Governments and their worshippers are promoting claims that 2015 is on track to become “the hottest year in world history.” (Just as these same sources claimed 2014 was the hottest year in history.) But these claims are entirely based upon government-manipulated land and ocean-surface temperatures. Almost half of these temps are fake, or have been …
September 2015 archive
Sep 19
In the wake of 9/11, the U.S. government falsely arrested thousands of innocent Americans
Under common law, any cop (or anyone else, for that matter) who arrested another person without probable cause to believe a crime was committed was AT LEAST liable for false arrest. (Actually, under 19th-century common law, actual guilt and not mere probable cause was the standard.) But after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the U.S. …
Sep 16
As western societies choke innovation with high taxes and government controls, Asia’s millionaires become world’s richest group
Europe and its colonies–especially British colonies–led the way in global prosperity and innovation between the 1600s and the 1900s. Small governments, constitutional law, and the industrial revolution led the people of the West to lead the world. Now a new report indicates that Asian societies–especially those in southeast-Asian nations that have mostly rejected socialism and …
Sep 15
University of California To Ban “Expressions” of “Intolerance” (Don’t Laugh at the Doublespeak)
We’ve seen this coming for a long time. Governmental Correctness codes at public colleges have been repeatedly struck down as unconstitutional by courts; yet the socialist-totalitarians who command and control America’s government universities continue to seek to enact speech censorship codes to suppress suspicion or distrust of expansive government or its sacred theology. Marxism and …
Sep 15
NASA Now Admits that Antarctic Sea Ice is at an ALL-TIME HIGH
It couldn’t be worse timing for the upcoming UN conference on manmade global warming. NASA’s website now admits that the amount of ice surrounding Antarctica is at THE HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT. The NASA website is here. Read how the NASA public relations staff seek to explain away this problem while continuing …
Sep 15
Illinois: a failed state
Writer and economist Stephen Moore, a native Illinoisan, writes that: * Nearly one of three state tax dollars in Illinois now goes to paying pensions for retired municipal and state employees. * The Illinois government recently announced that its treasury had insufficient funds to pay off the State’s lottery winners. * Illinois was the home …
Sep 14
New York Times: Climate-Change “Deniers” Will Bring World Genocide
An astounding op-ed “review” appeared in yesterday’s (Sunday, Sept. 12, 2015) edition of the New York Times. Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, wrote what is apparently a summary of his new book: “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.” The review is here. The Amazon link to the book is …
Sep 14
The U.S.–once a low-tax haven–now causes many to renounce U.S. citizenship over taxes
CNBC reports on the relatively new phenomenon of tax exiles who flee America’s current high tax rates. The U.S. currently has the world’s highest corporate tax rates and substantially higher-than-average personal income taxes. See our earlier report here. See the CNBC story here. The urge to renounce U.S. citizenship is increasingly strong among high-earners who …
Sep 12
Initial research shows minimum wage increases in Seattle and San Francisco have cost thousands of jobs
Supporters of minimum wage laws are often hopelessly illiterate regarding basic laws of economics. In recent election cycles, however, advocates of minimum-wage hikes have won some huge “victories” in such cities as Seattle and San Francisco. The Seattle City Council, for example, imposed a $15-per-hour minimum wage on all employers in the city last year. …
Sep 12
Ridesharing is safer than taking cabs
For decades, the act of driving a cab has been preposterously overregulated. Government hacks in almost every jurisdiction have enacted stupid laws and policies requiring government licensing and approval of all cab companies. In many states, cab companies are ridiculously regulated as “public utilities” like water and electricity. Cab companies, in turn, have paid off …
