There is some blow hard named Brulle, a sociologist from Drexel U in Philly (gee, wonder if he’s a lefty?) who claims that 1 billion is being spent by eveeeel capitalists in opposition to warmers.
Damn it, so far, none of that money has gotten to me and I fight the warmers all the time.
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Category: Politics
Wanna understand Obamacare?
This extraordinary essay by a very smart guy outlines the whole deal.
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Mary Landrieu and Energy Policy
Senator Landrieu is from Louisiana, an energy producing state.
As Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee she will have to balance her party pressures with her constituent concerns.
http://spectator.org/blog/57761/mary-landrieus-energy-crisis
Thomas Sowell on the Leviathan
Sure, those of us who read the constitution know about limited government by the consent of the people.
Agency overreach based on junkscience is everywhere.
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Societal Structures and Mixed Up people
Dan Flynn, a regular essayist at AmSpec, offers some troubling observations about people and relationships in the wake of the heroin OD of the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
It is easy to talk about loving your neighbor as an abstraction, or believing the words of the John Lennon song
Imagine.
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Dr. Krauthammer, Meet Dr. Dunn, HMO Vet
Charles Krauthammer’s wrote insightfully and was cited here on his comments on the realities of medical care and the myths that drive current plans.
However, there are more myths than even Dr. K is aware of.
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Marijuana goes to the Islands
Guam goes doper. Why not, let’s go to the beach.
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20140210/NEWS01/302100002
Canada Enviro NGOs get an Audit–Finally
Wanna be a charity–restrain political advocacy.
American Enviro groups should get the same audit treatment.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/7-environmental-charities-face-canada-revenue-agency-audits-1.2526330
Chris Horner is Captain America in my Book
I get a news mag Military, that includes essays by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (AIM).
An AIM interview of Chris Horner, an author and speaker I knew from his work on enviro and climate affairs caught my eye.
Now I am mad as hell.
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Recovery is Dependent on Junk Economics
Make your own assessment.
Economics is not that difficult, nor is bookkeeping.
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NYTimes in an Uproar?
I am most distressed to know that the newspaper of record, The NYT is having a small kerfuffle.
Nothing worse than elite journalists in a cat fight. They can use big words and verbal sneers.
Public Health Bureaucrat Bullying–You Bet
Let’s imagine that I was a Politician and I said that money spent on Public Health bureaucracies could be better spent elsewhere.
Can I expect the people in matching t shirts to campaign against me? You Bet.
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