Another Snowstorm is Here

We are being hit with more snow just a few days after receiving 30+ inches from Mother Nature. However, the worst of it will be to the east. I might post some new pictures, except I don't know if you will be able to tell them from the old ones!

My favorite story out of this is that while D.C. has been receiving record snowfall, a Senate committee had to postpone a hearing on...global warming. Yes, when over the past few years, D.C. had not received much snow, the pundits claimed that "global warming" was the culprit. Now that it is snowing, no doubt we soon will hear that the storms are due to "global warming." In other words, with the Greens, it always is "heads I win, tails you lose."

Update: Like Pavlov's dogs, the editors at the state-worshiping "news" magazine Time have reacted to the recent snow by declaring that, indeed, the record snowfall is the result of...global warming. So, if it does not snow in DC, that is due to global warming, and if it snows, that, too, happens because of global warming.

Obama to "Focus on the Economy." Please, No!

After managing to alienate some of his most loyal voters in Massachusetts this last week, President Obama now promises to "focus on the economy." All I can say in response is, "Please, no. Focus on anything else. Please."

With the latest economic reports pointing out that unemployment continues to rise, it would seem that perhaps Obama might abandon his unwise "We're going to spend our way out of the recession" stance. The president promises to boost regulation of financial services, impose new environmental restrictions, raise taxes, and make it more difficult for entrepreneurs to operate.

This is not a prescription for a recovery, folks. It is a prescription for a depression.

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My wife and I will be traveling to Houston and to College Station, Texas, this weekend. More on this later.

Global Warming Warriors Expose their Population Control Agenda

I always have contended that the government-caused panic about supposed human-created "global warming" has been a mask for a larger agenda: controlling people. After all, every human being emits carbon dioxide, which the Environmental Protection Agency has declared to be a "dangerous pollutant." Control humans and control the climate, or so the pundits declare.

Today's "progressives" believe that no human being should go uncontrolled by the state, or at least no human being who is not an "enlightened progressive." The latest exposition of this supposed "truth" comes from Canada's Financial Post, which declares that we need some form of world government to enforce a universal "one child" policy.

While China has made huge strides over the past three decades since the death of the world's greatest mass-murderer, Mao, nonetheless it still enforces a brutal population control policy that has been a "progressive's dream." That is just fine with Post columnist Diane Francis:

The "inconvenient truth" overhanging the UN's Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world.

A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.

Yes, the "government should not be in our bedrooms crowd" wants, well, government in our bedrooms. And if the "progressives" are endorsing China's policy, don't forget that the government forces women to have abortions, engages in the crime of infanticide, and in so doing has created another crisis: China today is full of young and middle-aged men who has no prospects for marriage because there are so few eligible women. (The one-child policy has led Chinese parents to prefer having male children, which has led to the present crisis. It is called the Law of Unintended Consequences.)

Actually, the "inconvenient truth" has been that standards of living throughout the world have increased greatly as population has increased. However, facts never seem to drive population control discussion. Furthermore, the "progressives" have made it clear that while they believe the rest of us should be subject to the state's permission to have children, the "enlightened" people are to be exempt.

After all, Diane Francis has two children.