Blatant Reality

Here’s a website that has the top candidates and how they stand on the issues easily mapped out.

Christopher Booker is a writer for the Telegraph, a UK newspaper, who has begun to question all the laws, taxes, and alternative energy ploys the government has created to prevent global warming.

A graph of satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that, over the past eight years, average global temperatures have flattened out well below their peak in 1998. The 2007 figures to June show a dip to a level first reached in 1983, 24 years ago.

 

During this same period, however, the graph of CO2 levels from the Mauna Loa Observatory has continued a consistent rise. If rising CO2 inexorably means rising temperatures, what happened to those temperatures?

 

More importantly, what happened to the brains of all those panicking politicians who are now heaping on us an Everest of costs without bothering to check whether the simple little equation on which they are based actually corresponds with reality?

I pray he is able to awaken some of his countrymen to the fact that man-made global warming is a sham before their country’s economy is hurt too much by needless taxes and regulations.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell helped to redeem Senate Republicans last week by pushing for (and passing) an amendment that keeps Gitmo open for business.

But Mr. McConnell was only getting warmed up. Late on Thursday, he persuaded the Senate to pass by a 94-3 margin his amendment to an education bill which put the Senate on record in opposition to moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to military bases and jails inside the United States. The vote came as a surprise because many Democrats, among them Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, view shutting down Gitmo as a great international public-relations move (even if it means that terrorists would be moved into jails located near American cities and towns.) Apparently, the Democrats hadn’t bothered to read the McConnell amendment, so it passed easily.

Along with this feat, he has also kept a majority of Senate Republicans firmly against the “fairness” doctrine. More of this editorial can be found here.

McConnell also has a pretty impressive Senate voting record that can be found here.

Even though the author may refer to conservative talk show hosts and the like as “cavemen” and “nutcases,” he makes a good point about why liberal shows on the radio have failed to amass an audience.

The reason why the likes of Sinclair Broadcast Group have done so well out of talk radio is that they found a market niche of people who feel that their views are marginalised by mainstream radio. One reason why Air America found it hard to find talent and listeners is that most liberals are perfectly happy with NPR.

The author also makes a nice point by saying that legislation such as the Fairness Doctrine is the reason why George Bush has a higher approval rating than Congress.

To read the full article from The Economist click here.

There may be more problems than solutions offered by ethanol.

Ethanol is not the way to energy independence. The ability of corn-based ethanol to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil is limited. Dedicating the entire U.S. corn crop to ethanol would displace only a small share of gasoline demand.

 

Ethanol is not the solution to global warming. Ethanol tailpipe emissions can reduce some greenhouse gases, but can also increase levels of others. Also, large-scale corn production requires farm equipment that runs on fossil fuels, which, in turn, emit more greenhouse gases. Moreover, when fossil fuels are used to power ethanol refineries, it can lead to higher greenhouse gas emissions than the fossil fuel ethanol replaces. Ethanol is not the solution to revitalizing rural America.

Read the rest of the article here.

Read the summary from the Food & Water Watch here and the full report here.

Its quite sad to see the UN taking a stand for freedom while all we want to do is pullout of Iraq.

So alarming are the implications of an American debacle in Iraq, that the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, felt the urge to intervene last Monday and warn: “Great caution should be taken for the sake of [the] Iraqi people. The international community cannot and should not abandon them. Any abrupt withdrawal or decision may lead to a further deterioration of the situation in Iraq.” An Iraqi tribal leader fighting Al-Qaeda who was recently interviewed by the BBC Arabic service said more or less the same thing. If the United States withdrew from Iraq, he warned, his men would find it difficult to defeat their adversaries.

I recommend reading the full article here.

It is amazing that people don’t realize that if people wanted the news to be “fair” and wanted other viewpoints, they would stop listening/watching/reading what they are and find something else. These radio talk shows and cable broadcasting channels only survive because people freely make the choice to listen and watch them. If people chose to get their news from somewhere else, these sources would end up going under because the lack of capital.

By forcing the media to include all sides of the argument is basically making them more unreliable (if thats even possible). In the example that Tucker gave, Holocaust deniers would have to be given the same amount of talk time as those who documented the Holocaust. This just wastes airtime with pointless views and detracts from more important news.

The audience is the ultimate “Fairness Doctrine” and is far superior to anything the Government can throw out.

Watch Rep. Maurice Hinchey try to defend the Fairness Doctrine.

Algae seems to be quickly becoming the most promising of biofuels with this new press release from GSPI

Algae-to-biodiesel can really make a substantial contribution to energy independence and can provide the U.S. with more fuel than soy oil, canola oil or corn oil combined. Algae oil can provide fuel without increasing food prices and algae meal could reduce animal feed prices or possibly even general food prices.

If this becomes feasible, it could bring down energy costs and food costs that other biofuels have caused to rise.

To read more about algae biofuels, read this Popular Science article.