Wall St. Journal: “If we tried to start The Home Depot today, it’s a stone cold certainty that it would never have gotten off the ground. That short-sighted wavering—between condescending encouragement one day and hostile disparagement the next—creates uncertainty that, as any investor could tell you, causes economic paralysis. That’s because no one can tell what to expect next.”
USA Today: “Starting with the grainy images first broadcast by Kamau and other pioneer citizen watchdogs — notably the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, shot by a nearby resident— the public surveillance of cops has exploded to potentially include anyone with a cellphone. The videos are so ubiquitous that analysts and police debate whether they are serving the public interest — or undermining public trust in law enforcement and even putting officers’ lives in jeopardy
How fortunate we Americans are to have had a group of men as intelligent and wise as our founding fathers. Here are some words of wisdom from James Madison published on February 27, 1788, in what is called The Federalist Number 62. As you read consider Congress passing 1,000 plus page laws that few of the Senators and Congressmen have read, the rampant crony capitalism in Washington, the power of special interest groups like the autoworkers and teachers unions and why businesses are reluctant to make new investments and hire more employees.
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uniformed mass of the people. Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow-citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few, not for the many.
In another point of view, great injury results from an unstable government. The want of confidence in the public councils damps every useful undertaking, the success and profit of which may depend on a continuance of existing arrangements. What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government? In a word, no great improvement or laudable enterprise can go forward which requires the auspices of a steady system of national policy.”
Investors Business Daily has the full text of the October 6, 2010, letter that Harold Lewis, emeritus professor of of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sent to Princeton’s Curtis G. Callan Jr., in which he resigned from the American Physical Society. He said:
“When I first joined the American Physical Society 67 years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood . . . . How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research . . . . For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame . . . .
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist. . . .
the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. . . .
APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. . . .
This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it.
Read the entire letter to learn how money has corrupted science.
I’ve got a great idea. Let’s give the incompetents who sent checks to 72,000 dead people control of the entire U.S. health care system, which is one seventh of our national economy.