…is the most expensive policy disaster in modern British history.
It didn’t work out well for Spain, either. Or Germany.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Lying Journalists
…should compensate Ferguson for abetting its destruction by race baiters.
But…but…narrative!
Hillary’s Spam Filterers
Would have had complete access to all the traffic.
Climate-Fantasist-In-Chief?
I agree with Ezra Klein. Run, Al, run!
I’m particularly enamored with his recent policy proposal to punish people who disagree with his junk science.
Climate Activists
You people lost the scientific argument. Get over it:
Essex said that there seems to be a cultural shift and that scientific arguments have deteriorated. Individuals in society have moved away from “civilized dialogues in which people have a collegial attitude and work together to try to find the truth.” Essex characterized the pro-climate change philosophy as a form of sophistry, catering to popular opinion rather than being concerned with the truth.
You don’t say.
Senators Inhofe And Nelson
…are upset because the Pentagon isn’t wasting taxpayer money as fast as they want it to. I’m sure this topic will come up in this afternoon’s cage match between Gwynne and Tory in front of the House Armed Services Committee.
Mars Or Bust, Or Mars One, Busted?
Thoughts from Laura Seward Forczyk. As she notes, media hype about SLS/Orion getting anyone to Mars is greatly exaggerated, with the connivance of NASA PAO.
California’s Social Priorities
…are pretty screwed up:
California continues to lead the country, and by some measures even the world, in environmental quality and climate change initiatives. But public policy must evolve to leverage these environmental achievements into corresponding improvements in educational attainment and middle class job creation. With more than 18% of the nation’s poor, and less than 1%3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, California should also embrace the challenge of leading the world in the creation of middle class manufacturing jobs for the rapidly evolving clean and green technology that California’s laws mandate, California’s educational and technology sectors invent, and California’s venture capital investors bring to the global market.
Instead, California’s policies, and regulatory and legal costs and uncertainties, tend to divert thousands of middle class jobs even in emerging green industries (including those not requiring high school diplomas) to other locations, including the Tesla battery manufacturing facility, which moved to Nevada. The loss of projects that help achieve important environmental objectives, create high quality jobs, and comply with California’s strict environmental and public health protection mandates, continues to occur in part because well-funded special interest groups ranging from business competitors to labor unions file “environmental” lawsuits as leverage for achieving narrow political or pecuniary objectives rather than to protect the environment and public health. This study suggests that the state must work much harder to ensure that California’s landmark environmental laws are not misused or pursued in a manner that adversely affects other, equally important policy priorities for California’s large undereducated and underemployed population.
The idiotic carbon law is going to do huge harm to the economy and the middle class, while doing nothing about “climate change.”
[Monday-morning update]
A tale of four droughts. All true, but, as Paul Dietz notes in comments, the biggest problem is that there is no rational water market in the state.
[Bumped]
Hillary’s Bus
The engine of the one under which she’s about to be thrown seems to be warming up.
The Dems are like jackals. When they see a weak member of the herd, they go in for the attack.
BTW, when you see them attack people like Trey Gowdy for a “partisan” attack, it’s almost always projection.
President Clinton
I’m not sure, he’s sort of subtle, but my neighbor Kurt Schlichter doesn’t seem to think that Her Hillaryness is going to be president.