The presidents that have done the most to smash capitalism have never been Democrats, because anti capitalist Democrat presidents have always found themselves paralyzed by gridlock – the pro capitalist faction unites along party lines, and the federal government system locks up, as it was designed to do. The founding fathers intentionally constructed the federal government so that it would be slow and inefficient at making large controversial changes. The …
Genocide and environmentalism
When someone says “There are too many Jews,†we suspect that he wants to kill Jews. And when someone says there are too many people …
Global sea ice
Before Aqua, the best way to estimate changes in global temperature was to look at proxies such as total ice coverage – and the proxies have been telling us that nothing much has changed.
Muslim moderates sighted
How can you tell a Muslim moderate?
His throat is cut from ear to ear.
US$ declining as a reserve currency
Such a change is cataclysmically rapid compared to the normally glacial rate of monetary change.
Paul Collier explains the famine
the twentieth century was a time of socialist famines. Let us hope the twenty first century is not a time of greenie famines.
Coal to oil is not under development
People are starving yet we still treat energy developers as criminals, rather than heroes.
Regulation kills
Today, a lot of people are going hungry because of an energy crisis. When we look at businesses that are attempting to address the energy crisis, for example Linc Energy Systems, we see that ninety percent of their effort, energy, and thought, is addressed to the political problem of getting permits and approvals, and very little to the merely technical details of collecting energy from nature and making it available …
How global warming “science†works
the IPCC first created the “Summary for Policy Makers†report, then the science report that it is supposedly a summary of.
Caplan bets Europe will survive
Bryan Caplan has bet $300 that Europe, and every state of Europe, will survive to 2020. I don’t make these kind of bets, because outcomes tend to be ill defined. What constitutes surviving? But I expect that around 2040, people will look back to around 2020, and say that some substantial portion of Europe, fell back then. The nation state derives its cohesion from the nation, and the nation is …