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[The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG] The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam « The Libertarian ...: And in 1991 Revelle teamed up with Chauncey Starr, founding director of the Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, to write an article for Cosmos magazine. They urged more research and begged scientists and governments not to move too fast to curb greenhouse CO2 emissions because the true impact of carbon dioxide was not at all certain and curbing the use of fossil fuels could have a huge negative impact on the economy and jobs and our standard of living.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » In My Defense, Al Gore Was Wearing ...: It took me about a year to realize that libertarianism and laissez faire capitalism are pipe dreams and would serve only to increase misery and lead to the most extreme have/havenot split in human history. 83. March 25th, 2010 at 11:08 am .... But not even Gore's lockbox could come to the rescue of a declining economy. 106. March 25th, 2010 at 11:52 am. BenA. @SGEW: I don't know”¦ I still get a little bit of a kick out of saying it to most Naderites and Firebaggers”¦ ...

[Greta Christina's Blog] Greta Christina's Blog: Reactionaries: Readers: For the sweet love of Loki, I beg you: Do not let this thread to turn into another pointless atheosphere debate about Ayn Rand and libertarianism. I don't have the stomach for it.

[NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation] Politics At The Dinner Table, or Losing Your Lunch - Blog of the ...: So it was with trepidation this year that I actually wrote friends and family a long, well-researched e-mail about why I was supporting Barack Obama, in particular because I was afraid Hillary would just bring back the old Clinton-Bush dynasty status-quo of divisive politics and disappointing results. After the Bush years, I think I finally found a true reformer.

[Mario Piperni dot Com] Mario Piperni dot Com » Blog Archive » Why Teabaggers are ...: Clinton, with a democratic congress and senate, tries to force many liberal agendas through. The voter’s revolt and put republicans in charge for the first time since 1947.

[Ezra Klein] Ezra Klein: No Wage Growth For You!: He's not just disagreeing with people, he's pleading ignorance. To rebut him you don't even have to prove that inequality is bad--you merely have to show that it's reasonable to think that inequality is bad--either you believe some factual assertion not obviously false that would make inequality likely unjust, or you would hold some normative assumption not obviously alien that would imply that inequality is bad.

[Militant Libertarian] Civil Liberties in Obama's America: Leftists will have to make a choice - bail on their civil libertarianism, as most did under FDR, defending Japanese Internment and national command economics, or bailing on their dream of creating social paradise, or even fostering society, through the violent means of central planning. We must be there to explain how it all goes together, and although I am pessimistic we will break most of Obama’s groupies out of the hypnotic delusions of his professorial and literate American Idol authoritarianism, we will convince some, even many, one by one, to abandon the rot of soft socialism that has plagued the American left since World War I, and instead embrace the only ethic that can morally transcend Bush’s and Obama’s dungeons, wiretaps and crackdowns on dissent: The ethic of anti-state libertarianism grounded in private property.

[The Skeptical Optimist] The Skeptical Optimist: Why so much fuss over the national debt ...: So, if you agree with the underlying message at this blog (i.e., that a managed level of debt can be harmless, even desirable, in a growing economy), and you'd like to help inject some sanity into the debate this year, here's the deal: Copy the two generic letters to the editor (below) to a convenient place on your computer; then, whenever you spot someone whining about the debt while ignoring our growing ability to service the debt, submit a response by using either the short or the long version below, whichever you think is more appropriate. 

[ProjectVirginia] How Technology Changed American Politics in the Internet Age ...: “If you ask people what [they] do for a candidate, now I think most people know that they can go to events and get other people to support them whereas 10 years ago it wouldn’t even be possible. It’s really changed people’s sense of possibility in terms of their potential interaction with a campaign.”

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Destroying the ...: That decreased mobility certainly impacts the interstate job market.Plus, like the grain in Wickard, when you buy coverage for health care, you are buying lots of stuff that comes through interstate commerce.How many doctors’ offices or hospitals are stocked with only in-state goods? The wacky US health care market even affects international commerce.Europeans pay for health care in part through taxes that cover even goods made in the US but sold in Europe.So US corporations end up paying for European care through decreased pricing potential.US companies must also pass on the costs of US health care to their international customers because it’s a cost of doing business.So US companies pay for both US and European health care, but European companies pay nothing for US health care while forcing American companies to subsidize European care. And again, what alternative do you offer to deal with middle class people (adults and children) with pre-existing conditions?Barring injured people from suing the doctors that hurt them won’t fix it.Neither will permitting interstate insurance purchases. Without a mandate to take people with pre-existing conditions, no insurance company will take on customers who are certain to cost more than they pay.Without a mandate, a lot of customers will not get health insurance until they will cost more than they pay.Basically, your argument is that middle class people must restrict themselves to getting jobs with employers with health benefits or we need to adopt a Canadian-style single payer plan.Which one do you pick?Brett Bellmore’s comment and David Kopel’s post are typical of Murdoch Bubble criticism-all attack, no solutions.

[Mises Economics Blog] Peace Prize WInner Says: My Wars are Just ”” Mises Economics Blog: In fact, I shouldn’t even have to spell out where and why someone would depart from the libertarians here, when they get frothy against regimes for the simple fact of their brutal behavior. This is more in the style of meanness and dismissal, but it can’t be helped–if you haven’t run up against developed replies to the “organized-force-is-brutal”

[NewsReal Blog] Salon Screeches Intellectual Ad Hominems in Smear of Beck ...: I wrote about her inability to function at those household basics yesterday, here at NewsReal. NewsReal Blog interviewed those with first-hand knowledge for their opinion on what type of trial the terrorists should have and where it should be held.

[News] A new blog for intelligent conservatives - Telegraph Blogs: You’ll have to forgive me, Mr Hannan, for shoehorning this non-blog related comment in, at how disappointed I am that the Conservatives are failing to grasp the economic nettle. Nobody likes to pay more tax or National Insurance, but the county is in debt to the gills and it has to be dealt with, sooner rather than later.

[eatbees blog] eatbees blog » The Problem Is the American People: Except for the seamy side of human nature which causes a lot of people to enjoy the opportunity to be “outraged” by mudslinging and scandals. Remember when Al Gore said the US Constitution was a “living” document, and when Hillary Clinton started using copies of the US Constitution as toilet paper?

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