Instapundit linked to a piece on Bjorn Lomberg in Newsweek. I found the following contradiction interesting..
Think of it this way: you spend bushels of R&D money to invent an efficient windmill and use it to cut, say, 100 tons of carbon per year. The cost per ton would be exorbitant. But once the blueprints […]

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Rumors are flying today that a ‘GPhone’ is soon to be announced.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has already shown its prototype to US companies AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, making it seem clear the Google Phone’s launch will definitely take place in the United States.
Indian blog Rediff said the GPhone will be launched […]

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An interesting comparison. What is more important, talking the talk, or walking the walk?

House #1 A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more […]

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There are a few things that people can do that immediately make me question their intelligence. Well, maybe not necessarily their intelligence, but definitely their wisdom. Dungeons and Dragons taught me they are different scales, hehe.. After the fold, a few of them in no particular order.

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Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.
- Ludwig Von Mises

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My blog seemed to be too serious today, so in order to instantly provide a jolt of cutesy goodness.. PUPPIES!!

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Much like in Stalin’s day, there’s nothing the left likes better than a nice purge.
Rep. Brian Baird’s (D-Wash.) recent conversion on the Iraq war is beginning to affect more than the national dialogue. On Wednesday, liberal group MoveOn.org announced an ad campaign against the congressman in his own district.
Baird recently returned from a trip to […]

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By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbors, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

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Castro picks Hillary.
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.
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“The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate,” he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on […]

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This one is simple.
We have an underclass because we pay to have one. I do not mean that to be a glib remark, from which it could be inferred that, if we were to stop paying for one, it would magically disappear. What I mean is that 60 years of welfarism, far from raising people […]

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Libertarians are the bisexuals of politics. Both sides think we’re secretly on the other side, or just in denial about it.
- Pax Dickinson

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I guess I’m also going to use this blog to record results of my Sunday poker games, because why not? I used to keep a spreadsheet with wins and losses but it was kind of anal, so I’ll just casually record here what happens each week for shits and giggles.

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An interesting article on the living conditions of the American poor.
Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrig­erator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. […]

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The speech is from a couple of years ago, but is still as relevant as ever. This is a classic piece, and sums up most of what’s wrong with the current global warming hysteria

Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. […]

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What’s just has been debated for centuries but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you – and why?
-Dr. Walter Williams

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Here at work we were discussing the difficulty Greek firefighters are having putting out their wildfires, and we realized why.
You can’t just throw water on a Greece fire.

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Complying with the W.T.O. ruling, Professor Jackson said, would require Congress and the Bush administration either to reverse course and permit Americans to place bets online legally with offshore casinos or, equally unlikely, impose an across-the-board ban on all forms of Internet gambling — including the online purchase of lottery tickets, participation in Web-based pro […]

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But then what else is new?

Today, the ghost of Tom Joad inhabits the body of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who spies a monster scarier than banks: lenders who offer subprime mortgages. Contemplating the plight of their customers, some of whom are finding it hard to meet their obligations, he demands new controls to shackle the […]

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“Need” now means wanting someone else’s money. “Greed” means wanting to keep your own. “Compassion” is when a politician arranges the transfer.
- Joseph Sobran

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An epic battle of apathetic grandeur. Long but funny, it’s a modern updating of the classic “Upper Class Twit of the Year” Monty Python sketch.

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