Uncomfortable Questions for Leftists About Wealth

Baiting The Left 6 Comments

Folks on the Left often accuse conservatives of not being able to engage in complex or nuanced arguments. Truth be told, this is more likely a mirror into their own inadequacies about debating … pretty much anything.
Case in point is the whole discussion of wealth in America. According to the Occupy Leftists, they represent 99% of the population whilst rich people represent only 1%. While it’s undoubtedly true that 99% of the population earns less than a certain income and 1% earns more than that income, much larger, more complex questions need to be asked.
This column by NRO’s Veronique de Rugy starts the discussion. Well worth reading in full.
Related: Roy Green discusses “Big Government Anarchists” with several National Post columnists.

“Same sex adoption is not a game”

Freespeechers 153 Comments

The views presented here are based on extensive social science research and scholarship, on my clinical experience as a psychiatrist that includes consulting with adoptive and foster children for several years, treating adoptive children for almost 35 years, writing about their treatment in a textbook for the American Psychological Association (1) and as the father of three adopted daughters.

The intolerance is in the comments.

The World Is Being Run By Crazy People

Mischief Is Important 31 Comments

Via OTB;

German professors Dr Andreas Hahn and Dr Moritz Hagenmeyer […] compiled what they assumed was an uncontroversial statement in order to test new laws which allow products to claim they can reduce the risk of disease, subject to EU approval.
They applied for the right to state that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration” as well as preventing a decrease in performance.
However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.
A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.
Now the EFSA verdict has been turned into an EU directive which was issued on Wednesday.

How’s That Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?

The One 23 Comments

Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice;

Inept bumblers or cunning destroyers? I believe the latter. Their “audacity” has allowed them to “fundamentally change” America, shred The Constitution, and start a class and race war that threatens the peace of cities across the country. Their destruction of the bedrock beliefs and institutions that make America exceptional is without parallel in our history. Their open and arrogant pillage of public and private treasure is a felony, an ongoing criminal conspiracy. This fascist crowd has gained power, has a plan to take away individual liberties, and has critically wounded The Republic. The hands of thousands of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrns have guided the Marxist brainwashing of America’s children for several decades, making them useful tools for “hope and change”. Moral decay has been swallowed as entertainment, and has been used to promote hatred of our nation, our laws, our morality. What passes for news reaches for ever-lower levels of degradation and preaches a mind-warping leftist dogma. The future looks pretty bleak for those who love their freedom, rather than the soft enslavement of a government dependent. Recovery will require fierce, aggressive patriotic Americans with the will, moral certainty, and strength of character to bring The Republic back to health. Those patriots are not to be found in any of the three branches of government. Throw them all out.

h/t EBD

Canadian Journalist Thinks Toronto Is A “Country”

The Libranos 63 Comments

Peter C. Newman;

“Like it or not, the Liberals have long been our political gods, turning this awkwardly giant land mass into a field of realizable dreams. But the gods have changed. No smaller concept can encompass what happened to Canada in the spring of 2011 — when for the very first time voters handed a clear majority to a government run by a politician whose ideals and goals seemed antithetical to the country I thought I knew.”

Oh Oh. “Regulated” Derivative Markets About To Blow Up?

It's Probably Nothing 18 Comments

Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management,
It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse.
I have learned over the last week that MF Global is almost certainly the mere tip of the iceberg.

Sixty Symbols

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SIXTΨ SγMBΦLS is a collection of (currently) 143 videos on a number of
physics topics, from cosmology to quantum mechanics, from the University of
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Notable participants include Amanda Bauer, Roger Bowley, Ed Copeland,
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