SmartPlanet is a fairly level headed journalist’s blog, but definitely one oriented towards the environmentalist’s default positions. Here’s an excerpt from today’s post:
So now what? Climate change needs a do-over on many fronts. First, the science has to be scrubbed. There’s enough doubt here to give folks serious [...]
Some quick excerpts of what others are saying.
[...]Mark Calabria asks the right questions. An excerpt:
The fact that Rep. Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Fed currently has 313 co-sponsors is a clear indication that Congress is unhappy with the Fed’s lack of transparency. Bernanke’s lobbying efforts against the Paul bill have had little traction. When it [...]
I'm still thinking about this fascinating article from the NYT magazine last week, titled "Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?". Here are two excerpts:
...one of the earth’s last large reserves of underused land is the billion-acre Guinea Savannah zone, a crescent-shaped swath that runs east across Africa all the [...]
Here. Excellent. An excerpt:
The closed-mindedness of these supposed men of science, their willingness to go to any lengths to defend a preconceived message, is surprising even to me. The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering. And, as Christopher Booker argues, this scandal is not at the margins of [...]
The column is here and one excerpt is this:
China uses American spending power to enlarge its private sector, while America uses Chinese lending power to expand its public sector.
A longer excerpt is this:
China has been building factories and production capacity in virtually every sector of its economy, but it’s [...]
Hi, me again. In reading through some of the comments on my prior post where it was linked or excerpted on some other blogs, I discovered some folks were reading my post as claiming that the gap between the poor and rich was shrinking. It wasn't. My post [...]
I've had many readers emailing me, asking what I think of the "trove" of emails unearthed from climate change researchers. I'll admit I haven't read through the rather embarrassing revelations, I've only read a few media summaries and excerpts. I see a few lessons:
1. Do not criticize other [...]
Why did a government funded scientific agency have a marketing plan for how to sell anthropogenic global warming to the public on its servers?
Here’s an excerpt:
The language we use to describe the challenge of climate change is huge, hyperbolic [...]
The WSJ’s Greg Zuckerman has a new book out titled, The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History.
Here is an excerpt from his recent WSJ column on lessons on the subject:
1 Don’t Rely on [...]. . . and decides that it is just unnecessarily superb. Excerpts:
The Bugatti shifts occupants around like a Star Trek transporter: from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in 2.7 seconds, to 125 m.p.h. in just over 7 seconds and on to [...]
Chris Coyne
David Saito-Chung has an article at Investor's Business Daily on how "Joseph Schumpeter spoke out for Capitalism."
Here is an excerpt:
In his view, classes did not form because of capitalism. They formed because people spent more time with other people of the same background, interests and social standing. Schumpeter argued [...]
1. The vote to defund political science: how it went.
2. Jason Kottke doesn't read books anymore.
3. "Food rewards obsessiveness," the best eater in the United States. The full article is gated (the link offers only an excerpt), so buy the 9 November New Yorker. I don't usually [...]
