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Feb 09
Modern Government Colleges are Dens of Orwellian Iniquity
College campuses were formerly billed as environments where minds could think freely and where passions for inquiry and discovery could be unleashed. But many of today’s college campuses are zones of Orwellian government thought control. Today, when you cross the street to enter a typical college campus, you enter a world where your thoughts are …
Feb 08
The Data in in: Government Banking Regulations Help Big Banks, Harm Small Banks
Trusters of government often call for more regulations on businesses. Some government trusters believe that regulations dampen the greed and influence of Fortune 500 corporations and other big businesses. Unfortunately for them the data often conflict with this view. Business regulations invariably harm the smallest businesses and the poor while helping big businesses suppress their …
Feb 08
GOVERNMENT-SUPPORTED MSNBC NETWORK STEADILY LOSING VIEWERS
MSNBC—an alleged news network that ceaselessly calls for more government power and control, now attracts fewer than 55,000 viewers worldwide in the cherished 25-to-54-year-old demographic. You can find more people than that in the bleachers at some college football games. MSNBC, like its sister networks NBC and CNBC, are branches of General Electric, one of …
Feb 08
Government climate agencies caught “adjusting” recent temps upward, older temps downward
Bombshell news in today’s (Feb. 8, 2015) London Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html” title=”Fiddling With Temperatures” target=”_blank”>/embed Just as with the “Climategate” emails in and out of East Anglia, and the manipulation of data by graduate schools, climate alarmists working for governments have been caught “adjusting” temps upward in recent years, and downward for past years to bolster …
Feb 06
U.S. Army Major Stripped of Silver Star Medal After Criticizing U.S. Strategy
by Roger I. Roots Years ago I read something by the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould about his trip to Russia. If memory serves me right, Gould was writing about visiting Russia during the end of the Soviet period. Gould remarked that while in a Russian library, he examined the indexes at the ends of …
Jan 30
Lysander Spooner University’s July 24th Climate-Change Photo Research Project
No one denies “the greenhouse effect.” We can observe it in greenhouses. But we are scientists, and we are scientifically skeptical of claims by government-friendly alarmists who claim that humanity must adopt various repeatedly-failed socialist policies in order to save the planet …
