Archive for January, 2011
US Politics for the man on the street
Interesting videos. Why the federal budget won’t be balanced by Obama’s healthcare bill. How much is $100,000,000 of budget cuts from the US budget? The failure of the Stimulus. Bear in mind that “saving” these jobs cost an imaginable mountain of money. Hat Tip New Zeal
South Auckland Street Prostitution & the ability of the left to exaggerate an issue out of all proportion
Idiot/Savant has outdone himself with this one. As I’ll show, he’s claiming that stopping attempted child sex abuse is is going back to the dark ages. It’s almost as though he wrote his usual “I’ll spin this out of all proportion” thing, then took what he wrote and spun it another level up. While the [...]
Quote of the Day
Being rational about privatisation, remember Labour tried to sell part of Air NZ to Qantas? Funny that. Via Twitter.
A Hijacked Legacy
Martin Luther King is today an icon of the left, but the reality of his life is quite different. “In advising men and women on questions of personal behavior 50 years ago, Uncle Martin sounded no different than a conservative Christian preacher does now,” she commented. “He was pro-life, pro-abstinence before marriage, and based his [...]
Proof that Global Warming is not a recent Hysteria
Wonderful. We can now add to that growing list of “things caused by Global Warming”, the fall of the roman empire. Seriously. Apparently. A new paper in “Science” magazine suggests the Roman Empire fell because of “global warming,” not the hordes of barbarians who pillaged, a claim that critics tell WND is the latest climate-change [...]
