Faré on Distributed Republic criticizes the Rothbardians for supporting the enemies of their country. Many libertarians, after Rothbard, start from the correct assumption that one’s government is one’s first and most direct enemy, to the conclusion that one should always side with the enemies of one’s current oppressor. Rothbardians are wrong in supporting our enemies …
Author: Jim
Nailing the coffin lid shut on warmist alarmism
Constantinople has summarized the debate for me in private email. People in authority are reading the blogs, and acting on them, but we are seeing the warming alarmists making the “just one sexed up graph†argument – similar to the argument that Uri Keller only bent some spoons with his hands, but all the other …
Bishop Hill’s list of interesting Hadley CRU files
Bishop Hill has a list of Hadley CRU files he finds particularly interesting. They are mostly good stuff but have zero overlap with the files I find particularly interesting. It is going to take a while to digest sixty two megabytes. It will be some time before we realize what of this revelation truly matters. …
A first look at the internal climate emails
Rather than reading for data that discredits particular erroneous results, a task that Steve and his crew can do much better than I can, I study the papers to reveal evil and madness, to reveal the cause of error, rather than specific particular errors. The Anthropogenic Global Warmers know in advance the results of peer …
Global warming fraud goes public
An unknown person posted a large amount of internal files from allegedly from CRU, which huge collection has become known as The Hadley CRU file set To understand all this stuff, you need to know lots of climate science. I have only just started to go through this huge pile. The original ftp server dropped …
The cause of the crisis 4-3
In the cause of the crisis, I addressed fraudulent ratings. Bill draws my attention to a report on securitized loans issued by the New York Fed in which they examine the somewhat surprising ratings given to New Century Financial: You might consider blogging this absolutely hilarious paper from a couple of people at the New …
Finally, pirates resisted
Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were “thwarted by private guardsâ€. It appears that “thwarted†actually means “killedâ€, which is the only effectual way to “thwart†pirates. This will have the effect that pirates will cease to attack ships flying the American flag, which a …
US inflation rising
The latest official cpi is 0.3% rise for the month of October, which, annualized, is 3.6% – higher than is desirable, high enough to cause moderate damage to investment and employment,but not high enough to be a serious problem. Actual inflation, in my doubtless biased judgment, is probably around seven percent, high enough to be …
Productivity leaps?
Since the holes are valued at cost, and filling them in also valued at cost, and since the peasants working in the Lord sector are well paid, better paid than ordinary peasants, though not quite as well paid as the lord and his retainers, and since the Lord and his retainers also took a modest pay rise for arranging all this prosperity, total value produced, total GDP is now a whopping eight hundred and fifty thousand sacks of wheat, a fourfold rise in GDP. One of the Lord’s retainers is an economist, who gets a Nobel prize for explaining that the Lord has done such a good job.
Judaism is racism, says the British Court of Appeals
A Jewish school, partially funded by the British taxpayer, has been ordered it cannot define Jews by descent, because this is “racismâ€. Unfortunately, Judaism does define Jews by descent. If the effect of the ruling was merely that Jewish institutions, being “racist†cannot receive government funding, this would not be too bad, but unfortunately, Britain …