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Companies can now extract oil and natural gas from the high Arctic, shale, oil sands and deepwater wells. These fossil fuels are still finite and dwindling, but tapping the new sources pushes back the date of “peak oil.” Does that give the United States necessary time to develop sustainable energy sources, or will it keep… Continue reading Untitled

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One striking difference is that the iconic conservative works are about ideology. By contrast, the most influential liberal books of the era are about policy issues. A liberal reads conservative books — Marginal Revolution

Rick Perry Sought Federal Funds As Governor Despite Attacking Spending On The Campaign Trail

To be fair; he was in favor of common sense spending that benefits him, not that evil socialist spending that benefits other people.

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Tea party discussing conducting voter fraud on Facebook. (via Wisconsin Tea Party Members Claim They’re Collecting Petitions For Walker Recall – So They Can Destroy Them | Crooks and Liars)

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CBS News’ 60 Minutes aired a report last night alleging that several members of Congress have traded stock using information they received during private briefings or meetings, enabling them to profit from inside information. One Day After Attending Private Economic Crisis Briefing, GOP Financial Services Chairman Bet On Stocks Tanking | ThinkProgress Worth watching.

Youth Unemployment in United States in Line With Arab Spring Countries

Mike Konczal crunches the numbers on employment to see how it might relate to Arab Spring and OWS. Wonky but worth a read.

70% of Occupy Wall Streeters are Employed, Compared to 56% of Tea Partiers

That still means that they have an unemployment rate that is 3 times the current national rate.

Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites

I was happy to see Huffington Post listed. With luck, someone at HuffPo will take this as an opportunity to review what health and medical advice they publish.

War on Drugs or Welfare State?

If the War on Drugs didn’t directly precipitate the Welfare State and the destruction of the American black family, why did welfare aid to families spike in lockstep with our prison population right as that War started? Well, if you’re familiar American drug laws, it shouldn’t surprise you that some 90% of those arrested under the Rockefeller Drug Laws in the years after its passage were minorities. Sure, correlation doesn’t prove causation – but when you stop a moment and consider that marriage requires an eligible male, it’s not that hard to figure out why the modern Welfare State emerged in tandem with our War on Drugs, as it’s a little bit difficult to marry someone behind bars:

Groundhog Day Jobs Number Report

I feel like I’m in the movie Groundhog Day when it comes to the job numbers. I wake up on the first Friday each month to the same story — subpar job growth, no budging in key indicators, the insanity of the “anti-stimulus” of bleeding government jobs – and then wake up to it again next month. This month looks like the past dozen: 80,000 jobs wsere created, while the government sector shed 24,000 jobs.

If the elimination of public sector jobs causes growth in the private sector, then why isn’t that happening?