Jan 23

Governments of the Middle Ages Killed 50,000 Witches for Causing Climate Change

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In this video, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, Staff Astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, discusses her research into the “climate change” hysteria that spread across Europe between the 1500s to the 1700s.

Authorities prosecuted witches for acting with Satan to cause strange weather. Witch trials were administered by the most highly educated upper level clerics and governmental authorities.

Skeptics were considered sorcerers or witches and were tortured until they confessed. Then they were executed.

Jan 23

Government-funded computer models have thus far not been able to predict temperatures for even short 10-year periods

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Paul Dreissen posts a tribute to the wonderful Australian scientist Bob Carter, who died of a heart attack last week. See here.

Carter exposed a number of climate-change claims as fraudulent. He documented that IPCC computer climate models have thus far not been able to predict warming or other climate changes accurately for even short 10-year periods. It is therefore highly unlikely that they can do so for 100 years in the future. Therefore, they should not be used as the basis for energy and economic policies.

Jan 22

“Alternative Energy”: California government to charge taxpayers millions to build electric-car charging stations

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There seems to be a religious hatred among government trusters against fossil-fuel suppliers. A loathing almost as irrational as the unshakeable, almost hypersexual, love of self-styled “conservatives” for men in government uniforms.

Even as petroleum products have been made cheaper and cheaper by private sector innovators, the government of California is poised to forcibly take millions of dollars from the State’s long-suffering taxpayers to build an infrastructure of electric-car-charging stations.

See here for details.

Jan 22

Government again moves to ban private encryption

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After the San Bernardino attacks last month, many voices suspected the episode was another false flag operation by undercover government agents. Evidence pointed to the fact, for example, that the very government buildings “attacked” (reportedly by Islamic militants) had been the focus of numerous government “drills” in the weeks prior.

Now, the FBI seems to be claiming that the alleged San Bernardino perpetrators “encrypted” (meaning password-coded) their cell phones–stopping the heroic FBI from tracking down the “AlQueda,” . . . er, “Isis” attackers’ masterminds behind the attacks.

See here.

This means, obviously, that the FBI is making YET ANOTHER major push for laws banning private-sector encryption and allowing the all-seeing eye of the state to have total access to all private-sector information.

Jan 22

The Lesson from Flint: Never Trust Government to Deliver a Vital Good or Service

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The City of Flint, Michigan–long under the political control of pro-government extremists–is now in the news for secretly supplying high-lead water to its population.

Lots of political blaming and shaming. But the lesson is: Never trust government to dispense a vital commodity or service.

The private sector would NEVER knowingly provide contaminated water to customers. Any company that sold bad water would be quickly bypassed by customers. It would happen instantly.

it’s a great example of government failing to efficiently provide even the most basic of public services due to a characteristically toxic combination of administrative bloat and financial mismanagement.

See here.

Jan 21

Walmart losing millions, closing stores where minimum-wage laws are harshest

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In case anyone needed further evidence that minimum-wage laws create unemployment, here is another story about Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart once had a thriving business model. It offered cheap goods at a central location.

But Wal-Mart has come under attack from anti-business voices for years. In response, Wal-Mart has increased its pay rates for its labor (which has put the giant retailer in danger from competitors).

This past quarter, Wal-Mart suffered major losses, and announced it would close (or not open) several Wal-Mart stores around the country. Columnist Debra J. Saunders suggests that Wal-Mart appears to be closing stores sited in areas with higher-than-market minimum-wage ordinances.

Jan 20

Bozeman Chronicle Prints Headline Suggesting that “Coordinating” One’s Campaign with a Nonprofit Group is “Corruption”

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The First Amendment protects political speech above all other forms of speech.

But in Montana, there is a powerful movement of pro-government voices (not the least of which are the major newspapers) who support ever-more government control over political speech under the guise of “campaign finance regulation.” Montana politicians have been investigated by the government for doing such things as purchasing a ten-dollar domain name without reporting the purchase to the government. See here.

The notion that a politician could be violating the law by merely approving favorable campaigns by independent groups or PACs is a new idea, unknown under First Amendment jurisprudence prior to Buckley v. Valejo in 1976 (and, to a great extent, after).

On January 20, 2016, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle–arguably Montana’s most extreme pro-government newspaper–published the FRONT-PAGE, ABOVE-THE-FOLD headline: “New cache of WTP emails preview arguments in Wittich corruption trial.” See here.

Say what? “Corruption” used to mean bribe-taking, skimming money from public coffers, abusing one’s authority, or using one’s position to hurt people. Things like a government official paying out millions of tax dollars to cover up a police murder just prior to reelection. See here.

Now the government supremacists are pushing to declare that private-sector advocacy groups may not even coordinate their brochures or flyers with candidates they support.

Stay tuned!

Jan 17

Odds of dying in a terrorist attack since 9/11: One in 90 million

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Since 9/11/2001, the U.S. government has diverted well over A TRILLION DOLLARS from the productivity of America into government programs supposedly aimed at protecting Americans from “terrorism.” (To put this in perspective, the total output of the country–public and private sectors combined–is around $16 trillion.)

Yet terrorism is a miniscule threat. An American has about a 1 in 90 million chance of dying from a terrorist act in any given year. See here.

Jan 13

The Worst Teachers in the World: Paid $70,000 Annually

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The collapsing socialist city-state of Chicago is plummeting into bankruptcy, hiking taxes, and torturing its citizens at record pace.

Now the public teachers of the City intend to strike! They have a median salary of $71,017 and contribute—on the high end—only 2 percent of their salaries toward their very lavish pensions.

Their average salary (as INDIVIDUALS) is 51 percent higher than Chicago’s median HOUSEHOLD income, which is estimated at $46,877. See here.

Jan 13

More shocking revelations from Wisconsin’s political police state

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The public is largely oblivious to one of the biggest scandals in recent American political history. A tale that includes midnight raids by SWAT teams, machine guns brandished in the middle of the night, secret wiretaps of internet traffic, gag orders and secret evidence–aimed at suppressing inconvenient political movements.

See here. And here.

As many are aware, the politics of Wisconsin have undergone major changes in the past decade. The State has a socialist, extreme pro-welfare-state, pro-union-control history; but voters and governor Scott Walker have made some mild inroads against this tradition in recent years. In response, the State’s establishment has launched an all-out political witch hunt against Walker (and his perceived backers), and against free-market ideology generally.

(It seems that the political inquisition was aimed at proving that Walker was ‘coordinating’ his campaign with independent issue organizations, or the Koch Brothers, or the ghost of Joe McCarthy, or something. According to one commentator, “the campaign finance probe turned into a five-county shakedown of nearly every right-of-center group in the state.”) See here.

(Note: nothing herein should be interpreted as expressing any support whatsoever for Scott Walker (who is mostly a typical politician).

The Wisconsin Supreme Court previously ruled that the State’s fanatical political police violated age-old constitutional protections when they launched midnight raids of Walker’s offices and the homes of supporters and various Republican activists. (Midnight search warrants have been banned for centuries, except in the most extreme violent settings or circumstances.)

But political prosecutors balked at court orders requiring them to return the stolen documents. They claimed that they needed to keep all the illegally-seized documents to defend themselves from lawsuits that might come in the future. (Some have already come.)

Earlier this week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court boldly ordered the State’s Inquisitors to return the documents and destroy any copies.

Stay tuned!