Economics

On the Dangers of Deficits and Perpetual Revenue

2010-12-24
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On the Dangers of Deficits and Perpetual Revenue

In the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Mr. Mason of Virginia, suggested: the necessity of preventing the danger of perpetual revenue which must of necessity subvert the liberty of any Country. If it be objected to on the principle of Mr. Rutledge’s motion that public credit may require perpetual provisions, that case...

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On the Passing of MND: A Focused Reflection on Marriage and Family and What to Do Next

2010-08-29
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief Mike LaSalle announced the retirement of MensNewsDaily.com today. After nearly 9 years of continuous operation, the world’s premier men’s news and commentary site will end its operations “over the next month.” The introduction of MND came at a pivotal time in American history, in the aftermath of legislative thrusts against fathers...

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Is Al Gore Sane Enough to Stand Trial?

2010-08-12
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Al Gore’s bogus green enterprises have pulled in some major public funding based on fraudulent claims; leading to the suggestion that he may eventually stand trial. There’s something more. In his obsessive lectures, it seems he’ll not be content until he’s destroyed the economy and forced his political enemies, those who he credits for...

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Cut the Deficit by Cutting Useless ‘Services’

2010-08-11
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Chief Political Correspondent for The Washington Examiner, Byron York published a commentary yesterday entitled; Cut deficit without cutting services? Start here. He discussed studies by The Heritage Foundation and others that show government workers receive salaries that are much larger than their counterparts in the private sector and pointed to Republican proposals to freeze...

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Across the Rubicon: When Germany Left the Euro

2010-07-10
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Across the Rubicon: When Germany Left the Euro

Just past the bank closing time of 4 pm on Friday, passers-by at a number of secluded locations throughout Germany could hear the rumble of diesel engines coming to life, as rows of large unmarked trucks escorted by security vehicles began moving out onto the public highways. Roads were busy coming out from the...

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Yet Another Climategate Review : Global Warming Fears Not Based on Science

2010-07-08
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As CNN explains it; “An independent report released Wednesday into the leaked “Climategate” e-mails found no evidence to question the “rigor and honesty” of scientists involved.” That seems to be the general conclusion offered by Muir Russell, chairman of the select group of political insiders who conducted the review. The review focused on “the...

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On Deconstructing the Hockey Stick: Climate Game Over

2010-05-04
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On Deconstructing the Hockey Stick: Climate Game Over

Following is a simplified description of the main statistical error found with the “hockey stick” graph of temperatures during the past millennium. Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes are three respected scientists in America. In 1998 and 1999, they jointly published some research on how temperatures have changed during the past millennium. According to their research,...

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Financial Intrigue in Greece: Should We Care?

The intertwined worlds of government and finance are swirling with drama not seen since the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The epicenter of the current crisis is Greece. The Aegean nation’s sovereign debt has been downgraded to “junk” status while talk of outright default by the Greek government has arisen. The very survival...

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The Great American Debt “Roll”

2010-04-26
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Financial markets function to discount the future. Usually, by the time you read about something in the newspaper, financial market pricing has already “discounted” that event weeks, months, or perhaps even years before it hits the front page and becomes evident to everyone else. That’s what it means to “speculate.” The whole world is...

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Greenpeace Funded by the Political Class

2010-04-09
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Far-left advocacy group Greenpeace receives large donations from rich and powerful people, enough to drown the entire notion of political independence and non-partisanship. The mechanism of receiving funding – through foundations – is the same as the opposition “right wing” organizations that it criticizes for funding bias. Greenpeace is an international conglomerate, composed of...

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Global Warming : Shut down the IPCC

2010-03-26
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Global Warming :  Shut down the IPCC

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....

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Global Warming Advocates : Two IQ Points Short of a Pin Head Perhaps

2010-02-23
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Global Warming Advocates : Two IQ Points Short of a Pin Head Perhaps

Bill Nye. OK, here’s another one. What do normal people call a prolonged heating of the Earth’s atmosphere? ……… Summer. MSNBC’s Bill Nye “the science guy” has been the regular butt of jokes as a result of his ceaseless and absolute defense of the global warming industry; with “scientific” arguments that include the fact...

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Child Support Decision Theory Developed

2010-02-05
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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...

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Maryland Officials Seek to Jack Up Child Support Obligations, Using Bogus Inflation Rationale

2010-01-31
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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...

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Is There No Stopping This Liberal Madness?

2009-12-26
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What is a “paltry” one-hundred billion dollars in comparison to the trillions that are being robbed from this and future generations by a government that believes so vehemently in its socialist ideologies that neither the law nor the unbroken track record of past failures in such endeavors pose even the slightest obstacle to their...

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Males and Seniors Will Lose Under ObamaCare

It is essential to be aware in this time-sensitive brief note that there are three groups whose health will be negatively impacted by ObamaCare. First, all boys and all men will lose. Harry Reid’s behind-closed-doors-deal-busting bill establishes yet five more Offices of Women’s Health throughout the federal government which are on top of at...

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Government Intervention and High Prices

What kind of prices do you prefer to pay when you go shopping—high or low? Unless you’re trying to show off for someone by spending a bundle, I’d bet that you prefer low prices. I’ve never met anybody who decided not to buy something because he wished the price were higher. Indeed, common sense...

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Men, the Gender Wars Are Over — We Won

2009-12-04
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Men, the Gender Wars Are Over — We Won

Confidential Memo To: All Men Re: Operation “Feminist Movement” Men, our long twilight struggle with the opposite sex is over. Our victory is total. Can you believe the way things used to be? Remember when our fathers and grandfathers would drag themselves to mind-numbing jobs every day, having the sole responsibility for the feeding,...

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Climategate: You want the truth? You can’t understand the truth!

2009-12-04
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Climategate: You want the truth? You can’t understand the truth!

In every place of knowledge, there is a statue dedicated to one of the great martyrs of science. He carefully studied the data and came to the conclusion that his people were doomed if action was not immediately taken. For this effort, he was mocked, derided, and ultimately ignored. And, as a result, millions...

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The Fraud Is Everywhere: SUNY Albany and Queens University Belfast Join Climategate

2009-12-03
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The Fraud Is Everywhere: SUNY Albany and Queens University Belfast Join Climategate

Some of the emails leaked in Climategate discuss my work. Following is a comment on that, and on something more important. In 2007, I published a peer-reviewed paper alleging that some important research relied upon by the IPCC (for the treatment of urbanization effects) was fraudulent. The emails show that Tom Wigley — one...

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