Author: Simon

According to Sarah Palin Information (not an official Palin site), Sarah tweeted this video: I’ll be talking about this and more on September 3rd. http://fb.me/129u9eYLN I think she is in. You can find further links at the Sarah Palin Information site link above. BTW thanks to Frank a commenter here who was asking me if…

A commenter at my post Throwing The Election took umbrage at my comparing the morality of slavery to the morality of the Drug War and at my added point that the church was on the wrong side of that question. Fair enough. In the case of slavery some churches (in America) favored it and some…

In Christophobia I discussed how making the Republican 2012 Campaign for President a religious crusade could be a disaster. I gave the example of an election campaign for Federal Senator run on that basis. I looked at the numbers in Obama/Keyes vs Kerry/Bush and found that Keyes lost almost 60% of the votes of his…

So I’m having the usual discussion with a Socon and he accuses me of not liking Jesus. M. Simon, your post attacking me makes you sound like a “Christophobe.” Your logic shows your contempt for Christianity and distrust of us Christians. You got me. It was caused by me being FORCED in public school to…

Watts Up With That has the news the sceptic community has been waiting for. The CERN experiments done by Svensmark et. al. [Update: actually they were done by Kirkby but they validate the Svensmark hypothesis] show that clouds are significantly affected by cosmic rays. …it appears that a non-visible light irradiance effect on Earth’s cloud…

I was having a discussion with Eric via e-mail about blogging and decided to Google Power and Control. My blog comes out on top of course (we bloggers are a very competitive lot – Hey “M. Simon”, “M Simon”, and “MSimon” searches all have my blog, Power and Control, at the top – but I…

ED MORRISSEY: Biden’s Praise For China’s One-Child Policy: So Much For Being “Pro-Choice.” “Women in China have no choice over their bodies. The state enforces its policy with a totalitarian regime that requires IUDs, aborts children, and tortures and maim women who attempt to exercise choice.” Silly Ed. These are communists. It’s okay when communists…

The best version of this I ever saw was in a traveling show that passed through Rockford one year. I was hoping for a pleasant evening and was WOWed. This was brought to mind by Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone With Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Of course “Kiss Me Kate” and “The Taming Of…

I was looking around the ‘net and for some Vonnegut material and came across a review of Player Piano. Here is the central theme of the book and the review. Remember the days Greenspan would trumpet productivity improvements brought on by the internet as a key factor in maintaining benign inflation during economic expansion? It…

There is a new science I have never heard of before. Cliodynamics. Interesting name though. It is about putting history on a mathematical basis. One of the practitioners of the art is Peter Turchin who along with S. A. Nefedov wrote a paper about Secular Cycles in history. It is about societies that are at…

Rather often these days the idea that CO2 is destroying the planet is touted. Well OK. This is important. Really important. I get it. So how about a War to stop China from making so much CO2? Its output is expected to be double the US output by 2020. That is a doubling every ten…

Walter Russel Mead is discussing the breakdown of religion in America and how it affects social outcomes. He neglects the beached whale in the room. But he does think that people can be taught religion. I’m more of the opinion that it is a cultural thing. The more chiseling you have to do to make…

We have two parties in America. One offers imaginary solutions to real problems and the other offers real solutions for imaginary problems. Some choice.

I love gunners. The Government uses the Drug War against you (same as Alcohol Prohibition) and most of you guys and girls fail to notice. Say. Where is the Drug Prohibition Amendment anyway? Something I have failed to notice.

In Running? I was asking the question: “Is Sarah Palin running?” A topic that really captures my interest. Obviously some research is in order. So I’m reading the comments at the Hill Buzz piece I linked to earlier and found this little gem: jenforpresident Kevin, there appears to be an “easter egg” on the Tea…

Pretty nice campaign ad huh? Kevin at Hill Buzz thinks she is running. He likes the video too! Me? I’m a Palin fan. I think she has enough cultural sensitivity to unite libertarians and social conservatives the way Reagan did. “If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”…

You may have heard that the EPA is planning to shut down roughly 20% of coal generated electrical capacity by 2015. Francois Broquin, a co-author of reports on coal by Bernstein Research, said the combined rules could push as much as 20 percent of U.S. coal-fired electric generation capacity to retire by 2015. “Obviously that…

As a follow up to Dave’s recent post Cowen and Krugman and Volcker, Oh My! I’d like to present this little factiod about the Philly Fed and recent prognostications (via Zero Hedge). And here is Wall Street’s economist brigade again proving they are worth every penny based on their predictive skills: we just had an…

I got a link from Instapundit to an article bashing the usual and continued left wing idiocy and especially its connection to the recent flash riots. Comments like this one pop-up regularly in such posts. It’s all just more evidence that liberals are mentally ill. They cannot figure out cause and effect. Logic and facts…

The post I just did Liberty? We Can’t Afford It – Says Coulter got me to thinking about how to end the welfare state. Coulter is incensed that welfare money would be going to support dopers if drugs were legalized (as if that isn’t the case currently). Well Ann is not too bright. Just think…