Non-daily Digest
Townhall — Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret: Cancer
Think “green” energy such as solar and wind are clean and safe? Not for the impoverished Chinese miners whose labor provides the rare-earth metals our government won’t let us mine here. Not only are their industrial methods unsafe, their mining technology is driven by…very dirty coal and oil. The small amount of CO2 we avoid by replacing cheap, reliable clean coal with expensive, spotty wind and solar is more than made up by the real pollutants spewed into the environment in Asia. Don’t hear the Goracle talk about that very often, now, do ya?
Real Clear Markets — Can the Youth Vote Be Bought For a Trillion Dollars?
You bet it can. You might even talk me into supporting it if you added a condition that only useful majors—math, physics and other sciences, pre-med, etc., rather than “womyn’s woes” and “minority grievance studies”—need apply. On a related note…
LA Times — Student loans add to angst at Occupy Wall Street
Many of the twentysomethings protesting in Manhattan have racked up sizable debts, and some are left to wonder whether their diplomas may be worth less than their cardboard signs.
Answer: yes, your diploma is worthless. You should have studied something that has real market value rather than “capitalist oppression of modern subversive poets” or “literary merits of gay S&M porn.”
NY Times — Distrust of Government Grows Amid Fears, Poll Finds
Wow, it took a poll to figure that out? But this is really rich:
The combustible climate helps explain the volatility of the presidential race and has provided an opening for protest movements like Occupy Wall Street…
Someone need to correct a cranio-rectal inversion. The OWS folks are asking for more government intervention—regulations, salary caps, student loan bailouts, etc. It is the dreaded Tea Party groups that have been clamoring for less.
CNN — Federal judge temporarily bars Florida’s welfare drug-test law
“Perhaps no greater public interest exists than protecting a citizen’s rights under the constitution,” the judge wrote…
Which article or amendment makes welfare a right? As an automobile driver I can be randomly stopped by a DUI task force but the same state can’t screen welfare applicants for drug use?