it is obvious that Christians can commit murder, assault, etc. They do so every day. Because, as Christian orthodoxy tells us, we are all sinners. To say that no Christian can ever commit murder is a sophist’s piffle. Did Scott Roeder stop being a Christian when he assassinated a man repeatedly demonized by Bill O’Reilly,… Continue reading Bill O’Reilly’s Christianism – And Breivik’s
Two ways to call the GOP bluff
The Stop Socialist Redistribution act. A one page bill that simply states that no state can receive more in money from the Federal Government in the form of payments, credits and subsidies than it pays in taxes. Those surpluses would go to deficit reduction and the states would be on the hook to make up… Continue reading Two ways to call the GOP bluff
Beck: Youth Camp Attacked In Norway “Sounds A Little Like The Hitler Youth” | Media Matters for America
Union thugs found not guilty of assault on Tea Party hero
Apparently SEIU and Media Matters for America and George Soros and the Tides Foundation and Eric Boehlert and the city of Montclair, N.J., acting on orders from the White House, all used their wizard powers to convince a jury in St. Louis that Kennedy Gladney was not actually assaulted. And that is how the vast… Continue reading Union thugs found not guilty of assault on Tea Party hero
Debt and Forgetfulness
Between 1993 and 2001, federal debt held by the public fell from 49.2 percent of GDP to 32.5 percent of GDP. What stopped the paydown of debt wasn’t liberal big spending; it was demands from conservatives that the surplus be used to cut taxes. George Bush said that a surplus means that the government is… Continue reading Debt and Forgetfulness
The dangers of being wrong on Keynes
Keynes — and others who later elaborated on his work, like Hyman Minsky — taught us that although markets are usually self-correcting, they occasionally enter destructive feedback loops in which a shock to, say, the financial system scares business and consumers so badly that they hoard money, which worsens the damage to the system, which… Continue reading The dangers of being wrong on Keynes
Ending Carbon Socialism
If you seriously believe in markets, you should believe that given the right incentives — namely, putting a price on emissions, through either a tax or a tradable permit scheme — the economy will find lots of ways to emit less. You should definitely not believe, as anti-environmentalists claim, that the result would be economic… Continue reading Ending Carbon Socialism
Strunk and White for Spooks
THE NSA’s style document for SIGINT.
A Pop-Up Paris Picnic Is Coming to New York
For the first time, New York will have its own Dîner en Blanc, on Aug. 25, rain or shine. A thousand people — half invited, the others drawn from an online waiting list (newyork.dinerenblanc.info) — will participate in this refined flash-mob feast, at an as-yet undisclosed location in Manhattan. From NYT Interesting.