Some Links to Cheer Us Up

I was doing a web search today and found the website Government Is Good. Now, I always love good satire and figured that whoever put up this thing was going to provide some laughs.

Whaddyaknow? This site is serious! It is put up by a professor of (What else?) politics at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, a bastion of Political Correctness in America's most Politically Correct state. If you read this site -- and it will take a long time, for this guy looks as though he has written this copy for years -- you will discover that GOVERNMENT GIVES US RIGHTS!! According to Prof. Douglas J. Amy, Americans were not free until the government was created in 1787.

Better yet, he claims that the U.S.S.R. (on this 20th anniversary of the demise of the Berlin Wall) failed because it could not adequately tax-and-spend. I am not kidding. You can read it here.

So, the next time you read about police busting into a house, shooting up the family dogs, and maybe killing innocent people, rejoice. Yes, Douglas Amy will tell you that those hooligans are protecting your rights!!

MEANWHILE, THE DEA IN MEMPHIS recently arrested a childhood friend of mine on a charge of illegally writing prescriptions. Now, lest anyone think I have been unfair calling mainstream news organizations whores of the Department of Justice (sic), notice that the article used by this news organization was a DOJ press release.

Why take the time to write "news" copy when government agents will do it for you? Yes, not only does government "protect our freedoms" by arresting us, but the media proudly trumpets the First Amendment by pretending that government PR is "freedom of speech."

I will be writing more about this case in the future, but for now let me just say that from what I already know, it provides more proof that the U.S.S.A. is a place there liberty, justice, and simple fairness no longer have much, if any, of a constituency.

Happy Reading!

Paul Krugman Demands China Commit Economic Suicide

These are heady times for Paul Krugman. Armed with his Nobel Prize, The Great One now declares that the Chinese must embrace his view of environmentalism. Yes, he wants to spread his Gospel of Keynesian Environmentalism to China, which I only can hope will reject the nonsense being peddled by this charlatan. The Great One writes:

Like every visitor to China, I was awed by the scale of the country’s development. Even the annoying aspects — much of my time was spent viewing the Great Wall of Traffic — are byproducts of the nation’s economic success.

But China cannot continue along its current path because the planet can’t handle the strain.

The scientific consensus on prospects for global warming has become much more pessimistic over the last few years. Indeed, the latest projections from reputable climate scientists border on the apocalyptic. Why? Because the rate at which greenhouse gas emissions are rising is matching or exceeding the worst-case scenarios.

And the growth of emissions from China — already the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide — is one main reason for this new pessimism.

Without going into all of the "science" behind the theories of human-caused global warming, I will say that it is interesting that since the planet has cooled in recent years, the "experts" have become more apocalyptic. This is an old trick in which one becomes increasingly shrill as the facts contradict one's theories.

For example, the Centers for Disease Control and their adoring media have magnified the view that we are headed for another 1918-style pandemic when, in fact, a lot more people have become sick via other means than the Swine Flu. As I wrote on Lew Rockwell's site recently, it always is 1918 at the CDC, and the government stands by to throw emergency powers at us in order to save us -- whether or not we want to be bullied by government bureaucrats. Even as life expectancy increases and living conditions for people improve (albeit slowly) across the planet, the bureaucrats and the Krugmans become even more shrill and demanding. (Yes, there is a connection between the two.)

Krugman's notion that government now is producing "real science" is a howler. The Environmental Protection Agency for years has been a repository of junk science coupled with authoritarian powers, the worst combination. That President Barck Obama is unleashing the EPA even more than it was unleashed under previous administrations is frightening.

Here is hoping that the political and economic leadership of China tells Paul Krugman where to stick it. As an advocate of both junk economics and junk science, Krugman is a bigger disaster than Swine Flu and Global Warming put together.