Green Journalism; Mainstream Media Creating Climate Stories - Anthony Watts
Guest opinion by Dr Tim Ball Creating the News: On August 4 2014, an article in The Guardian claimed, “World’s Top PR Companies Rule Out Working With Climate Deniers”. It is a classic example of what purports to be journalism today, a concocted story, in which the story contradicts the headline. It is a…
Economics
It is a fundamental economic
law that pricing the services of any product above its market clearing price
will create a surplus for that product. It should therefore be a self-evident
truth that this economic law applies to labour with equal force. Regardless of
what a many people think, labour is not special nor is it bought and sold. What
employers actually do is pay rent to labour for the use of its services. How
much rent must be paid for those services depends on the supply of labour and
the value of its marginal product. The lower the supply (given an unchanged
demand) the higher will be the wage, and vice versa. The
demand curve for labour consists of a descending array of marginal
productivities. The point at which the wage rate is determined is where we find
marginal workers, those it only just pays to hire. It is at this point that
minimum wage laws* do their damage. These workers are the first to go
when the effective minimum is raised. It follows that what really matters is
not the minimum wage per se but the effective minimum rate, the rate that
exceeds the market clearing price of labour. Hence it is this rate that causes
unemployment.......
Of course, Dresser could use
the old Keynesian standby that as these employers save part of their incomes
while marginal workers save nothing, then boosting the minimum wage will raise
spending by reducing savings. No it won’t. This fallacy contains even more
fallacies. To begin with it assumes that to save is not to spend. But saving is
spending by another name and is the means by which spending is directed from
the purchase of present goods to the purchase of future goods. (I should add
that Keynesians are forever confusing cash balances
Education
Why ‘Diversity’Means Quotas - Ben Cohen
The truth about racial preferences in higher education.
The Evidence
Behind Common Core Is Really Weak
Much like the push for government preschool, the Common Core movement is suffused with much hope but little evidence.
Much like the push for government preschool, the Common Core movement is suffused with much hope but little evidence.
Not much bang
for D.C.’s education bucks
...once more as students return for another round of reading, writing and arithmetic. In the District of Columbia, sad but true, they’re not learning much.
...once more as students return for another round of reading, writing and arithmetic. In the District of Columbia, sad but true, they’re not learning much.
WV Against Common Core Holds Town Hall Meeting
West Virginia Against Common Core held a town hall meeting to inform local residents why they feel Common Core will negatively affect our state.
West Virginia Against Common Core held a town hall meeting to inform local residents why they feel Common Core will negatively affect our state.
Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday became the
latest state education higher-up to express skepticism on Common Core
One
Judge Attempts to Block Thousands of Students from Accessing School Vouchers
Judge Robert Hobgood ruled the state’s school voucher program unconstitutional because the program appropriates funds in a manner that does not accomplish a public purpose.
Judge Robert Hobgood ruled the state’s school voucher program unconstitutional because the program appropriates funds in a manner that does not accomplish a public purpose.
The ABC of RutherglenJennifer
Marohasy
IF
global warming is the greatest moral issue of our time, then the truth really
does matter. But this morning, I felt that I had been shut outside, or at least
cut-off, without having a chance to tell the whole story. Bronwen O’Shea the
host of an ABC radio program for the Goulburn Murray, a [...]
A President’s
Global Warming Treaty Tyranny-Arnold Ahlert
Submitting the U.S. to the international
community's will -- without the consent of Congress.
Climate bozos keep popping up all over - Guest Blogger at Watts Up With That?
Alarmism:
When Is This Bozo Going Down? By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip”
Knappenberger Climate alarmism is like one of those pop-up Bozos. No matter how
many times you bop it, up it springs. In fact, the only way to stop it, as most
kids learn, is to deflate it. In this…
LOL! Obama’s Climate Plan Spooks U.S. Democrats - Anthony Watts
Yesterday we
mentioned Obama’s nuclear option event, and now the fallout begins. From
Timothy Cama and Scott Wong, The Hill President Obama’s election-year plan to
win a new international climate change accord is making vulnerable Democrats
nervous. The administration is in talks at the United Nations about a deal that
would seek to reduce global greenhouse…
Islam
The Muslim Rape
of Christian Nuns - Raymond
Ibrahim
An ancient tradition continues -- with little to stand in its way.
1,400 Child
Victims of Muslim Rape Gangs Discovered in Rotherham, UK - Jamie Glazov...
While
authorities and child protection services turned a blind eye to avoid being
called "racist."
Obama’s
‘Iraqization’ of America - Daniel Greenfield
When Americans Leave for Jihad - Peter Bergen and David
Sterman, CNN
What can be done? Western governments are keenly aware of the
problem of Syrian veterans coming home both radicalized and trained. The
problem is that in some European countries with hundreds of returnees, it is
just not possible to monitor all of them. That was vividly illustrated by the
case of Nemmouche.
Middle East
American ISIS
Supporter Plotted to Blow Up ‘Zionist’ Day CareL - loyd Billingsley
Temple
University —- Anti-Semitism Battleground - EdwinBlack
Protestors stand up
to Jew-Hate on an American campus.
Can the Middle East Redraw Itself? - Marc Champion, Bloomberg View
Amre Moussa, the
former Arab League head from Egypt, is calling for a Middle Eastern equivalent
of the 1814 Congress of Vienna, in which Europe’s great powers established a
new order to prevent wars between empires following the defeat of Napoleon.
Admittedly, Moussa quickly backtracked to say the plan couldn’t initially
include Iran, Turkey or Israel, making it really just another Arab League
meeting. Still, I think he’s onto something.
A Grim Stalemate at War's End in Gaza - Dan Perry, Associated Press
The third Gaza War in six years appears to have ended in another sort of tie,
with both Israel and Hamas claiming the upper hand. Their questionable
achievements have come at a big price, especially to long-suffering Palestinians
in Gaza. In a sense, Israel got what it wanted: Hamas stopped firing rockets in
exchange for mostly vague promises and future talks. But the cost to Israel was
huge: Beyond the 70 people killed - all but six of them soldiers - the economy
has been set back, the tourism season destroyed, its people rattled for 50 days
and its globa... more »
Hamas' Humiliation, Israel's Looming Loss - Avi Issacharoff, Times of
Israel
Don’t be fooled. Hamas has capitulated to a ceasefire without any of its
promised achievements. But Israel, too, will be a loser unless it changes its
position on Mahmoud Abbas.
Iran's Great, and Squandered, Potential - Karim Sadjadpour, The Daily
Star
During Iran’s 2013 presidential campaign, Hassan Rouhani marketed himself
to a wary Iranian public and hard-line political establishment as the man who
could reconcile the ideological prerogatives of the Islamic Republic with the
economic interests of the Iranian nation. Iran did not need to decide whether
to wage Death to America or dtente, whether to resist the global order or
reintegrate with it, or whether to be theocratic or democratic. Under his
leadership, Rouhani implied, the Islamic Republic of Iran could do it all.
Assad Is Laying a Deadly Ambush for Obama in Syria - Fred Hof, TNR
President
Barack Obama's decision to authorize aerial surveillance of Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions in Syria suggests that airstrikes employing
manned and unmanned aircraft may not be far behind. All of this is right and
proper. Yet danger lurks. The head of Syria's preeminent crime family—President
Bashar Al Assad—waits, crocodile-like, for the American angler to tumble out of
the boat. For Assad, opportunity knocks. If he handles matters correctly he
can, with an assist from American inaction, return to polite society while
others do the anti-ISIS ... more »
Would It Kill
You to Hire More Black Cops? (Yes)- Ann Coulter
What the media won't tell you about affirmative
action plans imposed on police departments.
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