Floyd Landis, the American cyclist who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after failing a urine test, has accused his former teammate, cycling legend and seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong, of blood doping. According to yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Landis, who has long denied the use of performance-enhancers, admitted to blood doping … Read more Say it ain’t so, Lance!
Horror of horrors! It turns out that Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning son of the equally libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) really does believe in…LIBERTY. Wednesday night, just 24 hours after he handily defeated the establishment Republican candidate in Kentucky’s U. S. Senate primary, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC confronted Paul with something he said last month … Read more The furor over Rand Paul
I’m breaking a promise I made. In an email to Walt Thiessen, the owner and webmaster of Nolan Chart, I said I would not contribute any more articles to this site as long as Billy Roper is in any way associated with it. Yet, here I am doing just that, and, moreover, doing it on … Read more Farewell, Nolan Chart
Obamacare is dead. The voters of Massachusetts today drove a stake through the heart of the beast and nothing can revive it now. Well, almost nothing. Some Democrats have been hinting that they might go ahead and jam a health care reform measure through anyway. One option is to bring it to a vote before … Read more Thank you, Massachusetts!
So much about the Climategate scandal — i.e., the leaking (or hacking) of emails and other files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia — has been published on the internet in the past two weeks that one risks information overload by trying to read everything. For about a week … Read more The skeptical layman’s guide to Climategate