Category — Economics

The 50,000-strong American Physical Society this week re-opened, then not-so-smoothly tried to shut down, debate over whether evidence for anthropogenic global warming — “Thropo Glo Wo” to conserve syllables — really is “incontrovertible” as the APS has previously claimed.

In the June 2008 edition of APS’ newsletter Physics & Society, the Editor wrote:

There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO₂ emissions are very likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.”

The newsletter is posted on the APS website, but the APS quickly tried to hide this all-to-obvious family disagreement, posting the note (above) on its homepage. Funny that the APS would raise the “non-peer-reviewed” status of its own newsletter to refute the easily- and widely-verified assertion that real scientists (as opposed to Al Gore) disagree over how much “thropo” there is in “glo wo.” We’re glad to see this scientific iceberg begin to melt. [Read more →]

Barack Obama’s affiliation with and endorsement by radical Marxists — like Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers — is well documented in this blog and elsewhere. But some may ask, “What’s the big deal? Why should Americans be concerned by Obama’s willingness to befriend such people and ‘exchange ideas’ with them?” In a word, “inhumanity”.

These are the kind of people who, like Dohrn, laugh with glee at the thought of slicing up a pregnant mother and then sticking a fork in her stomach. Running with this crowd is no different than running with Adolf Hitler or Fidel Castro. No truly decent American would do so. Yet Barack Obama has persistently, actively sought out their support and friendship. In fact, the neo-Marxist New Party — with whom the New Party itself suggests Obama signed a contract in 1995 — played a key role in Mr. Obama’s first Illinois state senate victory.

A CNN interview of three Americans — Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes — recently rescued after 5 1/2 years as captives to Colombia’s notorious Marxists, the FARC “rebels” — illustrates how little has changed inside the Marxist mind since Bernadine Dohrn cackled with with joy over the Manson murders: [Read more →]

On April 16, 2008, George Stephanopolous pointedly asked Barack Obama to explain his relationship with William Ayers. Obama’s response (see video below) is more revealing than he intended. Most commentators missed this story because they have no training in the science of deception detection.*

A related video (further below - watch out for the f-word!) taken at University of Colorado, shows how little William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (Obama friends and supporters) have changed since their Weather Underground days. They went to Colorado to defend Ward Churchill, then on the verge of being fired from the Uni. The videographer asks whether Ayers and Dohrn remember Churchill teaching them bomb making. You’d think it would be relatively easy to recall such an event, but they both say in essence, “I don’t recall”. [Read more →]

Is that a shocking headline or what? I’m working on building a resume to work at KUTV-2 in Salt Lake.  How am I doing?

Anywhoo . . . A BYU engineering professor has worked a miracle in Ghana, harnessing kid power to generate electricity in otherwise powerless towns. Click on the picture (above) for the full story. And  don’t nobody tell Texas CPS!

The Heritage Foundation website features a great expose on the stupidity and/or hypocrisy of those who continue to oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The whole post is worth a read but check out the map, below, showing where ANWR is and isn’t. This tiny slice of U.S. real estate (that tiny red square in the map) is not prime resort or agricultural land.

Green knuckleheads in Congress might want to think strategically, for once. Bleeding American pocketbooks dry by forcing us to buy oil from enemies like Venezuela (and so-called friends like Saudi Arabia) when domestic oil is literally sitting on America’s doorstep will doom America’s economy and its foreign policy. This, I believe, is actually the primary agenda of the big ANWR drilling opponents. Somebody needs to get this idea through John McCain’s noggin.

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The Texas CPS child kleptocracy includes an elaborate web of vendors, not all of which are funded equally. Our research department — kbp — is curious about a Janel Voss who appears on the current list of Texas DFPS vendors with “active service contracts” exceeding $100K. Does Janel have any connection to Chief CPS investigator Angie Voss, up to her neck in the FLDS mess? We’d be delighted to hear from anyone who knows more about Janel, including Janel herself. (See update on Janel, below.)

Also newsworthy is that Baptist Child and Family Services — Johnny-at-the-YFZ-Ranch with an armada of official Baptist buses, back on that fateful night in April — has no less than eleven (11) such $100K+ contracts. In an earlier version of the list, BCFS was showing only eight. Rewards of loyalty? Any wonder that they were so quick to respond to CPS’s call to spirit off those “abused” FLDS kids? Money, power, religion and CPS. It’s a killer combination for Texas families.

Prairie Fire Journal documents the extensive “command and control” involvement of BCFS in the FLDS affair and poses pointed questions: [Read more →]

In way over their heads on the economy, the Democrat Party — now de-facto led by Barack Obama — is taking on a distinctly Marxist persona.  Surprise, surprise.  Foxnews reports that “House Democrats responded to President’s Bush’s call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling . . . by saying that the “government should own refineries to better control the flow of the oil supply [sic].”

Umm. Let’s see. What part of the gasoline supply chain do the Dumocrats not understand? Oil is short and going through roof, so we should do what? Nationalize the refineries? Here’s a primer on the process: [Read more →]

In the context of the recent, vicious beating by a gang of Florida public-school cheerleaders,

a homeschooling friend wrote:

[T]he number one complaint about homeschooling . . . is that our children do not get adequate socialization. Yesterday, there was an article at USA Today online about a high school teacher back east who was assaulted by her students. Last week there was the news of the third graders who conspired to knock out and stab their teacher. . . [Read more →]

The AP reports that corn futures (the price agreed today for delivery at a future date) hit a record $6 per bushel, yesterday, “driven up by an expected supply shortfall.” In other words, the amount of corn expected to be available wasn’t enough, at lower prices, to satisfy expected demand. About a year ago, USA Today (graphic below) and the New York Times bemoaned what was then viewed as a sharp rise in the price of corn: [Read more →]