Global Fakery

Anthropogenic global warming. Settled science, right? Apparently not so much. It is so unsettled, that NASA, NOAA and the British Met have to change data to get where they want to go…and they ain’t too forthcoming with the raw numbers… John Hinderaker at Powerline posts something interesting – it appears that NASA and NOAA are…

The Trouble with Liberals

I now know what is wrong with liberals. It boils down to two basic things. Selective memory (political amnesia) Cognitive/confirmation bias Yet another letter to the editor extolling on the incivility of the “right” in the local paper triggered it. As far as selective memory, a goldfish has a total memory recall of 3 seconds,…

Vaclav Havel on the economy…

Via Ace and NoLeftTurns at the Ashbrook Center: Explaining the reason for the Czech Republic’s economic slump in the mid-90’s, then-President Vaclav Havel postulated that it was a “punishment for pride”: The government has embraced an arrogant ideology. They claim to know the key to prosperity. It’s analogous to communism. They thought the same thing.…