This failure in economic literature is relevant to climate science because not only are the dynamics we’ve seen in economic science demonstrated similar to climate science, but also both fields have large influences on public policy — in part due to politicians confidence in peer reviewed literature.
Let Them Eat Yacht
DiCaprio flies his LA friends 6,000 miles around the world so they can listen to his speech on GLOBAL WARMING
But You Mustn’t Call It A Con
Kevin D Williamson on work and earnings:
The median salary for a women’s-studies professor is more than a hundred grand a year. The average hourly earnings for a graduate with a women’s-studies degree? Eleven bucks an hour, well less than you’d make working the car wash at a Buc-ee’s convenience store.
Slippery Slope, Schlippery Slope
Coming soon to a Canadian courtroom near you: Catholic Nursing Home Successfully Sued for Refusing Euthanasia.
Is Socialism for Whites Only?
“Regardless, this willing “dupiness” is necessary for a socialist economy to work. Everybody has to willingly value society more than themselves in order to work at the slave-like tax rates necessary to finance a communist/socialist state. The Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and Danes on the whole are more than willing to do this, while the Greeks, Russians, Venezuelans…and pretty much the rest of the world are not. This is why “sorta socialism” works best in Scandinavia…and pretty much nowhere else.”
Happy Ramadan!
In one week
83 Dead in #Baghdad
20 Dead in #Dhaka
44 Dead in #Istanbul1485 killed since #Ramadan started
Islam is the religion of DEATH
— Jared Wyand (@JaredWyand) July 3, 2016
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker agreed Wednesday to withdraw his climate-related subpoena of ExxonMobil, a stunning reversal that delivered a blow to the Democratic-led effort to prosecute climate change dissent.[…]
The retreat also comes as an ominous sign for AGs United for Clean Power, a coalition of 17 attorneys general, including Mr. Walker, formed in March to pursue the fossil fuel industry and others that challenge the catastrophic climate change narrative for “fraud.”
h/t Ken (Kulak)
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Reader Tips
The Battle of Gettysburg concluded on this date in 1863 — grab a drink, the documentary is nearly 90 minutes long. Or save it for morning coffee.
Tips thread open.
Bill’s Wife
It’s probably nothing.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Syrian refugees at a New Brunswick high school bullied young students, ignored teachers, and harassed a Jewish student, educators wrote this spring in a series of e-mail messages.
One e-mail even detailed how a student enthusiastically shared his love for rocket-propelled grenades.
If Women Ran The World
“Contrary to what we expected (and probably contrary to what you expected as well!), masking gender had no effect on interview performance with respect to any of the scoring criteria (would advance to next round, technical ability, problem solving ability). If anything, we started to notice some trends in the opposite direction of what we expected: for technical ability, it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women.”
Related…
h/t Joe
Bill’s Wife
FBI Director James Comey is now firmly in the driver’s seat of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, after Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged she would accept whatever course of action his bureau and career prosecutors recommend.
Lynch’s influence will continue to be felt throughout the department, and her refusal to fully remove herself from the case ensures that she will continue to be briefed about its developments. Prosecutors within her department — not the FBI — will ultimately decide whether or not to press ahead with charges.
But her decision makes Comey the public face of the investigation. And his reputation as a well-respected but hard-nosed maverick might give Democrats some worry about the outcome of the probe, which is nearing its one-year anniversary later this month.
“Comey is the center of gravity on this thing,” said Ron Hosko, a former FBI assistant director and president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.
“There is a growing expectation that we the public need to hear the FBI, Jim Comey version of whether or not charges will be brought,” he added. “There has probably been increasing recognition by her that that’s true, that she is viewed as — regardless of her prior reputation as an effective prosecutor — she’s now the head of Obama’s DOJ, a political position in a Democratic administration that is deciding on the prosecution or not of the leading Democratic candidate.”
Lynch on Friday succumbed to the intensifying public pressure on her following Monday’s private 30-minute meeting in Phoenix with former President Clinton.
Related from Rush…
Wynneing!
Killing them softly with Big Green: So-called “energy poverty” is getting worse in rural Ontario, a Global News investigation has found, with even small households paying hundreds of dollars a month to keep the lights on.
Deep Impact
Reader Tips
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ken Curtis, best known for his role as “Festus” from the 60’s TV classic, Gunsmoke. Your tips are welcome in the comments.
The Humourless Left
Renegade Regulator
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Incompetent Politicians To Drive Your Car
Ontariowe: The provincial government subsidized passengers on the troubled Union Pearson Express last year at a rate of $52.26 per ride.
Happy Canada Day
Meanwhile, 100 years ago, the Battle of the Somme started today, so Canadians would be remiss without recognition of this:
