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Hurricanes and global warming 2006 The slow hurricane season and the cooling sea surface temperatures might be somewhat surprising to the public. http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2006/hurricane-atlantic-2006-below-normal-season.htm

Michigan state mechanical engineering professor tells Muslims to adapt or go home

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman.asp

Why is medical care so expensive – Hans Sennholz Some 40 years ago, American medical spending was estimated at 5 percent of national income; today it is calculated at some 16.5 percent and rising continually. …Few observers dare to state that spiraling health-care costs are the inevitable consequence of a 1965 Social Security amendment molding Medicare and Medicaid. …Politics is likely to shape the future of medical care as far as the eye can see. It builds upon popular political ideas, on old habits and predispositions, even resentment and envy. It inflicts pain without end. http://gcc.savvior.com/Why_is_Medical_Care_so_Expensive.php

Welfare reform is working The facts tell a powerful story: When the poor are invited to live as people with dignity, within structures of liberty, they will usually do so. Since the 1996 reforms child poverty has plummeted. Some 1.6 million fewer children live in poverty today than in 1995. Poor black children have enjoyed the greatest decreases in poverty. …The principles of entrepreneurship, homeownership, family, saving and investing, and commitment to community will not only lift families out of poverty but empower them to enjoy lives of dignity for generations to come. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=339

Race and economics – Thomas Sowell As a purely factual matter, prices do tend to be higher -- and the quality of service and products lower -- in stores in low-income neighborhoods. But the knee-jerk assumption that this represents "exploitation" or "racism" ignores the economics of the situation. …The reason least likely to be acknowledged by those who blame the store owners is that crime, shoplifting, vandalism, and riots have raised the costs, both directly and by causing insurance rates and the costs of security to be higher in ghetto neighborhoods. …Many black "leaders" and "spokesmen" who romanticized ghetto riots as "uprisings" against oppression are now displaying their ignorance of both history and economics. Those ghetto residents who had nothing to do with those riots are still paying the price. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/25/race_and_economics

The left and crime – Thomas Sowell – part 1 The softness toward dangerous criminals found in such 18th century writers as William Godwin and Condorcet has its echo today among those who hold protest vigils at the executions of murderers and who complain that we are not being nice enough to the cutthroats imprisoned at Guantanamo…. None of this is new and the rationales for it go back at least two centuries. What is remarkable is how mountains of hard evidence to the contrary have been ignored, evaded, or simply lied about, on both sides of the Atlantic.  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/23/the_left_and_crime

And part 2 Do higher rates of imprisonment reduce crime? Is crime a result of poverty, unemployment, and the like? Are alternatives to incarceration more effective in preventing criminals from repeating their crimes? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/24/the_left_and_crime_part_ii

Reasoning by historical analogies http://gcc.savvior.com/Reasoning_by_Historical_Analogies.php

Global warming foes fight global warming cures - If Al Gore is right and global warming is genuine, grave, and the fault of mankind, why do he and so many environmentalists oppose measures that would reduce those pesky carbon-dioxide emissions? http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmYxOWUxZTY3OTY0ZjAyYTNiMjY2ODYyNzc1ZDA2OTA=

Losing US sovereignty through “fast track” treaties - Fast Track was created as a very specific legislative tool to accomplish a very specific executive task -- namely, to "fast track" the creation of the "New International Economic Order" envisioned by the Trilateral Commission in 1973! …Because international treaties supercede national law, Fast Track has allowed an enormous restructuring of U.S. law without resorting to a Constitutional convention …. As a result, national sovereignty of the United States has been severely compromised - even if some Congressmen and Senators are aware of this, the general public is still generally ignorant. http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick18.htm

Traffic gridlock in Portland- Portland transit today carries a smaller share of commuters and a smaller share of total travel than it did in 1980, before the region's leaders began their love affair with expensive rail transit.  http://www.newswithviews.com/O'Toole/randal3.htm

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