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OUR DEMOCRATIC friends, led by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), insist that we cant drill our way out of high energy prices. The reason changes from moment to moment, of course. Sometimes its because of the peak oil argument, the notion that we have already passed the peak of oil production because there just isnt that much oil left to find. Alternatively, they argue that drilling at ANWR wont put a dent in oil prices because it will take seven years to get the first drop of oil out. Or that the amount of oil wont be that much so it isnt worth drilling. You get the point. Imagine the surprise of young intern Joel Alicea when he found an article entitled âśThe Effect of Opening Up ANWR to Drilling on the Current Price of Oilâť by Morris Coats et al. Guess what the article says. If an amount of newly discovered oil is significant enough to reduce prices in the future . . . [this indirectly] reduces the current price of oil just as if there were a reduction in the marginal costs of extracting oil now. Well, that happens to be exactly what Republicans are saying. Conservatives are claiming that the reason that oil prices have taken a dive lately is that President Bush has rescinded the federal ban on offshore drilling, so speculators must take into account the odds that oil supplies will increase in the future. This could really contribute to the debate, couldnt it? But heres the twist. The article was rejected by The Energy Journal. Not orignal research, old boy. Its a Catch 22. Democrats go on and on about how the law of supply and demand doesnt work when it comes to energy. But you cant get an article refuting them into a scholarly journal because its not original research. Heres what the rejection letter said to Coats et al.: Basically, your main result (the present impact of an anticipated future supply change) is already known to economists (although perhaps not to the Democratic Policy Committee) . . . It is our policy to publish only original research that adds significantly to the body of received knowledge regarding energy markets and policy. These days, the American people really do need to be rocket scientists. Because they only get one chance to read about important economic findings. After that, its too late. Vieu jeu old chap. Old news. Cant print that sort of thing. But it sure is convenient for economic fabulists like Al Gore and Barack Obama.
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SEN. JOHN McCain (R-AZ) dont know nothin about the internet. Doesnt even use email, apparently. And Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has run an internet-savvy campaign. Everyone knows that. So when McCains campaign put up the celebrity spot on YouTube, suggesting that Sen. Obama was a celebrity like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, the experts howled. McCain was crazy for trying to make a mark being hip. Only now it seems he was crazy like a unfold
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REPUBLICANS believe that we should let the market figure out the future of energy. Will we run out of oil? Can wind and solar make the difference? Is nuclear a viable option? Ultimately, entrepreneurs, inventors, and speculators will tell us. The governments job is to think seriously about the rules, particularly the environmental rules. Democrats see the future in more apocalyptic terms. They see the future as a question of saving the planet: from pollution, from Big Oil, from global warming. So it is healthy that unfold
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WHAT CAN we say about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn except to say that he was a Witness. He was a witness to perhaps the greatest evil mankind has ever seen. We shall not see his like again. Solzhenitsyns place in history is his witness to the horrors of the Soviet penal camp system. His Gulag Archipelago describes the gruesome islands of labor camps that were spread across the Soviet Union. An estimated 60 million people unfold
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RUSH LIMBAUGH was just getting into a riff about the stupidity of Sen. Barack Obamas plan to take money out of oil company profits and give it to people to help pay the cost of energy. It was the 20th anniversary, on August 1, 2008, of the Rush Limbaugh program on radio. And guess who the first caller was on Open Line Friday? It was the three Bushes, President Bush 41, President Bush 43, and former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida. They called from Maine to wish Rush well on the 20th anniversary of the Excellence in Broadcasting unfold
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THATS what Joel Kotkin and Mark Schill recommend in Urban America: The New Solid South. Yes, all the fashionable people agree that hip urban living in the ideopolises of the Cultural Creatives of Richard Florida is the wave of the futurenot to mention necessary to save the planet. In recent months, the city-centered media such as CNN, The New York Times and National Public Radio have jumped unfold
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LAST NIGHT I went into the belly of the beast to the taping of a roundtable at the local NPR affiliate KPLU. I and five others listened to audio clips of presidents past, present and future talking about Social Security and welfaresafety netsand then talked about our feelings to KPLU reporter Paula Wissel. After an experience like that you always think of the zingers you could have delivered, but didnt. The French have a word for it: lesprit descalier, the spirit of the stairs. No unfold
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LAST WEEK I participated in a voter roundtable on Social Safety Nets at KPLU, a local Puget Sound NPR affiliate. Reporter Paula Wissel played us some audio clips from presidential speeches on Social Security, Medicare, and welfare, and then we got to talk about our feelings.
As youd expect, there was an unspoken assumption that safety net and government program are just about one and the same thing. President Hoover was presented recommending good old American self-reliance in the depths of the Great ...
This last week conservatives spent a lot of time in the vomitorium. ...
New Hope for Global Warming Deniers
THE SUPRISE OF REDNECKS debouching from the Appalachians into the Atlantic plain and the explosion of Pentecostalism in the inner cities has unnerved those who had convinced themselves that religion was a thing of the past, now that God was dead.... more
Burke, James, The Day The Universe Changed
Andrew Coulson, Market Education
How universal literacy was achieved before government education
Carl Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic
How we got our education system
James Tooley, Reclaiming Education
How only a market in education will provide opportunity for the poor
James Tooley, The Miseducation of Women
How the feminists wrecked education for boys and for girls
E.G. West, Education and the State
How education was doing fine before the government muscled in
Hernando De Soto, The Mystery of Capital
How ordinary people in the United States wrote the law during the 19th century
F. A. Hayek, Law Legislation and Liberty, Vol 1
How to build a society based upon law
Henry Maine, Ancient Law
How the movement of progressive peoples is from status to contract
John Zane, The Story of Law
How law developed from early times down to the present
James Bartholomew, The Welfare State We're In
How the welfare state makes crime, education, families, and health care worse.
David Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State
How ordinary people built a sturdy social safety net in the 19th century
David Green, Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State
How ordinary people built themselves a sturdy safety net before the welfare state
Theda Skocpol, Diminished Democracy
How the US used to thrive under membership associations and could do again
David Stevenson, The Origins of Freemasonry
How modern freemasonry got started in Scotland
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
How Christianity is booming in China
Finke & Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
How the United States grew into a religious nation
Robert William Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
How progressives must act fast if they want to save the welfare state
David Martin, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish
How Pentecostalism is spreading across the world
Lose the "hockey-stick," pal
"Well, well. Look what the cat dragged in." Steve McIntyre has just shown that the temperature proxies in the hockey stick are not reliable, and the scientists doing the research knew it. This is a red-letter day in climate denial.
Why Prices Anticipate the Future
write an article on how opening up ANWR for drilling will depress prices today. Won't be published in The Energy Journal because it's not original research. Hum.
Where's the Outrage? Really.
guess which group is angrier than ten years ago. Right first time: "very liberal"
The Green Hornet
WSJ edit page analyzes Obama's stupid energy plan.
Michelle Malkin on Don't Drill Nancy Pelosi
she tells America's daughters to use their power responsibly then acts like a male partisan hack.
Work to restore the Road to the Middle Class. Heres how. Ground it in faith. Grade it with education. Protect it with mutual aid. Defend it with the law. more>>
The Road to the Middle Class is a journey from a world of power to a world of trust and love. In religion, it is a journey from power gods that respond to sacrifice and augury to the God who makes a covenant with mankind. In education, it is a journey from the world of the spoken word to the world of the written word. In community, it is the journey from dependence on blood kin and upon clientage under a great lord to the mutual aid and the rules of the self-governing fraternal association. In law it is the journey from the violence of force and feud to the king´s peace, the law of contract, and private property.
[T]he way “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,”
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300–301, is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
[In the] higher Christian churches… they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Within Pentecostalism the injurious hierarchies of the wider world are abrogated and replaced by a single hierarchy of faith, grace, and the empowerments of the spirit... where groups gather on rafts to take them through the turbulence of the great journey from extensive rural networks to the mega-city and the nuclear family...
David Martin, On Secularization
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets
and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
There was nothing new about the Frankish drive to the east... [let] us recall that the continuance of their rule depended upon regular, successful, predatory warfare.
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion
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