Science is based on experiment and evidence. The motto of the royal society was “Nullius in verbaâ€, which means “Take no one’s word for itâ€. This motto was reinterpreted to accommodate the “evidence†for global warming. Most science journals have condition of publication that authors must comply with any reasonable request by other researchers for …
Month: July 2008
Bernanke explains what he is doing wrong
In his speech Governor Ben S. Bernanke observed that if inflationary expectations rise, and the Fed fails to raise interest rates correspondingly, this is unstable. He failed to make the reason for this clear, but the reason is that real interest rates are nominal interest minus expected inflation – so a rise in inflationary expectations …
We won in Iraq
Michael Yon declares the war over. He should know. He has been wandering around the place looking it over. But if we have a few more victories like this one, we will have lost, and Islam won. We cannot do Iran what we barely managed to do to Iraq, and still less can we do …
Bush rolls back oil prices, MSM in denial
Political correctness is that we should not drill for oil, for more oil will not solve the problem of high and rising fuel prices. Which political correctness the mainstream media firmly endorse. There are multiple bans on oil drilling. Bush ended one of them, which had no immediate effect on oil drilling, for other bans …
Not Science
Recently the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization) dressed itself in the robes of high holy science, and portentously announced that the wrath of Gaea was upon us. Other scientists asked for the details of the evidence, but alas, the highly scientific scientists of the CSIRO found themselves sadly unable to provide the evidence.
Vote Cthulhu for US president
Or if not Cthulhu, Obama. When I started writing this, McCain had the the most violently anticapitalist program of any presidential candidate, his cap and trade policy. Obama, having started out at lunatic left in the primaries, is heading rightwards at high speed, and his “cap and trade†policy had become a mere pigovian carbon …
“Governance in the Wildernessâ€
“Governance in the Wilderness†is merely a retranslation of the same Al Quaeda document earlier translated as “the Management of Savagery†or “the Management of Barbarism†The author concluded that 9/11 was unsuccessful, in that it failed to intimidate Americans, and the American retribution was severe. He correctly predicted that the attempt to set up …
American empire is not working
I have long argued that the US should focus on destroying its enemies and not attempt to hold ground. Global Guerrillas observes that it was only when the Army/Marines attempted to hold ground that the US military ran into trouble. These advocates maintain that the US military should never hold ground in the future Who …
Britain falls
When the Roman empire in the west fell, it was decades, nearly a century, before Romans realized it had fallen. Falling is a process, which is hard to recognize at the time. A recent post in Gates of Vienna leads me to believe that in decades to come, future historians will date the fall of …