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* Gold broke $1,200. * Larry Kudlow’s open letter to Tiger Woods. (Yes, he goes there.) * Wesbury and Stein on anti-Obama-stimulus hypocrites. * A fantastic Richard Lindzen op ed. Sometimes I think the climate change skeptics I respect the most don’t make their strongest points in a pop forum. But this one is out […]

Tyler Cowen Never Fails to Disappoint: His Evolving Views on Climategate

For those of you who don’t know, Tyler Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University. When I realized he had a popular blog, I was very excited because GMU students (whom I liked) had told me, “Tyler is the smartest libertarian alive” and things of that nature. So I was preparing to be […]

Gold Flirting With $1,200

Can it do it? Yes it can! (My son has been watching Bob the Builder lately.)

Clarification on Climategate

If you want to follow this stuff on the cutting edge, the site to visit is ClimateAudit, which is run by Steve McIntyre, the intrepid outsider who caught Mann with his pants down on the “hockey stick” graph. (Actually ClimateAudit is overwhelmed right now with new visitors because of Climategate, and so McIntyre is placing […]

Two Honest Opponents on Climate Alarmism

Part of why I am skeptical of some of the loudest proponents of large-scale government intervention to fight climate change is that, even on their own terms, the suggested remedies won’t stave off disaster. However, a few of the people on the other side of this issue seem very sincere to me. I still disagree […]

More On God and Self-Ownership

Stephan Kinsella brought this article by Skyler Collins to my attention. Since we have been discussing the intersection of Christianity and libertarianism lately, I thought it would be a good thing to analyze. I think Collins’ piece is mostly correct insofar as it goes, but I also think he hasn’t proved as much as he […]

Joe Romm Cuts Through the Lies of ClimateGate

The most entertaining part of ClimateGate has been to watch the folks at RealClimate and ClimateProgress spin this as a huge disinformation campaign by the “deniers.” The best one I’ve seen so far is (not surprisingly) Joe Romm, who writes: Michael Mann, one of the country’s leading climatologists, has coauthored a major new review and […]

All ClimateGate, All the Time

* Here is George Monbiot’s yes-it’s-embarrassing-but-the-deniers-are-still-idiots op ed. (BTW if you don’t know Monbiot, he is a leftist with a purple heart. Seriously, he has street cred. The most I ever did was write internet articles critical of Dick Cheney.) * That HARRY_READ_ME file is actually more damning than the excerpts I previously linked to. […]