Shouting Fire
The details of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”global warming” fraud get worse. They seem less like reality than something from a satirical novel. The …
Bank on it
President Obama responded to media outrage over the resumption of Wall Street bonuses by proposing a series of ambitious new regulations of the American banking …
Battle of the Books
Jerome David (“J.D.”) Salinger wrote what may be the most influential American novel of the 20th century, “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951). “Catcher” is …
Going, Going, Gone
I enjoy auctions. Charity, art, real estate, foreclosure – you name it, I’m interested in the bidding for it. To me, auctions are refreshingly candid …
Awareness in “Abundence”
Andrew Stern is the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He’s a big supporter of Barack Obama. In early December, something was published …
Tempest in a Teapot
It was synchronicity that, weeks before UN Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen, news broke that scientists influential in the I I climate change” (formerly the”global …
Flyaway
The Obama White House stumbled this fall when it issued an ill-advised press release claiming that the $787 billion federal economic stimulus plan had “created …
Truth and Purple Prose
In a widely-quoted interview, popular investment newsletter publisher Marc Faber told Bloomberg: I am 100% sure that the u.S. will go into hyperinflation. The problem …
It’s a Process
The Leviathan is a transformational creature. It consumes good ideas and defecates ridiculous laws. A generation ago, Milton Freidman proposed a system of tradable pollution …
Commitment to Opacity
On an operational level, the Obama administration is practically indistinguishable from the immediately previous Bush administration, which was pretty mendacious. To paraphrase The Who’s Pete …