Monthly Archives: June 2012

The answer to Matt Taibbi’s multi-trillion dollar question

After the 2008 election, Democrats controlled the House, Senate and White House. What happened? The Fed and government subsidized and loaned trillions of dollars to bail out selected crony Wall Street companies and “green” corporate cronies of Democrats, and provided … Continue reading

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Is Bleeding Heart Liberalism Psychologically Unhealthy?

One obvious question is whether there is anything systematically different about the way American liberals and conservatives support their words with personal giving.  Let’s take a look at the study which is referenced by blog articles and by the newspaper … Continue reading

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Media Bias

Media Bias 101: “Surveys over the past 30 years have consistently found that journalists — especially those at the highest ranks of their profession — are much more liberal than rest of America. They are more likely to vote liberal, … Continue reading

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The Obama Administration is in Contempt of Court and Congress

Congress should simultaneously vote on contempt for both Holder and Napolitano. Napolitano (and by implication Obama) just poked both SCOTUS and Congress in the eye. SCOTUS should charge Janet Napolitano with contempt of court…but SCOTUS has no means of enforcement … Continue reading

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Sussing the motive behind Fast and Furious

This is tangential research to the case against Holder and possibly Obama on Fast and Furious. It speaks to their probable motive in Fast and Furious… i.e. to shut down gun retailers and gun sales. Summary: how federal intimidation of … Continue reading

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Energy Rocks Our World: Reprise

Energy Rocks Our World June 17, 2012 at 9:27 am Affordable, reliable energy – a big reason most children now make it to adulthood. Back in 1990, green activist David Suzuki had this to say about human beings:  there are too many of us; we … Continue reading

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Our Government is Out of Control. Updated September 15, 2012

In just 12 months between 2007 and 2008, Washington tripled the federal deficit from $161 billion to $459 billion, and the Bush administration, Congress and the Fed all swore that this was a one time event.  They lied.  Washington tripled … Continue reading

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[Part of one day] Last Weekend, Half of Germany Was Running on Solar Power. (How did they do it?)

Re: http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/half-germany-was-powered-solar.html And the U.S. is waiting for….what?  The quick answer is that solar costs too much and pollutes too much.  Be very careful what you ask for.  In any case, that treehugger headline is very deceptive.  It was a … Continue reading

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Effect of an Energy Price Increase on Real Economic Growth

“Just as labor is an important input in the production of goods and services, so is energy. An increase in the price of energy reflects a relative shortage of energy from what previously was the case. Just as the price … Continue reading

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Population, Poverty, Politics and Socionomics

Liberal/progressive dogma and main stream media all too frequently claim that an increasing gap between rich and poor is somehow unfair, or socially unjust.  This gap conflicts somehow with their “so-called liberal” notions of fairness and social justice.  I say … Continue reading

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