Archive for 2007
hate crimes
Some people say that there shouldn’t be hate crimes laws: The bill directly violates freedom of religion in this sense as it declares moral disapproval to be unacceptable. This is a hate crime: “And they’re saying what’s why they killed him. Because he was gay. And he wasn’t gay,” said Thomas Hall. “I don’t know […]
articles worth reading
Cleaning up Yet emissions keep on rising. If greenhouse-gas concentrations are to be stabilised, then the carbon price or the support mechanisms for clean energy, or both, will have to rise or be adopted worldwide, or both. And if that happens, the returns on clean-energy investments will increase even further and the companies that have […]
sometimes the government does a good job
Techdirt points out how the Government Accountability Office is getting things done.
complaints about ER
I found a post at The Blarg complaining about ER a few days ago. I started commenting on it, but there’s a lot to say, so I’m moving here. Now, I’ve only seen ER a few times, and like all TV shows it’s unrealistic, but the parts he labels “liberal nonsense” are not especially fantastic. […]
fox news
This isn’t spin. It’s an outright lie. And people believe it (from the video comments): Why does it bother you that the violence and immorality of homosexuality is finally being exposed for the evil that it is? What is so wrong with letting children grow up normal and without fear rather than deal with filth […]
whee, global poverty, or agricultural subsidies
Fuel of tomorrow Originally uploaded by boubou1 LMB recently wrote about farm subsidies in the US and the damage they do. They affect the major ingredients and prices of the food we buy. there are five crops which receive huge, huge payouts from the US government: corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, and cotton. None of these […]
terrifying questions
The left is often accused of slippery slopes when it comes to abortion: If you kill your “unborn child, ” what’s stopping you from killing your child after it’s born? But with the recent supreme court decision upholding the federal abortion ban, it seems we are heading down the other side of the hill. If […]