coral reef scare
Conversely, everything causes global warming, or so it would seem.
Greenhouse Gases: Carbon dioxide, water vapor,
methane, nitrous oxide, and more.
Silencing the Skeptics in the Global Warming Debate
Solar Activity and Other Natural Causes of Global Warming
...including a section about simultaneous warming on Mars
Are 100-year forecasts possible when five-day forecasts are not?
Many global warming alarmists are the same people who once predicted an ice age
One or two degrees of global warming would benefit everyone
Environmental Propaganda Movie Reviews
The Political Opportunism
and Irrational Zeal of global warming alarmists.
The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act
Reasonable Doubt in the Global Warming Debate:
What consensus?
Inaccurate measurements
NASA has been cookin' the books!
Flawed computer models
Global Warming Subtopics and Sidetracks:
Polar Bears
Polar Ice
Rising Sea Levels
Hurricane numbers and intensity
The coral reef scare
Al Gore,
Al Gore's Nobel Prize,
Al Gore's testimony before Congress,
Proposed solutions that are sure to be worse than the problem,
Carbon offsets and emissions trading, e.g., cap-and-trade.
It's a hoax, fraud, swindle, scam, lie, myth, etc.
The United Nations IPCC Report on Global Warming
The Kyoto Climate Control Protocol
The Effects of Burning Hydrocarbon Fuels over the last 100 years
Leftover Topics
The hypocrisy of eco-celebrities.
Cultural topics:
The Culture War in America: Political Correctness vs. traditional family values.
Semantics and Equivocation in the Culture War
The Collapse of the Family Unit as the Building Block of Society
Feminism, Antimasculinism and Gender-based Affirmative Action
Feminism vs Islam
Feminism and Abortion
News and commentary about Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger and the roots of Planned Parenthood
Abortion as an attempt to exterminate black Americans
Planned Parenthood and the Susan G. Komen Foundation
Court decisions and abortion-related politics
What's happening in Kansas?
Abortion is a vital component of the Democratic Party platform
Abortion-related deaths and post-abortion effects
The gruesome details are rarely made public
Ultrasound makes better decisions possible
The extreme case of Toni Vernelli
Stem Cell Research
Infanticide
The numbers are surprising
Other countries' experiences
Philosophical issues, Biblical perspectives, and the slippery slope
Semantics, euphemism and verbal chicanery
The right to protest
Disposing of less-than-perfect children
Disposing of unwanted female children
Doctors have a financial incentive to perform abortions
Babies born alive during attempted abortions
Survivors of abortions
Serial abortions / Abortion as birth control / A matter of convenience
Making abortion less messy: RU-486 and other drugs
Other items yet to be categorized
Homosexuality in General
Same-sex marriage and the proposed marriage amendment
The Boy Scouts vs Political Correctness
Anti-Christian/Pro-Islam Bias in American Society
The Ten Commandments Section
Anti-Christmas and Anti-Anti-Christmas Sentiment in American Society
Lowered Standards, Lowered Expectations
The Demise of Stigma and the Erosion of Self-Discipline
Animal Rights vs. Human Rights
Uprooted Traditions and Edited
History: Including a discussion of politically incorrect cartoons.
Separation of Church and State — It's not in the Constitution!
Public Display of The Ten Commandments and our national motto.
"In God We Trust" has been moved to the edges of the new one-dollar coins.
The Mount Soledad Cross
Thanksgiving Day
Is the United States a Christian country?
Recommended Reading
Affirmative Action intro page.
Affirmative Action in general
… and specifically for native Hawaiians.
Race-based Political Opportunism
What's up in Jena, Louisiana?
The Otis Moss Subsection
Reparations for Slavery
Perpetual Victimhood
The Bill Cosby Subsection
The NAACP
Diversity: Another Name for Racial Quotas
Multiculturalism and "Tolerance"
Racial Profiling
Reverse Discrimination
College and University Admissions
The Aftermath of the Cincinnati Riots
Other race relations issues, including things like Kwanzaa and Zimbabwe.
… and the accusations against members of the Duke lacrosse team.
Immigration Issues (mostly pre-war)
New!
What's going on in Farmers Branch, Texas?
Background information about America's immigration problem.
The disorderly protest rallies of 2006.
The President and the Congress have their proposals.
Some of them are really bad ideas.
Driver's licenses for illegal aliens?
Other ID Card issues.
Illegal aliens are illegal voters.
Entering the country illegally is bad enough...
Many illegal immigrants were already violent criminals when they arrived.
Illegal immigration is a threat to national security.
Many Mexicans would prefer to forcibly reclaim the southwestern U.S.
Immigration Issues Related to The War on Terrorism.
Multilingualism and multiculturalism is part of the immigration problem.
Mexico itself is part of the problem.
Walls, fences, and militias.
Obstacles to legal immigration.
The numbers are surprising.
The strain on America's health care system.
Freeloaders and the burden on the welfare system.
The English Page: A discussion about the issue of making English the official language of the U.S.
The War on the Boy Scouts: A Scout is
trustworthy, courteous, thrifty, loyal, kind, brave, helpful, obedient, clean, friendly,
cheerful and reverent. What's the problem?
Habitat for Humanity
Broadcasting:
The Technology and Politics of
Broadcasting, mainly television, including unfavorable information about
the V-Chip, HDTV, taxpayer subsidies for public television and radio, and a big section
about closed captioning.
New subsection:
Are commercial breaks louder than TV programs?
Broadcast Radio: Technology and Politics,
including a section about
the Fairness Doctrine.
Media bias:
This subject is so easy to write about because it's so obvious. These pages contain
dozens of cases in which the news media reports selectively, including cases where
only half-truths make it on the air.
Media Bias in general: This is the index and overview. Here are the subtopics:
Specific examples of biased news coverage
For example, the coverage
of Vice-President Cheney's hunting accident.
Bias related to gun control issues
Coverage of the "War on Terrorism"
Biased coverage of environmental issues
Bias related to social issues: Race relations, feminism, "diversity", homosexuality.
Cultural and political bias in motion pictures
Cultural and political bias on television
The V-chip: An ineffective substitute for parental supervision.
Pro-Islam bias in the media
Sensationalism vs Journalism
Suppressed news -- examples of "spiked" stories
The Secret Superhighway -- Using NAFTA to create a North American Union.
Terrorist attacks reported as "isolated incidents"
Good news about unemployment figures
News media critics
The Fairness Doctrine
National Public Radio
The Public Broadcasting Service
Dan Rather
Walter Cronkite
Other high-profile TV news personalities
TV Networks
Junk science, dubious statistics and rash presuppositions
New! Environmental Propaganda Movie Reviews
News Media Incompetence, Sensationalism, Dishonesty and Obsolescence
Bernard Goldberg's New Book, "Bias"
Other commentary about news media imbalance
Links to other internet resources
Overflow section! There's more material in the Spillway.
Political Resources Directory: A massive collection of links to other web sites.
Sub-menu #1: Web sites for
the study of history, the Constitution, the founding fathers,
limited government, individual liberty, personal freedom, and the good old days.
Sub-menu #2: Policy analysis, think tanks, long term national strategy.
Sub-menu #3: Specialty sites dealing with specific incidents or issues.
Sub-menu #4: Opinions, editorials, essays and speeches.
Sub-menu #5: Conservatism per se and conservative patriotism.
Sub-menu #6: Web sites which focus on education issues.
Sub-menu #7: Web sites dealing with property rights.
Recommended Reading: Numerous book reviews.
Positive quotations: Some of my favorites.
Ominous Quotations: …from Khrushchev, Cronkite and the Clintons, among others.
Photos illustrating parts of my career in broadcasting.
My non-internet publications: magazine articles.
Other interesting topics (neither political nor technical):
Musical Interlude: Today's
feature, which was also yesterday's feature,
is Valse Miniature, written
by Koussevitzky, and arranged
for tuba and calliope by Andrew K. Dart. Surprisingly, I get more
feedback about this feature than almost anything else on this web site.
Apolitical News: Weird news.
Mind-control techniques utilized by many indoctrination programs …and some churches.
The documents and principles upon which this country was founded
Postage Rates in the U.S. since 1863 compiled by yours truly.
The Spillway: Excess from other pages, moved here to save bandwidth.
Other files for the administration of akdart.com
The Front Page
The No-Frills Site Index (You're already looking at it.)
Our All-Inclusive Yet Ever-Expanding Disclaimer: Read this first!
Notes on the Organization and Layout of akdart.com
What's New at akdart.com
Political Content Index
Technical Topics Index
Index of Other Interesting Material
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