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and are uniformly shot down as a tax on wealth rather than income. And that is correct: it is, after all, an income tax, not a wealth tax. The author of this piece wishes us to ignore his sleight of hand. That is, this is not a bug, but a feature.
It's probably fairer to say that post-Reagan Republicans haven't been for smaller government. These days, they just disagree with Democrats on what the expansion should cover.
Any prosecutions for "insider trading" are totally political. They either upset someone in power, upset a competitor with powerful friends, or didn't do something they were asked to do.
It doesn't strike me as being an easy thing, either way; on the one hand, it's a kind of fraud, which is one of the legitimate reasons for having a government (institutionalized and monopolized force). On the other, information is always diffused and imperfect in any market, so arresting and incarcerating people for not providing it is not likely to work well if only for political reasons (Google Harry Markopolos for an example of why). In that sense, the SEC gives people a false sense of security that the government is doing some aspect of due diligence for them that is not in reality happening.
"Um, hello, I own the rights to 'Snow White' and all the properties of the Brothers Grimm. We need to discuss your flagrant infringing use of my client's intellectual property dating back to the very founding of your company."
"I think it's a myth Americans aren't interested. It's a myth they don't like science and scientists... But there's some partisan political affiliation going on, and sometimes science tells them they don't want to hear and they don't like to deal with. Climate change is a great example, because the problem is so enormous and the implications mean restructuring our economy and our energy supply system."
The problem with this oft-repeated trope is that the pro-AGW forces are inevitably playing politics with the very "science" they claim to rest their arguments on. Over and over, we read of hidden, manipulated, and cherry-picked data, refusals to abide with having outsiders vet their work, and allowing naked advocacy into the IPCC reports on climate change as if they were peer-reviewed science. "Truthout" -- one of the most preposterous names imaginable -- here advances the same political agenda. It is environmentalism wrapped in a lab coat.
The Canadians walked away from Kyoto; shall we ask if they, too, are anti-science? Or does that only cover the US?
MLB's At Bat app for the iPhone and other phones is one of the best sports apps I've ever seen. Players have adopted iPads as a scouting aid. I don't know where the author makes the claim that sports are technophobic; perhaps a better way of putting it is that they're slow to adopt, but that's not the same thing as Luddism.
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
-- Gideon J. Tucker
It's interesting to me that Smith is in Texas. It always seems like the entertainment biz is keeping cow state politicians in cash. For a long time, one of the senators from South Carolina -- I want to say Ernest/Fritz Hollings -- was in Disney's pocket. The lesson seems to be, buy a Southern politician: they're cheaper and they stay bought.
The NTSB is proposing this because there is a huge amount of incontrovertible evidence that when people talk on their cell phones while driving (regardless of whether the phone is hands-free), the become distracted and drive badly.
Opposite, what? Carrying a three-year-old in the backseat?
No, this is an excuse. A stupid idea and an encroachment on legitimate freedoms.
If it's so damned dangerous, why do the cops get a permanent exception?
Spare me the "talking on your phone and driving kills people" sophistry. So does anything else that distracts from driving. Shall we next eliminate cupholders in cars because drinking and driving "kills people", too?
The word "Internet" appears nowhere on that infographic, which appears designed to rile up the lefty animals. Presenting "media" as one monolithic entity fits right in with that blinkered worldview and confirms it, but it is only that: bias confirmation for people inclined to wave blue flags.
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and are uniformly shot down as a tax on wealth rather than income. And that is correct: it is, after all, an income tax, not a wealth tax. The author of this piece wishes us to ignore his sleight of hand. That is, this is not a bug, but a feature.
It's probably fairer to say that post-Reagan Republicans haven't been for smaller government. These days, they just disagree with Democrats on what the expansion should cover.
that no one has yet mentioned that Skipity is just a front for Bing.
THIS.
It doesn't strike me as being an easy thing, either way; on the one hand, it's a kind of fraud, which is one of the legitimate reasons for having a government (institutionalized and monopolized force). On the other, information is always diffused and imperfect in any market, so arresting and incarcerating people for not providing it is not likely to work well if only for political reasons (Google Harry Markopolos for an example of why). In that sense, the SEC gives people a false sense of security that the government is doing some aspect of due diligence for them that is not in reality happening.
hasn't been in the Senate since 2004.
"Um, hello, I own the rights to 'Snow White' and all the properties of the Brothers Grimm. We need to discuss your flagrant infringing use of my client's intellectual property dating back to the very founding of your company."
that the government will be run by the public employee unions. Just like it is in California.
Let's see here, now:
1) If the economy recovered, Keynesian stimulus worked!
2) If the economy didn't recover, the stimulus wasn't big enough!
Heads I win, tails you lose.
Seems I've heard that somewhere before ...
I dunno. Did any of them "hide the decline"?
FTFY.
Meh. Even with idiotic US subsidy, the cars lack range, a consequence of poor energy density. Acceptance of second-rate cars is necessarily minimal.
The problem with this oft-repeated trope is that the pro-AGW forces are inevitably playing politics with the very "science" they claim to rest their arguments on. Over and over, we read of hidden, manipulated, and cherry-picked data, refusals to abide with having outsiders vet their work, and allowing naked advocacy into the IPCC reports on climate change as if they were peer-reviewed science. "Truthout" -- one of the most preposterous names imaginable -- here advances the same political agenda. It is environmentalism wrapped in a lab coat.
The Canadians walked away from Kyoto; shall we ask if they, too, are anti-science? Or does that only cover the US?
MLB's At Bat app for the iPhone and other phones is one of the best sports apps I've ever seen. Players have adopted iPads as a scouting aid. I don't know where the author makes the claim that sports are technophobic; perhaps a better way of putting it is that they're slow to adopt, but that's not the same thing as Luddism.
Yay for the "do-nothing Congress!"
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
-- Gideon J. Tucker
It's interesting to me that Smith is in Texas. It always seems like the entertainment biz is keeping cow state politicians in cash. For a long time, one of the senators from South Carolina -- I want to say Ernest/Fritz Hollings -- was in Disney's pocket. The lesson seems to be, buy a Southern politician: they're cheaper and they stay bought.
Opposite, what? Carrying a three-year-old in the backseat?
No, this is an excuse. A stupid idea and an encroachment on legitimate freedoms.
Great idea. What if someone in the car next to you has a real need to be on the phone?
The FCC has made these illegal for a REASON.
The FCC is implementing a law passed by Congress. The FCC did not "pass" anything.
If it's so damned dangerous, why do the cops get a permanent exception?
Spare me the "talking on your phone and driving kills people" sophistry. So does anything else that distracts from driving. Shall we next eliminate cupholders in cars because drinking and driving "kills people", too?
It's poorly identified at the story link. The original can be found at latimes.com.
The word "Internet" appears nowhere on that infographic, which appears designed to rile up the lefty animals. Presenting "media" as one monolithic entity fits right in with that blinkered worldview and confirms it, but it is only that: bias confirmation for people inclined to wave blue flags.
Diffuseness and environmental considerations will keep this from being a significant source of energy. Bank on it.
The IPCC doesn't know about this. Or does this only apply to the "soft sciences"?
It's not paranoid when they've established a consistent pattern of spying on citizens without cause in the wake of 9/11.