Eric Scheske

I have a gmail account that receives all sorts of TDE leads from readers, friends, and/or family (if you're interested in this inside email address, it's top secret: ericscheske@gmail.com). I've always kept it "clean," either using items sent to

Rush Limbaugh and other establishment Republicans better get started now and declare this guy a nut, dangerous, and un-electable: "Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky resoundingly won the straw poll at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, cementing his status as among the favorites to capture the

My son is taking an "extreme climate" course at U of M. I told him about my last blog post. He told me that the issue of global warming is the subject of "climate science," which isn't the same thing as "weather science.

After writing my jeremiad about the shamanism that goes by the name "meteorological science," I deleted the Accuweather app from my phone and resolved never to look at another long-term weather forecast again, except, maybe, the Chicago Weather Center Blog's. I would only rely on

H.I.F. From Reddit's Today I Learned: TIL Alfred Hitchcock was notoriously hard on actors. He was once quoted as saying, “Actors are cattle”–a quip that stirred up a huge outcry. In response, he issued this correction: “I have been misquoted. What I really said is,

H.I.F. Dalrymple on UNICEF's blundering incompetence [http://takimag.com/article/unicefs_chemical_weapon_theodore_dalrymple#axzz2v7WG2l3g] . If you're supporting UNICEF, you should probably stop. This National Catholic Register blog entry spells it out [http://www.ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/should-catholics-support-unicef]

If you didn't hear, Fulton Sheen took another step closer to sainthood earlier this week. Another, I suspect, saint, Andrew Apostoli, talks about Sheen here [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/father-apostoli-on-archbishop-sheen-i-call-him-my-father-in-christ/] .

BYCU Burger and beer? $250 (plus the cost of the beer). At this bar in midtown Manhattan. "A Midtown restaurant will sell a $250 hamburger – an umami bomb comprised of Kobe beef, foie gras, crispy pancetta, white truffles and caviar." Link [http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/

Fascism, Bilderberg, and the Vatican Definition of Fascism: Use of coercion to promote a goal that is neither a good that is self-evident from the natural law nor a good that is supported by an overwhelming majority. It differs from Socialism in this: It does not eliminate private property