Zero Base Thinking

Thoughts on the Debt Ceiling Make no mistake, both sides are being equally dishonest in this thing. Pretending that "deficit reduction...

Science was better in the 60s I was reading Luboš Motl's fine physics blog and came across this fine post about stratospheric aerosols...

Thoughts on TSA and Airline Security I remember the days when anyone could get on a plane with a pistol and nobody cared. I remember the da...

Electric Cars And The Future In the 50s the Soviet Union made Thorium reactors and put them in buoys and lighthouses that provided electri...

Environmentalists are Cargo Cultists Cargo Cults were belief systems developed by primitive tribes to make sense of parachute resupply pall...

Science, or "Science?" Science has no place for consensus. "Science" does. In science, one puts forth a hypothesis and ...

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...