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Al Gore is wrong – Don’t believe the hype – There is no consensus on global warming --First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates and politicians of any need to do so. Such claims also serve to intimidate the public and even scientists--especially those outside the area of climate dynamics. Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a "moral" crusade.

Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. An earlier attempt at this was accompanied by tragedy. Perhaps Marx was right. This time around we may have farce--if we're lucky.

Mr. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597

Separation of sports and state - Private companies could build the parks, run the concessions, manage the teams, and provide all related services — in the same way developers put together huge commercial towns of shops and amusements.[5] They do not do it now because the city crowds out the competition.  http://mises.org/story/2233

‘Helping’ Africa to death – Walter Williams http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50817

The end of deterrence – Joseph Farah - Overnight, and without any public debate, America's defense strategy has dramatically shifted. By not being clear with North Korea, by not stating unequivocally that a missile launch of any kind toward our country means total devastation for the enemy responsible, President Bush has left America vulnerable to all our enemies. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50881

Blair laid bare – the article that may get you arrested http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/blair-laid-bare-the-article-that-may-get-you-arrested

Estonia’s message of hope - The heaviest heritage of communism was that the people were made dependent on government. They were deprived of something they could call their own. They were taught not to make choices. From creative people they were turned into servants of the state…. From the first days of reform we stressed the importance of the rule of law, making a clear break with the communist past and launching reform of the judiciary. Corruption was fought and necessary legislation for honest business was introduced. To energize our people we introduced radical tax reform, based on the understanding that if somebody works more and earns more he would not be punished for this. We sharply decreased the taxation level and introduced a flat-rate, proportional income tax. The flat-rate tax has been an important part of the Estonian success story. It is easy to collect and easy to control. The only losers in this kind of tax reform were the tax lawyers.

As a result of this Estonia has become a country with the fastest economic growth in Europe. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=331

McCain’s out of control anger – does he have the temperament to be President?  "What has struck me about McCain is that everybody underestimated the ability of his advisers and him to hypnotize the national media, because most of us in the media in Arizona thought of him as a guy who had a terrible temper, occasionally had a foul mouth, a guy who whined and pouted unless he got his way," Murphy said. "McCain has a temper that is bombastic, volatile, and purple-faced. Sometimes he gets out of control. Do you want somebody sitting in the White House with that kind of temper?' http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/5/00548.shtml?s=lh

Top secret interview exposed! – Ann Coulter http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15912&o=ANN001

Why are Americans so Angry? – Ron Paul

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul331.html

Let Asia deal with Kim Jong Il – Pat Buchanan Kim and his nukes and missiles are primarily Asia's problem, not ours. And it is time Asians assumed responsibility for their own defense from a North Korea whose economy and population are small by any standard. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50979

Using the census to achieve gun control – Larry Pratt http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry63.htm

Big bang story of U.S. private business – Kudlow In less than three years, the U.S. economic pie has expanded by $2.2 trillion, an output add-on that is roughly the same size as the total Chinese economy, and much larger than the total economic size of nations like India, Mexico, Ireland and Belgium. … For those who bother to look, the economic power of lower-tax-rate incentives is once again working its magic. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LawrenceKudlow/2006/07/08/the_big-bang_story_of_us_private_business

We need the separation of economy and state – Joel Turtel What's important is not who owns property, but who controls it. When taxes confiscate up to 50 percent of your income, as they now do in America, you own only 50 percent of what you earn. When government bureaucrats can control your property with strangling regulations, your ownership is meaningless. … When welfare/entitlement state bureaucrats loot over 40 percent of your income with taxes, it means you're a slave working for others for almost five months of every year of your life. … We desperately need a constitutional amendment that separates the Economy from the State, and creates an inviolable protection for our property rights. http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel20.htm

Violence never solved anything? Dennis Prager It was violence that destroyed Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Only violence. Not talk. Not negotiations. Not good will. http://townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=thank_god_for_moral_violence&ns=DennisPrager&dt=07/04/2006&page=1

Is patriotism obsolete? – Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/07/07/is_patriotism_obsolete

The seven deadly sins: envy – Thomas Giles   Envy is always self-destructive. What the envier cannot enjoy, no one should enjoy, and thus the envier loses every enjoyment. The envier’s motto is “if not I, then no one.” As an eighth-century Jewish teacher put it, “the one who envies gains nothing for himself and deprives the one he envies of nothing. He only loses thereby.” http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/Column.aspx?ContentGuid=a139065f-33c4-48f0-a5aa-4fa21a471e76

Portland – How not to run a city – Randall O’Toole In the 1960s and 1970s, Goldschmidt had been a reformer challenging the establishment. By the mid-1990s, Goldschmidt WAS the establishment, with cronies on every board, clients in every land-use deal, and a hot line to every significant politician in the state -- many of whom owed him their jobs…. Goldschmidt's reputation, if not all his power, suffered a devastating blow when, in 2004, Willamette Week revealed that, as mayor of Portland, he had a sexual relationship with the 14- to 17-year-old babysitter of his children…. Goldschmidt and his friends lined their pockets with millions of dollars from [transit] deals.  http://www.newswithviews.com/O'Toole/randal.htm

Look! Up in the sky!  It’s an inflation fighting Fed! http://www.mises.org/story/2237

How women react to molestation on public transit http://www.planetizen.com/node/20406

FDA trying to wipe out the supplement industry http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron1.htm

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