Unca Darrell

APRIL 30 / UPDATED: Even when it tries to say the right thing . . .

. . . the Houston Chronicle can't say things right.

APRIL 29 / American Declinism

GREAT POWERS don't fade away over the centuries; they collapse suddenly and dramatically. So says Niall Ferguson in . . . 

APRIL 28 / BHO levels out

PRESIDENT Obama's first year in office was marked by a steep, double-digit decline in approval numbers, but he has leveled out in year two. As I write . . .

APRIL 27 / Say what you will about Merle . . .

. . . Haggard. Just don't say that he misuses . . .

APRIL 26 / What's looking better all the time?

STATE OF FEAR, Michael Crichton's 2004 novelization of our generation's greatest fiction, anthropogenic global warming.

APRIL 24 / Let's honor Dan L. Duncan

LET'S HONOR Houston entrepreneur Dan L. Duncan today by giving a few bucks to . . . 

APRIL 23 / Good takedown of press coverage of global warming

THE [NEW YORK] TIMES seems to have forgotten the most important aspect of the news business. For years now 'skeptic' . . .

April 22 / How are you celebrating?

Today is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov's . . .

APRIL 20 / Preexisting nonsense

REQUIRING insurance companies to disregard preexisting conditions is . . .

APRIL 17 / The president's charitable contributions

FOR 2009, PRESIDENT and First Lady Obama contributed $329,100 to charity on income of . . .