…rbon emissions.’ One wonders: What will the emotional state of Americans become when air conditioning and heat become too expensive? When the food supply is threatened as business tries to keep up with impossible government-mandated standards for carbon emissions? When flying on airplanes becomes too expensive to make vacations possible, and when driving becomes a luxury that fewer people enjoy at all? Outlawing or restricting carbon emissions is… Continue reading →

…the United States and Israel, relative beacons of prosperity and economic freedom when compared to much of the rest of the world, and most of human history. Israel is better than Iran. It’s a better place to live, by any standard of human quality. For that reason, it has to be cut down a notch. Obama’s anti-Israel foreign policy is completely consistent with his anti-wealth, anti-private property and anti-economic freedom domestic policy. Obama d… Continue reading →

…live there? South Korea, while not the opposite extreme of North Korea, is comparatively freer, and observe the difference in concrete terms most of us can readily understand. Without the thought that goes into technological, industrial and scientific innovation, we wouldn’t have to worry about the billboards in Times Square, even neurotically and irrationally. When the lights go out in man’s mind, the lights literally go out on the streets, in th… Continue reading →

…zero-waste goal makes no sense at all — it’s very expensive with almost no real environmental benefit.” Interestingly, Porter advised state officials that no more than 35 percent of the nation’s trash was worth recycling, but some ignored him and set goals of 50 percent and higher. Most of those goals were never met and the national rate has been stuck around 34 percent in recent years. What people forget is how science in a free society, combined… Continue reading →