Amongst the plethora of PhDs, hard data sets, hypotheses, and highly involved line graphs at the Heartland Institute’s 6th annual International Conference on Climate Change, a couple things can be simplified enough for the layperson to come away with and feel somewhat educated on the matter.
Yearly Archives For 2011
Rainy Day Republicans
Further proof that academics have way too much time on their hands: a study from Harvard connecting Fourth of July celebrations to Republican voting patterns.
Neither Energetic Nor Efficient
The government’s energy efficiency policies don’t produce much of either energy or efficiency according to analysts who have studied the practices.
Reporters Miss Debt Deal
Pundits debating the fates of various Republican contenders for the presidency in 2012 are missing the biggest story of 2011, a veteran Capitol Hill corresp0ndent argues.
Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Natural Law Conclusion
“The growth of the new international law is the perfect logical culmination of 50 years’ worth of bad ideas from legal academia.”—attorney Walter Olson in his book Schools For Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America.
Federal Speech Codes
The federal government is poised to adopt or at least preside over something politically correct college administrators have yet to achieve—national speech codes.
CATO Forum on Medicare
At a policy forum at the CATO Institute in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2011, Lorens Helmchen of George Mason University presented a proposal to reform Medicare co-payments to reduce cost growth.
Making the Right Enemies
Further evidence that charter schools work better than traditional public schools: They are making the right enemies.
Cognitive Dissonance on Conservatism
Since they don’t really want to encounter any, academics keep striking out when they attempt to figure out conservatives. Berkeley’s George Lakoff is the latest scholar to miss the boat, and the dock is getting crowded.