Update: A study by the CEI says that temperature fluctuations are mostly due to non-human forces.  The report was suppressed by the EPA, which, like many government programs, needs to justify its own existence by pretending problems are worse than they really are.  The EPA prefers to rely on reports that come from different sources, like the U.N., which didn’t want to include recent data in the IPCC report.
Check out the CEI report (PDF form) here.  It notes that there is “no net warming” in the 21st Century despite an …

The news that Michael Jackson died is so big that last night I had a dream Barack Obama was assassinated – in the dream, the Michael Jackson’s death was still the top story.
In reality, Michael Jackson’s death wouldn’t be bigger than that news story.  But it is big enough to draw attention away from what’s being called the largest tax on Americans in history.
It’s been called both cap-and-trade and cap-and-tax, and what it does is essentially “caps” energy usage and levies a tax when that energy has hit the cap.  …

Conclusion?  Most Presidents see this kind of thing – the honeymoon period fades.  But to think that only Fox News commentators are the dissenters obviously isn’t the reality.

Apparently, Iranians like freedom, too.  The stance of America has always been freedom = good, although you wouldn’t know that to hear the President these days.  To say that Obama’s early responses to the Iranian riots have been weak is an understatement.  How bad were they?  Obama himself had to strengthen up his words when the riots escalated over the weekend.  You know you’ve angered a Democratic President when his rhetoric gets amped up!
Makes you wonder how we’re going to handle North Korea.  Put that away, dictator!  Hey!  Put that …

EDIT: It looks like there’s a strong possibility that McBride and Flynn’s affair took place after the article was done and edited.  If so, that would seem to take away a lot of the “journalistic ethics” complaints in this post.
Jessica McBride, a 39-year-old journalism lecturer at UW-Milwaukee, and Ed Flynn, the 61-year-old Milwaukee Chief of Police, had an affair according to this morning’s Journal Sentinel.  Normally I think affairs of the heart would be their business, but here’s the thing – McBride (who, I believe, has once linked to this …

California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer took exception recently when Brigadier General Michael Walsh called her “ma’am.”  Look at this:
“You know, do me a favor,” an irritated Boxer said. “Could say ’senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?’”
“Yes, ma’am,” Walsh interjected.
“It’s just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title, so I’d appreciate it, yes, thank you,” she said.
“Yes, senator,” he responded.
Barbara Boxer, you jerk.
You worked hard to get that title, maybe.  BUT THE PEOPLE …

America is such a prosperous country that even our poor people can afford to be fat.  All you have to do is go into a McDonald’s and order something off of the dollar menu.
I remember being taught about the “McDonald-ization of America” in a sociology class in college – this was before I knew much about politics – and hearing the assumption that McDonald-ization was a bad thing.  But how do they figure?  McDonald’s, left alone by the government, came to success by offering easy, predictable, convenient, hot food nearly …

George W. Bush was probably the most hated President of the last generation.  Anti-Bushism was so intense that some conservatives gave it a name – Bush Derangement Syndrome – which the FDA promptly tried to regulate before realizing conservatives made it up.
Time Magazine called Bush the “Love Him, Hate Him” President – and that was before his second term.  These days, the phrase “The Last Eight Years” have apparently become synonymous with some sort of tyrannical reign of terror in which Bush enslaved Americans to build monuments to himself.
The problem?  …

I know I’m always mentioning Keynesian economics and flawed thinking/policy in the same sentiment. So, I wasn’t sure if people were just glossing over such assertions. If you want to witness the thoughts of a Keynesian leftist – here you go.
Youtube: Christian Weller
He almost makes the contrived, convoluted “aggragate” economics of John Keynes seem sensical …. but not really.

Remember when then-Senator Barack Obama told Joe – who was still simply The Plumber – that the reason richer people needed to pay a greater percentage of their income in taxes was that we need to “spread the wealth around”?
By now we have confirmed that Obama’s essential economic philosophy is to let prosperity trickle up.  You might be wondering how prosperity can “trickle up” from the lower class to the upper class, and just so that you’re still in the loop, rest assured that it doesn’t.
I think of quotes like …