Unca Darrell

MAY 10 / At last, a good editorial about the EPA's crucifixion complex

UNFORTUNATELY, it was in another liberal newspaper, not our very own Houston Chronicle.

Maybe Al Armendariz -- until Monday, one of the Environmental Protection Agency's top administrators -- didn't mean his comments to sound quite how they did. But they didn't sound good. In a 2010 speech . . . Mr. Armendariz compared his "philosophy of enforcement" to ancient Roman soldiers' practice of crucifying random victims in a recently conquered territory. 

APRIL 9 / Another stinging rebuke for the law firm of . . .

. . . Sweeney, Stephenson, O'Laughlin, Cohen, Wilburn, Jetton, Newkirk, Langworthy, Fleck & Gray (Lisa!)

SEPTEMBER 29 / Texas works

Most of the rest of the country does not.

The goal of the Clever People who run our local newspaper is not, as you might think, to understand why Texas works and why most of the rest of the country does not. It is not to celebrate that Texas works and most of the rest of the country does not. No. The goal of the Clever People who run our local newspaper is . . .

AUGUST 30 / The Keystone XL pipeline

OUR LOCAL editorialists wimped out on the Keystone XL pipeline. (More about that later.) But on this -- as on most other issues -- Walter Russell Mead . . .  

JUNE 17 / A jeremiad from the Unca

PRESIDENT OBAMA may be losing on politics, but he's winning on policy. Obamacare is still . . .

JUNE 13 / UPDATED: Why Unca D and other conservatives worry about Romney

THE POINT of the 2012 election is to change the agenda. On too many issues, Mr. Romney . . . 

JANUARY 12 / Still no cap, still no trade

WITH the postnuptial glow of Obamism still burning bright, the Houston Chronicle in May 2009 declared that Congress had "made up its mind that there will be a price on carbon dioxide, most likely via a cap-and-trade system." Unca D sniggered. Then on December 31, 2009, sniggered again. And today . . .

DECEMBER 8 / Worshiping Gaia

FOR SOME individuals and societies, the role of religion seems increasingly to be filled by environmentalism. It has become "the religion of choice for urban . . .  

NOVEMBER 23 / The limits of science

THE HOUSTON Chronicle imagines that its perverfid support for the notion of anthropogenic global warming is dictated by science. That's a copout. The newspaper's support for the theory of anthropogenic global warm is based on a false confidence in garbage-in, garbage-out black-box computer models. The editors ignore political, economic, and ethical dimensions of the issue. Here is a better view of the limits of science:  

SEPTEMBER 29 / More on the ratchet

WHY ARE LIBERALS so unhappy to see "moderate Republicans" drummed out of the party? That's simple: [Because] liberals have . . .