Is libertarianism a fringe ideology, pushed by a tiny minority? Since 2002, Gallup has been asking Americans if they think the government is too powerful. Today, Gallup published its polling data for 2015. Fully SIXTY PERCENT now say the federal government has too much power. See here. The view that the current federal government has …
Category: Government lies
Oct 05
U.S. Postal Service Lost $5.5 Billion in 2014; Its Average Vehicle Gets 10 M.P.G.
The U.S. Postal Service lost $5.5 billion in 2014 and has lost many more billions over the past decade. Even as global trade, communications and shipping has skyrocketed, the Postal Service can’t operate efficiently. U.S. Postal workers are greatly overpaid. Hundreds, even thousands, apply for every opening. It might be said that the PRIMARY purpose …
Sep 29
Government has made housing less affordable–while claiming a desire to make housing more affordable
Thomas Sowell: “nobody has done more to make housing unaffordable than [government officials proclaiming a desire to make housing affordable].” “A recent survey,” says Sowell, “showed that the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was just over $3,500. Some people are paying $1,800 a month just to rent a bunk bed …
Sep 26
Castro lived like a king among the impoverished subjects of socialist Cuba
Haters of capitalism routinely invoke the specter of “income inequality” and talk often of the gap between rich and poor. Yet never is that gap larger than in socialist countries which have driven out capitalism. Witness North Korea, where government leaders reside in palaces surrounded by fearful starving servants. Or witness socialist Cuba under Fidel …
Sep 21
More polling shows Americans distrustful of government
The average person in the world is at least 4 times more likely to be killed by his own government than by any foreign government, any criminal, or any terrorist. Statistically, one’s own government is always the greatest source of potential danger to one’s life. For years, Gallup has been asking the question: “Do you …
Sep 19
20 government-supported “climate scientists” call for their skeptics to be jailed
Last week, 20 “climate scientists”–each of whom is government-funded–signed a letter to President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Lynch calling for government to investigate and prosecute those who question or disagree with the government’s climate-change messaging. See the letter here. The letter makes numerous preposterous claims (e.g., that skeptics are knowingly promoting false science, as …
Sep 19
Satellite Temp Readings show NO WARMING FOR 18 YEARS, 8 MONTHS
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 …
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 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 09
Arctic Ice Has Increased by Hundreds of Miles in Past 3 Years
Numerous manmade-global-warming alarmists predicted a decade ago that Arctic sea ice would disappear by 2015. Yet climatologist Steven Goddard says “The Arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.” See here. Goddard’s post also provides links to headlines and “news stories” in which …
