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By David J. Theroux | Monday May 7, 2012 at 3:39 PM PDT | 6 Comments
James Delingpole reports in the Telegraph of London that James Lovelock, the “greenest” of the “greens,” now admits that the doomsaying over global warming is wrong. [O]ne of the archest of the world’s arch Greenies – James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis and therefore, more or less, founder of the world’s most powerful...
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Tags: Disaster Management, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Land use, Progressivism, Regulation, Religion, Science, Socialism
By David J. Theroux | Wednesday February 29, 2012 at 7:14 PM PDT | 12 Comments
As America heads toward “Super Tuesday” on March 6th in which primaries or caucuses will be held in ten states, the Christian Science Monitor reports in “Ron Paul poll shocker: He beats Obama head-to-head” that the influential Rasmussen Poll has released its latest findings of the views of likely voters in which the four...
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Tags: Constitution, Culture, Elections, Federal Reserve, Free Market, Liberty, Personal Liberty, Politics, Presidential Power
By David J. Theroux | Tuesday February 21, 2012 at 11:06 PM PDT | 16 Comments
The response to the January 27th article in the Wall Street Journal by sixteen leading scientists, “No Need to Panic About Global Warming,” has been nothing short of explosive both at the Journal and to my blogging on the matter, “Leading Scientists Debunk Climate Alarmism.” However, the response from the mega-funded alarmist establishment (see...
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Tags: Censorship, Corruption, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Integrity, Politics, Power, Propaganda, Regulation, Science
By David J. Theroux | Saturday January 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM PDT | 13 Comments
In their recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “No Need to Panic About Global Warming,” a group of sixteen world-renowned scientists decry the unscientific alarmism over “global warming,” citing numerous inconvenient facts that dispute global warming claims. Here is a video interview with signatory William Happer, Professor of Physics, Princeton University: Their message...
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Tags: Corruption, Education, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Nationalization, Politics, Propaganda, Science, Video
By David J. Theroux | Thursday January 12, 2012 at 12:14 AM PDT | 60 Comments
We live in a secularized world of nation states in which traditional religion, especially Christianity, is unwelcome. Rooted in the “Enlightenment,” this view supports a secularized and authoritarian public square enforced by government and that progress requires forcing religion ever backward into remote corners of society. In short, America has become a secular theocracy...
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Tags: American History, Censorship, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Conservatism, Culture, Law, Liberalism, Liberty, Morality, Nanny State, Nationalism, Natural Law, Peace, Personal Liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Power, Privacy, Progressivism, Propaganda, Regulation, Religion, Science, Socialism, Surveillance, The State, War
By David J. Theroux | Monday January 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM PDT | 4 Comments
On December 29th, the world-renowned economist Ronald H. Coase celebrated in Chicago his 101st birthday. Professor Coase received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991, and he is the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School and the former, highly influential editor of the prestigious Journal...
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Tags: Austrian School of economics, Books, Business, California, Civil Society, Culture, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Free Market, Land use, Law, Liberty, Monopoly and Antitrust, Privatization, Property Rights
By David J. Theroux | Wednesday December 28, 2011 at 7:13 PM PDT | 23 Comments
In the escalating P.C. wars waged by the secular theocracy‘s Nanny State, an elementary public school this fall ordered a ten-year-old boy to spend the rest of the semester eating lunch alone at the school’s “silence table,” with a dire warning of suspension if he dared to threaten others again. We certainly need to...
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Tags: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice, Culture, Education, Fascism, Food, Gun Control, Liberalism, Liberty, Media, Morality, Nanny State, Personal Liberty, Power, Video, Weapons
By David J. Theroux | Monday December 19, 2011 at 7:29 PM PDT | 19 Comments
We live in an increasingly secularized world of massive and pervasive nation states in which traditional religion, especially Christianity, is ruled unwelcome and even a real danger on the basis of a purported history of intolerance and “religious violence.” This is found in most all “public” domains, including the institutions of education, business, government,...
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Tags: American History, Books, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Conservatism, Culture, Imperialism, Law, Liberalism, Liberty, Military, Morality, Nationalism, Natural Law, Peace, Personal Liberty, Philosophy, Presidential Power, Privacy, Progressivism, Regulation, Religion, Science, Socialism, Terrorism, The State, Utilitarianism, War
By David J. Theroux | Saturday December 17, 2011 at 4:13 PM PDT | 0 Comments
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Thomas Woods on “The Peter Schiff Show.” Dr. Higgs discusses how the federal government prolonged and deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s that lasted until after World War II when such policies were either ended or radically reduced. Moreover, the current attempts at central-government planning...
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Tags: American History, Audio, Austrian School of economics, Bailouts, Books, Budget and Tax Policy, Corporatism, Economics, Employment, Federal Reserve, Free Market, Government subsidies, Great Depression, Inflation, Mercantilism, Money and Banking, Nationalization, Personal Liberty, Politics, Price control, Progressivism, Regulation, Socialism, Taxation, The State, Unemployment, Welfare
By David J. Theroux | Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM PDT | 18 Comments
As if the climate alarmist scams revealed in Climategate I and Climategate II were not enough, not to mention the deliberate misrepresentations in Al Gore’s propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, we now learn that the BBC faked a key scene in the £16 million, seven-part TV series, Frozen Planet, in which polar bears were...
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Tags: Corruption, Culture, Entertainment, Environment, Global Warming, Government subsidies, Media, Politics, Science, Video