Category: Politics
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Utah Officially Thinks Global Warming is a Scam
by Jason Stotts The Heartland Institute has a post up about how the Utah House of Representatives has just passed a resolution that: “implies climate change science is a conspiracy, and urges the EPA to stop all carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs. Among other things, the resolution claims there is “a well organized and…
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IPCC Sinks Lower (Climategate Update)
by Jason Stotts The Telegraph is reporting that the IPCC report is even worse than has come to light in various ways since Climategate began. In their piece “New Errors in IPCC Climate Change Report” they list the following new errors in the report that have come to light: The publication of inaccurate data on…
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More Evidence that “Abstinence Only” Education is a Failure
by Jason Stotts The Guttmacher Institute has recently released a report that shows that absolute failure of “abstinence-only” (i.e. religious) sex education. The report is “Following Decade-Long Decline, U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate Increases as Both Births and Abortions Rise.” For the first time in more than a decade, the nation’s teen pregnancy rate rose 3% in…
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Maybe Our Country Will be Free After All
by Jason Stotts While states such as Massachusetts already have socialized medicine and states like California are trying to pass it, I’m encouraged to see that some states are taking a principled approach based on individual rights and are moving to prevent socialized healthcare from ever entering their states. The recent article in Business Week…
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Australia Hates Small Breasts
by Jason Stotts I blogged about the impending Australian internet censorship back in December, but now it appears that Australia is out to lampoon itself for me. The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.…
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More Climategate Faux Pas
by Jason Stotts It seems the IPCC science is looking shoddier and shoddier. Apparently the claims about the loss of 40% of the Amazon rain forest is from a green activist’s paper dealing with forest fires (i.e. unrelated to global warming) and the paper was written to try to influence policy. In the Fourth Assessment…
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Oh California…
by Jason Stotts Living in California, I am constantly surprised by the asinine laws here and the complete disregard of individual rights and freedoms. Sometimes, however, California goes so far as to be comical (in the bad way). Apparently a school district in Riverside California has removed the dictionaries from the classrooms. No, it’s not…
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Healthcare and Abortion
by Jason Stotts If you are against socialized medicine, you are also against the government controlling abortion. Either the government should control healthcare or it should not. Otherwise you end up with this absurd (religious reich) position: (via WickedGayBlog)