I am becoming increasingly convinced that we still haven't gotten science education right in our primary and secondary schools, and the latest defenses of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) just add to that conviction. If you haven't seen it, the claim basically is that AGW explains why it is so cold recently (yes, that's right - it's cold because ( Read more... )

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My mother and I do not agree, politically. She things I'm an extreme conservative, and I think she's a pretty extreme liberal, but we can usually talk civilly on politics, although we rarely see eye-to-eye and almost never change each other's minds. But she is very politically active, and recently became involved in the local "Coffee Party" and ( Read more... )

I have been reading Mark Steyn's America Alone, a very depressing and rather convincing book. In it, he points out some basic facts, including:

• Demography is largely destiny - that is, the ideals and standards of a society tend to be set by the majority, or in the face of a passive majority, a sufficiently aggressive minority
• In most of the Western ( Read more... )