Wednesday, October 15. 2014
Via Captain Capitalism:
I don't see debt service on his more detailed chart. Is it too low to bother with?
Related, Feds’ 2014 tax-take hits all-time high
 Photo: Twisted Aspens from a friend's hike in Colorado. Why twisted?
Airbnb Regulated Into Legality
Yet another significant paper finds low climate sensitivity to CO2, suggesting there is no global warming crisis at hand
The Military vs. Marlboro - Our soldiers and sailors deserve the right to decide whether to buy tobacco on base.
"the right"?
The Bigger the Rock, the Shorter the Marriage
But - correlation is not causation
Yuck: 83% of nation's schools report more lunches dumped by kids
Can Christians Still Go to Harvard? America’s colleges are increasingly hostile to religion, but a Veritas, a Christian organization, has found a way to thrive.
“I spent 10 years doing New York all wrong”: Adelle Waldman on
youth, loneliness and finally finding Brooklyn
Urban Studies: The Redevelopment Racket
An Eerie Look at Ireland's Suburban Ghost Towns
A new book argues that the left needs to stop the “awfulization” of abortion and embrace it as a social good.
How the Free Speech Movement Died
Growing crisis of female gun violence
There's a possible Adam Lanza inside every little kid, so watch out for them
Changing public attitudes toward federalism
The Facts About Ebola Funding
Did you Know that USA Has an ‘Ebola Czar?’ We Do. So Why Is She Hiding?
The Centers for Everything But Disease Control
Germany Acknowledges Hard Energy Reality
Historical confusion: Hispanics against Hispanic adventurism in the New World
Dalrymple on bizarre dictators
Hillary Clinton touts affordable higher education in $225G Las Vegas speech
Greed for money and power all the way down
A Border That Is No Barrier Is Still A National Crisis
China Military Buildup Shifts Balance of Power in Asia in Beijing’s Favor
How the Donors Saved Hamas
Rise of IS elicits soul searching in Arab Gulf, a source of funds and fighters
Tuesday, October 14. 2014
 Not sure about anyone else, but gas prices around me have dropped significantly. As recently as 3 months ago, I was paying $3.45 per gallon.
Yesterday, I paid $2.92. Not surprisingly, prices vary from place to place. I'm in New Jersey and we tend to have lower prices. On my way home from Syracuse on Sunday, I paid $3.47 only 5 miles north of the Pennsylvania border. Had I taken the risk to go 10 miles further (my indicator said I had 30 miles left, and that is not very accurate), I could have paid $3.25 simply by crossing the state border.
Recently, there was an article about falling prices in the morning news links here on Maggie's. The suggestion was that US drilling was the driver. I wasn't sure this was accurate, because the numbers didn't add up. Here is a short article on what the other factors may be.
For conspiracy theorists, there's always the political manipulation angle: "Oil has fallen to $60 a barrel. Experts predict it will continue to fall until exactly one minute after the polls close on November 7th." --Jay Leno (election is the 4th this year....but it's all in the delivery).
With a slight shift in visitation points, the current map of the walk seems to add up to 9 miles or 3 1/2 hours of walking time. With stops, a beer or sandwich here and there, we should hit the 5 hour mark, but 9 miles is significantly less than the original 11. Funny how many steps you can save just by altering the path you choose.
So, for the time being, this is the current path chosen. We welcome additions, suggestions and ideas from attendees and online spectators alike. Perhaps we'll do a 5 hour webcast chronicling the adventures. Not sure my iPhone would last that long, though.
 Photo: Gwynnie took that in the Adirondacks this weekend
Phobias may be memories passed down in genes from ancestors
About to Give Birth and Already Sick of the “Pay More Attention to Your Baby!” Guilt
The Battered Humanities–Are They Worth Saving?
Want an Economic Boost? Let’s Kill the Death Tax
The Centers for Disease Control Loses Its Grip
Ad Blames GOP Budget Cuts For Ebola Outbreak
Re the above, Sometimes … most of the time … you just have to raise the “BS” flag
Moving Right Along - The massive and still accelerating
cross-border movement of people across the globe might be the most
portentous development of our times.
Best piece on immigration that I have seen
The Man Who Killed Marxism
Why liberals hate the disabled
US Slips to 12th in Economic Freedom
From #2 to #12 during Obama
Obamacare is in hiding until after the election
What The United States Can Learn From Israel About Cybersecurity
The U.S. Intelligence Community's Creativity Challenge
Islamic State says it is buying and selling Yazidi women, using them as concubines
The religion is down with that
Taliban adopts Islamic State terror tactics as U.S. troops exit Afghanistan
... why does the State Department blame Israel for using excessive force, even though the IDF appears to make even more effort than the U.S. Army or Air Force to avoid civilian casualties?
Monday, October 13. 2014
If you want honor American Indians, then honor an American Indian.
Seems like we'll be a small, intrepid group. Here's our tentative route, as of now, via Bulldog:
Meet at South Ferry – Battery Park 10 am, Sat. Oct. 18
Fraunces Tavern 54 Pearl Street
North to NYSE, Trinity Place, WTC
Turn east to South Street Seaport
North and West To City Hall and Brooklyn Bridge
North to Five Points
Chinatown (At this point, just walking, we’ve covered 3.7 and it’s taken 1 hour 16 minutes without stops. I figure about 2 ½ hours with stops. So it would be about noon, good time for a snack if we start at 10am)
West to Soho
Cooper Union
McSorley’s (assuming we’ve made some stops, pictures, chatted, noodles in Chinatown it would be about 1pm)
Washington Square Park, West Village (Stonewall Inn?? Shelagh thought that would be a funny stop to make given the overall political bend of Maggie’s)
White Horse Tavern
Union Square
Gramercy Park
Flatiron (By now, we’ve covered 8.7 miles and it would be about 3 or 3:30 if we stop at McSorley’s)
Empire State Building
NY Public Library
Times Square
Carnegie Hall
Columbus Circle (assuming stops, it would be 4:30-5pm now and we’ve covered 11 miles)
 When Columbus came back to Spain with news of the West Indies, it was no big deal and of little interest in Europe. They found no spices.
Bruegel’s Hunting Dogs
Red Bull Settles False Advertising Lawsuit for $13 Million Because It Actually Doesn’t Give You Wings
The Trouble with Physics – Another branch of science captured by groupthink
They must have thought the guy was insane
The goal for some liberals, like medieval ascetics, is to live off only
cabbages that have been certified to have died a natural death.
The high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence
The Value of a College Degree is Falling
Biden prays for gun violence
"Why Do New York Restaurants Suck?" - The Surprising Answer
NYC has wonderful restaurants. It's the customers who suck
The Manhattan apartment with the furthest distance from the subway
Spinning out of control: Why voter doubt of big government is on the rise
From Mid-Atlantic to Midwest, Voters Express Frustration and Fatigue
They have been trained to expect too much from government
The
Manhattan apartment with the furthest distance from the subway - See
more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/10/the-manhattan-apartment-with-the-furthest-distance-from-the-subway.html#sthash.sGmGyeJN.dpuf
Men Have Depended on the Government for Centuries—So Why Shouldn't Women Do the Same?
California Law Requires Doctors To Undergo LGBT Re-education
Will: Rent Seeking: America’s National Pastime - A North Carolina case before the Supreme Court could strike a blow against the practice.
U.S. military faces new kind of threat with Ebola:
Captain Alex Willard, who was undergoing the training, said the West Africa mission was far different than the kinds of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan than many in the 101st "probably are more comfortable with."
Susan Collins says it’s too late to repeal Obamacare; Mark Levin responds
Conservatives' rhetorical disadvantage
Antarctic Sea Ice Sees Record Growth, Cause Climate Change
SHHH, NO ONE TELL THE ANTI-KEYSTONE PIPELINE NUTS: Canadian Oil Exports to U.S Hit Record High
Plotting an American-Style Fracking Revolution in Britain
War against Isis: US air strategy in tatters as militants march on
Saturday, October 11. 2014
I am not sure that they do, but here's the article: Liberals increasingly want to enforce a comprehensive, uniformly secular vision of the human good. And they see alternative visions of the good as increasingly intolerable.
He wants to crush Amazon
On the other hand, What in the World Is Amazon? It's not a monopoly. It's a behemoth fighting for its life in a world of giants.
Gwyneth Paltrow: It Would Be Wonderful If We Could Give Obama All The Power That He Needs
Are Cell Phones the New Cigarettes? Do you have an addiction and not even realize it?
Everyone should email like a boss
Fruit juice is bad for you
The sharing economy, Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction, and my top 10 interesting facts about Airbnb
When Vanderleun left NYC
The Turner Prize is an example not of the art world’s daring but its rancid exhaustion.
Feminist Hysteria: Infantilizing or Empowering?
People often tell me that feminist dogma often backfires and makes women look ineffective. But looking ineffective is not a problem for many women. They see it as an asset and it is a form of power.
Ross Douthat Loves Lena Dunham for All the Wrong Reasons
Unlike Machiavelli’s The Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince isn’t usually on reading lists for
policymakers and international relations scholars. But it should be.
Sultan: The Progressive Missionaries of Unhappiness
In a stunning reversal, the Australian Labor Party bails out on the ‘carbon tax’
Jesse Jackson: Racism Played Role in Ebola Patient's Death
The Muslim Plan for Australia and Then the World
Global Alert From Chongqing: Foxconn Strike Is An Epochal Inflection Point
French say au revoir to France - Opposition convinced people are leaving because of 'the impression that it’s impossible to succeed'
100,000 Libyans flee fighting near Tripoli, UNHCR says
When Bombs Aren’t Enough
Friday, October 10. 2014
The Next Assault on Civil Rights - The Roberts court has been hostile toward voting rights and affirmative action. Its next target is the Fair Housing Act.
 Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like The Perfect 'Kondratieff Winter' Storm Ahead
Stop Hating on Divas
This 29-Year-Old Woman Has Chosen to Die.
New at the pot shop: Milder marijuana for novices
How Are the Boy Scouts Doing in American Cities?
When Your Rabbi Comes Out as Gay
Philly School Reformers to Teacher Union: The War Is On
Raisins: Uncle Sam’s Vestigial Feudalism
Vestigial?
Seattle Liberals Will Look Through Your Trash and Fine You if You Throw Away Food
Polio-like illness claims fifth life in U.S
PPACA to prompt decline in employer-provided health coverage
Fernandez on paradigm shift:
...Obama’s not without ideas. He’s full of ideas, all of them out of date. All of them from the last century’s paradigms. He wanted to become like European social democracy at the very moment when it finally collapsed into the dust-bin of history. He hankered after the ideals of ‘progressivism’ when it had already become reactionary. He is like a man who has saved all his life to buy a pair of bell-bottomed pants only to reach the required sum just when they were 40 years out of style. He’s at the store looking to buy them and can’t find them on the rack.
Krugman on Obama's successes
The Liberal Case for Effective Immigration Law Enforcement
France Crushes Socialist Welfare Dream, Admits "Living Beyond Its Means" For 40 Years
As World Deals With Ebola And ISIS, John Kerry To Focus On More Important Stuff
Western Fear of Angering Turkey Leaves Besieged Kurdish Town at Mercy of Islamic State
Thursday, October 9. 2014
A sad, slow death of General Theological Seminary
Beautiful garden campus in NYC
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) Guide for the Perplexed, 2014
There's this via Drudge: The vaginal orgasm doesn't exist - it's the clitoris that holds the key to female pleasure
"The other night shows included a tedious-looking ensemble that played covers of Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Who, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, and several other bands I'd try to hurt if I ever encountered them."
In Defense of Male Aggression: What Liberals Get Wrong About Football
Menu for Obamas: No Butter!
Why?
Cleveland School Dumps FLOTUS Lunches for Chipotle-Style Burritos and Clam Chowder
Study Shows Legalizing Pot in Colo. Was ‘Reckless’
Wrong. People who want it buy it taxed or untaxed
Having Students Pay for College is Socially Unjust
How and Why American Universities Hate America
Nebraska School Tells Teachers To Avoid ‘Gendered Expressions’
Desperate: Two All-Female Colleges Prepare to Enroll Male ‘Transgender’ Students
Too many Asians: Making Merit Subjective - The de Blasio administration floats a proposal to water down the admissions test to the city’s specialized high schools.
Pantywaist panic in men, says Insty
Fearfulness is not becoming in men
Internet Trolls Really Are Psychos
But Of Course, Record Antarctic Ice Is a Sign of Global Warming Too
Why everybody is moving to Texas
Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Gender Differences in Marriageability
Why legal polygamy is inevitable
Why is it illegal?
Dear CDC: You had just one job
CDC: We Could Have Done a Better Job on Ebola If We Just Had More Money
Obama never made management a high priority — and it shows.
Iranian Woman Faces Death on Wednesday for Killing Alleged Rapist
Stalking Victim Begged Cops For Help 120 Times Before Being Stabbed 8 Times
Needed a firearm
Life in America: Gypsy Retail in the Texas Autumn
This is Why Running a Service Business is Hard
At Insty:
LIKE SO MANY HAPPENINGS IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, IF YOU PUT THIS IN A NOVEL IT WOULD SEEM CRUDE AND UNREALISTIC: Obama slams billionaires at the home of a guy named Rich Richman. Who is . . . wait for it, wait for it . . . rich!
China currency push takes aim at dollar
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
America In Crisis and POTUS Won’t Lead: Former Officials Seem “Scared,” Worried,” “Alarmed”
October 2014 Out of Control? Consider October 1944
E.U. Austerity, You Must Be Kidding
More on the phony “end of liberal Zionism” narrative
A range of perspectives, but all anti-Israel UCLA center uses federal funds to promote pro-Palestinian views
If Islam is a religion of peace, what sort of peace does it bring?
Want to know why Catalans want to leave the loving embrace of Spain?
When Night Fell In Indochina
Misrepresenting Atrocities: "Kill Anything that Moves" and the Continuing Distortions of the War in Vietnam
Wednesday, October 8. 2014
Tuesday, October 7. 2014
Hilton selling the Waldorf
Nobel Prize for work on brain's navigation system
Standards for a school Diversity Leader
Lambeth Conference Postponement Spells More Uncertainty For Anglicans
The Left’s Religion of Unhappiness
"You have to lie to win elections."
The decomposition of the Obama presidency has created what Obama might call a teachable moment.
Mead on sex:
I’m sick of it all, especially the obsessions of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, whose editors seem to have great difficulty getting their heads out of their, or other people’s, crotches. I am unashamedly old-fashioned: I think public discussion of intimate sexual matters is unseemly, a word that has become as quaint as outlandish mass-culture fare has become hideously sexualized. I don’t care if the subject to hand is essentially heterosexual in nature, or homosexual, transsexual, omnisexual, multisexual, interspecies-sexual, or all the other kinds of sexual that I’m sure exist but know nothing about. I could not give a damn what consenting adults do with their genitalia in private, but I don’t need or want to hear about it in public—and these days you nearly have to hole up in a mountain cave somewhere to escape it.
Caifornia drought: "Nobody Has Any Idea How Disastrous It's Going To Be"
ISIL Within Shelling Range of Baghdad Airport
Monday, October 6. 2014
Common Core and Common Lunch: The ‘Common Calorie’ Revolt - Schools and students fight the tasteless, small lunches required by Michelle Obama’s signature initiative.
Where is it written that the Feds have power over tater tots?
Gerard Vanderleun refers to this sort of thing as a "Manhattan Death March."
We have some takers. We'll definitely start at 10 AM at South Ferry. Rain or shine.
Even though we are only doing parts of southern Manhattan, we are going to try to keep the walking distance under 11 miles, and the time under 7 hours (including stops). Lots of meandering (and lots of street crossings which slow things down a lot).
We'll have to delete some things from our wish list but if people like it - and survive it - we can do a different route next year.
Can you identify that cool building? Answer below the fold -
Continue reading "Update on the Maggie's Farm NYC Urban Hike on Saturday, Oct. 18"
Fewer men are working, and marriage is dying.
Assisted Suicide 'Out of Control' in Netherlands
Sultan: Science is for Stupid People
Hailing the First 'Great' Transgender TV Show
Steyn: Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No
Thomas Jefferson’s Folly - California’s worst-performing law school illustrates the moral hazard of federal student loans.
Please don't vote. The biggest fans of "democracy" treat this orgy of vacuous lever pulling as if it were sacred or patriotic. It's neither.
Canada: I’m an adult. Stop nudging me
Planners have tried all kinds of incentives to get us to cycle more. Toronto has built dedicated bike lanes, as well as semi-dedicated lanes (a safety menace, in my view). It even invested in a money-losing bike-share program. Sadly, though, I’m no more inclined to ride a bike than ever. My reasons are pedestrian: Sweatiness, helmet hair, inability to pick up dinner and 10 kilograms of cat litter on the way home. And the weather, which is crummy half the year.
But mostly, I enjoy not having my teeth knocked out.
Every single thing this president has tried has failed
The Dark Side of Green Justice - Review: ‘Law of the Jungle’ by Paul Barrett
“I once worked for a lawyer who said something that I have never forgotten,” Donizger recalled in another outtake. “‘Facts do not exist. Facts are created.’ Ever since that day, I realized how the law works.”
Dutch Military Retreats Before... Tweets!
White House Can't Hide Look Into Koch Tax Data Misuse
OBAMA FORCED OUT INTEL CHIEF WHO WARNED ABOUT WEAK IRAQI ARM
Hamas disarming? Forget about it, says top IDF intel officer
Saturday, October 4. 2014
 Remember this good vid? It's not about the nail!
Ex-mayor Bloomberg was asked why he decided to go back to his job running Bloomberg. His reply: "I could stay home listening to Elaine talk about her feelings, or go back to work. Now, what would you do?"
What's a Grandma Pie? And Where Can You Find One?
How to improve your memory
Is this the baseball glove of the future?
Which sports teams should transgender students play on?
A "Misc." team? I can picture that.
5 simple ways to “age-proof” your body before it starts breaking down
A gal to avoid: I Don’t Want to Marry a Man Who Will Feed Our Kid McDonald’s
Disgusting food, occasionally necessary
‘It’s Science’ Has Become the New ‘it’s Gospel’
Five Reasons Americans Can't Find Jobs
Welcome to Illinois, the state that doesn't work
BATTERED, BEREAVED, AND BEHIND BARS -Arlena Lindley’s boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? A BuzzFeed News Investigation.
4 Years Later, Fed Critics Explain Why Central Planning Still Doesn't Work
It’s official: no global warming for 18 years 1 month
Why That Guy Keeps Reminding You He Went to an Ivy League School
It's called marketing, branding
It's Insulting to Women to Suggest They're Interested in Weddings, Dresses, and Other Girly Things!
Modern girls love trucks, modern boys love dresses
Forget Secession. Americans Want to Boot California From the Union.
Hmmm. Expulsion?
Obama Sent Emissary To Tehran in 2008 To Assure Mullahs He Was A Friend To Iranian Regime
How Low Can It Go? Oil Benchmark Hits 28-Month Low
Labor Participation Rate Drops To 36 Year Low; Record 92.6 Million Americans Not In Labor Force
Gotta like Rand Paul
Dick Morris Tells Hannity: Obama Pushing for One-Party Rule
Isn't that power what parties strive for?
Psychologists try to figure out how to alarm people about global warming
Ebola Expert Demands Americans Die for White Guilt
Is Germany Planning to Ban Work Emails After 6 P.M.?
What a great idea - unless you're in management. Idiots.
Average IQ by nations, via Important Ebola Note
The list might explain why there are so many Singaporean software developers in the US. They are in high demand.
The President of Inequality : Policies Promoting Equality Over Growth Have Damaged Both.
Who brought the Arabs to this nadir?
Friday, October 3. 2014
51% of Democrats support criminalizing hate speech
For me, speech about criminalizing incorrect speech amounts to fighting words. It provokes me towards evil, defiant ideas.
But maybe it can be taken further. Forget speech, how about criminalizing incorrect but unspoken thoughts? Government doctors and neuroscientists could decide who is guilty. "If my thought-dreams could be seen they'd probably put my head in a guillotine, but it's all right, Ma..."
Let him without thought crime cast the first stone.
Thursday, October 2. 2014
Louisiana Is Disappearing Into the Sea - And guess who's blocking efforts to save the land
Political disputes in ancient Athens
I like this term "knee-pad journalism"
Lena Dunham Warns Women GOP Could Affect Your Sex Life
Romney on 2016: “We’ve got a lot of people looking at the race. We’ll see what happens.”
Navy sailors distrust commanders, fear crippling political correctness
University of New Mexico to Host ‘Threesome’ Sex Workshop for Sex Week
Why stop at 3?
Top US Doctor: Illegal Immigrant Children May Be Spreading Mysterious Respiratory Disease
California Sends in the Sex Police
Vermont: Job Losses Adding Up in America’s Most Liberal State
Liberals Call for New Constitution
How Liberals Became the New Book Banners - The First Amendment is under fire from the progressive left.
Government Desperation Is Increasing
The silly, selective ‘war on women
A decade after welcoming wind, states reconsider
Slow But Certain Integration in Israel - There's more promise for improved Arab-Israeli relations than you think.
Why State Dept. Defends UNRWA's Artificial "Refugee" Designations
Why Is America Wasting the F-22 Raptor on Bombing ISIS?
Germany's military doesn't just choose not to act. It can't act.
Islamic State Using Human Shields
America's Big Military Mistake: Cutting Land Forces Too Quickly
Wednesday, October 1. 2014
Should Girls Ask Guys Out?
Of course - especially shy guys
Where's the Proof in Science? There Is None
Why Eating McDonald's Is Completely 'Natural'
5 creatures you never want to meet on your run – and what to do if you do
Is the college diploma a sign of advanced skills or just a screening technique?
How Not to Be Poor
Northeast loses 40% of House seats as people flee high-tax states
The Gelded Age - The inequality bed-wetters are misleading you.
NYT: To Solve Climate Change, The Economy Must Change:
Klein argues, we need to break free of market fundamentalism and implement long-term planning, strict regulation of business, more taxation, more government spending and reversals of privatization to return key infrastructure to public control.
Jay Carney May Be Off the White House Payroll, But He’s Still on the Team
My Aggravating Year With Obamacare
Carpe: Some commentary on campus sexual assault
Abbas incites, and we're to blame?
Tuesday, September 30. 2014
I'm not ashamed of the fact that I've been laid off 4 times in the last 20 years. I work in a business which has undergone significant transformations in the last 15 years and it is particularly sensitive to recessions. More importantly, it is an industry which has engaged and embraced 'diversity' as a goal, meaning the supposed benefits of being a white male (which were slim to begin with) are more or less nonexistent today.
2 years of unemployment over a 20 year period isn't too bad when you consider how many people are still looking for steady work since 2008. I have a number of friends who have left this industry and entered new careers. It's tough to start over when you're past the age of 45. Which is why I'm glad I'm working and complain very little about my job. I make less than others with similar experience to mine, mainly because each bout of unemployment forced me to rearrange my salary needs and alter spending patterns. This is unfortunate, now that I have 2 kids in college, but it's good, too. I'm less likely to face the ax again since my experience comes cheap.
But I haven't been around Maggie's lately, and it's because I've had issues I'd classify as "First World Problems" over the past few months, which are better than the alternative "Big Problems". But it's worth sharing one in particular because it may help others with perspective, and it sure helps me with dealing with it.
Continue reading "Work: It's All About Attitude"
 Hong Kong Demonstrators Unveil 'Umbrella Revolution'
The rise and fall and rise of the National Council of Churches
Too much politics, too little God
Walking is the superfood of fitness, experts say
Althouse:
You know what's not "life-affirming"?
The word "life-affirming."
Think you drink a lot? This chart will tell you.
Feeding America: ‘Public service’ lies
California Decides That It Does Want Government In The Bedroom
University of Chicago Suspends Chinese Government-Backed Institute
Program criticized as a propaganda tool employed by China
Obama Wants You To Notice He’s Going Gray
Sensitivity course teaches opposition to gay marriage can be harassment
University of Chicago Students Publically Post Names of Men With “Troubling Behavior”
Obamacare doctor networks to stay limited in 2015
Swiss Reject Single-Payer Health Care
Via Driscoll's We Must Face Up to the Grim Fact that the Teachers We Employ are Losing Patience With Us
My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are merely the surface disapprovals, the ones that provoke legislation or public campaigns. We also borrow too much money for our personal pleasures, and many of us are very bad parents. Ministers of state have been known to instruct us in elementary matters, such as the importance of reading stories to our children. Again, many of us have unsound views about people of other races, cultures, or religions, and the distribution of our friends does not always correspond, as governments think that it ought, to the cultural diversity of our society. We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us.
California drought and climate warming: Studies find no clear link
The Radical Environmental Agenda Should Be Rejected, even if Global Warming Is Real
Earth-Friendly Energy Is Anything But
It’s Immigration Uber Alles at the Wall Street Journal - Chief spokesmen for unrestricted immigration.
Jerry Brown approves loan program for undocumented illegal students
SCHOOLS SCRAMBLE TO HELP TEENS WHO CROSSED BORDER
Military Poll: Most Troops Oppose Ground Troops in Iraq
So, apparently, does the Iraq army
'Every War Must End'
Really?
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