Tuesday, May 6, 2014

THE TEA PARTY ECONOMIST 05/06/2014

The Global Warming Movement Has Run Out of Gas
The Secretary-General of the United Nations — do you know his name? — gave a speech over the weekend. He announced the following. Climate change is the defining issue of our time. If we do not take urgent action, all our plans for increased global prosperity and security will be undone.” http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47718#.U2c6tCiPNqJThis speech indicates that […] READ MORE


California School District Assigns Essay On Whether Holocaust Was A Hoax
The Rialto school district in California is under fire over a stunning eighth-grade assignment that asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust and “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.” The thoroughly debunked idea […] READ MORE

The American Empire vs. Your Retirement Prospects
Back in the late 1950′s, I used to sell records to Leonard Wibberley. He had a long gray beard, and he drove a white Jaguar convertible. You have probably never heard of Leonard Wibberley. But he was important in my life. He taught me about American foreign policy. He was a novelist. His most famous […] READ MORE


Donald Sterling Breaks Silence; Wishes He Had Paid Off Stiviano
Speaking publicly for the first time since the release of a racist audio recording led to his lifetime ban from the NBA., Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling said he wishes he had “paid off” the female acquaintance who taped their conversation, according to media reports. “I wish I had just paid her off,” Sterling […] READ MORE

Boehner Preparing To Launch Full Investigation of Benghazi
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is set to announce the formation of a select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attacks. Boehner had been cool to the idea of forming a committee to probe the attacks that left four Americans dead, but sources close to the speaker say a new email released this week showing […] READ MORE

Seemingly Terrific April Jobs Report Poses Strange Puzzle
Funky job reports are not unusual, and the employment data for April certainly fits the bill. How else to explain the biggest gain in hiring in more than two years – at the same time the labor force shrank by the second largest amount in 32 years. Let’s review. The U.S. added 288,000 jobs in […] READ MORE

Captain Kirk and Climate Change
For some time now I’ve been trying to convey just how ludicrous it is that the US government’s anti-carbon policies are based on computer simulations of the global economic/climate system through the year 2300. A recent piece by David Kreutzer and Kevin Dayaratna (an economist and computer programmer, respectively, at the Heritage Foundation) is the […] READ MORE

Arizona Makes “Revenge Porn” A Felony
Another controversial law was signed by Governor Jan Brewer this week in Arizona. The new legislation means Arizona will be the first state to make posting “revenge porn” online a felony offense. The Arizona Legislature unanimously passed the bill one week ago and the governor signed it into law last Wednesday. “Revenge porn”, also referred […] READ MORE

May Day! May Day! Without Profits, Communism Is Doomed
Lawrence & Wishart, a profit-seeking leftist publisher of the collected works of Marx and Engels, is threatening legal action against Marxists.org, a website run by a remnant of the last remaining English-speaking Marxists. Marxists.org posts English-language translations of the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and other bourgeois members of the Inevitable Wave of the Future. […] READ MORE

Princeton University Student’s Bold Response After Allegedly Being Told Repeatedly to ‘Check Your Privilege’
Tal Fortgang, a freshman at Princeton University, says he has been ordered to “check your privilege” by his “moral superiors” several times this year because he happens to be a white male. In a column in the Princeton Tory, Fortgang takes on the ideology he says ”assumes that simply because I belong to a certain […] READ MORE

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