Zero Base Thinking

The Climate Conundrum All the solar energy (insolation) that hits the planet is known, about 1366 watts per square meter. That sounds like ...

Greens are running out of solutions The religion of Thomas Malthus is running out of steam. A few of the adherents to this incoherent relig...

Malthusian Fears are Baseless The New York Times has a piece out today that explores a human future that is projected to surpass ten billi...

Never Again Caroline Glick at a meeting of (mostly) Jews on the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust, Yom ha Shoah . This something every Je...

Thoughts on climate alarmism The movement called AGW, or Anthropogenic Global Warming, is basically an anti-modern or Malthusian belief in...

Arguing with Democrats I spend way too much time on Facebook arguing with ideologues of the left - I don't know why. Yesterday I made a...

Has the green movement been a miserable flop? That's not my question, it is the headline of an article in The New Republic . No global ...

Obamas pay 26% federal income tax President Obama has released his 2010 tax returns today. On an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096 the O...

Alexander Cockburn makes quite a bit of sense Cockburn may be a dedicated socialist and a bit phobic about the hazards of nuclear power, b...

Barack the Magic Suit - A Political Fairy Tale

Obama's "Let 'em eat cake" moment. Aside from his revealing the contempt he has for regular Americans, he displays the fa...

The 800 Pound Gorilla

Altruism Altruism is one thing. Forced altruism at the point of a gun is not altruism at all. It is an immoral theft of property. Consider...

Political Labels I think our politics are suffused with mostly meaningless labels. Not only are they not very descriptive, they are in flux...

Obama's NCAA bracket - Epic fail So, we have a profoundly unserious president, who spends more time figuring out who will win the baske...

Thoughts on the renewal of the birth certificate issue The thing about the birth certificate issue being revived is, the president is the o...

Global warming zealots are self-destructive to their claimed goals We live in a dangerous world. There are threats and toxic substances eve...

Understanding Science Physical laws are described by mathematical relationships. Newton's laws of orbital mechanics apply well to objec...

Liberal vs. Conservative Yes, I know it is a bit hackneyed by now, but this is the best twelve minutes I have spent in at least a few days....