By now, just about everybody who closely follows the news should have heard of “Climategate”, the leaking or hacking of emails and other files from the servers of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the main center for climate research in the United Kingdom, and the main keeper of the … Read more Climategate: why it matters
After decades of being forced to choose between voting for the lesser of two evils or wasting our votes on someone whose chance of winning was considerably less than that of the proverbial snowball in Hell, we libertarians — at long last — may have found in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a Presidential candidate … Read more Sarah Palin: a candidate for libertarians?
The nerve of those people! They actually think members of Congress are interested in getting constituents’ input on legislation. Don’t they know that the purpose of a town hall meeting is to give a Congressman free publicity — to provide him a platform for giving another campaign speech and provide sound bites for the 11 … Read more Those town hall protests
Simon Property Group which, according to its website, is the “largest public U. S. real estate company”, has made it clear that it doesn’t want pro-freedom people on its property. At least, that’s the message the company has sent in two of its actions in the past month. This week, the Charlotte, NC, station News … Read more Boycott Simon Property Group
Back in December 2004 the magazine Science published science historian Naomi Oreskes’ summary of an analysis of the abstracts of the peer-reviewed scientific studies dealing with climate change that had been published between 1993 and 2003. In the article, Oreskes reported that, of the 928 abstracts analyzed, fully 75 percent endorsed or accepted the hypothesis … Read more Climate change and Keynesianism