And when it’s all over, they aren’t really educated — they’re just credentialed.
More Destructive “Green” Policies
America is poaching European business investment:
American government got out of the way of innovative drilling companies and allowed the shale boom to take off. Europe took the opposite tack, choosing to stick to its green policies and snub shale. As a result, natural gas prices in the US are a quarter of what they are in Europe. And as industry departs, unemployment in the Euro zone is hitting a record high. That’s yet another failure that can be laid at the feet of Europe’s greens.
Just imagine how much better we’d be doing if we had a reasonable (i.e., zero) corporate income tax.
Anti-Gun Legislation
Why Obama is losing.
Shorter answer: he’s a political incompetent, with no discernible skills at anything other than winning elections. Ultimately, that may be the only thing that saves us from his destructive agenda.
Karl Marx
The New York Times discovers that he was as terrible a person as many (most?) of his acolytes.
KSC Fire
I just got an email that NASA personnel are being evacuated from a brush fire south of the VAB on Merritt Island.
“Tel-4 road runs north/south for two miles then turns west for two miles until it hits the river. So if the fire jumps that E-W stretch of highway it is off KSC property and into civilian land. There’s a pretty respectable north wind today, so it’s a bit dicey until they get that back-burn done.
The second image is looking due south. So the VAB is to my back (to the north) about 6 miles. In that image, the land to the left is KSC property, the land on the right (about where the truck is down the road) is privately held.”
Warp Drive
Is it possible? Even if it’s very unlikely, it’s such a high payoff that it’s worth devoting some resources to. In the mean time, I’m much more focused on making it affordable to just get into orbit.
Don’t Get Fooled Again On Immigration
“The bottom line: Most Americans would support an immigration reform plan, but only if border security comes first. And by “first” they mean before the legalization of currently illegal immigrants and before the creation of a path to citizenship. Would they be more flexible if they truly believed the federal government’s promise to secure the border? Perhaps — but they don’t believe.”
They’d be fools to. We know that the Democrats have absolutely no intention of closing the border. It’s the same kind of bait and switch that they pull with tax-rate increases and spending cuts. we get the higher rates, buy we never see the cuts.
To Be A Racist Bigot In America
…is just fine, “…as long as you’re a bigot in support of Democratic causes. Which, come to think of it, is how things were in Bull Connor’s day, too.”
I’m going to start calling them out on their racism at every opportunity. They’ve been doing it to me for years, and when I call them out on it, it will have the additional virtue of being actually true, and not just a dishonest Alinskyite tactic.
Satire, Parody And Pastiche
Some definitions you can use on April 1st.
The Hockey Stick
…broken again. I’ve been too busy with the book to delve into the Marcott mess, but it seems to have imploded almost immediately upon publication, and Science (and “science”) haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory:
Let me be perfectly clear — I am accusing no one of scientific misconduct. The errors documented here could have been the product of group dynamics, institutional dysfunction, miscommunication, sloppiness or laziness (do note that misconduct can result absent explicit intent). However, what matters most now is how the relevant parties respond to the identification of a clear misrepresentation of a scientific paper by those who should not make such errors.
That response will say a lot about how this small but visible part of the climate community views the importance of scientific integrity.
Given the history, I’m not hopeful.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Jonathan Adler:
No, this does not show that climate change is a scientific fraud. What it does show, however, is that some are willing to “sex up” climate science findings to feed sensational media coverage, and end up undermining confidence in climate science. Given that there is still much we do not know about climate change — including why mean global temperature has been flat for the past ten years — undermining confidence in climate science can (further) undermine its ability to inform policy. Climate science has taken some significant hits in the past few years. It doesn’t need any more.
At this point, it should be abundantly clear how foolish it would be to make major public-policy decisions on such “science.”