Should we give Washington still more power over our lives – or “Take back control” Independence Day weekend is a perfect time to reflect on personal freedoms and responsibilities. The Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence were about overbearing, despotic kings. Brexit, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, was much about overbearing bureaucrats in…
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Is This the Best America Can Do?
On November 8, 2016, American voters will have a choice to make. Unfortunately, they don’t have much to choose from. Out of 318 million Americans, it is truly appalling that the best we can muster for the 2016 U.S. presidential election are two interminably-flawed candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Neither deserves to be in…
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Wisconsin made right choice in declining Medicaid expansion
If your family was making $75,000 annually and a lender offered to pay your mortgage for the first few years if you purchased a home worth $3 million, would you take that deal? I’m confident most people would be smart enough to turn it down because once the financial assistance ends, you’d be on the…
Featured Posts, István Markó, Willie Soon
Bill Nye the Scientism Guy
Facts don’t support his hypothesis, so he shouts louder, changes subjects and attacks his critics True science requires that data, observations and other evidence support a hypothesis – and that it can withstand withering analysis and criticism – or the hypothesis is wrong. That’s why Albert Einstein once joked, “If the facts don’t fit your…
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California Moves to Make Global Warming Skepticism Illegal
“All right, Briggsy. We know you’re in there! Throw out your notes on improved cloud parameterizations in general circulation models and come out with your hands up!” “You’ll never get me, copper! You want me? Come and get me!” “It’s no use, Skeptic! We’ve got the place surrounded. We’ve cut off your Twitter feed and…
Featured Posts, Larry Bell
Russia, China Missiles Overcome All Defenses
Last month, Russia and China each demonstrated hypersonic vehicles capable of rapidly delivering nuclear warheads to any locations in the world, with no present or near-term interception defense. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin compared the importance of these new weapons as on par with nuclear arms development. He declared, “Whoever is first to achieve”…