Can humans learn to forget?
Thornton: “Nature Fakery”:
How is it that these environmental “crises” and their multi-trillion-dollar solutions gain so much political traction? Money and politics, of course, are important factors. Government funding for “global warming” research and subsidies for “alternative energy” are attractive inducements to promulgate climate change alarmism. Al Gore has seen his net worth increase from $2 million to $100 million over the last decade as a result of his global-warming advocacy and investments in government-subsidized “green energy” businesses.
A more insidious factor, however, is that emotional myths routinely trump rational science in modern environmentalism. Much of the rhetoric that characterizes environmental arguments indulges two powerful myths in particular, the Noble Savage and the Golden Age. Since the dawn of civilization, these ancient stories have spoken to humanity’s anxieties about living in the complex human world of language, law, culture, cities, trade, and technology.
The madness of increasing dividend taxes (econ for dummies)
Affirmative-Action Case Will Affect Private Schools
Christie: Buffett Should 'Write a Check and Shut Up'
Why They Seem to Rise Together: Federal Aid and College Tuition:
Long before I knew it was called the "Bennett Hypothesis" I knew that colleges and universities increase tuition to capture increases in federal and state financial aid. I attended numerous meetings of university administrators where the topic of setting next year's tuition was discussed.
The regnant phrase was "Don't leave money sitting on the table."
Schools are greedy
Europe Is Now China's Sweatshop
Thanks to the college-for-everyone mania, we have a shortage of workers capable for doing production work...
Brown Surges in Massachusetts
How Come No One Wants to Help Gaza?
The Arabs dislike and distrust the Palis
How the Rockefeller Fund Killed Keystone
The Myth of Runaway Health Spending - The growth rate of national health expenditures has been declining for a decade, driven by better medical care and consumer choice.
Tar and Feathers for Ray Mabus
The Cuba Embargo: A Foreign Policy Success Story
Israel: Judges headed by outgoing Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch rule that law exempting ultra-Orthodox men from army service is unconstitutional
Daniel Pearl’s death, 10 years later: An interview with his father Judea Pearl
Of all the good reasons to evict Barack Obama from the presidency in November, the most fundamental is that he is spending our country into financial ruin.
Sorry #Occupy Commies… Income Inequality Is Actually Plummeting in US
"The left says we need to “pay our fair share” and we respond indignantly that “we already are! It’s you that aren’t!” The truth of our reply aside, our ability to get people to agree with us is not helped with this tactic. For one thing, we are accepting a premise from the outset: taxes are about “fairness.”"
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