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My Mom is as Qualified as Sarah Palin to be Vice President

She’s Even as Qualified as Barack Obama and John McCain to be President Allow me to indulge in a child’s old adage: My mom is as qualified as your mom to be vice president. Upon such a claim many will naturally ask what my mother’s qualifications...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sat, Sep 6 2008

Republican Establishment Fascism

The current Republican Party establishment has just proved their fascism during the RNC. While their rhetoric may seem to support limited government, individual responsibility, and "democracy" their actions during the convention prove otherwise...

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Fri, Sep 5 2008

Filed under: RNC, republicians, fascism

Government at large.

I am a libertarian free market amateur economist, which will become clear either now, or within future blogs. I call myself an amateur in the sense that I have not yet attained a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in economics, although I am in pursuit of all...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Fri, Sep 5 2008

Filed under: liberty, government, constitution, people

Education Indoctrination

One thing that is often misinterpreted is that certain institutions get their prestige because of what they produce. Although this has at times in the past been true, it is not to be automatically assumed at this point in American history. Many of the...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Fri, Sep 5 2008

Filed under: USA, life, president, Education, politics

Race Relations

A constant problem in the developed world has been the relation of races with each other. People are destined to judge each other for one reason or another, and the laziest/easiest way to do so has always been to judge based on how others look. Judging...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Fri, Sep 5 2008

Filed under: racism, USA, Race, life, president

Envirofascists at Heritage Foundation worry about China's environmental problems

The bleeding-heart liberal do-gooders! Puzzlingly, this Heritage Foundation essay completely fails to mention the predominant role of the state and the lack of property rights in generating the problem. They make Tom Friedman seem like the real advocate...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Sep 4 2008

Filed under: Enviro Derangement Syndrome, China, Kuznets, Heritage Foundation

RNC: Making a non-unanimous vote unanimous

The RNC vote for the presidentially nominee was appalling. John McCain received 2000+, Ron Paul 11 votes, Romney 2 votes. The roll call counted the vote as Ron Paul 5 votes, Romney 2 votes. But at the very end, their was a motion made to make the non...

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Thu, Sep 4 2008

Filed under: RNC, vote, voting

Lomborg misapplies the "Copenhagen Consensus" to ignore carbon pricing and yet argue for massive government investments in clean energy

I copy below comments I made on a related thread at Roger Pielke, Jr .'s Prometheus science policy blog, regarding recent duelling op-eds on climate change policy between the left-leaning Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg and economist...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Sep 4 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, lomborg, pielke jr., Richard Tol, climate change, Yohe, Copenhagen

Can a soundbite really capture market action?

Each day, the financial news channels tell us why the markets were up, or why they were down. But do they really know why ? Can it be summed up so nicely in a simple soundbite? Let's think about it for a second: Every day there are millions of different...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Wed, Sep 3 2008

Filed under: stock market

Pickens, with "a mission" as a wind crusader, shakes John Kerry's hand

More from the National Review 's "Planet Gore" corner . My reaction? While we do need investments in power transmission infrastructure , do it with your own money, T. Boone . While I, along with many others, could support a rebated carbon...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Sep 2 2008

Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, power, Pickens, transmission

NYT on capacity problems in our regional/national power distribution grids; do we regulate or deregulate?

The New York Times has an interesting article that points out how the use of new wind and solar capacity is being hobbled by power distribution limitations , which limits result in part from the reluctance of state regulators to approve projects that...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Sep 1 2008

Filed under: power, Kiesling, storage, distribution

Solar vs. deserts; or how "public" ownership of resources produces zero-sum political fights over preferences

Ron Bailey , Science Correspondent of Reason Online , reported recently "how some environmental groups are fighting the development of utility-scale solar power in the Mojave Desert." As I have posted elsewhere on the role our government plays...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Sep 1 2008

Filed under: AGW, ANWR, OCS, royalties, federal land, solar

Tom Friedman/NYT roots for freedom and property rights as ways to propel Chinese progress along the enviro Kuznets curve

Here's the money quote from Tom Friedman 's interesting op-ed at the Sunday New York Times : " The problem for the ruling Communist Party is this: China can’t have a greener society without empowering citizens to become watchdogs and...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Sep 1 2008

Filed under: Enviro Derangement Syndrome, China, Kuznets

Jim Manzi/Cato: Climate progressives?

Jim Manzi has just posted the close-out essay in the online forum (at Cato Unbound ) that the Cato Institute has devoted recently to the issues of climate change risks and policy. I alerted readers to the Cato effort and provide comments here , here and...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Aug 31 2008

Filed under: government, AGW, climate change, Cato, Jim Manzi

Technology Entrepreneurs & Statism

I just read Tim Swanson's latest post on LRC. It talks about Obama's proposal for a Chief Technology Officer, and how several key people in the tech industry are supporting it. As someone who pays close attention to the technology industry, I've...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sat, Aug 30 2008

Filed under: technology

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My Mom is as Qualified as Sarah Palin to be Vice President

Republican Establishment Fascism

Government at large.

Education Indoctrination

Race Relations

Envirofascists at Heritage Foundation worry about China's environmental problems

RNC: Making a non-unanimous vote unanimous

Lomborg misapplies the "Copenhagen Consensus" to ignore carbon pricing and yet argue for massive government investments in clean energy

Can a soundbite really capture market action?

Pickens, with "a mission" as a wind crusader, shakes John Kerry's hand

NYT on capacity problems in our regional/national power distribution grids; do we regulate or deregulate?

Solar vs. deserts; or how "public" ownership of resources produces zero-sum political fights over preferences

Tom Friedman/NYT roots for freedom and property rights as ways to propel Chinese progress along the enviro Kuznets curve

Jim Manzi/Cato: Climate progressives?

Technology Entrepreneurs & Statism