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Global Warmism in the service of Liberalism
vere loqui —
Authority: 430
The very heart and soul of modern liberalism is placing more and more power in the hands of people further and further away. Thomas Sowell pointed this out in A Conflict of Visions . He called it the "locus of discretion." For liberals, the locus of discretion--the place where power should be placed--is in the ...7 hours ago -
Thursday Links
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 750
By Chris Moody Helping out the “Wall Street fat cats:” Bankers are responding to the incentives generated by the economic policies of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. How charter schools can save states big education dollars. Doug Bandow: “Congress has spent the country blind, inflated a ...13 hours ago -
Wickmayer, Malisse given official approval to play
Thaindian News —
Authority: 728
London, Dec 17 (DPA) The tennis bureaucracy finally caught up with a fast-moving Belgian court ruling as US Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer and Belgian compatriot Xavier Malisse were given official permission to return to the sport by the International Tennis Federation.The pair, whose one-year bans for missing ...23 hours ago -
That supercomputer budget cut, in full, in brief
James' Empty Blog —
Authority: 517
As I predicted not so long ago , the proposed mothballing of the Japanese petaflop computer has been reversed . I suppose the initial proposals, outrageous as they were, could be viewed as a sort of kite-flying exercise in order to make the final cut seem relatively moderate. Its still a hefty 15% though, although ...1 day ago -
Rule #35
The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat —
Authority: 122
*Creaks open ancient tome and blows away thick layer of dust* Rule #35: It will always take longer than expected.1 day ago -
The Sticky Mess That is Obamacare
Charlie Foxtrot —
Authority: 506
Instapundit quotes Ann Althouse : “People just don’t want this bill. I think the big mistake was skipping the step of winning public support for a particular plan. It wasn ’t enough that people believed there was a problem. People needed to believe the solution wasn ’t worse than the problem. We were ...1 day ago -
Sin Bins and GLSEN
Odd Citizen —
Authority: 129
Two stories, almost too ugly to be true … the British have a nanny Children’s Secretary named Ed Balls. He’s proposing to expand a program characterized as “Sin Bins” wherein closed circuit tv cameras will be installed in 20,000 homes of “the worst families” per a Daily Express article quoted ...1 day ago -
San Francisco’s city government defies gravity; fails to collapse under its own bloated weight
C-POL: Constitutionalist, conservative politics —
Authority: 116
San Francisco has already been described as an increasingly child-free city. Lately, many have come to recognize yet another dubious distinction for SF. Benjamin Wachs and Joe Eskenazi report December 14 in SF Weekly: Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. ...1 day ago -
Simplification plan: year four 2009
Fade Library —
Authority: 145
Title: Simplification Plan Year Four 2009 Skinny: Describes DH continuing efforts to deliver the Government’s 25 per cent target for reducing the administrative burden of compliance with regulations affecting the private sector. Work also continues to reform the regulatory framework for health and adult social ...2 days ago -
Traversing Cope’s ideological wilderness
Thought Leader —
Authority: 527
Approximately a year ago the Congress of the People (Cope) burst onto the South African political scene with much fanfare promising a “New Agenda for Hope and Change for All!“. This agenda was to be informed by a commitment to being a modern political party underpinned by an ideology of “progressivism”.An ...2 days ago -
Great Moments in Bureaucracy
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 750
By Daniel J. Mitchell The picture below, taken from a story in The Economist , shows that France, Germany, and Italy are among the nations with the most central bank employees (as a share of the population). In some sense, this is a dog-bites-man factoid. After all, is anyone surprised that Europe’s major ...3 days ago -
Aaron Zelman: An Open Letter to All American Politicians and Bureaucrats
Red Pills —
Authority: 140
The following is an open letter generally directed to American politicians and bureaucrats. It was written in 2009 by Aaron Zelman who is the Founder and Director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO). I obtained notice of its existance via a JPFO email alert dated 12/14/2009. To: Members of ...3 days ago -
Good show!
Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative —
Authority: 111
Red light and speeding enforcement zones set this week . Madison police will be on the lookout for speeders and red-light runners this week on three stretches of city streets. And then they proceed to name the stretches they will be patrolling. So I guess they want the speeders to know where they need to obey the ...3 days ago -
Pampered European Bureaucrats Threaten Strike
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 750
By Daniel J. Mitchell There’s been a lot of attention given to overpaid government workers in America, as many people have documented , but the problem is global. Bureaucrats who work for the European Union get lavish pay and benefits, yet are threatening to strike because of a proposed pay freeze. These ...3 days ago -
Tata Group to perform corporate Yajna to please Agni devta
Faking News —
Authority: 132
New Delhi. In wake of the recent incidents of low-floor DTC buses made by Tata Motors catching fire, Tata Group has decided to perform a Yajna to please Agni devta (fire god) who it seems has been quite unhappy with the conglomerate. The decision was announced after a high-level review meeting took place today to ...3 days ago -
India urged to fast-track ties with Canada
Thaindian News —
Authority: 728
By Gurmukh SinghToronto, Dec 14 (IANS) With Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his top ministers visiting India this year, the influential Indo-Canadian community has stepped up its demand for reciprocal visits by Indian leaders to fast-track ties between the countries.They have also demanded the appointment ...4 days ago -
Bureaucracy – select quotes
Kevin Stilley Dot Com —
Authority: 143
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ~ Honore de Balzac Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active ...4 days ago -
We need real information and power not CAA box ticking
ConservativeHome's Local Government Blog —
Authority: 520
Mark Wallace of the Taxpayers Alliance judges the new CAA ratings and its Oneplace website to have failed in holding Town Halls to account. Great play has been made this week of the launch of the OnePlace website and the new Comprehensive Area Assessment. The CAA replaces the old star rating system for ...4 days ago -
Heros reputation redeemed from official disgrace
Bayou Renaissance Man —
Authority: 481
I was moved to read the story of Bombardier Robert Key, killed in France in 1944. The Daily Mail reports : The incident happened on September 5, 1944, the day after Liberation Day in the small town of Annezin, 50 miles south of Calais. The bombardier, who was on patrol on his own, rushed over and grabbed the ...5 days ago -
A settlement in sight for a longstanding lawsuit?
Bayou Renaissance Man —
Authority: 481
Ive been following the lawsuit brought by Native American tribes and individuals against the US Government for a long time. The New York Times reports : The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust ...5 days ago
