A good editorial from George Will: E-cigarettes raise public health issues but also illustrate the unhealthy process by which public policy often is made. They illustrate a familiar phenomenon, the cooperation between “bootleggers and Baptists,” meaning merchants and moralists — those
The Climate is Ending Civilization?
This summarizes the real experiences from the last 45 years: Well, it’s now the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 15 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made
Standards for Conduct
It’s somewhat amazing that a person can operate with impunity, violate laws, and then decide to run for president… and the media just elects to overlook the major transgressions. Why?
What’s the Economic Future for Greece?
I’m still watching the ‘canary in the coal mine’ to see how western democracies emerge from ridiculous amounts of debt… Shares in Greece’s stricken banks fell to an all-time low on Tuesday amid fears the European Central Bank was planning
Economic Progress in Greece?
It doesn’t appear that there is a magical solution: Even if it survives the next three months teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Greece may have blown its best chance of a long-term debt deal by alienating its euro zone
More Than 50% of US Jews Still Support Obama?!?
It’s comparable to Jews in the 1930s supporting the German National Socialist Party: I am incredulous about the statistic that as much as 54% of Jews are incredulous concerning who and what Barack Obama is! My friends, that is a
Republicans – Weaklings, Cowards, and Traitors?
An interesting article… an excerpt: When the Republican speaker of the House surrenders to Nancy Pelosi and sets up a vote where a Democrat/RINO coalition overrides the majority of Republicans to fund something most Republicans ran against in the last
Dehumanizing the Individual
From this blog that focuses on treating people as individuals, you have a pertinent article at the American Enterprise Institute Once you start thinking about human beings as members of classes–so, even if it’s classes that sound initially plausible or
A deal with Iran?
An interesting quote: These negotiations have exposed the president as few events have. “Mr. Obama,” says the New York Observer, no particular friend of Republicans and conservative critics of the president, “is an amateur who is enthralled with the sound
Rare Sightings
Here is a looks at reality