The demagoguery on “trickle down” economics is reaching epic proportions again this election cycle. The inimitable Thomas Sowell explodes the lies and misdirection of the Left in this excellent treatise.
First the good news—for Al Gore and the rest of the catastrophic global warming alarmist crowd. Global warming is over. Ceased. Finito. Fertig. In fact, the news gets even better for you! Global warming ended sixteen years ago. That’s right. You’ve been working yourselves into a lather for nothing for almost two decades. Time to relax. Put away the Xanax. Now you can drive your car and heat or cool your home guilt-free. [What’s that, Al? Right. You never stopped and never experienced guilt for your hypocrisy. Have a seat.]
Now the bad news—for the Goracle and the catastrophic global warming researchers he’s helped fund. Your computer models are wrong. All wrong. Not merely flawed and in need of a tweak here or there. Wrong. You’ve been predicting that as CO2 levels increased because of human activity, the average global temperature would increase as well. The problem is that CO2 emissions have done nothing except increase, but temperatures have flatlined. Back to the drawing board with the lot of you. (So many of you should be ever so thankful for tenure. Results like that would get the rest of us fired.)
This is, of course, bad news for President Obama as well, and the timing couldn’t be worse. Just when he’s coming up for reelection we find out his destructive energy policy has been not only extravagantly expensive and economically disastrous, but wholly unnecessary. Ouch. I suppose it’s entirely coincidental—and rather unfortunate for the Windmill-in-Chief—that conservatives have been making exactly those three points throughout his term.
Now for the really bad news—for the rest of us who are forced to pay the price for this mess. None of this matters to two key groups: environmental Leftists, for whom worship of Gaia has replaced traditional religion; and bureaucratic Leftists, for whom the issue was never the environment anyway, but simply greater control wherever they can grab it. Each will continue to work as hard as possible to throttle our economy and limit our individual freedom.
There is a silver lining, however. Both of the last two groups have coalesced—in the U.S., anyway—into one body: the Democratic Party. For those of us who have maintained some semblance of sanity, this makes the task of identifying and eliminating the real source of hot air much simpler.
Washington Free Beacon Cutter: Benghazi Is Only an Issue ‘Because of Romney and Ryan’
Right. It has nothing at all to do with the ongoing refusal of your administration to tell the truth.
Rep. Mike Kelly@Washington Times Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts
WSJ:
Townhall:
Glenn Harlan Reynolds@USA Today Do you want your goat scruffy or shiny?
WSJ:
Townhall:
Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin Plant that received $150 million Dept. of Energy grant and hasn’t produced a single battery begins worker furloughs
A lesson liberals demonstrate a continuous refusal to learn is cropping up again: the law of unintended consequences. That their policies so frequently do more harm than good is deemed irrelevant because their intentions were good.
Before ObamaCare was rammed through Congress, conservatives warned that it would hurt workers, costing both income and jobs. Those warnings were, of course, ignored. Those smart and compassionate folks on the Left know better than we mean, dumb conservatives—and the bulk of Americans—do.
Chickens meet roost.
The Darden family of restaurants has announced that it is cutting workers’ hours to stay under the 30 hour per week trigger built into ObamaCare—above which employers are required to provide government-approved health insurance or pay hefty fines.
Liberals can’t say we didn’t warn you. But you’re also not likely to care enough to accept the responsibility. It just felt like the “right thing to do.” Of such is the road to hell paved.
USA Today ran a timely piece on the ugliness that overshadows much of Chicago.
The levels of violence and depredation are truly heartbreaking. The authors as well as the sociologists, authorities, and politicians they interviewed—including, sadly, those identified as Christian—have all kinds of great ideas. Education. Stricter rules and enforcement. Positive activities. Increased parental involvement. All good things.
None of which will work.
You see, their common failure is to acknowledge the root of Chicago’s ills: sin. And the only cure for that disease was crucified, buried, and resurrected almost 2,000 years ago. But it’s not politically correct to point that out.
And so the darkness continues…
Weekly Standard Princeton Economist: Obama Campaign Is Misrepresenting My Study on Romney’s Tax Plan
But don’t expect that to stop The One. Facts never do.
WSJ The Obama Matrix: Romney’s triumph came from exposing the President’s campaign illusions.
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Michelle Malkin:
National Legal and Policy Center Embassies Facing Security Cuts Waste Money on Chevy Volts
Environmentalists’ votes are more important than diplomats’ lives.
Washington Free Beacon Anti-Israel Advocate Reps U.S. at Rights Conference: Muslim leader who blamed Israel for 9/11 chosen to speak at OSCE human rights conference
The wonderful people our Dear Leader hangs out with.
Fox News Could new psychiatric guidelines change the standards for autism diagnosis?
This raises serious questions about the field of psychiatry, particularly since it impacts millions in wasted educational spending.
Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin CNN: White House’s story on Benghazi attack really doesn’t add up
Bret Stephens@WSJ Benghazi Was Obama’s 3 a.m. Call: Libya was a failure of policy and worldview, not intelligence.
Townhall:
In Washington, D.C., a man was robbed and beaten into a coma by three young thugs.
His only protection? A surveillance camera and nonexistent cops.
Why? In D.C. It is illegal to carry a concealed weapon for your own self-defense.
Remember folks, self-defense is not only your right, but when you need help now and the police are minutes (at best) away—it is your right.
InfoWars Bizarre TSA “Freeze” Security Drill Caught on Camera
The TSA has been relentlessly expanding its power beyond its statutory authority. Time for this insanity to end.
DailyCaller Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to murders of Mexican teenagers
Will the BATFE and DOJ be held accountable? Not by this administration.
Michelle Malkin:
Thomas Sowell@Townhall: Obama Versus Obama: Part III and Obama Versus Obama: Part IV
WSJ Study Shows Fiscal Cliff’s Broad Tax Hit
When your tax bill jumps, you’ll see very clearly the Left’s lie about “Bush’s tax cuts for the rich.”