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Running
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Ethanol's Achilles Heel I don't know Robert Glennon, but he obviously has either bought into the propaganda from the environists about water, or is himself using its propaganda value. Knowing just a wee bit about AlterNet and Huffington Post, I suspect it is intentional propaganda. Yes, it takes tremendous quantities of water to produce ethanol, and to grow corn. But very little of that water is "converted" into ethanol. Assuming we are producing denatured ethanol, C2H6O, and that water, H2O, is the ONLY source of the hydrogen and oxygen (not true, but I am trying to explain for ordinary people here), each molecule of ethanol would "consume" 3 molecules of water and release an oxygen molecule. If I remember my chemistry calculations, 46 grams of ethanol uses 54 grams of water. So a gallon of ethanol (6.5 pounds) requires about one gallon of water (8 pounds). BUT when that ethanol is burned (C2H6O) with oxygen (O2), we have C2H5OH(g) + 3 O2(g) ? 2 CO2(g) + 3 H2O(l); (?Hr = -1409 kJ/mol[19]) or, duh, all three molecules of water have been recreated! Net ZERO consumption of water. (Read the rest here)
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Roll! The Winner of the 2008 Award for Political Incorrectness is…
This year’s award goes to an unassuming university professor who has devoted his career to the understanding and remedy of family violence. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and was elected president of the National Council on Family Relations and the Eastern Sociological Society. Needless to say, his resumé is lengthy and impressive. When he began his research in the 1970s, the public was well-acquainted with the stereotype of beer-swilling men who bullied their wives. That was the good professor’s assumption, as well. But when he published his research findings in 1975, everyone was amazed -- women were just as likely as men to engage in partner violence. (Read the rest here)
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Articles “News of a man dressing up in a Santa suit and murdering nine people in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve dominated cable news headlines for days after the event. News reports suggest Bruce Pardo took as many as four handguns and a homemade flame-thrower to the home of his ex-wife’s parents, where at least 25 people were enjoying a Christmas Eve party. Pardo shot at partygoers and burned down the house, murdering at least nine people before committing suicide hours later. Damage from the flames has thus far prevented officials from determining how many of the victims were shot to death, but hasn’t stopped the gun ban lobby from attempting to capitalize on the tragedy. … Indeed, there is much to be learned from this tragedy, which occurred in a state that has passed every conceivable form of gun control the gun grabbers have promoted, all in the name of reducing the violence.” (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) On
Being an Israeli Arab Antiwar.com quotes Arab members of the Israeli parliament as being warned by Israel’s intelligence agencies, "There is a limit to democracy." Opposition to Israel’s current Gaza onslaught by Israel’s own Arab citizens will not be allowed, and that senior Arab political and religious leaders in Israel will be held responsible for all unrest they may encourage or provoke. Any who stoke unrest risk their positions and possibly even their liberty and lives. And here, for years, we’ve been told by apologists – umm, sorry, spokespeople and defenders – for Israel that "their Arabs" have the same right as all Israeli citizens. When the Israeli state starts threatening Jewish Israelis this way (and maybe it is, who knows?) then we’ll see some real equality. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
'Some
people simply shouldn't have guns' I've said for years anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian. Thing is, we're surrounded by all kinds of people who can't be trusted with all kinds of things. But the problem with "gun control" laws is, the ones who are impacted by them, the ones who obey them, are the "law-abiding," that is, the people who aren't the problem. Anybody who tells you prohibiting the keeping and bearing of arms works had better be prepared to explain Murder Capital USA to you... (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Offsets
revisited: voluntary vs. mandatory This is a libertarian column. Libertarians do not find voluntary ventures verboten. Libertarians love a live-and-let-live liberality. That's freedom in its true sense - do as you desire as long as you don't coerce, intimidate or defraud others (or as some would say it, refrain from initiating the three F's: force, fear and fraud.) That doesn't mean people of the libertarian persuasion like everything or accept everything or condone everything that qualifies as non-coercive occurrences. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation Any system that permits a scam artist like Madoff to deceive not just widows and orphans but also sophisticated investors, like Fairfield Greenwich Group’s Walter Noel and Hollywood’s Jeffrey Katzenberg, isn’t a market at all; it’s a shooting gallery.” The last sentence is a tip-off that something is wrong with this outlook. Financial regulation is usually proposed to protect the unsophisticated. People knowledgeable about finance and securities presumably can take care of themselves. But what makes the Madoff scandal so noteworthy is that the most sophisticated types were taken in, even though several experts sounded alarms. Why? The other thing to note about Rutten’s position is that there has been no relevant financial deregulation to speak of. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute After 9/11, the Bush administration—in contradiction to everything that Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders have written—claimed that al Qaeda had attacked the U.S. because of its freedoms. Tragically, the American public, self-servingly oblivious to the real causes of the attacks, eagerly bought into this implausible hooey, thus allowing the administration a free hand to make the problem worse. You don’t have to condone the monstrous murders of 9/11, cheer for their heinous perpetrators, blame the innocent victims, or be “unpatriotic” to have asked intelligent questions about the contributions of a shadowy third party to the entire episode. Not Saddam Hussein—the U.S. government. The inevitable conspiracy theories aside, bin Laden has clearly and repeatedly stated that his main reason for waging war against the United States has been this nation’s continuing occupation and intervention in Muslim lands with non-Muslim forces. Even temperate Muslims detest such non-Muslim meddling in their affairs. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute The 2007–2008 financial crisis had its genesis in the United States housing markets, but it rapidly spread to other economies, first to the United Kingdom, but then almost everywhere else, including such unlikely spots as Iceland whose banking system collapsed.[1] Because events in the United States triggered the crisis, this essay will concentrate on the US causes although they had their many counterparts elsewhere. There are at least three long-standing background influences that contributed to the financial debacle that dominated the US economy in 2008: (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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