Excerpt from a story by statistician William M. Briggs There are two stories floating around about the state of the earth’s atmosphere. Both are believed true by government-funded scientists and the environmentally minded. The situation is curious because the stories don’t mesh. Yet, as I said, both are believed. Worse, neither is true. Story number one […]
Is It Time To Stop The Insanity Of Wasting Time and Money On More Climate Models?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Nearly every single climate model prediction, projection or whatever else they want to call them has been wrong. Weather forecasts beyond 72 hours typically deteriorate into their error bands. The UK Met Office summer forecast was wrong again. I have lost track of the number of times they were wrong. […]
The Rise of Populism: What Trump and Francis Have in Common
New Study Finds Criminals Get Guns From Friends and Family
Gun control doesn’t work. A study released by Duke University illustrates why. In an interview of 99 Chicago criminals in a Cook County prison, it was found that most of the guns obtained by the criminals were received from friends and family members or from illegal purchases, not from purchases at gun shows or gun […]
Milton Friedman interview from 1991 on America’s War on Drugs
In 1991 Nobel economist Milton Friedman (pictured above giving a talk at AEI, exact year unknown) was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning drug reporter Randy Paige on “America’s Drug Forum,” a national public affairs talk show that appeared on public television stations. In the interview, Milton Friedman discussed in detail his views America’s War on Drugs,…
http://www.aei.org/publication/milton-friedman-interview-from-1991-on-americas-war-on-drugs/
Obama’s climate policy is ‘practically worthless,’ says Dr. James Hansen
Yes folks, you read that right. The key to curbing climate change is… more taxes!
Expanding the size and scope of government will save us all from ourselves. It’s almost like our hands hover over the BIG RED BUTTON and we’d press it if not constrained by the ever watchful hand of State.
Planned Parenthood’s Racist Founding
Nicotine itself isn’t the real villain
The man in charge of tobacco regulation at the Food and Drug Administration says we “need a national debate on nicotine.” Good idea. But first we need to understand what nicotine is – and what it isn’t.It isn’t the stuff that can cause serious illness and death from cancer, lung, and heart disease. Those culprits…
http://www.aei.org/publication/nicotine-itself-isnt-the-real-villain/
Want to Sabotage Bad Laws? Healthy Contempt is More Important Than Legal Strategy. – Hit & Run : Reason.com
Want to maintain your rights as expressed in the U.S. Constitution? You need to get active opposing bad laws NOW. That oppression you are promised will come? It will come under the guise of and color of LAW. It will be enforced by a thousand layers of bureaucracy. It will ultimately take your lifestyle, if not your life.
But the key to rendering stupid laws irrelevant isn’t a clever strategy, it’s an overall attitude of defiance that comes up with new creative strategies after the first ones have been countered and flows around enforcement efforts like an ocean of fuck-you.
