As I have posted before: Fossil fuels have done more to improve the lot of the poor than ANYTHING ELSE in the past, or ANYTHING proposed by the benevolent elite. ============ By Donald J. Boudreaux March 27, 2015 5:56 p.m. ET Richard Branson,Arianna Huffington and several other business icons recently called on world leaders to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Such a... Read more
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Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The Right, Western CivilizationI couldn’t agree more with Mr. Scalia. And I consider myself way on the conservative end of the scale. We don’t diss math because white collar criminals use it. We don’t speak against sex because some men rape women. Why don’t we think and discuss liberal education the same way? ======= By Christopher J. Scalia March 27, 2015 6:07 p.m. ET Dismissing the... Read more
Indiana Religious Freedom Law Sparks Fury
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Religious Persecution, US ConstitutionI wish people would cool down and think. Let’s read the law. Let’s try to understand what the law is trying to protect. Sounds like most of the vocal protesters are arguing from the vantage point of a problem that hasn’t happened. Do they REALLY think that ALL BUSINESSS in Indiana will begin discriminating against x and y and z... Read more
Environmental Religion
March 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, The LeftVery good argument, indeed. ============ From a speech by the late novelist Michael Crichton to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, 2003: Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully,... Read more
The Left’s Recusal Gambit
March 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The LeftI have to hand it to them for creativity. And I might need to assail the court if it doesn’t use some common sense. ======== Updated March 16, 2015 4:47 p.m. ET If you’re a special prosecutor who keeps losing on the law, try rigging the judges. That’s the gambit in Wisconsin, where special prosecutor Francis Schmitz has filed a motion prodding judges... Read more
Obama’s Iran Jam
March 17 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Obama, Republican(s)Republican Party – please, please, show just a little bit of intelligence and backbone. =============== March 15, 2015 6:44 p.m. ET One unfortunate side effect of last week’s letter from 47 GOP Senators to Iran is that it has helped the White House and its media friends obscure the far more important story—the degree to which President Obama is trying to prevent... Read more
