Sunday, February 05, 2012
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Poll
Which Republican presidential candidate do you support?
I don't want any of these candidates to be president 51.74%
(371)
Mitt Romney 22.32%
(160)
Ron Paul 13.11%
(94)
Newt Gingrich 7.81%
(56)
Rick Santorum 5.02%
(36)
717 votes
Aspen, super rich.
Super liberal.
Poll
Which Republican presidential candidate do you support?
I don't want any of these candidates to be president 51.74%
(371)
Mitt Romney 22.32%
(160)
Ron Paul 13.11%
(94)
Newt Gingrich 7.81%
(56)
Rick Santorum 5.02%
(36)
717 votes
Aspen, super rich.
Super liberal.
Hoosiers Post-Game
Hoosiers Post-Game - WSJ.com
Now that Indiana has passed the first right-to-work measure in a decade, the state's Democrats are trying to find their new footing with organized labor.
After GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the law on Wednesday, the Democrat most likely to challenge him in 2012 was backpedaling from his party's obstruction.
Now that Indiana has passed the first right-to-work measure in a decade, the state's Democrats are trying to find their new footing with organized labor.
After GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the law on Wednesday, the Democrat most likely to challenge him in 2012 was backpedaling from his party's obstruction.
"Coming Apart" Author Charles Murray Answers Reader Questions on America's Growing Class Divide
Transcript: "Coming Apart" Author Charles Murray Answers Reader Questions on America's Growing Class Divide - Ideas Market - WSJ
The most important book of the year.
Maybe the most depressing book of the year.
The most important book of the year.
Maybe the most depressing book of the year.
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Obama goes Christianist on tax policy
Obama goes Christianist on tax policy United Liberty Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government
But President Obama’s invocation of Jesus and religion to push tax hikes is sickening and it makes him no different from someone like Rick Santorum, who frequently uses his faith to justify authoritarian social policies.
But President Obama’s invocation of Jesus and religion to push tax hikes is sickening and it makes him no different from someone like Rick Santorum, who frequently uses his faith to justify authoritarian social policies.
100 Tories revolt over wind farms
100 Tories revolt over wind farms - Telegraph
“In these financially straitened times, we think it is unwise to make consumers pay, through taxpayer subsidy, for inefficient and intermittent energy production that typifies onshore wind turbines,” they say.
The MPs want the savings spread between other “reliable” forms of renewable energy production.
“In these financially straitened times, we think it is unwise to make consumers pay, through taxpayer subsidy, for inefficient and intermittent energy production that typifies onshore wind turbines,” they say.
The MPs want the savings spread between other “reliable” forms of renewable energy production.
You Should Find the Anti-Komen Backlash Disgusting, Even If You’re Pro-Choice
You Should Find the Anti-Komen Backlash Disgusting, Even If You’re Pro-Choice - By Daniel Foster - The Corner - National Review Online
"You know, I’m not a big fan of Komen’s brandification of breast cancer, I dislike seeing pink ribbons plastered over everything, and I think Planned Parenthood is real swell, abortions and all.
So I’m not especially inclined to come to Komen’s aid.
But I’ll be damned if this doesn’t look a bit like PP throwing it’s weight around, knocking a few pieces of china off the shelves, sending a message to its other donors: “Nice foundation you got there. Wouldn’t want anything to, you know, happen to it.”
"You know, I’m not a big fan of Komen’s brandification of breast cancer, I dislike seeing pink ribbons plastered over everything, and I think Planned Parenthood is real swell, abortions and all.
So I’m not especially inclined to come to Komen’s aid.
But I’ll be damned if this doesn’t look a bit like PP throwing it’s weight around, knocking a few pieces of china off the shelves, sending a message to its other donors: “Nice foundation you got there. Wouldn’t want anything to, you know, happen to it.”
The Wrath of the Abortion Movement Unleashed on Komen
Articles: The Wrath of the Abortion Movement Unleashed on Komen
But Komen did not completely cut Planned Parenthood out of current funding or exclude Planned Parenthood from future funding.
Nor did they reverse the original decision and decide to re-fund Planned Parenthood in the future.
They merely reversed their decision in favor of considering Planned Parenthood's eligibility for future grants.
The Komen foundation is rightfully concerned that Planned Parenthood is the focus of federal and state investigations for financial irregularities, fraud, sex trafficking, failure to comply with laws requiring reporting minor's sexual abuse and parental notification for abortion, as well as substandard medical care.
The extreme liberal backlash is out of proportion to Komen's largely symbolic $600,000 grant to Planned Parenthood.
This is a relatively trivial amount when compared to Planned Parenthood's billion dollar budget.
The Komen grant allows Planned Parenthood to pretend that it is an authentic women's health care provider and immunizes the organization from the reality that the organization is mainly about abortions.
Planned Parenthood provided 332,278 abortions in 2009, about one-quarter of those performed in the USA.
But Komen did not completely cut Planned Parenthood out of current funding or exclude Planned Parenthood from future funding.
Nor did they reverse the original decision and decide to re-fund Planned Parenthood in the future.
They merely reversed their decision in favor of considering Planned Parenthood's eligibility for future grants.
The Komen foundation is rightfully concerned that Planned Parenthood is the focus of federal and state investigations for financial irregularities, fraud, sex trafficking, failure to comply with laws requiring reporting minor's sexual abuse and parental notification for abortion, as well as substandard medical care.
The extreme liberal backlash is out of proportion to Komen's largely symbolic $600,000 grant to Planned Parenthood.
This is a relatively trivial amount when compared to Planned Parenthood's billion dollar budget.
The Komen grant allows Planned Parenthood to pretend that it is an authentic women's health care provider and immunizes the organization from the reality that the organization is mainly about abortions.
Planned Parenthood provided 332,278 abortions in 2009, about one-quarter of those performed in the USA.
Why French Parents Are Superior
Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman - WSJ.com
Could it be that teaching children how to delay gratification—as middle-class French parents do—actually makes them calmer and more resilient?
Might this partly explain why middle-class American kids, who are in general more used to getting what they want right away, so often fall apart under stress?
Could it be that teaching children how to delay gratification—as middle-class French parents do—actually makes them calmer and more resilient?
Might this partly explain why middle-class American kids, who are in general more used to getting what they want right away, so often fall apart under stress?
Global warming: James Delingpole claims green zealots are destroying the planet
Global warming: James Delingpole claims green zealots are destroying the planet Mail Online
The turning point towards some semblance of sanity in the great climate war came in November 2009 with the leak of the notorious Climategate emails from the University of East Anglia.
What these showed is that the so-called ‘consensus’ science behind Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) — ie the theory that man-made CO2 is causing our planet to heat up in a dangerous, unprecedented fashion — simply cannot be trusted....
But if anthropogenic warming is not the threat environmentalists would have us believe, why do so many people believe it is?
And how come so many disparate groups — from the hair-shirt anti-capitalist activists of Greenpeace and Friends Of The Earth to the executives of big corporations, to politicians of every hue from Gordon Brown to David Cameron to scientists at NASA and the UEA — are working together to promote this pernicious myth?
The short answer is ‘follow the money’.
Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the UEA which was at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ scandal, for example, was given £13.7 million in grants for his department’s research work; the environmental non-governmental organisations such as Greenpeace came on board because scaremongering helps them raise revenue.
The turning point towards some semblance of sanity in the great climate war came in November 2009 with the leak of the notorious Climategate emails from the University of East Anglia.
What these showed is that the so-called ‘consensus’ science behind Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) — ie the theory that man-made CO2 is causing our planet to heat up in a dangerous, unprecedented fashion — simply cannot be trusted....
But if anthropogenic warming is not the threat environmentalists would have us believe, why do so many people believe it is?
And how come so many disparate groups — from the hair-shirt anti-capitalist activists of Greenpeace and Friends Of The Earth to the executives of big corporations, to politicians of every hue from Gordon Brown to David Cameron to scientists at NASA and the UEA — are working together to promote this pernicious myth?
The short answer is ‘follow the money’.
Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the UEA which was at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ scandal, for example, was given £13.7 million in grants for his department’s research work; the environmental non-governmental organisations such as Greenpeace came on board because scaremongering helps them raise revenue.
Rosy jobs report a ruse
Rosy jobs report a ruse - NYPOST.com
A loss of jobs that isn’t as bad as expected turns into a job gain.
Does that mean there really are 243,000 new jobs out there?
Absolutely not.
Let’s say there are rumors in your company that 300 people are going to be laid off.
Instead, management decides to fire just 200.
Two hundred people, of course, have lost their jobs.
But, adjusting it for expectations, 100 people didn’t get fired.
Using this analogy, the government would say that, on an expectation-adjusted basis, 100 jobs were created.
A loss of jobs that isn’t as bad as expected turns into a job gain.
Does that mean there really are 243,000 new jobs out there?
Absolutely not.
Let’s say there are rumors in your company that 300 people are going to be laid off.
Instead, management decides to fire just 200.
Two hundred people, of course, have lost their jobs.
But, adjusting it for expectations, 100 people didn’t get fired.
Using this analogy, the government would say that, on an expectation-adjusted basis, 100 jobs were created.
Taxpayer Costs For Average State Employee Increased From $79K in 2001 to $95K in 2011
Taxpayer Costs For Average State Employee Increased From $79K in 2001 to $95K in 2011 [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Taxpayer Costs For Average State Employee Increased From $79K in 2001 to $95K in 2011Dems claims state employees 'gave back' $500 million in concessions — facts say otherwise
Taxpayer Costs For Average State Employee Increased From $79K in 2001 to $95K in 2011Dems claims state employees 'gave back' $500 million in concessions — facts say otherwise
Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'
My Way News - Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'
"I don't like African-American.
It denotes something else to me than who I am," said Smith, whose parents are from Mississippi and North Carolina.
"I can't recall any of them telling me anything about Africa.
They told me a whole lot about where they grew up in Macomb County and Shelby, N.C."
"I don't like African-American.
It denotes something else to me than who I am," said Smith, whose parents are from Mississippi and North Carolina.
"I can't recall any of them telling me anything about Africa.
They told me a whole lot about where they grew up in Macomb County and Shelby, N.C."
Why the official 8.3 percent unemployment rate is a phony number—and what it means for Obama’s reelection
Why the official 8.3 percent unemployment rate is a phony number—and what it means for Obama’s reelection « The Enterprise Blog
Then there’s the broader, U-6 measure of unemployment which includes the discouraged plus part-timers who wish they had full time work.
That unemployment rate is still a sky-high 15.1 percent.
Then there’s the broader, U-6 measure of unemployment which includes the discouraged plus part-timers who wish they had full time work.
That unemployment rate is still a sky-high 15.1 percent.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?
Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold? - Forbes
“people inside China seem to be losing faith in the Chinese growth story that we’ve been hearing so much about for the past few years.”
“people inside China seem to be losing faith in the Chinese growth story that we’ve been hearing so much about for the past few years.”
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Why wind won't work
Why wind won't work Australian Climate Madness
Wind farms are expensive, inefficient and ugly.
And that’s just their good points.
Wind farms are expensive, inefficient and ugly.
And that’s just their good points.
Do Wind and Solar Work?
Do Wind and Solar Work? Power Line
Everyone knows that wind and solar energy are inefficient sources of energy compared to fossil fuels.
But, as the Science and Environmental Policy Project points out in the current The Week That Was, the extent to which “green” energy actually works is surprisingly opaque:
Everyone knows that wind and solar energy are inefficient sources of energy compared to fossil fuels.
But, as the Science and Environmental Policy Project points out in the current The Week That Was, the extent to which “green” energy actually works is surprisingly opaque:
White House Panic: Gruesome 2012 Economic Forecast Could Doom Obama
White House Panic: Gruesome 2012 Economic Forecast Could Doom Obama - Guy Benson
If the CBO estimate is correct, it would mean that the United States recorded a deficit of more than $1 trillion for every year of Obama’s first term. The deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2009, $1.3 trillion in 2010 and $1.3 trillion in 2011.
The largest deficit recorded before that was $458 billion in 2008.
If the CBO estimate is correct, it would mean that the United States recorded a deficit of more than $1 trillion for every year of Obama’s first term. The deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2009, $1.3 trillion in 2010 and $1.3 trillion in 2011.
The largest deficit recorded before that was $458 billion in 2008.
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