Apr 16

Bill Nye the Science Guy says he is O.K. with imprisonment of climate skeptics

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One of the most prominent “science” voices in America–“Bill Nye the Science Guy”–has recently said he has no problem with the jailing and imprisonment of climate-change skeptics.

Nye also said he supports the chilling effect that governmental investigations and persecutions have on doubters of government-approved science. See here.

Nye said:

As a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen… So I can see where people are very concerned about this, and they’re pursuing criminal investigations as well as engaging in discussions like this….That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.

Apr 16

Venezuelans now don’t have toilet paper, cable TV or cell phone service

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Socialism is something that should only be wished on one’s enemies.

For years, Venezuelans have voted for overt socialists. It all seemed great at first. “Free” health care, education, food, shelter, clothing, etc.

The government ‘paid’ for everything with abundant oil. But now oil prices have hit rock bottom and the Venezuelan government owes its contractors millions.

Venezuelans now lack basic toilet paper, cable TV, phone service and medicine. See here.

Apr 15

California’s 1 percent pay 45 percent of all State income taxes

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For decades, the legislature of California has pushed the envelope toward socialism, high taxes and overregulation.

Now the Sacramento Bee has conducted a study of the State’s tax burden. The newspaper found that forty-five percent of the state’s income tax money comes from the top 1 percent of filers – those with adjusted gross income of at least $501,000. See here.

For the most part, only the one percent have prospered at all in the past decade. The real incomes of most other Californians have stagnated or declined.

The State now requires government licenses to engage in most occupations. Starting a business or hiring an employee has become almost impossible for people of limited means. The paperwork burdens are simply too high.

Apr 14

Minnesota cities claim to be able to search rental apartments without warrant to ensure good housekeeping

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Astounding story from the Institute for Justice. Government control freaks in Golden Valley, Minnesota claim they have the right to search any rental apartment in order to ensure the apartment is clean and tidy.

Golden Valley and other Minnesota towns seek evidence-free “administrative” warrants to search rental homes. The Institute for Justice is challenging the practices. See here.

Apr 14

Medicare Part D was sold with claims it would cost $400 billion; Estimates were immediately raised to $534 billion after passage

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If government programs were subjected to the same fraud and unfair-trade-practices standards that prevail in the private sector, many politicians and government bureaucrats would be serving lengthy prison sentences.

Martin L. Gross reminds us that the congressional Republicans who pushed for Medicare Part D (prescription drug benefits for all Medicare recipients) in 2003 spread fundamental untruths about the program.

“Analysts” testified repeatedly that the program was absolutely necessary and would cost about $400 billion over 10 years.

They knew, in fact, that the actual cost would be much higher. But Republicans were trying to ensure reelection in 2004 and thought they could get more senior-citizen votes by pandering.

Almost immediately after Part D was enacted, the “analysts” admitted that costs would be at least $530 billion– –about one-third more than they claimed earlier.

Source: Martin L. Gross, “National Suicide” (2009) p. 212.

Apr 12

Grasping for Money, Connecticut legislators push to tax Yale University’s profits

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One of the greatest myths of contemporary higher education involves the designation of a college as ‘for-profit’ or ‘nonprofit.’
Haters of markets tend to loathe for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix.

Of course, the University of Phoenix contributes many thousands of dollars in taxes annually, while ‘nonprofit’ colleges like Montana State University pay no taxes. ‘Nonprofit’ colleges are also tax havens for millionaires and billionaires who ‘donate’ to such institutions and get subsidized advertising for decades as their names appear on various ‘nonprofit’ buildings around campuses.

Most for-profit colleges provide far better value to students than do nonprofit colleges.

Now there is news that Connecticut wants Yale University to share its wealth. Facing budget shortfalls and a deep pension hole, Connecticut lawmakers are pushing to tax the investment profits of Yale’s $25 billion endowment. See here.

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut. A ‘nonprofit’ university, Yale has amassed its huge endowment fund (which is five times larger than the annual budget of the State of Montana) from wealthy donors who have donated funds to Yale in exchange for tax write-offs.

Apr 12

CLIMATE SKEPTIC GLACIER ADVENTURE WEEKEND!

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Saturday-Sunday, May 21-22, 2016

Did you know that there are hundreds of glaciers and permanent snowfields in Park County, Montana?

Lysander Spooner University announces a research effort aimed at annually assessing the size and vitality of Park County’s glaciers. Join us on Saturday, May 21, 2016 for a field trip and hike into the Crazy Mountains to measure and photograph the Range’s glaciers. We will meet around 7:45 to 8:00 a.m. in front of the “MT Cup” coffee shop across from the old Livingston train depot.

Free of Charge! Everyone is invited! But be warned: this entails physically exhausting hiking and trekking. (Dress for cold wet weather; bring lots of photography equipment.) Some of us will make this an overnight backpacking trip, but others will return to their vehicles by Saturday evening.
Glaciers grow and melt with the seasons, gaining tons of snow in winter and receding each summer. Government-funded climate propagandists routinely present old photographs of glaciers taken in early spring and compare them to recent photos of the same glaciers taken in late summer to suggest that glaciers are vanishing.* The U.S. government—with all its vast resources—has used this trick to promote the government’s climate socialist agenda. (Don’t believe us? We’ll show you the government’s websites!)

Our goal is to build a photo archive of specific glaciers on the same dates and vantage points year after year. We stress accuracy, integrity, and fun!
(Note we are planning other glacier research trips later in the summer, including our big annual trip to Glacier National Park on Sept. 13—the average date of first freeze.)
Visit lysanderspooneruniversity.com for details. Or contact Roger Roots at 406-224-3105 or [email protected] for further details.

*(No one denies that North American glaciers have generally declined in size throughout the past 200 years—as the earth has been in a two-century warming cycle, which began before the fossil fuel era.)

Apr 11

Yet another government-funded professor demands climate skeptics be punished

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Yet another government-employed professor has publicly demanded that those who doubt the government’s climate theories be punished. See here.

Professor Michael E. Kraft is a political science professor at University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. Kraft even suggests that the prosecution of think tanks and skeptical writers “might be a tougher sell, given rights to free speech, but it could be given consideration.”

Apr 11

Official government climate data has been altered to make the past appear colder

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The climate blogger Tony Heller (Steven Goddard) has often alerted readers to the fact that government data sets have been altered to make the past seem colder. See here.

“NASA has altered their own data by 0.5C since 2001, yet claims that everyone agrees within about 0.05C.”

Apr 09

Major pro-government newspapers are dying. And even their online editions are losing readers

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As the digital age dawned on the newspaper industry a decade ago, most of the major U.S. and western newspapers recognized that they should create online editions to capture readers who abandon print newspapers.

But it turns out that content is more important than forum. Newspapers are dying; and so are the online editions! See here.

Alternative news sources– –sources which question government supremacy and are suspicious of government claims– –are thriving. But readers are simply turning away from the government-worshipping ‘mainstream’ press.