Mathematical Proof that Al Gore Lies
Climate Change alarmists bandy about graphs and charts and what-not in an attempt to confuse regular folks. They know that you are less likely to challenge them if they have something that looks like empirical proof that they are right. It doesn’t really have to be proof, it just has to look like proof. The … Read more
Faking the Climate Change Numbers
Leftist scientists and environmental alarmists are pushing the extremist climate change agenda, but the American People are much too smart for them. You can’t make the American People believe something that doesn’t make sense on the face of it; it just won’t work. And that’s not just my opinion. Take a look at this Rasmussen … Read more
American Health Care is the Best in the World
The American Health Care system is the best in the world. Everybody knows that. Why else would foreign dignitaries come here for their health care? You hear about it all the time. But I don’t have to rely on anecdotal evidence for my proof. I have actual proof. We spend more on health care than … Read more
Cloture as a Natural Process
There was some whingeing and hand-wringing about my recent post on the filibuster and cloture. There seems to be a belief that just because the filibuster was rare in the past and is common now, that this is an unnatural situation. Nonsense. Exponential functions always start out small and grow exponentially. By definition. Didn’t you … Read more
Cloture
There’s been a lot of whining from the left lately about Republicans using the filibuster. Well, with such a minority, how else can Republicans stop the democrats from instituting their socialist policies? Besides, it’s part of a natural increase in the use of the filibuster, and as such nothing can be done. For those lucky … Read more








A Drop in the Ocean
Posted by ThomPaine on May 17, 2010 · 2 Comments
To tell the truth, I was getting a little worried about the sheer scale of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. After the estimates of how fast oil was gushing into the Gulf were increased by several times, I began to worry that this was going to be a huge environmental catastrophe. After … Read more
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