Oct 26

Science Group Asks NASA to Remove Bogus “97 % Consensus” Claim From NASA Website

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Politicians promoting the government’s catastrophic-global-warming-by-manmade-CO2 claims routinely reference a discredited statistic, stating without condition that there is a “97 percent consensus” among scientists that human-released carbon dioxide is causing the earth to warm.

Power-grabbing public officials point to the figure as stated on NASA websites to suggest that governments must have substantially more power over the private sector.

In some cases, the “97 percent” figure is cited by overt socialists seeking an abolition of private business and a banning of capitalism and property rights entirely.

But the Friends of Science point out that the “97 percent” figure is deceptively drawn from three purported studies, whose methods have been widely discredited. See here.

A more accurate figure, according to the Friends of Science, would be around 1 to 4 percent of scientists who believe in the governments’ predictions of global apocalypse or catastrophe.

Indeed, numerous skeptics have pointed out that THEY THEMSELVES would be considered part of the “consensus,” because they would respond, “yes,” to a question of whether they thought humans have ANY effect on global temperature. Numerous skeptics contend that the human impact on temps is actually quite tiny, and that the sun is the primary driver of global warming.

Still other skeptics point to satellite and weather-balloon data that show that THERE HAS BEEN NO GLOBAL WARMING IN 18 YEARS, even if the globe has slightly warmed over the past century. See here.

Oct 25

Wesleyan University Eliminates Funding of Student Newspaper After it Prints “Conservative” Column

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America’s colleges and universities have become dens of extreme pro-government, socialist sentiment where diverse views critical of the omnipotent state are generally shunned.

Wesleyan University in Connecticut is typical. Although Wesleyan is a private, religiously-affiliated school, federal government dollars flow freely through the institution, and the University’s campus culture exemplifies the extremist and government-supremacist ideology so typical of today’s college liberal-arts curricula.

Recently, the student newspaper printed a moderately “conservative” op-ed piece criticizing some tactics of the “Black Lives Matter” organization.

The campus erupted in hatred and vitriol, and the student body immediately moved to gut funding for the newspaper.

The amazing story, as told in the Washington Post, is here.

Oct 24

ACLU: “Fixing” the Constitution to Overturn CITIZENS UNITED Would “Break the Constitution”

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Many voices–who believe they are seeking “good government”–are calling for a constitutional amendment to give government the power to control political spending and advertising.

But as the ACLU points out, such an amendment would fundamentally “break the Constitution” and overturn the most basic free-speech and press provisions of the First Amendment. See here.

Oct 23

Government Now Claiming that Even Facebook Postings Can be Banned as Illegal “Campaign Contributions”

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The movement to give government even more power over elections and campaigning grows more powerful by the day.

Now a Colorado judge has ruled that a charter-school principal who posted a Facebook message indicating that one of the school’s students’ parents would make an “excellent education leader” was MAKING AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION by doing so. See here.

“The school’s action was the giving of a thing of value to the candidate, namely favorable publicity,” the judge wrote in his ruling.

Oct 23

Losing the battle on science, governments increasingly seek to “settle” the global-warming question in court

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You know governments are losing the battle in the field of science when they seek to create judgments and “findings of fact.”

They did it to Socrates. They did it to Galileo.

Now, increasingly, governments and socialist promoters of the catastrophic-manmade-global-warming-by-human-released-CO2 theory are resorting to the strong arm of government venues, such as courts, commissions and other staged tribunals. See here.

Governments are clearly losing the battle in the realm of science. More and more climate scientists are becoming skeptics (even as government funding for the hysteria is greater than ever). See here. And here.

Government-funded researchers and operatives purporting to ‘measure the earth’s temperature’ by land thermometers have routinely pronounced–year after year–that each year is warmer than the last (after “adjustments” are made). But actual satellite and weather balloon readings show no warming whatsoever in 19 years. Ice at the south pole is greater than ever measured. Ice at the north pole is near all-time highs as measured by satellite. See here.

Oct 22

Federal Prosecutors Fail to Convict Ron Paul’s Two Top Campaign Officials

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One of the most dangerous things one can do in any society is lead a movement that threatens the fundamental dominance of a king, a reigning politician, or prevailing government.

During the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, the Ron Paul movement was just such a threat to the sitting establishment.

Last year, the U.S. Justice Department levied a wide variety of political-corruption charges against Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign staff, accusing them of buying off an Iowa Republican Official.

Most of the charges–based on little or no evidence–evaporated and were dismissed before trial.

But a trial was held in Iowa last week.

Jesse Benton and James Tate were fully acquitted. A campaign organizer named Dimitri Kesari, however, was convicted of charges relating to hiring an Iowa Republican official in order to win the official’s endorsement.

See the Washington Post story here.

Oct 22

American colleges are the least free places in America

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America’s colleges are the least free places in the country. Virtually every major American university–and perhaps every GOVERNMENT university–provides a campus upon which opinions which challenge or criticize the state or the state’s government-focused theology are suppressed.

Surveys show that college students overwhelmingly indicate fear of holding non-government-approved opinions.

See this video by Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

See here.

Oct 22

55 Percent of American colleges impose unconstitutional speech codes

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has surveyed America’s colleges and found that 55 percent of them impose speech restrictions on students. See their website.

These colleges clearly and substantially restrict freedom of speech, purport to censor “offensive speech” (meaning, generally any antigovernment thought), or restrict “free speech” to a campus “zone.”

FIRE’s survey did not factor in private, religious schools, which expressly promote a religious view (as is their constitutional right).

FIRE has struggled and litigated against campus censorship for years, and has achieved some success. (When the organization started, 79 percent of colleges imposed censorship codes on students.)

Oct 21

A dying socialist city: Chicago

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Socialism is a curse that one should wish only on a hated enemy. All societies which embrace it become sick and weak.

Gary North has a new column about the death of a major socialist city: Chicago. See here.

“The four major employers in Chicago, in this order, are these: the federal government, the public schools, the city, and Cook County.”

Oct 21

Wisconsin “Campaign Finance” Police Use Tactics Inspired by the USA Patriot Act

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It is by far the greatest danger to First Amendment freedoms in American history: the modern “campaign finance reform” movement.

Every claim used to promote government controls over political campaign ads is untrue.

Here is a Reason.com article about Wisconsin political police–who raid people’s homes under cover of darkness and regularly tell those under investigation that they are not to tell anyone of the investigation.

This type of “gag order” policing was well-known in the Soviet era, and was a major component of the USA Patriot Act enacted in 2001.