Dec 14

Billionaires are Waking to the Fact that Political Spending Makes Little Difference.

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It is one of the biggest myths of modern politics: that repetitive advertising (or the spending of campaign money in general) can ensure electoral victory.

Every argument of “campaign finance reformers” is false. There is no (or almost no) correlation between campaign spending and victory. Only a slight number of voters (maybe 1, 2 or 3 percent) are manipulatable by repetitive ad spending.

The vast majority of voters do not change their votes in response to political spending.

Finally, political observers are waking up to this reality. See this fascinating expose here.
Most Americans never donate to political campaigns. They wisely view such spending to be an utter waste. Billionaires who have spent fortunes on politics are increasingly admitting that their contributions have made little difference.

Dec 14

“Journalists” cheer and jump wildly as Paris Climate-Change Agreement is announced

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Here is amazing video of alleged journalists supposedly covering climate treaty negotiations in Paris objectively. Watch as they scream and jump for joy at the announcement!

Now we know why such alleged journalists rarely report facts which undermine the government-controlled manmade-global-warming thesis.

Dec 13

Defense Contractors Assure Investors that their Futures Look Bright

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Spokesmen for Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a recent conference that “they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.”

See here.

Dec 13

Forest Fire Burn Acreage Has Plummeted Since the 1930s

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It is frequently said that forest fires are increasing. Some who claim this attribute it to manmade global warming.

The reality is that the total U.S. acreage burned by forest fires has plummeted since the 1930s. See here.

Dec 10

Lone profitable Obamacare insurance co-op losing millions

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Every government policy that subsidizes health care increases demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise.

Thus, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA program and the ACA (“Obamacare”) have all made health care more expensive. In turn, the poor (who are sometimes mentioned as the supposed beneficiaries of such government programs) find medical care more and more expensive.

Now we learn that the only insurance co-op firm which made a profit from Obamacare last year (2014) is on track to LOSE MILLIONS this year. See here.

The firm, “Community Health Options” headquartered in Maine, plans to stop offering medical coverage in 2016. Already half of the 23 insurance co-ops which started up to serve Obamacare patients have collapsed. All are losing money.

Stay tuned!

Dec 10

Climate Hysteric Michael Mann Speaks at Montana State University

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by Roger Roots, 12/10/2015

An amazing spectacle of doublespeak, smoke, and mirrors took a stage at Montana State University in Bozeman on December 9, 2015. At taxpayer expense.

Dr. Michael Mann, the overbearing pro-government climate scientist at the heart of the 2009 Climategate scandal, was invited by MSU faculty to lecture a large public audience. Mann’s speech was the capstone to a two-day extravaganza at MSU, with expensive, glossy global-warming literature and signage throughout.

Mann presented his case for manmade climate change in a wholly one-sided manner. At least twice, Dr. Mann claimed that global temperatures have increased precisely as predicted by the government-funded climate modelers of the 1990s. Mann showed a chart on a large screen with a line purporting to be a temp prediction model created decades ago by his friend James Hanson. He then overlaid this line with a wriggly line purporting to be the actual temps of the past 20 years. The lines appeared to correlate closely.

Mann must know, of course, that more than 100 climate models predicted temp trajectories that were later shown to overestimate actual temps by 2 to 3 times. Even the most accurate temperature predictions of the 1990s-era modelers have been shown to have overestimated global warming by more than a standard deviation. The crowd at MSU were left in the dark about these basic facts.

Dr. Mann also spun a tale of persecution for mainstream climate scientists, pointing to various subpoenas and demands for his emails by politicians over the years. He failed to mention the larger phenomena of skeptics being fired, persecuted, and denied grants and promotions.

He glossed over the scandal regarding his deceptive “hockey stick” temperature graph of 2005 that was once on the cover of the UN’s IPCC report. Researchers later found that Mann had discarded all data that disputed the catastrophic-global-warming theory of the IPCC.

Questions from the crowd seemed so “softball” in nature that I was tempted to guess that the questioners were pre-selected. I had my own hand in the air but was never offered the microphone. The first questioner asked Mann about his hope for the future. The second questioner asked Mann if he thought social scientists should play a role in promoting the hysteria of global warming. (Mann said yes.)

Dec 10

Public High School Shuts Down “Conservative” Speech Because it “Crossed the Line”

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America’s youth concentration camps , er . . . public schools, offer very little education, but provide a great deal of government-supremacist indoctrination. Facts about the relationship between capitalism and prosperity are deemed too radical to be presented to impressionable minds. Students are taught to seek all blessings from the state and its omnipotent ministers.

Here is shocking video of a public high school administrator shutting down a “conservative” lecture mid-speech in a Chula Vista, California high school. The administrator claimed the lecture–by annoying “conservative” speaker Ben Shapiro–“crossed the line.”

Ben Shapiro had been invited onto the high school campus by a “conservative” student club, Young Americans for Freedom. The club had gone through channels, applied to the administration, and filled out the proper paperwork.

But Shapiro said that poor people who win the lottery “disproportionally end up poor again” (a well-known phenomenon, shown by numbers of studies). The reason poor people stay poor, continued Shapiro, “isn’t that they don’t have money; it’s because they suck with money.”

At this point, the Administrator had heard enough and barged toward the podium to stop Shapiro’s talk. The video can be seen here.

Dec 09

France has become anti-Muslim police state

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It is unfortunate that today’s Muslim societies are authoritarian strongholds where there is little due process of law (in the Anglo-American sense).

It is even more unfortunate that France–one of the great fountains of liberty over the past 1000 years–appears to be embracing an almost-Islamic level of authoritarianism, ironically aimed at suppressing the French Muslim population.

According to John Stossel, a Halal-Mexican restaurant near Paris “was raided by upwards of forty police armed with rifles and clad in body armor, helmets, and riot shields” in the week after the recent Paris terror attacks.

“After terrifying diners, who were ordered to sit still and not touch their phones, officers proceeded to the basement, where they smashed several doors with battering rams, reportedly in search of a ‘hidden prayer room.'”

The restaurant owner asked them not to break down doors because he would simply unlock them, but he was ordered to “lay on the floor and stay silent.” The raid did not find weapons or anything “linked to terrorist activities.”

Read Stossel’s column here.

Dec 08

Lysander Spooner University Planning New Glacier Photography Dates

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After the success of our September 2015 Glacier Research trip, we are planning new glacier photography field trips in the northern Rockies.

Many people do not realize that there are hundreds of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains around Livingston, Montana.

Here is a website detailing the numbers of glaciers and perennial snowfields in the Crazy, Beartooth and Absaroka Mountain ranges. There are 57 glaciers and perennial snowfields in the Crazy Mountains, and 401 glaciers or perennial snowfields in the Beartooth and Absaroka mountain ranges (about 35% of the total number in Montana).

Some of these glaciers are within 30 miles of Livingston, Montana.

We are seeking to coordinate glacier-hunting trips on the following dates:

December 26, 2015: The day after Christmas and the first Saturday after the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. We will meet in front of the Coffee Crossing coffeehouse in Livingston at 9:00 a.m. and embark for the local Crazy Mountains by 9:35 a.m. Bring cross-country skis, snowshoes and/or snowmobiles and dress for freezing (Everest level) conditions. If there is sufficient interest, we may snowcamp overnight.

Then, on Saturday May21, 2016, just before the average date of last spring frost in Livingston, Montana, we will meet in front of the MT Cup Coffee Shop (around the corner from the Coffee Crossing) at 8:30 a.m. and embark around 9:00 a.m. for further glacier hunting. This will be an overnight backpacking trip.

We are also aiming to add a glacier-hunting trip in the Beartooth Mountains on July 16, 2016, just after the average date of last Spring frost in Cooke City, Montana. (We will meet at 8:00 a.m. at the Cooke City visitors center and museum and embark around 8:30.)

Check out any zip code on this website, which tells you the average date of first freeze and last freeze for the location.

Dec 08

Lost? Need Directions? Ask a Man

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Fascinating psychological research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology suggests that male brains are better at judging directions than female brains. See here.

The research involved MRI scans of brain activity.