Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

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Thomas Sowell on displacing blame:

What President Obama has been pushing for, and moving toward, is more insidious [than socialism]: government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots but, when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector… Thus the Obama administration can arbitrarily force insurance companies to cover the children of their customers until the children are 26 years old. Obviously, this creates favourable publicity for President Obama. But if this and other government edicts cause insurance premiums to rise, then that is something that can be blamed on the “greed” of the insurance companies. The same principle, or lack of principle, applies to many other privately owned businesses. It is a very successful political ploy that can be adapted to all sorts of situations.

One of these.

Bill’s Wife

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Holy Plundering Pantsuit, Batman!

A Canadian affiliate of the Clinton Foundation that has raised millions from mining executives has spent far more on salaries and administrative costs than charitable programming in the two most recent years for which numbers are available, according to financial statements from the Canada Revenue Agency.
The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), a registered charity based in Vancouver, B.C., devoted $737,441 — amounting to 78 per cent of its expenditures — to management and administration in 2014. The amount includes spending on office supplies and expenses, salaries and professional and consulting fees.
That same year, according to the return filed to the Canada Revenue Agency and published online, the organization devoted $205,419 to charitable programs, accounting for 22 per cent of its expenditures.
A similar ratio — 72 per cent to management and administration costs and 28 per cent to charitable programs — is in the 2013 return.

Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me

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“Trump has a better chance of cameoing in another Home
Alone movie with Macaulay Culkin–or playing in the
NBA Finals–than winning the Republican nomination.”
–Harry Enten, Five Thirty Eight Politics , June 16, 2015
Available at Amazon.

Support a fellow blogger — because it looks like a fun read! Trump the Press: Don Surber’s take on how the pundits blew the 2016 Republican race.
More — a review by Stephen Hayward.

Y2Kyoto: You Mean That Big Blazing Ball In The Sky ?

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Science! Settled!

“We now believe that [the solar cycle] accounts for 50 per cent of the variability from year to year,” says Scaife. With solar physicists predicting a long-term reduction in the intensity of the solar cycle – and possibly its complete disappearance for a few decades, as happened during the so-called Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715 – this could be an ominous signal for icy winters ahead, despite global warming.

“The Clinton Contamination”

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By Maureen Dowd of the Gray Lady–simple, eh?

IT says a lot about our relationship with Hillary Clinton that she seems well on her way to becoming Madam President because she’s not getting indicted.
If she were still at the State Department, she could be getting fired for being, as the F.B.I. director told Congress, “extremely careless” with top-secret information. Instead, she’s on a glide path to a big promotion…

That’s from an American liberal.

Islam and the French Republic

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My aunt lives on La Ligne 13. She, like most of my family is French. French and Jewish. She lives in the Paris that the tourists think can never change. But this is not the France we knew. Outside her apartment on the pavement someone has spray-painted in black “Too Many Arabs”, while inside our family has been arguing. Le Bataclan, les banlieues, Marine Le Pen, burnt police cars, jihadi assassinations, the HyperCacher – do we smell smoke?
If we get one more failed president then Marine Le Pen will win the presidency, says my uncle. My aunt wants a British passport. This is hysteria! Let’s be calm, tuts my cousin. But the killings have already started, says his wife. Round and round it goes. Optimists, turning into pessimists, and back again. Are we paranoid? I am on the Métro to find out.

The Silence Is Deafening

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The refusal to acknowledge the abject failure of the European welfare state economic model by public sector unions, politically connected businesses and the mainstream commentariat is foreboding. In their continuing drive to implement the same failed policies in Canada, they are essentially declaring acceptable entrepreneurship regulated out of existence, vast swathes of the populace unemployed and drawing cheques as well as rapidly spreading banking failures as in Italy, arguably the most dangerous of all…..

The Sound Of Settled Science

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[T]he ancient origins of an animal that is an honorary member of many human families has remained in doubt: We still don’t know where dogs came from.
A group of scientists who are in the middle of a grand examination of canine fossils and modern DNA proposed Thursday to turn the whole conversation on its head.
Suppose dogs didn’t evolve in one place, they suggested, but two. What if domestication of ancient wolves happened in both Asia and Europe — different wolves, different people?

Or even more likely, in several places, by many different peoples.
h/t Canadian Observer

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