Two officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, W. Michael Cox (the senior vice president and chief economist), and Richard Alm (the senior economics writer) show how consumption rather than income is a more accurate measure of wealth in today’s economy.
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We can’t build the nuclear plants fast enough: “At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Shell’s CEO announced the world demand for oil would outstrip supply within seven years.”
Saddam Bluffed, Didn’t Have But Wanted WMD
Posted by 25 Jan 2008, 12:54 pm in Iraq, Axis of Evil and WMD. 0 Comments George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate Saddam after his capture, will appear in his first television interview Sunday, 27 Jan at 7:00 PM ET on 60 Minutes. Some of what Piro had to say:
Piro spent almost seven months debriefing Saddam in a plan based on winning his confidence by convincing him […]
From Military.com: “…BAE Systems has delivered a functional, 32-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun (32-MJ LRG) to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., is exciting. Installation of the laboratory launcher is currently under way, and according to BAE, this is the first step toward the Navy’s goal of developing a tactical 64-megajoule […]
Where France is Right - Nuclear Power
Posted by 24 Jan 2008, 7:54 am in Energy and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsI’ve long been a fan of nuclear power over wasting petroleum energy on electric (hydroelectric and wind are fine, but don’t come anywhere close to meeting America’s power needs). This is not base on global warming concerns, but the fact that someday – despite new technologies for find and extracting it – oil will […]
Probably most email users today have multiple email accounts, the need to check email at different locations, and have tried various web email solutions like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. (there are others most of us haven’t heard of).
But the big two are Yahoo Mail and Gmail. Long time provider Yahoo Mail (not […]
Surprise! (not really) Guns Don’t Equal Crime
Posted by 8 Jan 2008, 1:25 pm Uncategorizedin . 0 Comments The Michigan experiment offers for surprises for those who favor permits to carry:
Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.
But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely gone unfulfilled, according […]
From the NYT:
The anguished relationship between the military and the news media appears to be on the mend as battlefield successes from the troop increase in Iraq are reflected in more upbeat news coverage.
This implies that, due to the recent successes of the surge and related positive reporting by the media about it, […]
New Study: CO2 Not Causing Global Warming
Posted by 11 Dec 2007, 5:51 pm Uncategorizedin . 0 Comments For those paying attention, this is the trend in new studies and research on global climate change:
Writing in the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society, professor David H. Douglass (of the University of Rochester), professor John R. Christy (of the University of Alabama), Benjamin D. Pearson and professor S. Fred […]
Ironic Hypocrisy: Atheists Angry Over Christian Movie Trailer
Posted by 11 Dec 2007, 5:45 pm Uncategorizedin . 3 Comments After years of ramming their agenda down the throats of Christians, some are now angry that their children were exposed to a movie trailer with Christian overtones:
Parents at a 12:50 showing of “The Golden Compass” in Fort Worth’s Eastchase district were both shocked and appalled to find that the movie was preceded by […]
Vial Gallup: “Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent… This relationship between party identification and reports of excellent mental health persists even within categories of income, age, gender, church attendance, and education.”
It’s amazing that Bill Clinton can lie through his teeth and nearly all Democrats don’t seem to care. We’ll see if this is yet another case of wrangling over what the definition of “is” is:
During a campaign swing for his wife, former President Bill Clinton said flatly yesterday that he opposed the war […]
New York Times op-ed contributors Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert have recently done a couple of hack job articles on Ronald Reagan that probably knowingly eject the proper context in order to imply he was a racist. The only thing I can say for the times is that they allowed a bit of reality […]
The UN has a new report describing the dangers of unmitigated global warming, including the warning (as summarized by the NYT) that, “melting ice sheets that could lead to a rapid rise in sea levels and the extinction of large numbers of species brought about by even moderate amounts of warming.”
Well that sounds pretty […]