Aug 14
After months of urban rioting and complaints in Baltimore, the U.S. Justice Department commissioned a report into police practices there. The results show a tyrannical local government, drunk on power and gorged on money, openly defying constitutional limits regarding searches and seizures. The report found that in Baltimore, police routinely stop people on the street …
Aug 13
Months ago a group of true believers in apocalyptic man-made global warming loudly announced a sailing expedition by which they planned to sail around the Arctic Circle. “We are sailing around the Arctic, around the North Pole,” says the group’s website, “to demonstrate that due to progressive sea ice recession due to Arctic climate change, …
Aug 13
Socialism disguises itself as a movement of the poor; but it has always been a movement of wealthy elites. Hugo Chavez’s daughter is reportedly worth $4 billion in a land of starving slaves. Fidel Castro has always lived like a king, with mansions, private lakes stocked with pet dolphins, and other luxuries. His serfs live …
Aug 13
Last week’s Olympic opening ceremonies featured a pro-government propaganda film proclaiming that human-released greenhouse gasses were causing Greenland’s ice and snow to disappear. “Animated maps showed Greenland “disappearing very quickly” and Amsterdam, Dubai, Miami, Shanghai, Lagos and Rio being swallowed up by rising seas.” See here. But according to the best data, Greenland’s ice mass …
Aug 13
Government overregulation is forcing many Americans to flee the U.S. “There’s a lot of them who are tired of the hassle and headache and expense of complying with US tax rules,” says Reed. “Most of them are U.S. citizens who’ve lived abroad for a long-time.” See here. The U.S. government is also bullying foreign banks …
Aug 11
Ever since the passage of Medicare in 1965, health care costs have increased much faster than inflation. This is because Medicare increased demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise. Government trusters, in response, have looked for MORE GOVERNMENT to fix the problem. In 2009, the U.S. government enacted the “Affordable Care Act,” purportedly designed …
Aug 10
Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on a hated enemy. Just 15 years ago, Venezuela was a rising, thriving, dynamic society. Today, after 15 years of government central planning, men die in the streets fighting over pennies. People drink dirty water. Hookers sell themselves for food scraps. Now there is news that …
Aug 10
Markets are a miracle cure. They transformed stone age societies with no plumbing and no electricity into world commercial powers with long life expectancy, advanced art and culture and healthy populations in only two generations (South Korea, Singapore, Tiawan, etc.). When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, 27 former Soviet countries faced an uncertain …
Aug 09
Last Month the Democratic National Platform was changed to support government prosecution of those who doubt the government’s apocalyptic-global-warming-by-human-produced-carbon-dioxide theory. Now there is polling showing the VAST MAJORITY of voters–Republicans, Democrats and Independents–oppose such persecution. In fact, the VAST MAJORITY disagree that “the science is settled,” as government voices loudly decree. Only 25 percent of …
Aug 08
Throughout Glacier National Park there are signs, posters and statements predicting that all of GNP’s glaciers will disappear by around 2030. The government films and flyers provided at GNP also make this claim. A new government website–published by the U.S. Geological Survey–now suggests this (2030) prediction is too conservative: A computer-based climate model predicts that …
