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Archive of posts published in the tag: Al Gore

Clarifying Capitalism

From Andy Kessler in The Wall Street Journal, Quit Modifying Capitalism (paywall) State Sponsored Capitalism (China) Casino Capitalism (Bernie Sanders) Sustainable Capitalism (Al Gore) Patrimonial Capitalism (Piketty) Surveillance Capitalism ( new one for me-  Ivy League origin) Popular Capitalism Conscious Capitalism (John

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Crony Stimulus

“The Department of Commerce gave One Economy Corporation over $28 million to increase fast internet service in areas without it. One Economy then directed $1.5 million to a film production company owned by actor/director, Robert Townsend, and $230,000 was used

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“The Perils of Extrapolation”

Andrew Stuttaford write Our Climate Change Cathedral in the National Review. Excerpts: Inevitably, Darwall is unable to resist mentioning earlier doomsayers that have got it spectacularly wrong. These include old Thomas Malthus, the Nixon era’s Club of Rome, and William

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Green from Green

Harry Bradford write at The Huffington Post Al Gore Worth 50 Times More Than He Was As Vice President Excerpt: The author of An Inconvenient Truth has swelled his net worth to about $100 million, largely due to his investments in green energy,

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Demonizing Skepticism

In American Thinker Randall Hoven writes Science for Stupid Idiots, 9/22/11. Excerpts: we get to why we must believe “science,” meaning taking whatever “scientists” say is incontrovertible truth.  If we start having doubts about any of it, we just might

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Rewarding Those Who Get It Wrong

Global warming- I mean ‘climate change’- mongers are unfazed by record cold temperatures. They are astute at explaining how record cold temperatures do in fact prove man made global warming and carbon dioxide emissions actually support their warming hypothesis, but

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Inflating the Green Bubble

Studying the financial bubbles we can see several common characteristics. During the bubble inflation we see markets taken to an extreme by financial greed, but as Walter Sowell so appropriately metaphored on the housing bubble, “blaming the crash on greed

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Notes on The Global Warming Contest

When climatologists such as John Coleman debunk AGW, the believers contest that he is not the right kind of scientist to dispute the “science”.  He is after all “just a weatherman”. Al Gore is certainly no scientist and has less

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The New Ruling Class

Recent postings on the growing spread between private sector and government sector employment elicited some protest, many who claimed that most government workers could make more in the private sector. This is true for some. Many of the people who

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