CRU-Gate Letters, Part II
The World’s Greatest Mann Made Non-Crisis receives another body blow Back in 2009 some friendly soul released thousands of e-mails between the leading lights of the “climate consensus” which tended to demonstrate not only that they had been playing fast and loose with their data, but also suppressing opposing views and deliberately frustrating FOIA requests. [...]
Play Me My Song… Here It Comes Again
Last night, Michele Bachmann visited Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talk show and, by all accounts, had a good chat with him. But after the show aired, a lot of people weren’t talking about what she said or did, but what happened as she walked on stage — Fallon’s band chose to welcome her with a song [...]
“Support that at your own risk”
A clear concise piece describing why you have to be ignorant or gullible to be supportive of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Or… complicit with their ideals: What is remarkable to me is how otherwise observant, thoughtful individuals have excused the endless stream of criminal acts perpetrated at and by OWS crowds. The line, as [...]
I Find Her Shallow Faith Disturbing
I normally try to not kick around the Catholic Church too much. While I certainly have some problems with its history and doctrine, my philosophy of “do what you want, just don’ try to impose it on me” means that I have little concern over its internal practices. I only get concerned when their beliefs [...]
MF Global is not the first Corzine trading scandal
If you follow investment and financial news, you are no doubt aware of the bankruptcy of MF Global, a powerful futures brokerage. Before its bankruptcy, MF Global was helmed by former Senator and New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, a very wealthy and influential Democrat power player. Before he ran for the Senate in 2000, [...]
The Fix Is In
One of the common cries of those who defend the free market system and oppose most government interventions as a matter of principle is that the market tends to correct itself; if one just waits and gives the free market a chance, quite often it will find its own solutions. It’s remarkably adaptive and flexible [...]
Three Cheers For The Supercommittee!
In the last 24 hours, I’ve been giving some thought to the whole supercommittee, and I’ve realized I — and a lot of others — have been wrong. We all looked at their failure to come up with a solution to the budget situation and pronounced that they failed. We couldn’t be more wrong. [...]
Jay Tea’s Evil Thought Of The Day
First up, a couple of disclaimers. This would never happen, and this would be a horribly bad thing to have happen. I would never wish for this to happen. But damn, I find it a tremendously amusing one. It’s a little late in the game for this, but I find myself entertaining a truly [...]
What role did the Obama administration play…
… in the rolling up of a CIA operation in Iran and Lebanon? That’s the question of the day given this cadre of America haters who are running the show: In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have [...]
A Confession
I have a confession to make. I didn’t make a mistake in a posting. But I would have. Let me explain. When the “SuperCommittee” was announced, I was extremely skeptical. First, I was disgusted with Congress yet again abrogating its responsibilities, this time on a body of questionable Constitutionality. Further, from the outset I [...]
The Least Worst Option
I’m sure you all have seen the video from the #Occupy UC Davis, where some of the mob decided to block a public sidewalk. The police came along, told them to move, and when the squatters refused, started calmly and methodically pepper-spraying the mob. It’s not pretty to watch: I, like a lot [...]
“So that’s another 1,400 American jobs lost”
The Obama administration once again does what it seems to do well and often. Put an end to jobs for Americans: Late Thursday the Obama administration abruptly knocked Kansas aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft out of contention for a $1 billion project to make a fleet of lightweight counterinsurgency aircraft for the Air Force. Hawker [...]
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