When I drive down to Fort Hood to work every week I drive a Minnie Winnebago, which is a 30 foot long legal vehicle on the road that weighs more than 10,000 pounds. I go past these people in their little put putts, in some cases not more than a covered, colorful lawnmower. What are they thinkin’?
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Mitigation v. Adaptation–Puuuleez, Humans Adapt
Let’s assume there is something worth worrying about on climate panics.
Should we devote a lot of effort to mitigation of an unknown?
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Econ 102, the Michigan Longitudinal Study
Everybody likes to talk about money.
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Sowell on the Minumum Wage
The continuing battle on minimum wage ignores the obvious, that the minimum wage gambit is about the union contracts already in place, that provide for an increase in the wage for the union workers based on minimum wage increases.
Separate from that, entry level workers are not looking for the wage that will make them able to support a family and live a life, they are looking for a start.
I had a simple little job as a young person–certainly nothing to keep me going for my life, but also something that allowed me to get going.
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Henry I. Miller and Greg Conko–Stop the Idiocy
Opposition to Genetic Modification (GM) or genetically engineered (GE) food crops has developed an undeserved status as a priority in the enviro fanatics world, considering that they are preventing important food improvements.
The anti GM GE movement is causing great harm.
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Golden Rice Makes Sense
The Greenpeace fanatics on Genetic Modification have been condemning golden rice, which is modified to have vitamin A.
Problem is some people have a monochromatic diet. That produces deficiencies that other countries don’t see.
http://acsh.org/2014/01/64151/
Cooling is a Scary Thing–Not Good for Living things
Winter kills so if winters are longer, people will suffer.
What about crops if the growing season is diminished?
http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/do-we-face-a-disastrous-century-due-to-global-cooling/article/2542452?custom_click=rss
Thomas Sowell, National Treasure
Sowell is a PhD economist, so he knows his statistics.
In this essay he recites what JunkScience.com is all about, exposing bad research, lack of wisdom, and historical ignorance.
http://spectator.org/print/57477
Fred Singer Goes After Mikey Mann
I can’t get enough of Fred Singer showing that Michael Mann is a charlatan and deceiver.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/the_inventor_of_the_global_warming_hockey_stick_doubles_down.html
California in a Panic Again
It’s dry and dusty and the flakes of California with their matching t shirts are protesting.
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IBD Lays it On the Line–Enviros are Totalitarians
Recently we commented on a number of people, Krugman, Figueres, who said a good totalitarian state gets things done.
This attached essay is one reason that Milloy and I think very highly of IBD, not to mention IBD has published Milloy’s commentary.
Thanks to Joe Bast at Heartland for the link.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/011614-686713-climate-change-a-back-door-to-communism-and-the-united-nations-admits-it.htm
Single Payor Healthcare Mediocrity and Rationing in the UK
John Goodman’s tale of things going south in the UK.
I ran an HMO one time in my life–CEO and Medical Director.
In a managed single source healthcare system you can always control costs by limiting access, appointments available, phone lines–use your imagination.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24012&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD