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Sunday, November 27, 2011

They Can Run, But They Can’t Hide Their Crimes Forever

The scoundrels masquerading as climate scientist already have motivated billions of dollars of wasted public funds as “investments” in uneconomic green boondoggles and inflicted unnecessary increases in energy costs on the public, hurting the poor more than anyone else.

Benny Peiser spotlights BBC In Cahoots With Climategate Scientists

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Self-Destructive Economic Ignorance

George Reisman on Occupy Wall Street

Monday, November 14, 2011

A Provocative Foreign Policy Perspective

How Civilizations Die

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Self Reliance

Then and now.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Where Keynes Went Wrong

What if government spending depresses instead of stimulates?

Friday, November 11, 2011

Michael Moore

Liberal-progressive multiculturalism - our educational euphemism for the one-world-government aspiration of socialism - begets virulent anti-Americanism.  Michael Moore, a voluble exemplar of that ethos, understandably is drawn to the liberal media frenzy surrounding the Occupy Wall Street demonstration.

For additional background information, read about Moore’s encomium to Castro and his slandering of anti-Castro Cubans.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Monetary Inflation

SOS! As the Dollar Sinks, So Goes the Recovery

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Global Warming and Gnostic Paganism

The modern irruption of religious gnosticism, exemplified in the philosophical materialism of socialism, is a paradigm in which an intellectual elite see themselves alone possessed of special knowledge to restructure societies and perfect human life here on earth. 

That sort of hubristic pretension to knowledge is simply a liberal-progressive urge to supplant our Creator God.  It was described thousands of years ago in the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge to become like God.  Such pretension has always resulted in expulsion from Eden.

Lenin and Stalin, backed by their American liberal-progressive supporters, were prepared to liquidate tens of millions of citizens in order to impose socialistic materialism, believing they were creating social, political, and economic perfection for future generations.  Today’s believers in man-made global warming are prepared to wreck the world economy, casting millions of people into penury, to finance their schemes for reduction of so-called greenhouse gases.

Read this excerpt from Cardinal George Pell’s Global Warming

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Democrat/Socialist Prefers Unemployment To Non-Union Jobs

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Energy Department

Jonathan Tobin Comments on the Commentary website.

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In testimony before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, Gregory Friedman, the DOE