Global Warming Data
The simple physical theory in my previous post on global warming, coupled with measured data, is not quite sufficient to prove that global warming caused by man is not real. … Read More
Tag: Political Disputes
Differing positions between political parties, including their bases and other supporters.
The Great Global Warming Scam
Antarctic Ice Extent 9/21/2005 Surely, someone should go to jail for the lies and fraud perpetrated in the name of global warming! What has been said by the supporters of … Read More
The Complexity of Reality
How arrogant people are who think they understand enough about a nation’s economy that they can control it! This thought came to me while thinking about the implicit assumptions progressives make. … Read More
The Phenomenon of Donald Trump
Astoundingly, Donald Trump is currently at the head of the Republican pack. He does present some attractive (albeit vague) positions for conservatives, but his past political affiliations and flip-flops in … Read More
Do Progressives Want a Police State?
Many progressives seem to yearn for a police state. Although I can not believe that all progressives desire a fascist state, even a small fraction of authoritarian-leaning Leftists is very, … Read More
Lessons of the “Great Recession” Not Learned
The Obama administration believes in its own propaganda. Believe it or not, the U.S. federal government is currently mandating the same kind of bad behavior that caused the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The … Read More
Bernie Sanders and the Road to Serfdom
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Photo Credit: Wickimedia Commons/Nick Solari This morning I read a very disturbing article by David Harsanyi on the federalist.com entitled “Bernie … Read More
Is Democracy the Best Government? Is It in Danger?
These two questions might seem rather strange, coming from a citizen of the United States. Yet I have been alarmed by a number of blog posts from people on the political Left … Read More
Economic Effects of the Dodd-Frank Act
The Dodd-Frank Act is the solution to a problem that does not exist, and is therefore totally unnecessary. The causes of the 2007-2008 financial crisis were not private sector greed … Read More
Civil Disobedience (Continued)
It seems like Charles Murray’s call for conservative civil disobedience is garnering more interest. An interview of Murray by a somewhat skeptical Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic magazine has just … Read More
The Debilitating Effects of Obamacare
So now the Supreme Court has ruled that it does not matter what the plain language of a legislative bill is. They claim to be able to sense what the … Read More
Echoes of the Great Depression: Japan
I was expecting “Japan’s lost decades” to be an easy story to tell. However, when I started researching for this post, I discovered a controversy existed on whether a lost decade … Read More
The Long Arm of the Federal Government Monster
This morning I read something immensely disturbing on the Wall Street Journal opinion page (access requires subscription). It reconfirms for me (as if I were ever in doubt) how controlling the … Read More
What If They Threw a Recession and Nobody Came?
Rich Danker in the Weekly Standard writes in the guise of a book review about a favorite conservative theme: How a distressed economy in recession, left to its own devices … Read More
Beware BEPS!
The acronym BEPS stands for “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting” and the BEPS project is an effort by the OECD to study perceived flaws in international tax rules. The perception that multinational … Read More
Civil Disobedience
This morning Michael Barone passed on a suggestion from Charles Murray: Government has become so intrusive in our lives and limits so much of our personnel freedoms, particularly economic, that … Read More