Laudato Si
A few notables floating around…
- I read a book about the VA recommended by a cousin. The book raved about how great the system was, and how we should socialize all medicine for the same reasons the VA works. Sounds like people are backpedaling from those types of generalizations now.But I did ask my cousin what he thinks of the book now, in light of this scandal. His answer? More government intervention is needed into medicine, to make sure this doesn’t happen again anywhere else. You can lead an ass to water…
- In America there is now 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations, 1,500 TV stations, and 2,400 publishers…… all owned by just six different corporations.
- Guns are not worthy of the fearmongering surrounding them on the left.
- Climate change isn’t as black and white as people pretend. And the trends being predicted are all wrong.
- The NSA is changing the way law enforcement is done, and it should terrify you.
- Cronyism and lobbying will likely end up increasing prices for airline customers.
- The Phillips Curve doesn’t pan out in reality – inflation and unemployment are not linked.
- States with more income redistribution have more inequality.
- The rate at which American police departments are being militarized is increasing. They are preparing for war.
- Is Wiki Wednesday a Wiki waste?
- “Earlier this month the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture taking 47% of a farmer’s harvest does not violate the Fifth Amendment’s taking clause as long as it does not drive up prices.” Ugh.
- On a spectrum of various countries, what does our freedom look like and cost? Here is the regulatory burden of the US compared internationally.
- You are not likely a scientific illiterate if you don’t believe in evolution. I don’t agree with you, but I at least won’t make fun.
- Personal freedom in America update: Don’t spray paint a flag or you’ll go to jail; Don’t swear or get fined. Yep, still free.
- Don’t fear GMOs.
- People who pull the “white privilege” card are bigots, plain and simple.
- The 97% consensus on AGW isn’t real.
- The Koran is factually erroneous and poorly written.
- 70+% taxes on the rich have never existed in the US.