Watts Up With That? does a good job covering the climate scam, the only flaw being that they post so much good data that one is apt to lose sight of the forest for the trees. The have recently posted an excellent post on the reproducibility crisis. The short of it is that nineteen out …
Month: February 2020
Oligarchs
The big winner of the Democratic Party presidential nominee debate was, of course, President Donald Trump. The commies called out the oligarch for being an oligarch, and the oligarch called out the commies for being commies. The commies lost and the oligarch lost worse. Following the debate Bernie Sanders gleefully referred to “our networks” – …
Trump’s struggle for power.
The president attempting to actually exercise the powers of the presidency is rather like Queen of England attempting to actually rule England. As was revealed in the House impeachment hearings, the permanent government are shocked and outraged that a merely elected politician meddles in running the country, and are disinclined to comply. Trump cannot get …
Warriors, Merchants, war, markets, and capitalism.
From the time of Xenophon to the Crimean war, every long distance campaign by westerners had a free market following the camp and the march. Every single man in the army fought, and the camp followers fed them, clothed them, and armed them. Alexander, fighting a long distance campaign, had ten camp followers for every …