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Wednesday, February 29. 2012Warmists, Skeptics, and DenialistsAt Singer's Climate Deniers Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name:
As regular readers know, we tend to believe that this is all a big trumped-up boondoggle, and of no importance. Furthermore, here at Maggie's we pray for global warming.
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Weds. morning links"Holy crap: Asus demos smartphone that transforms into tablet, notebook" What exactly is a leap year and why do we need them? Well, allow us to explain Hard times for the National Education Association Climate change may have caused Mayan civilization's collapse Obama administration plan would kill rival bird to save spotted owl Admission Standards and How to Lower Them Legally Share of Government Aid in Personal Income Doubles Via Robin Hanson on Charles Murray:
Happy cattle, and happy and powerful overlords Megan: Why I Still Think We Should Eliminate the Corporate Income Tax Leftists Confused About Rights. Again. 75% Think The Rich Should Pay Lower Taxes Most people aren't stupid. The less taxes the prosperous pay, the more money they have to buy our goods and services, and to invest in our businesses. Insty: DIETS: The Importance of Portion Control. But is the solution really “changes in public policy?” Insane. Via The Unbearable Gleickness of Being: An Omnibus Climate Update, we have Volcanoes and earthquakes! Good grief. These people are insane. Georgetown Law Co-Ed Demands Everyone Else Pay for Her Untamed Sex Life I am told the pill costs $9/month at WalMart Knish: Uncivil Rights:
Duplicity and Diversity in Higher Education BBC chief: mock Christians, not Muslims Hamas and Fatah Want a New Intifada Tuesday, February 28. 2012"Troublemakers & Dunderheads"
Why is it?The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, has announced that is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves. Tuesday morning linksNew evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered America Can you tell the difference between gourmet liver paté and dog food? Act of Valor: Liberals Decide They Don’t Like Propaganda Lying and deception can be justified, says climate change ethics expert Dems Urge Saudi Arabia to Pump More Oil But Won’t Allow Production Here in US Via Taranto:
Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Fort Hood Massacre Health Care Law Hurting Obama in Swing States Morning Bell: Obama Doctrine Failure Richard Falk’s Imagination Gone Wild CAP “Islamophobia” Report Hijacked - Author has ties to Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Monday, February 27. 2012Monday morning linksTime-lap vid of the making of a clinker dinghy Douthat: Marriage, Self Interest, and Happiness “‘Marriage has become a luxury good.’” Why Doctors Die Differently - Careers in medicine have taught them the limits of treatment and the need to plan for the end Don't Criticise Your Parents Until Your Children Are Grown Not your father's UK: Osborne: UK has run out of money. Obama now echoes Palin on energy The administration knows that the corrupt and unprofessional media won’t care. But the administration isn’t brain damaged. These are clever people... The Obama White House is Campaign Central Green company gets $390M subsidies, lays off 125 California GOP barely exists Obama Hires Academy Award Winning Filmmaker To Direct A Movie About . . . Barack Obama… The Socialist Transfer of Wealth - Who are the real 1%? "Canada has a long history of repression, exclusion, and exploitation." Postal Implosion Gathers Force After 'In Darkness': Halina Wind's uplifting message Why are Harvard grads in the mailroom? Kristof and the Rescue Industry - The Soft Side of Imperialism (h/t, Vanderleun) Sunday, February 26. 2012Political QQQ" ...I avoid making forecasts for tenths of a degree change in globally averaged temperature anomaly, I am quite willing to state that unprecedented climate catastrophes are not on the horizon though in several thousand years we may return to an ice age." MIT Meteorology Prof Richard Lindzen, speaking to Parliament. Of course, we are still technically in an ice age, with the poles covered with ice. It has not always been so. We're in a sort-of interglacial period within a large cold spell. God knows what the next big ice incursion will do to civilization. It will not be pretty, but I will be dead while the pols try to urge us to drive subsidized Hummers on $1. per gallon petrol. Government-worshipThe government is my shepherd, I shall not want...
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Sunday morning linksDid the Titanic Sink Because of an Optical Illusion? The Economics of the Death Star Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Carnival Washington, D.C. best city for cheating, online dating service AshleyMadison.com finds Here's Ashley Madison - "Life is short. Have an affair." Does it pay to work for $60,000 per year? Hayward: Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning - Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs. For The Last Time, Anything You put on that ‘Prompter, President Burgundy Will Read The American Right And The Demonization Of Barack Obama Obama’s dream: To run against Santorum Heilemann: The GOP's political class now expects to lose to Obama Documents: PETA kills more than 95 percent of pets in its care Lies, Crimes, and United States v. Alvarez “Zombie Mohammed” Judge Responds Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to Host Conference On the Extermination of Israel Small Business Owners Fear Economic Situation Via LI:
Saturday, February 25. 2012InsaneDrudge headlines this morning: 5th day of Koran-burning protests... Andy McCarthy asks whether we have officially lost our minds. I haven't. My government has. Who is crazier: the ignorant, lunatic, hyper-reactive Muslems, or our pathetic Western governments? Gee whiz, I am so deeply sorry I hurt your sensitive feelings while sacrificing our lives while trying to rescue your freedom and lives. Krauthammer: U.S. apology for Koran burning ‘embarrassing,’ ‘groveling’:
Rarely, Charles? try "never."
These people make Islam look both stupid and bad. If they don't want to understand me, why should I bother trying to understand them? "Hearts and minds"? Are you kidding? Screw 'em. We gave them a chance, and that's all we can do. On this topic, I agree with Obama and the Russians and the Brits before: Afghanistan is a tar baby. If they aren't one kind of trouble, they're another: heroin, terrorism, tribal warfare, Taliban. Kipling knew this.
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Saturday morning linksHow Clinging to Mommy and Daddy Is Ruining a Generation Why Men Are Slackers and Women Are Single, via Dr. Sanity's THE DEMISE OF OF SOCIAL LIBERALISM? The Idiot Cousin Theory of Government What don’t you (or didn’t Obama) understand about killing a baby born alive? The U.K. Learns a Lesson About the Laffer Curve Arthur Brooks: Obama's Budget Flunks the Marshmallow Test - People who cannot defer gratification tend to be less successful. That's also true of countries. David Brooks: America is Europe (we just don't admit it) AP on Obama’s tax plan: Loopholes for me but not for thee The UK Independent asks: “Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millennium Bug, a mistake?” British Parliament heard devastating testimony overturning the global warming hoax 'Stupid' and Oil Prices - Obama's Forrest Gump analysis of rising gas prices. The "Housing Recovery" In One Index California Asks Judges: Gay or Straight? Cloudy Contraception Costs - Does insurance coverage for contraception save money? We find lots of evidence. But it's conflicting, and inconclusive. Sailer: Decreasingly Asymmetric Media U.S. Per Capita Debt Worse than Greece PIPES: Peculiar proliferation of Palestine refugees - Status has been passed from one generation to the next Tone-deaf: Mitt Romney, Man of the People No doubt a smart guy and a good manager, but a lousy politician: he says what he thinks. Obama is a far better pol - no integrity and no conscience, and lies and distorts without hesitation. That's the job - plus to have some crowd appeal. Mitt lacks crowd appeal. Personally, I detest crowd appeal. Coulter: Romney is the anti-establishment candidate Buchanan: Did 'The Great Society' ruin society? What recovery? BLS chart below via Hot Air:
Friday, February 24. 2012Pig Politics Vs Marines LivesCongressman Bob Filner, together with PETA, wants to replace with simulators military Corpsmen’s “live tissue trauma training” on pigs. Filner’s proposal is a “pig in a poke”, experience and science not supporting his drastic change in military training. But, Filner is running for mayor of San Diego and this is the type of issue that appeals to his liberal base, regardless of the peril to Marines wounded on the battlefield. It may be that after much further research that some pigs may be saved, but until then Filner’s politics are “a pig too far.” Several years ago, while building a structure with a diverse group of men, a pallet fell on to the leg of an elderly man. I ran over, lifted off the pallet, raised the man in my arms and kept him talking so he wouldn’t go into shock. His leg was bleeding profusely. Standing around us, the group included several medical doctors, doing nothing. I told one to cut away his trouser leg, put on a tourniquet and apply a compress, which he then did. Fortunately, once the bleeding was slowed by the tourniquet and compress, it did not turn out to be a severed artery. Fifteen or twenty minutes later an ambulance arrived, the medic commenting that it was good the correct immediate treatment was applied, and they took the conscious elderly man away to the hospital. Continue reading "Pig Politics Vs Marines Lives"
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Lying is legal (mostly), and Stolen ValorWe all surely agree that lying is immoral and, most of the time, a terrible thing to do. We all surely agree that lying by omission is equally evil, most of the time. As we say here, a lie is the theft of somebody else's reality. In life, we tend to identify liars and to distrust them, figuring reasonably that if they lie about one thing, they just tend to be liars. It's not always true, of course, but it's a safe rule of thumb. Robin Hanson asks Why Allow Lies? He says:
Making lying illegal seems crazy to me. For starters, every politician would be convicted. Here's Lex's take on Stolen Valor.
Friday morning links
Photo above from Sexpresso: Wives ban their husbands from visiting Italian cafe where busty barmaid serves up drinks in skimpy outfits h/t Insty It's Hooters, Italian-style Kimball: The Great American Novel - Will there ever be another? TS Eliot's career in banking Alcohol makes you smarter Fakegate: The climate scandal that wasn't Fakegate: Global Warmists Try to Hide Their Decline Breaking: EPA scrubs grants database of Gleick grants This guy is screwed Obama: Use 'algae' as substitute for oil Let them burn algae First the Dutch Pull the Plug on Wind Subsidies, Now Germany Throws in Towel on Solar Subsidies Eric Hoffer - 50 years ago - on The Big Idea People Distorting the Economy Is the Whole Point I Tried to Open a Lemonade Stand Barone: Rick’s Loose Lips He's an amateur The Arab Spring on the verge of oblivion Hatred: Coming soon to a campus near you Egyptians claim Israeli goods cause disease, infertility A New Poll Shows That Most People Prefer Austerity To The 'Millionaire Tax' Feds Sue Cindy Sheehan Over Back Taxes Chris Matthews and his Trained Baboons Farm Bureau: Taking agriculture back in time ‘will not feed the world today’ Formerly secret telexes reveal Iran’s early use of deceit in nuclear program Israel says Iran seeking U.S.-range missile City Journal: The State of the Anglosphere - The decline of the English-speaking world has been greatly exaggerated. Palestinian television still glorifies terror attacks against Israel
Thursday, February 23. 2012Thursday morning linksCan humans learn to forget? Thornton: “Nature Fakery”:
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:
Schools are greedy Europe Is Now China's Sweatshop 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.”" Wednesday, February 22. 2012"So, Peter Gleick: if I am wrong, sue me."So says Powerline. Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax. John says:
And at PJ, Fakegate: Can’t Hide This Decline - Peter Gleick adds yet more fraud to the warmists’ resume (my bolds):
Lots more at Watts: BREAKING: Gleick Confesses and Heartland accuses him of forging documents. Here's Gleik's own personal justification for perpetrating a fraud. (His excuse is that the alarmists are losing the debate, so he got upset. What debate?) I find the ongoing saga of fraud after fraud, deception after deception, to be depressing. As we have said here many times, some good old global warming would be great for the earth and great for people. It certainly has been, in the past. However, I predict that we will not be so lucky.
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I, ProgressiveI'm sure Isaac Asimov was not a fan of capitalism, let alone the Republican Party (or even Libertarians). The movie I, Robot was based on his series, primarily his work on the Three Laws of Robotics and some outcomes that may occur with their implementation. In some ways, the movie was a criticism of corporate culture and government becoming too interlaced. US Robotics becomes an overly powerful organization with deep ties to government, ultimately making the robot takeover very difficult to slow or stop. On the other hand, it's a criticism of Progressive overreach. Perhaps unknowingly. There is one scene which reminded me of our current government's goals. The idea that we have politicians or bureaucrats who 'know better', and can guide us to a better place. All we have to do is agree to let them, and while many will be harmed, it will be for a 'better good'.
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Weds. morning linksJust a thought about the election: The O cannot run on his record or on his real beliefs about what America should be, so he is going to run mainly as a celeb candidate with a good smile and a good voice. A Hollywood candidate for personal popularity, an American Idol sort of thing? No-Panic Scientists Reply To Critics The Global Warming Cult and the Death of Science Why They Seem to Rise Together: Federal Aid and College Tuition. How to Defuse Political Peril of Surging Gas Prices Blame Bush? Santorum is right about U.S. ‘factory schools’ Fascinating speech by the head of the Dutch armed forces: Why I Chose a Gun The United States Preventative Services Task Force and you At the Supreme Court, Odds Lie Against Affirmative Action The Baha’i in Egypt and Egypt’s Future It's called Zero Tolerance Morning Bell: ‘Buying’ House Votes for Unpopular Legislation Survey: Very religious rate higher on 'well being' scale - Very religious Jews scored highest on survey Islamist Lobbies' Washington War on Arab and Muslim Liberals Jay Carney: Actually, President Obama Didn't Cancel the Keystone Pipeline. Republicans Cancelled the Keystone Pipeline.
Tuesday, February 21. 2012Tuesday morning linksMoonbattery wonders how many kids will get squished by drivers trying to read the sign Millennials forced to put lives on hold I blame Bush Sex-Changing Treatment for Kids: It's on The Rise I blame Bush Can Children Be Manipulated into Eating Their Veggies? How come French children don't need to be experimented upon by psychologists to get them to eat well? Good news! The Advantages of the Middle-Aged Brain - Despite news reports about cognitive decline starting at 45, the middle-aged brain actually performs better in other ways Video Games Make Society A Better Place Apparently, nowadays you can get arrested for leaving a kid home alone... How To Avoid Adultery When Temptation Is Looking You in the Eye - No one wants to take up permanent residence in Heartbreak Hotel:
Senator Scott Brown Exposes NOAA’s Illicit $300,000 Party Boat
Hostage crisis? What hostage crisis? "He knows what's good for you, and he's going to give it to you good and hard." Fakegate: how the alarmist blogs and mainstream media self destructed Harvard Prof: What if they're wrong about CO2? Or how about going onto disability? Can You Be Fired for Your Genes?
High Real Unemployment Data Reflect Poorly On Obama White House economic report hides sharp drop in number of working Americans ...what is it that motivates those on the left? Why do they care so deeply about the kind of insurance coverage Catholic employers provide? Why Capitalism Isn't Going Anywhere - It's the only system known to humanity that increases both growth and freedom. Why not make other mandates free? Everything free in America "Question: Where is the political Left on education reform? Domestic production eyed as gas prices head toward record-breaking height
Argument preview: The Constitution and lying Health insurance costs to rise 31% under Obamacare says plan's architect Duh. Just weeks after 17-day Hawaii vacation Michelle hits the slopes with daughters on Aspen ski trip Lifestyles of the rich and famous The Catholic Betrayal of Religious Freedom Israel’s Energy Driven Sovereign Wealth Fund is Launched Market strategist: Policymakers are “one-dimensional, short-termist, bereft of courage” Mr. Krugman’s unfamiliarity with history is disturbing.
Monday, February 20. 2012Monday morning links - lotsa them , mostly high-qualityHuman hibernation Snake-Hunting Labradors Rid Everglades of Invasive Pythons Free Booze for Alcoholics: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Yet another study shows government workers are overpaid Who Killed the Jobs? For jobs, get Washington out of the way Obama Likes High Gasoline Prices, But Won't Admit It Global warming -- the great delusion 'Terse, Old' Constitution Outdated for Failing to Guarantee 'Entitlements' Like Health Care
More Food Police: CA Lawmaker Says Food Trucks ‘Threat’ To Kids’ Health End of tax credit a blow for wind power industry White House hides the big drop in percentage of working Americans When Ordinary Parenting Practices Can Land You in Court The Left's Hatred of Religion The Real Obama - The budget of a left-wing progressive. “Climate Change” Is Like Being Mauled By A Crazed Mama Bear
Brokest Nation In History Fusses Instead About Sex How 'Occupy' went wrong - A trashed house in Brooklyn has become a symbol of a movement that failed to capitalize on popular anger Can Romney find a way to connect with GOP voters? Social issues and Repub electoral success Is Iowa A Nest Of Vicious Racists? Obama’s Peculiar Idea of Fairness Amateur hour with Santorum: Trolled by Charlie Rose The European project is splitting apart at the very core - A gulf is growing between France and Germany over the future of the eurozone
Fraudulent attack on Heartland Institute exposes Alarmist desperation The Problem With Smoke-Free Campuses Belmont: For years the European Social Model — and Europe itself — was such an act of faith that to express skepticism would have been blasphemy. It still is. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez faces an uprising at the ballot box:
Behind the Lines in Syria: An Interview with Dr. Jonathan Spyer Foreign Aid and American Priorities Polarization and the Independents - An ever smaller number of swing voters will decide the presidential election:
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Sunday, February 19. 2012Sunday morning linksImage via Knish A note to smallish blogs: The New Media Proletariat We prefer to think of ourselves as "boutique" rather than "prole." Germania: Hitler's Dream Capital For women under 30, most births without benefit of marriage How anyone can build a good family and a charming life without a partner's help and companionship is beyond me, but certainly many are better at life than I am. How changes in the marriage market affect inequality stats More single adult households = lower household income That JFK was a lying, drug-addled male slut is yesterday’s fish wrap as far as average, ordinary, grown-up people are concerned. Spanish artist Miro’s farm needs tender, loving care Shocking racist incident The Economist: Over-regulated America - The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulation "Is Any CEO Worth $189,000 Per Hour?" Yes. I am worth that.
Federal Intrusion Into Local School Diets = Massive Waste Denmark update: The Welfare State and Freedom: A Mismatch - In order to feed the growing welfare state, Danish citizens are heading down the road to serfdom. (h/t, SDA) Al Gore Crafts Blueprint for ‘Sustainable Capitalism’ and Responsible Investing Aw, shut up Absent sincerity, diplomacy is less a system for problem solving than it is an asymmetric warfare strategy. The GOP’s Problem with Sex Could Cost Them in November - The right presents an outdated, even primitive, critique of human sexuality. Why Libya Is Becoming More Dangerous After Gaddafi's Fall Every Injury Shouldn’t Result in a Lawsuit – But That’s Just Me Germany drawing up plans for Greece to leave the euro
Saturday, February 18. 2012Saturday morning linksImage via Theo He Said/She Said: Things I Wish Guys Would Do More Flexible Hours in Your Working Environment The dark side of the universe - Scientists are trying to understand why the universe is running away from them Darn cosmos is running away from me, too Golden Eagles Killed By Environmentally Friendly Windmills In the UK: 8 INCHES OF SNOW IN NEXT 24 HOURS Kyoto worked! When I took the job at the bar, I looked down on it -- and the women who worked there. But I had so much to learn Obama: This time, he is openly running as a radical. Howie: If your name were Joseph Patrick, your candidacy would be a joke:
Geithner Admits Obama Budget Leaves America With "Unsustainable" Entitlement Commitments Why Multiculturalism Is Racism - “The worm inside the doctrine of multiculturalism is the lie that all cultures are worthy of equal respect and equally embracing of individual freedom and democracy.” - Dr. Salim Mansur A wee bit of Goldman history Are Brazilian immigrants Latinos? Communism By Insurance Mandate Mitt Romney: Campaigner without a cause Santorum is right about feminism Are Republican Voters Suicidal? Taxing Medical Progress to Death Paul Ryan: Next Generation Will Have Lower Standard Of Living Can Obama Win Re-Election by Promising Free Stuff? Poll: Scott Brown opens up 9-point lead over Elizabeth Warren Young Kennedy looking to make name for himself among the people Reid attacks Rubio for insufficient racial loyalty Farewell to the Free Market? Western governments have compounded the economic crisis by rejecting the one force that can end it. Learning from Others’ Mistakes: What Europe’s Experience with Renewable Mandates and Subsidies can Teach Texas Pelosi: Government Should Require Churches Themselves to Knuckle Under to Obama’s Mandate Is birth control fight a Terri Schiavo moment? The War on Wyden - For daring to work on Medicare reform with Republican Paul Ryan, the Democratic senator from Oregon is lambasted by keepers of the liberal flame. The Obama Effect in Latin America - Placating enemies instead of strengthening partnerships with friends Tea Party and OWS Protest Side-By-Side Against Obama in San Francisco Presbyterians Take Another Step Toward Hate for Israel Why aren't you skiing this weekend? Stupid not to: Friday, February 17. 2012Friday morning linksAbove, art's classic nudes get Photoshopped to be skinnier I read Powerline for the articles A review of the fine movie Margin Call Just what you want to hear: Planned Parenthood works around the clock to hook your kids on sex Fat in food is not "bad for you" Why Do People Oppose Development? Why Alleys Deserve More Attention DHS: 'CBP Stops Thousands of Unsafe Hair Dryers' Your tax dollars at work HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is Obamacare's deadly enforcer and leading Democratic operative. The Little Sisters of Limousine Liberalism Bill O’Reilly: If Obama Wins in November “You’re Not Going to Recognize This Country in 4 Years” This is what happens when the governing class is insufficiently afraid of the public. Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy:
The non-religious liberty liberty critique of Obama's contraception mandate CNN poll: Obama’s job approval back to 50%; Update: Obama leads all GOP candidates in swing states Complete List Of Europe's Expanded Bank "Junk" Africa's Air Traffic Boom George Will on the Unconstitutionality of Rent Control The Advancement of the Toxic Totalitarian Nanny State - A 4-year old girl's home-brought lunch is confiscated for being "unhealthy." Henninger: What Would Clint Eastwood Do? Regarding the nation's purpose, Clint Eastwood and Barack Obama couldn't be further apart. DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz: Religious Groups “Shouldn’t Be Imposing Their Values on Employees”… That’s the Governement’s Job The abortion and contraception decision was not a mistake. Related: Beware the ObamaCare Win-Win Minnesota Lawmakers: Kill Regulations, Create Jobs Derbyshire: Facing down the Liberal Thugs The campaign to undermine Marco Rubio For Liljenquist, Mourdock, and Cruz: A Tea Party Senate takeover How the bishops undermined individual responsibility Uncle Sam and the Chinese Dragon Driscoll: The Collapse of Jon Corzine Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee - Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover. Federal funds flow to clean-energy firms with Obama administration ties Why We Need Words Like 'Islamist' Mitt Romney’s candidacy has revived the canard that Mormons are plotting to take over America. Jews have faced that charge for centuries. Queen of Sheba's Lost Gold Mine Discovered? (art of the Queen meeting Solomon below. Later, story is that he knocked her up):
Thursday, February 16. 2012Thursday morning linksHazard of the Trade: Bankers' Health The owls of NYC Dreyfus and the Birth of Intellectual Protest The Chastened Adulterer: How an Affair Is Like a Heart Attack and The Case for Psychotherapy His Hour Upon the Stage - As a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented What Has Happened to Academic Freedom? Who Knew?: European Carbon Market Is An Expensive Failure Knish: The Liberal Uses of Race Italians expect lifetime job security Taranto: Birth Control Yes, Government Control No - Intolerance is at the heart of the ObamaCare mandate. Sierra snowpack study instantly attacked because it undermines AGW claims Nearly -40° in Europe The pupette is in Prague. She says it's cold! She left her parka at home. Media Matters Could Lose Its Tax Exempt Status Due To Coordination With White House? The workers are rebelling against their fat-cat union bosses Walter Williams: Rising black social pathology:
Talking to China about religious freedom The myth of China as a harmless tiger
Worst. President. Ever… 85% of Small Businesses Are Not Hiring – Half Fear Obamacare Costs Seeking to avoid a politically toxic vote, Congress has failed to pass a federal budget for three years. This year's new twist? Congress might not even try. Republicans Denounce Obama's Nuclear Cuts as 'Reckless Lunacy' Wednesday, February 15. 2012College for all?Kevin Carey in The Wilson Quarterly makes the case for college - or at least some college - for all. Naturally, I think that is insane, and for more reasons than I have time to list. A rigorous high school degree can still provide all that is needed to continue one's education on one's own, if wanted; all that is needed to be a good citizen, and all that is needed to perform 90% of the work out there. We all know that a college degree can mean a great deal, or next to nothing - same as a high school degree. A couple more education links: Are Colleges Ripping Us Off? Half of all college students make no learning gains in their first two years, and 36 percent show no significant intellectual growth even after four years. McArdle: Envisioning a Post-Campus America
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