tl;dr – it's okay to kill desert tortoises for solar power, but not for food.
On Saturday, I wrote about the standoff at Bundy Ranch. That post drew a remarkable amount of traffic, even though, as I wrote then, I had not quite decided what to make of the story. Since then, I…
Freedom isn't free.
Officials freed cattle they said were illegally grazing on federal land in Nevada, in a reversal after a standoff with protesters.
Molon labe.
We need strict separation of the church of global warming and state.
There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating…
Quoted for truth.
Gee, I wonder why unemployment is so high.
Quoted for truth.
The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year.
How many more mass shootings in "gun free zones" do we need before we allow people to defend themselves again?
The fatal shooting at Fort Hood, the second in less than five years, has renewed calls for Congress and the Defense Department to end restrictions on servicemembers carrying weapons on post.
Hope and change.
After spending over $300 million on its exchange, the state of Oregon has failed to enroll a single person online.
Somewhere along the way Oregon managed to sign up 44 people for Obamacare, but not through the internet. Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner reported in December…
Oregon signs
Ah, social justice, the pernicious idea that the government elite are better at making decisions than the working masses :)
“Social Justice” is a term you hear almost every day. But did you ever hear anybody define what it actually means? Jonah Goldberg of the American Enterprise Institute tries to pin this catchall phrase to the wall. In doing so, he exposes the not-so-hidden agenda of those who use it.
Wow.  Paradise lost?
Honolulu police officers have urged lawmakers to keep an exemption in state law that allows undercover officers to have sex with prostitutes during investigations, touching off a heated debate.
Artificial Intelligence is snake oil – the biological sources of intelligent behavior are far more complex than any logical model we have of them.  They're not just "neural nets", they have complexity and cause down to the molecular level in some cases – the spaces between the neurons, and the biology surrounding them, have important but opaque effects.
What exactly does as-smart-as-humans mean? Intelligence is very hard to pin down. One thing we do know about intelligence is that it is not one thing that humans or animals have more or less of. Humans have several different kinds of intelligence – all of which combine to make us human.
Sub-prime science from sub-prime government scientists, exposed.
#johnholdrenfail  #churchofglobalwarming  
Dear John- I hope this note finds you well. I am writing in response to your characterization of me before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight yesterday, in which you said that my views lie “outside the scientific mainstream.” …
Thank you 9th circuit nazis, for allowing the threat of violence to be enough to render free speech rights dead.
#9thcircuitfail  #liberalinjustice  #freedomofspeech  
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that officials’ concerns of racial violence outweighed students’ freedom of expression rights.
Global Warming Nazis, unite!
#globalwarmingfraud  #globalwarmingnazis  
“We recognize that separating humanity from nature, from the whole of life, leads to humankind’s own destruction and to the death of nations. Only through a re-integration of humanity into the whole of nature can our people be made stronger. That is the fundamental point of the biological tasks …
We need to end tribal governments, period. Â Separate is not equal.
#tribalfail  #equalrights  
Practically everyone in this tiny town in the high desert of northeastern California’s Surprise Valley knew Cherie Lash Rhoades.
