Unfortunately, as already noted, math is hard. But they never let that get in the way of their romance. Particularly when it gets people out of those evil cars, with all their individual freedom and evil fossil fuels.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
AWOL
Where is Steven Chu?
Americans expect leadership from their leaders. Chu has the track record to provide it in this case, yet he is failing to do so. If he is being hamstrung by special-interest pressure within the administration, one would expect that to be a resigning matter. I fear it is more likely that he has succumbed to pressure from his erstwhile allies, the greens, and is simply displaying a lack of backbone.
Yet he should consider what this means for his own plans. The administration’s energy plan, based on the EPA’s draconian regulations against greenhouse gas emitters, depends on a hundred new nuclear power plants being built. The administration knows that that powering America by wind and solar energy is as likely as extracting sunlight from cucumbers, which is why nuclear figures so heavily in the plan. If that option is now off the table — and the Left has been so successful in its opportunistic framing of this issue that it might well be — then there is a massive gap in the plan that can only be filled by coal or natural gas. Secretary Chu will be forced to argue that, if there is a nuclear ban, then the EPA’s beloved greenhouse-gas regulations will also have to be taken off the table. This is a circle that simply cannot be squared.
But then, leftists generally have no problem with unsquarable circles.
[Update a few minutes later]
Since he’s not up to the job, here’s a simple explanation of Fukushima.
Solving The Deficit By “Taxing The Rich”
Sadly for the “progressives,” the numbers just don’t work out.
<VOICE=”‘Progressive’ whine”>But I was told there would be no math!</VOICE>
Raptors Of A Feather
It would be easy to think that Colonel Whathisname paid off Robert Mugabe, but I suspect that he just doesn’t like the potential precedent.
Dr. Seuss
“Hide The Decline”
…the fraud explained.
There Will Never Be Peace In The Middle East
…as long as we continue to turn a blind eye to butchery. Anyone who thinks that “settlements” cause this is disconnected with regional reality.
Wrong About The King Hearings
An Open Letter To Davis Guggenheim
Don’t go back over to the Dark Side:
Guggenheim was right to make unions the villains of his film. But now that he’s starting to backpedal about collective bargaining, he’s getting heat from the reform community. There’s a bit of a mutiny on the “Waiting for ‘Superman’” Facebook page. The comments are decidedly opposed to Guggenheim’s view, with some supporters going so far as to say they’ll no longer promote the film.
Perhaps they’ll gravitate towards “Kids Aren’t Cars,” a film series that pulls no punches and shows the ugly impact collective bargaining has had on American public education.
It’s not too late to stop going wobbly.
Don’t Know Much About Geography
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute just released Enlightened Citizenship: How Civic Knowledge Trumps a College Degree in Promoting Active Civic Engagement, which shows that college has zero positive influence in encouraging graduates to become politically engaged — although many universities promote that in mission statements.
I’m not surprised, given how ignorant of it our elected representatives seem to be. Just another sign of the higher (and lower) education bubble and the worthlessness of many college (and high school) degrees. And of our educational system in general.