Challenging Green: On October 9, former prime minister of Australia Tony Abbott gave a noteworthy speech at the annual lecture of the Global Warming Policy Forum. Abbott is the former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, classical liberal. In his speech, Abbott challenged the false “climate consensus” and false belief accompanying it that solar…
MD Kittle
Elections Expert Questions Controversial Voter ID Study
Study author defends methodology, but tells MacIver election result would be the same [Madison, Wis…] A new study suggests Wisconsin’s voter ID law dissuaded thousands of potential Wisconsin voters in the liberal bastions of Dane and Milwaukee counties from casting ballots in the November presidential election. But perhaps the study’s most troubling number is its…
General
Research & Commentary: Virginia Should Pursue Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
In this Research & Commentary, Matthew Glans examines civil asset forfeiture and the potential for reform in Virginia. According to Virginia Watchdog, the civil asset forfeiture debate may soon reignite in Virginia. In 2015, the Virginia House of Delegates approved by a large margin a bill that would have required a criminal conviction before property…
Danny Yagan, Emmanuel Saez, John N. Friedman, Nicholas Turner, Raj Chetty
The Equality of Opportunity Project
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan Which colleges in America contribute the most to helping children climb the income ladder? How can we increase access to such colleges for children from low income families? We take a step…
Roy Spencer
Cracks in the Empire’s Armor Appear
Yesterday brought widespread news coverage of a new “study” published in Nature Geoscience which concludes that global warming has not been progressing as fast as expected, and that climate models might be a “little bit” wrong. (That the “little bit” is a factor of 2 or 3 is a fine point upon which we won’t…
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.
How Did We Reduce the Death Rate from Hurricanes by 98.5%?
It was inevitable that global warming alarmists like Al Gore would blame mankind for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Why? Well, with folks saying global warming causes over 600 other things—from longer plane flights to summer frost in Africa, from a beer shortage to beetle infestation, from struggling brothels to declining rates of circumcision, from early…