Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
For at least a couple of hundred years in America, the “letters to the editor” section of any newspaper has been the one place where people can express views opposing a newspaper’s editorial content. Newspapers felt sufficiently strong in their viewpoints that they figured that a few crackpot letters wouldn’t
Continue readingOver at Power Line, John Hinderaker made an extremely important point about any allegedly “scientific” report that comes out now regarding climate change, especially if the report is connected with the IPCC: The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is about to release its fifth report on global warming. One
Continue readingAustralian Topher Field makes some of the smartest videos out there, poking factual holes in liberal fallacies. Here, he demonstrates with actual numbers culled from the climate changers themselves that it costs 50 times as much to “combat” climate change (oh, we puny mortals and the things we think we
Continue readingI enjoyed this little story from the Marin Independent Journal, which characterizes the benefits of climate change as a “surprise.” It’s no surprise to me, because plants like sunshine: Surprise. Marin’s majestic redwoods — and others around the state — are experiencing unprecedented growth due to warmer temperatures and sunnier
Continue readingI’ve been coming across so much interesting stuff this morning that I’m going to do another flotsam and jetsam post. One of the things we’ve long known is that the Left lies about statistics. Examples of this are “1 in 4 women have been sexually assaulted” canard and the “women
Continue readingI freely admit that I will never be as brilliant as Thomas Sowell, either in my analytical abilities or in my writing quality. That doesn’t mean, though, that I can’t borrow his technique of writing the occasional post that consists of one or two sentence thoughts about interesting subjects. So,
Continue readingYou all know that I do not believe in anthropogenic global warming (“AGW”). I believe in climate change, because the earth’s climate has always changed, since its first moment of existence. I believe that humans do control pollution and that we have an obligation to ourselves and to the other
Continue readingI’ve never believed in global warming or anthropogenic climate change. As would any sane, knowledgeable person, I believe in climate change, but that’s because I know that the complex interaction of earth and sun has meant that our climate has changed since the day the earth came into being. But
Continue readingI haven’t blogged about climate change lately because any serious blogs about science change require science talk — data and stuff — and I simply haven’t had the energy to acquaint myself with and regurgitate all those numbers. After all, that’s what the marvelous Watt’s Up With That blog is
Continue readingThe headlines have been deeply disturbing: North Korea, led by an unstable 20-something, has reinstated war against the United States and South Korea after a fifty-plus year hiatus in active hostilities. Admittedly, North Korea hasn’t fired any shots yet, but its rhetorical volleys have been incendiary. Just yesterday, it cut
Continue readingYou all know how much I dislike and disrespect Al Gore. With a recent attack against the NRA, he’s managed to drop even further in my estimation, something I didn’t think was possible. The following post (which I wrote) originally appeared at Mr. Conservative: ******************* Al Gore’s name has become
Continue readingBear with me here, because I’m about to prove how simplistic and primitive my mind is. I need you all to help enlighten me. Some high school students I know got an assignment to set up and complete an experiment. Some of the experiments they came up with include looking
Continue readingApproximately every ten years, Marin County floods. Thinking back, the last big flood year in our neighborhood was around 2002 or 2003. I remember taking the kids down from the hill on which we live to the marshy flat-lands nearby. We waded through water that came up past our knees.
Continue reading(iPad wiped all my hyperlinks, so if you’re interested in the security programs I mention, you’ll have to search then yourself.) A friend’s email got hacked. This led to a discussion with a very knowledgeable person about the risks she now faces. Upon realizing she was hacked, she immediately changed
Continue reading“Find a need and fill it.” That’s great advice in a capitalist society and it’s how many people have gotten rich while improving other’s lives. Al Gore has a different twist on that adage: Use false data to create an artificial need, and then fill that need using pork: The
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