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Ever get that feeling like the Obama White House doesn’t have a clue as to what it takes to actually run a business, make investments, hire people, sell a product, etc? There is a reason for that :
It has been fascinating to watch George McGovern change his tune about much of the ...
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The video from my climate lecture on November 10, 2009 is now available online. I have overlaid the slides on the video so you can see them better. If I have time, I may some day re-record the sound track over the slides in a studio setting.
The HD video is available full length via Vimeo ...
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Home Depot
Cross-posted from Climate Skeptic :
I am disappointed to see folks like Lord Monkton calling for scientists to go to jail over what has been discovered in the Hadley CRU emails . No one is going to jail, at least based on what we know so far. Laws were broken, but of the type that perhaps ...
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Global Downturn
It appears that the unprecedented embargo on mocking the President is finally coming to an end after 10 long months. Comedians may finally have decided it is OK to make fun of this President like they have all the others. To this end, this is pretty funny from SNL .
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An excellent anti-Malthusian essay by Brendan O’Neill . It is hard to do it justice with an excerpt:
What this potted history of population scaremongering ought to demonstrate is this: Malthusians are always wrong about everything.
The extent of their wrongness cannot be overstated. ...
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The union whose president leads the world in visits to the White House this year has shown what is at the heart of its quest to help mankind — a naked power grab .
In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson , 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to ...
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White House
I just couldn’t bear to post this at my climate site, which I really try to keep science-based. Since this doesn’t have even a sniff of science to it, I will post it here for your entertainment: According to the UN, Global Warming Causes Prostitution
The effects of climate ...
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Apparently the LHC is back in business . If the LHC had a sense of humor, they would announce that they are indeed going to try to create a man-made black hole and that the test is currently scheduled for December 21, 2012.
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Wow, you mean different individuals actually have different preferences and value procedures in different ways? Weird! Who would have ever thought that everyone would not be silently satisfied at whatever one-size-fits-all solution is crafted by Congress and other people who apparently ...
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I have been saying for years that some sort of due process needs to be applied to Gitmo detainees. I am not knowledgeable enough to know if this should be a civilian trial or military tribunal or what, but just the fact that they are non-citizens does not give us the right to detain them ...
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I have warned about this before:
In fact, Hollywood’s portion of the stimulus package reveals an important factor of the Recovery Act: The money is not going to areas that would more directly stimulate the economy but instead to provide ongoing life support to deficit-ridden federal, state ...
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Just what Windows needs – a bit of competition. I don’t consider the Apple real competition, because it requires proprietary hardware to run. And Linux is way too geeky and not packaged well for the average NOOB, though some netbooks have done surprisingly well with it. Today, ...
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Coyote Blog, July 16, 2009
It is totally clear to me that Obama and Pelosi will spend any amount of money to pass their key legislative initiatives. In the case of Waxman-Markey, the marginal price per vote turned out to be about $3.5 billion . But they didn’t even blink at paying this. ...
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They will bring back this charming vista to our cities
Hanging laundry to dry is a common prescription by environmentalists. This picture is from 1900, the last year we were at some of the CO2 targets currently being proposed.
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General rule of thumb — when your leaders attempt to convince you that choice and individual liberty are bad for you , run away. They are not really interested in your well-being.
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Obama specifically promises not to spend the stimulus money on dog parks (as an example of what people would consider frivolous public investment). Katherine Mangu-Ward brings us this picture of a stimulus funded dog park near her home:
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Barack Obama
Megan McArdle has a great post on the CMS post. Bascially, there is no magic bullet to cut medical costs. Benefits are going to get cut and costs are going to go up.
I really don’t need the report to tell me this. Here is the common sense answer — before this administration ...
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Bill Clinton
Perhaps the scariest potential effect of the proposed health care bills is the negative effect they likely will have on innovation. And if we adopt the bill, we will never know what we have lost. Unlike budgets, which with near certainty will become overdrawn quickly, we will never be able to ...
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Megan McArdle has two posts here and here on consumer credit and payday loans. My chief takeaway is that the majority generally benefits from the availability of diverse (though sometimes expensive) forms of consumer credit, while a minority are tragically and very visibly worse off. The ...
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From the Boston Herald via Radly Balko :
G rinchlike union bosses are blocking at least 200 of Boston’s best teachers from pocketing bonuses for their classroom heroics in a puzzling move that gets a failing grade from education experts.
The Boston Teachers Union staunchly opposes a ...
