Prejudice Subordinates Judgement Every Time

Alexis de Tocqueville was a fucking prophet. I’m thinking of starting a religion. Can anyone guess what I’m reading? Here’s a hint:
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Well, here’s another:
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. [...]

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Climate Modeling, Redux

Gregory Young over at American Thinker wrote a great post about climate modeling. I can’t complain about most of it. It’s the same stuff I’ve screamed time and time again.
I do take offense at one issue. Here’s the quote that sums the issue:
Like all modeling, one attempts to study the past through scientific observation, accurately and [...]

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“Fossil” Fuels

Note from the Editors: We can only be thankful that Prudie isn’t writing about bodily functions. (Poor Euphrenia still remains ill over dear Prudie’s last post.) Though, we are worried that some people in this religion Prudie mentions will be angry over what she wrote. They do seem quite unreasonable.

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Baby Steps

Reject Society has a great post up about Socialism. The comments are down over there, so I’m going to comment here on Collin Williams’ post. The quoted portions are from the post at Reject Society. You don’t need to read the post at Reject Society* to understand what I’m writing about below, but you should read it anyway. [...]

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It Couldn’t Happen Here

Oh really?
Many of the ideas behind US legislation originates in Europe and the UK. So you better believe that this scares me. If such random searches were to happen here, they would be, of course, for our own good.
Isn’t what they always say? Who cares if it hurts? Who cares if your rights are violated? Who cares if the presumption of [...]

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