Climategate: What? The data doesn't support the hoax? Just leave it out – no one will notice.
Here’s a link to a short piece on Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit site. It shows the data that “scientists” working for the IPCC conveniently left out of their report in 2001. Since the data (showing precipitously declining temperatures for most of the period 1960 to 2000) wouldn’t support their hoax, they just left it out. [...]
Glorious Christmas Nights- The Horrors of War? Oh, wait, that was just the dress rehearsal
Last night we had our dress rehearsal for this year’s production of Glorious Christmas Nights (GCN). If you don’t know about GCN, you can read about it (and still get tickets for this year’s show) here. I been doing these shows since 2001 (with the exception of ’04), so I’ve been through several dress rehearsals. [...]
Beware the Government, Looking Out for our "Best Interests": Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine
Here’s a cautionary tale that describes what happens when the government steps in to “make things fair” for everyone in society. Here’s a small sample: “The rule of law, in complex times,Has proved itself deficient.We prefer the rule of men!It’s vastly more efficient.Now let me state the present rules. The lawyer went on,These very simple [...]
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Happy Thanksgiving. Here’s something to think about as we give thanks for the bounty we have in America. Almost 400 years ago, William Bradford recognized that the socialist collective system that the colonists were using was not working. “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” resulted in everyone thinking that [...]
I KNEW it! Recycling is for suckers.
I have suspected this ever since my wife started sorting out the plastic bottles and glass from the aluminum cans and cardboard. I actually take our trash to the landfill (my favorite weekend chore; isn’t it yours?), and have to go to different places to dump trash and leave recycables. I have jokingly commented to [...]
The Health Care Bill? "Breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity"
If you’ve read any reasoned and rational analyses of the Health Care “reform” bill, there won’t really be any surprises here. But, John Stossel asks a couple of good questions – truthful answers conclude that this version of “reform” can’t possibly work. You could argue that point, but would be hard-pressed to provide an example [...]
Teachers union against excellence in education? Well, yes.
This is sad, but entirely believable. Never mind those pesky students and their under-achievement! We don’t teachers getting rewarded for doing a good job! That would mean some other teachers are, um, not doing a good job? Impossible! Take all the money from the Gates Foundation and divide it equally between the teachers – regardless [...]
Wisdom
A couple of quotes I ran across in the Patriot Post email that I get weekly. I feel like the first two are particularly applicable in light of what happened at Ft. Hood, and the news that we will confer upon a terrorist enemy combatant (KSM) the rights of a U.S. citizen by giving him [...]
Is there really a shortage of water in the world?
This is an excellent interview with Asit Biswas (president of the Third World Centre for Water Management) about the supposed “water crisis” in the world. He says there’s no shortage (and thus, no crisis) at all; rather, it’s a problem of infrastructure, poor management, and avoidable waste. You’d be surprised how much drinkable water is wasted, even in [...]
Maine's Public Option Failure: A small-scale example of the disaster that will be Obamacare
Maine’s state-run health care option, passed in 2003, was supposed to cover the 128,000 residents that didn’t have health insurance by this year. So far, a total of 9,600 are covered (only 3,200 of those didn’t have insurance before; the rest have moved from private coverage), and they aren’t accepting any more in the plan. [...]
Ft. Hood was a terrorist act. Shut the hell up about diversity.
Dorothy Rabinowitz is right on the money with her analysis. In the interest of not “offending people’s sensibilities” we now try to explain away this act of terror by a Muslim extremist with all manner of ridiculous theory and speculation. I’m particularly galled by Gen. Casey’s statement that “this event…would be an even greater tragedy [...]
American Thinker: Bush or Obama: The Quiz
Here’s an interesting piece, in the form of a quiz, that highlights some of the differences between the universally admired Barack H. Obama and the mostly-reviled idiot George W. Bush (this is cyberspace, so you can’t see my tongue, which is firmly planted in my cheek). Question #1 is revealing; #5 is frightenting, and #6 [...]
What the Pelosi Health Care Bill Really Says – WSJ.com
If you weren’t scared of this thing before, read a little of this, and understand what a colossal money/power grab this thing is. There is no way you can construe any of these provisions as being helpful: not to individuals who already have insurance, and not to businesses that cover some of the cost of [...]
America's Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber
Here is a sobering piece from Walter Williams, an economist from George Mason University and syndicated columnist (he also happens to be black, which makes his commentary even more interesting). Compared to the rest of the world, our fourth graders are doing pretty well: at least they’re in the top half. The sobering part is [...]
The Law of Unintended Consequences
What is it that they say about unintended consequences? For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the “Law of Unintended Consequences” says: the actions of people -and especially of governments- always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended. Most often, however, the law illuminates the perverse unintended effects of legislation and regulation (Thanks, [...]
