via: urbancure.org Studies show that it’s family and education that produces success in America. Income correlates with education and education correlates with family background Black History Month 2010 is not a great time for a party. Unemployment at almost 10%, and well over 16% among blacks, doesn’t make for much of a festive mood. But [...]
Archive for February, 2010
23 Feb
A Time of Universal Deceit
Our national history began by asserting “self evident truths” by Star Parker Americans, not surprisingly, are feeling cynical. Gallup’s just released Honesty and Ethics of Professions poll shows that for the first time, a majority — 55 percent — rate members of the U.S. House of Representatives low/very low for honesty and ethics. Senators come in [...]
21 Feb
The Demo-gogues
“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.” –Thomas Jefferson The Demo-gogues It’s “Joe Biden Week” at the White House The BIG Lie: “[Taxpayers have] gotten their money’s worth [out of the $787 billion stimulus].” –Vice President Joe Biden Which administration? “I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of [...]
21 Feb
Warfighting 101
“A universal peace … is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” –James Madison The Long Road Ahead I spent much of the last week participating in a national security forum organized by the Air War College and hosted [...]
21 Feb
See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Report Nothing
Glacier? What glacier? “Avoid the term ‘global warming,’” advises New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. “I prefer the term ‘global weirding,’ because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes.” Friedman, who proves that anyone can be a climatologist, goes on to explain that with global warming, “The weather gets [...]
16 Feb
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing There has been no global warming since 1995 Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes Data: Professor Phil Jones admitted his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’ The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose [...]
16 Feb
Climate scientist Phil Jones: No global warming since 1995
The scientist at the center of the climategate scandal made a rather important admission during an interview with the BBC. Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.And he said that for the past 15 years there has [...]
4 Feb
I, Government
via: thefreemanonline.org I am government-the institution known the world over to all who pay taxes, get subsidies, and face regulation. Coercion is both my vocation and my avocation; it is in my very nature to compel others to do that which they otherwise would not do. My nature should then be of great concern to [...]
