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Murphy vs. The Man

My Facebook “friends” already know about this, but for those who haven’t heard: Over the weekend I had to attend an 8-hour defensive driving course. Since moving to Nashville, I have accumulated too many “points” on my driving record, and this was my punishment (in addition to paying the tickets, which actually weren’t as expensive […]

EPA Official Uses Historical Analogy to Explain His Enforcement Philosophy

This is pretty amazing. The fireworks start about 20 seconds into it. For more background on this, see this Forbes article.

Now I Can’t Get to Colombia!

The recently-passed Senate Bill 1813 has an interesting provision: SEC. 40304. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORT IN CASE OF CERTAIN UNPAID TAXES. (a) In General- Subchapter D of chapter 75 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: ‘SEC. 7345. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORT […]

John McCain Agrees With My Assessment of the Two-Party System

I’m sure this has already made the rounds, but I don’t have a TV…

Krugman Gets Hit Hard by “Please” and “Thank You”

So here’s Paul Krugman describing his journalistic intrepidity and victimization by an evil corporation: Predictably, the letter from Corrections Corporation of America has arrived, demanding a correction on yesterday’s column. Strangely, though, it demands that I correct statements I didn’t make, just things CCA claims I implied. I don’t think that passes the test; maybe […]

Why Conservatives and Progressives Are Both Right and Wrong

Climate Wars Bask

I am going to do a follow-up post (here at Free Advice) next week regarding my recent post on the Heartland Institute / Peter Gleick affair. I still agree with my main points in that post, but in the comments here Stickman made me realize that I had misunderstood what Peter Gleick’s official story was. […]

The Heartland Institute / Peter Gleick Affair

As promised, here are my extended thoughts on what has been dubbed “Fakegate” (by the friends of Heartland, of course). If you never really dug into this, you might be surprised at what happened. Here is my conclusion: The Heartland affair has shown not merely that some climate alarmists (namely Gleick) will stoop to outright […]