“Greenhouse Effect” At the July 15-17 Albuquerque meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, Christopher Essex explained the distinction between the “greenhouse effect” and what happens in real greenhouses. In both cases, there is incoming sunlight, and in both cases there is IR radiating from the heated surface, and there are phenomena like evaporation and…
Voice of Jerusalem
31 Opportunities for Statehood Squandered in Favor of Genocide
By David Meir-Levi Part 1 of 3 The first such opportunity arose in 1937 when the Peel Commission recommended the partition of British Mandatory Palestine west of the Jordan River. The Jews would get about 15% of that territory, with the other 85% going to the Arabs, and to a small corridor from Tel Aviv…
Glen Grothman
A Busy Six Months
By Glen Grothman Among other things, the Legislature and Governor Walker have: Passed a state budget (2011 Act 32) on time, without tax increases, that leaves Wisconsin in the black for the first time in over a decade: • Turned a $3 billion deficit into a $300 million surplus • Instituted the first permanent property…
One Nation under God
Big Brother at His Worst
Dear Friend of CV, The Catholic Church in America will be forced to fund contraception and sterilizations? In America? For real? Right now President Obama’s handpicked Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is preparing to decide on a new regulation (under Obamacare) that would eventually require virtually all insurance plans (including private plans)…
Richard P. Rumelt
Reignite growth with new productive investments. World War II Stimulus and the Postwar Boom.
The government didn’t increase personal consumption, it enforced thrift. And investment is what’s needed now, not an election-year pop. By Richard P. Rumelt Despite two years of fiscal and monetary stimulus, the U.S. economy is sagging. This has renewed the argument over the usefulness of more stimulus, and many of its proponents make an analogy…
General
California Governor, Jerry Brown, Betrays Children – Signs SB 48
CA state leaders gives California families a choice, submit or lose property and liberty. SB 48 was introduced by Sen. Mark Leno (D-SF) and passed by the CA Senate and CA Assembly on party line votes…Democrats for and Republicans against. This bill is so bad that even the LA Times editorialized against it. Governor Jerry…