Archive for July 2012
Making Sense of Polling Data
Most people have learned that that the best way to make sense of polling data is to not pay any attention to it. The result is that most people aren’t confused by polling data because what they know of it is sketchy at best. For example, most people probably think that right now Obama leads…
Read MoreDick Morris Explains Taxmegeddon — Partially
“Taxmegeddon” is the popular term for the huge bundle of new taxes expected to hit on January 1, 2013 if Obama is re-elected. Dick Morris explains how much it might cost you if Obama is re-elected. All these new taxes, should they become a reality, will surely turn the present Great Stagnation into another Great…
Read MoreAmerica Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (And Ushered In The Obamacrats)
That is the title of Yale Computer Science professor David Gelernter’s new book. David Gelernter was a victim of the Unabomber, losing most of one hand when he opened a package mailed to him by Ted Kaczynski. His book Drawing Life resulted from that experience. He also wrote the excellent Judaism: A Way of Being.…
Read MoreNo Summer of Recovery — Great Stagnation Instead
The employment-population ratio is the ratio of employment* to population. Unlike the unemployment rate, it shows the effects of discouraged workers leaving the labor force. The unemployment rate will go down as some workers get discouraged and are no longer counted as part of the labor force, since the unemployment rate is the ratio of…
Read MoreTaxing the internet might be on the way, but that’s not the way to go
That was quick. The ink is barely dry on Chief Justice Roberts’ decision that the Federal government can do anything it please if it just calls it a tax, and already Congress is angling to give states a sales tax on internet sales to bring in as much as $23 billion in new state revenues.…
Read MoreOprah Just Another Obama Throw Away
Oprah Winfrey endorsed Obama for President in 2008, something she had never done before. This was a bold move, she had theretofore avoided politics. It came at a crucial time for Obama, it was just what he needed then and the muscle of the biggest woman in entertainment helped his candidacy tremendously. So, he’s eternally…
Read MoreHumans the cause of the forest fire menace
In 1900 the density of the forest in the Southern Rockies was 80 trees per acre, now it’s 1,000 trees per acre. What used to be a forest is now a thicket. Fire suppression in the last century was the first cause and now it’s pine beetles and the cessation of logging due to environmental…
Read MoreInteresting Letter to the Editor
Letter to the editor of the Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader: I have given much thought to Richard Stoecker’s letter (“Vote for Mormon against beliefs,” June 15). I am also a Christian and differ with the Mormon religion. But I think any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man…
Read MoreObama complains about the mess he inherited when he was elected…
but just imagine the mess he’ll inherit if he’s re-elected.
Read MoreFracking for shale gas is a good thing — it results in a clean burning high energy fuel at little risk to the environment
British science writer Matt Ridley’s books on evolution, genetics and society are among the best science writing a general reader can find. He’s the bane of liberals because he exposes their muddled thinking and hidden agendas with straight forward scientific reporting of the best available evidence. The current shale gas miracle has unnerved the Green movement…
Read MoreMichelle Malkin Takes Romney To Task Over His Muddled Message on Obamacare Decision
The argument over whether the Obamacare mandate is a tax, a penalty, or a hairy wombat misses the point that Obamacare is a monstrous law that is full of new taxes and mandates and if allowed to survive will create an inferior health care system that bloats the government even more, increases the national debt,…
Read MoreWhy I Don’t Go To Church
This photo is from a post by Steven Hayward at the Powerline Blog, and is from the Episcopal General Conventional currently underway. Hayward says the Episcopal church needn’t wonder why it’s losing members. Sometimes I’m asked why I don’t go to church. I usually say it’s because the church I grew up in has been…
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