Here are eight.
Speaking of which, here’s some new research (yes, “peer reviewed”) indicating that most of the warming modelling done to date is invalid. I’m shocked, shocked.
Decades from now, scientists, real ones, are going to be amazed at the hubris of today’s generation of climate “scientists,” given how little we really understand this complex and chaotic phenomenon.
I don’t think we need to “rethink” public employee unions. The word he’s looking for is “outlaw.” There’s a reason, and a good one, that they used to be illegal (including under the Roosevelt administration). They’ve pretty much fiscally destroyed California.
Fresno is the agricultural capital of America. More food per acre in more variety can be grown in the fertile Central Valley surrounding this community than on any other land in America – perhaps in the world.
Yet far from being a paradise, Fresno is starting to resemble Zimbabwe or 1930s Ukraine, a victim of a famine machine that is entirely man-made, not by red communists this time, but by greens.
That’s why they call them watermelons. There’s not much difference between green and red these days.
Because their model was screwed up. Public choice theory is involved as well.
…as demonstrated by Japan. But Paul Krugman thinks that we didn’t borrow enough money.
A little gentle Socratic method.
The Medicare mandates violate the General Welfare clause.
[Update a few minutes later]
ObamaCare criminalizes medicine. Yeah, HillaryCare tried to do that, too. But that time there were enough Dems smart enough to keep it from happening. No such luck last year.
[Update a while later]
Well, Queen Nancy warned us that we had to pass the bill to see what was in it. But it was important. Who had time to read it?
America spends far more on education than countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and Italy, both as a percentage of its economy, and in absolute terms. Yet despite this lavish government support for education, college tuition in the U.S. is skyrocketing, reaching levels of $50,000 or more a year at some colleges, and colleges are effectively rewarded for increasing tuition by mushrooming federal financial-aid spending. Americans can’t read or do math as well as the Japanese, even though America spends way more (half again more) on education than Japan does, as a percentage of income, according to the CIA World Fact Book.
Definitely another bubble about to pop.
In the piece in which Victor Davis Hanson defended himself against Jeffrey Sachs’ nasty ad hominem smears, he also discussed the DREAM act and immigration issues. Here are some excellent thoughts from a “Patriotic Hispanic” along those lines. And more from Mickey Kaus on the continued false consciousness (or mendacity) of the radical Hispanic community.
What Santa wants for Christmas.
Actually the Worst.Congress.Evah did give me a Christmas present yesterday — they (finally) adjourned. I wish though, that I’d gotten it for my birthday, in January 2009.