The sovereign debt crisisâ€â€centered on Greece for the moment, but bound to spread to other heavily indebted national governmentsâ€â€has taken an ominous turn. The European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, and the International Monetary Fund unveiled a trillion-dollar bailout package for the bankrupt Greek government. The intent was to defend the euro, which...
It’s official. Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman have signaled the end of their political careers. The two have introduced what they’ve titled the “American Power Act.†Yep, it’s a global warming bill – Cap-n-Trade, Cap-n-Tax, etc. The premise for this bill is that the industrial emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) are causing global...
I knew the time would come. America’s public schools and ideologically monolithic universities have spawned a generation woefully uninformed in the most elementary facts about free markets, socialism, and communism. Personally, after teaching this material for years, I’m getting an inordinate number of questions about communism in particular, as that word is bandied about...
NASA is a public activity, paid for by Americans. Stealing from NASA is stealing from The People. It’s not a policy choice, it’s a crime. Barack Obama spent Tax Day “reassuring†Florida voters that money will keep flowing to NASA. (article) But instead of pursuing cutting-edge space technology and exploration, there will be a...
On Saturday, I reported that Greenpeace was distributing a “report” accusing Koch Industries and Exxon Mobil Company of funding work that counters global warming propaganda (as if it would be a bad thing). On Tuesday, I posted additional information on Koch Industries with a link to a 2006 WSJ interview with CEO Charles Koch....
We have been awestruck by the audacity of the global warming scam. If taken to fruition, it will destroy freedom and democracy, devastate the economies of the modern world, and concentrate unimaginable power and wealth in the hands of a small international group of politically connected criminals. Organized through the United Nations, scientific research...
Yesterday, I wrote that the IPCC should be shut down and that the core conspirators should be hunted down and prosecuted. That commentary did not go far enough. To avoid break-down of the modern world, the IPCC must be condemned and steps taken to assure that similar activities are not started in the future....
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has announced yet another “flaw†in their reports. It’s time – once and for all – to be very clear about the obvious. There are serious conclusions to be drawn from the fact that the “flaws†in the UN reports produced bias in only one direction....
The question is raised: Is there a place for social conservatism in a conservative political movement? While it seems that many (informal personal polling) take the question seriously, and most often say yes – the more the merrier – there’s influence in numbers – a few shrug it off as part of a vast...
Since Climategate, it’s been clear that the UK Met Office and the UN Climate Czars would need to investigate themselves before anyone else did, and equally apparent that they would find little fault in themselves. Results of their “reviews†have the feel of partially digested left-overs from last night’s bongy bash. The UK Met...
Al Gore made an appearance on a Norwegian television program last night. (video link expired) A more impressive move would have been to have accepted the invitation to appear before the US Senate, which could conceivably lead to criminal charges. He has thus far failed to convince the world that the Earth is headed...
Mexico, if left alone, would be a reasonably successful and stable country of the upper Third World. It isn’t Haiti, isn’t Bangla Desh, isn’t a dying patient with multiple tubes in every orifice. If not strong-armed into chaos, it would be all right. But the United States won’t leave it alone. Washington is pushing...
If I tell you that it has to do with global warming, your interest level might drop a thousand fold. Stupid “climate change†videos are everywhere, including classrooms where unsuspecting children have their reason replaced with biodegradable compost. But in the spirit of Alfred Nobel, the prize goes to a video that has had...
You may have seen the recent story about the 41-year-old doctor who graduated from medical school in 2003 with student-loan indebtedness of $250,000 that has since swelled to more than $555,000. She is now scheduled to pay $990 per month until she is 70 years old. Ouch! This is an extreme example of a...
Child support decision theory has taken a leap in development; finally providing a sound theoretical formula that can be used to consistently produce “just and appropriate†awards. The following comments provide an quick summary of guideline history and briefly state the character and significance of the breakthrough. A link to further information is included...
A bill was just introduced in Maryland to increase child support obligations for households at most incomes.  It would impose a massive increase of nearly 30 percent, for a couple with one child making $3400 a month! Maryland residents, who recently had their taxes increased, will face new burdens under the bill,  SB 252 (HB 500), which raises already excessive child support...
High and/or rising unemployment is always a political liability for a president, and so Barack Obama has taken the offensive in trying to persuade the American people that his team can get Americans back to work. In November, Obama took credit for having created 640,000 jobs. That audacious assertion was less than persuasive, coming...
On February 17, at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, DC, a young Nigerian terrorist named Farouk Abdul al Faisal attempted to board United Airlines flight 1497 to Stuttgart, Germany. He had eluded detection by the FBI, and was not on the Terrorist Watch List. He seemed to have succeeded in his aims. Al...
If a woman egocentrically and selfishly uses a man to get money or other assets, does not engage with him in some sort of mutuality, does not consider his needs, then she is objectifying the man.
2009 ended with a flurry of important events on the climate-change front. In November, the Climategate scandal broke. An anonymous whistle-blower released over 1,000 e-mails from key scientists (both British and American) in the alarmist climate-change camp. The e-mails revealed a shocking pattern of the abuse of science by both American and British scientists...
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