Financing a country by running the printing presses ruins the middle classes, wipes out all those who live on pensions and fixed incomes, wipes out savings accounts, and brings about desperate conditions among the very people we usually rely on to preserve law and order.
If the goal is to stimulate the economy, the means are already known: Freedom and cheap energy.
I am bombarded by conflicting reports of the 2010 weather. On the one hand it is said to have been a cold year, with record colds in many places. On the other hand, the IPCC is predicting that 2010 will be one of the three hottest years of all time. (Here also) And on...
We have encouraged many to believe that going into debt to “get and education†would solve their economic problems for life; actually it has reduced much of the coming middle class to eternal bondage. That is very much worth worrying about.
Rush Limbaugh, quoting an article in the Atlantic magazine, says that the TSA pat downs are deliberately being made intrusive and invasive in order to induce people to choose the X-ray machines. Too many people were refusing to go through the new X-Ray systems, choosing rather the older personal inspections. Of course that’s all...
Kenneth Brower, son of Sierra Club transformer David Brower, and onetime friend of Freeman Dyson, has been writing about Dyson and climate change. As is usual with books by writers who are not scientists, the scientific issues are not addressed. Those are settled. Instead the purpose of the article is to find out why...
What happened in Calif0rnia? The nation went Republican, but not in California, even though California voters are disgusted with their politicians of both parties. In California there was a clear Democrat sweep. Why?
The President of the United States shouted down at his own rally in Bridgeport, Conn. -- a liberal stronghold.
Is there much to be said about the Juan Williams incident? Everyone on the planet knows that National Public Radio leans way left, and Williams, the closest thing NPR had to a centrist, was a former Washington Post liberal who tried to be objective in his views, and being basically a pleasant and honest...
In another conference I was once again asking questions about AGW and why Believers seem so adamant when there are so many unanswered questions.
There is ambiguous news about unemployment. The Democrat supporters in the press are spinning it as good news, in that things aren’t getting worse quite so fast as had been projected. Republican press supporters say yes, but it’s still getting worse, not better. It’s pretty clear that good news or bad news, the job...
Recently the AP reported that an ice island had broken off from the Greenland ice sheets. The Petermann Glacier is four times the size of Manhattan. Representative Ed Markey, Chairman of the Energy Committee, says that the island should serve as a home for global warming skeptics. This is known as rational debate.
Obama’s “tax cut” will actually be a payment to a rather large number of “taxpayers”. That is, anyone who sends in an income tax form is considered a taxpayer; but about 40% of those pay nothing. Some number of that 40% actually receive a “refund” although they didn’t actually have taxes withheld; it’s called...
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” Obama isn’t stupid enough to say that with reference to Palin, and McCain should be smart enough to just chuckle at Obama’s “insensitivity” to lipstick and hockey moms and shut up. Obama stabbed himself but not badly. The Republicans ought to have...
I can say that whatever moral imperatives we may have to help Georgia pales into insignificance compared to our moral obligations in 1956 when the Hungarians revolted against Russian rule. I have an old friend who had been a captain in the Hungarian national army; his unit attempted to take a movie studio in...
Has everyone at State and in the Pentagon lost their minds? We are facing the possible beginning of World War III, as Russia invades Georgia, Georgia asks for US military help, and the US calls for a cease fire. Thank God that Georgia is not a member of NATO. NATO is an entangling alliance...
The news from Turkey is terrible, and the US State Department thinks it is good news. Since the US is, for many reasons, committed to an alliance with Israel, our options in the Middle East are limited. Note I make no comment on the Israel Alliance: it is as much a fact as the...
It’s clear enough that even if the US economy comes to a halt — and the Democrats seem determined to make that happen — the demand for oil by China, India, and other growing nations will go up exponentially; and that greater demand without increased supply will keep the price of oil high and...
I told you it would happen. I’ve been telling you for years: you can’t pump money into the housing market, and keep lowering the interest rates, without creating a bubble; and eventually the bubble will burst. Water runs downhill. Eventually it reaches bottom no matter what you wish. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were...
If in fact the arguments for ID are ludicrous, I do not see why there is so much pressure for censorship and suppression. Either one believes in rational discussion or one does not. If ID is easy to refute, then refute it. Who knows, the ID people may give up, or refine their arguments;...
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