August 6, 2009
Where Do Hypocrites in America Live?
Other than in Tennessee, where the Hypocrite-in-Chief Al Gore, who preaches carbon dioxide reduction but lives in a mansion that consumes 20 times the average American household energy and flies around in private jets to deliver his anti-emission sermons [1,2,3], the biggest hypocrites undoubtedly reside in Washington, D. C.
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July 8, 2009
Book Review: Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity
The Book
Author: John Stossel
Title: Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity
Subtitle: Get Out the Shovel – Why Everything You Know is Wrong
Publisher: New York: Hyperion, 2006
ISBN: 1-4013-0254-8
The Review
John Stossel’s Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity lays out plenty of facts and studies to debunk many popular beliefs, commonly called conventional wisdom. Basically, it seems to be putting in print a collection of 20/20 episodes, which I have almost never watched.
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June 24, 2009
Great Leap Forward on Green Energy
This week, while Congress is trying to rush through the cap-and-trade legislation, President Obama is busy selling his green energy initiative. He promises, as he did before, to transform this aspect of the American economy while saving the planet from the illusive man-made global warming (wonder why “climate change” is the preferred terminology nowadays?). In the process, he will dump hundreds of billions into the “green” energy industry and create millions of “green” jobs [1]
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