There’s that “necessarily skyrocket” chicken, coming home to roost. CNS News: Even as gasoline prices plummeted and the overall energy price index calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics declined, electricity prices bucked the trend in the United States in 2014. Data released today by the BLS indicates that the electricity price indexes hit all-time highs for the month of December and for the year. 2014 was the most-expensive year
January 2015
January 19, 2015
from the protein wisdom archives: “There’s no such thing as race (and it’s a good thing, too)”
It’s become something of a tradition for me to re-post this essay on MLK day, given that it was first written and published back in 1996 in response to an essay in the University of Denver’s Clarion newspaper that laid out, unwittingly I suspect (but in the clear language of the multiculturalist’s faux-emotionalist assault on individual sovereignty and its elevation of social Balkinazation as a matter of civic pride and,
January 19, 2015
MLK Day: yearly retrospective
Brunch protests. LGBT “white space” protests. Burning minority-owned businesses. An administration populated with the black student extras from The Strawberry Statement… Yeah: let the racial healing continue! When Obama was nominated I wrote that should he be elected he’d set race relations back 50 years — though I certainly wished he’d fail. He hasn’t. We’re living in the “benighted States of America” Rabbit, Redux’s Skeeter railed against — only it’s
January 18, 2015
Obama’s State of the Union: “Death is a tax loophole” [Darleen Click]
… and by golly, how dare parents and grandparents pass the property and assets they spent a lifetime earning on to their own kids! President Barack Obama is proposing new taxes on the wealthiest Americans that would limit their profits from investments and make it harder for them to pass assets to heirs. […] He would increase the top tax rate on capital gains and dividends to 28 percent from
January 17, 2015
Progressives and Islamists — rooting out blasphemy of utmost importance for both [Darleen Click]
Remember the ironically-named “Truthy Project”? Internal emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request from Indiana University about “Truthy” reveal that the school monitored “hate tweets” and shunned media outlets critical of the project after details of the federally-funded study were made public last year. Officials called a Free Beacon reporter a “faux journalist” for reporting on the taxpayer-funded project designed to root out “misinformation” and
January 17, 2015
New Republic’s Dennis Jett sneers at American Sniper; Chris Kyle as ‘hate-filled killer’ … [Darleen Click]
How much should we trust Jett’s judgement? I have not seen American Sniper. How precious. Next up, Jett will undoubtedly be clutching his pearls and calling for the fainting couch …
January 17, 2015
“Al Qaida is on the run” [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Nothing to see, just no-label “extremists” BRUSSELS – Belgium said on Saturday it will deploy up to 300 soldiers to help guard vulnerable sites in its two largest cities, as governments across Europe stepped up security in the wake of the terrorist attacks in and around Paris last week. The troops will be deployed progressively from Saturday, and will concentrate on the capital, Brussels, and the port city of Antwerp,
January 16, 2015
In the midst of measles outbreak, anti-vaxxers “stand firm” [Darleen Click]
But but but it is the conservatives and “climate deniers” who are Anti-Science(tm) ALISO VIEJO (CBSLA.com) — Parents who have opted against vaccinating their children are standing firm with their decision amid California’s worst measles outbreak in 15 years. A measles scare shut down Sharp Health Care in La Mesa in San Diego County Wednesday, where six people went to the urgent care unit with rashes and measles-like symptoms. The
January 16, 2015
Oh dear God, make it stop … [Darleen Click]
John Kerry goes to Paris to apologize; James Taylor tags along to confront Islamism with a song … Under fire for being a no-show at the Paris March Against Terrorism, the Obama administration sent Secretary of State John Kerry to Paris today to give a “big hug” to the French. In addition to expressing solidarity with the French people, Secretary Kerry brought singer James Taylor to play his 1970s hit
January 16, 2015
Milton Friedman vs the “free immigration” libertarian zealots
Now, some libertarians (who call themselves Classical liberals, as I do) will suggest that Friedman supported illegal immigration, insofar as he points out the mutual benefit derived from such an arrangement. But that is a description, not an endorsement — and Friedman would no doubt understand that “allowing” illegal activity is anathema to a nation built around the rule of law, and that of course a country has both the