February, 2011 // Posts published in February, 2011
Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan
nytimes.com | Feb 25, 2011 By THOM SHANKER WEST POINT, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for the United States to ever fight another … Continue reading →
Western voters mostly skeptical of global warming
wattsupwiththat.com | Feb 25, 2011 by Anthony Watts This is interesting. The American Spectator tips us to this this poll, conducted under the auspices of Colorado College’s State of the Rockies project one in which most questions were designed to … Continue reading →
Western voters mostly skeptical of global warming
wattsupwiththat.com | Feb 25, 2011 by Anthony Watts This is interesting. The American Spectator tips us to this this poll, conducted under the auspices of Colorado College’s State of the Rockies project one in which most questions were designed to … Continue reading →
Deep freeze puts Baltic on track for record ice
Following another extended stretch of sub-zero temperatures, ice coverage on the Baltic Sea is greater than it’s been in nearly a quarter century, Sweden’s meteorological agency reports. thelocal.se | Feb 25, 2011 About 250,000 square kilometres of the Baltic Sea … Continue reading →
Deep freeze puts Baltic on track for record ice
Following another extended stretch of sub-zero temperatures, ice coverage on the Baltic Sea is greater than it’s been in nearly a quarter century, Sweden’s meteorological agency reports. thelocal.se | Feb 25, 2011 About 250,000 square kilometres of the Baltic Sea … Continue reading →
Climategate scientists let off the hook for data manipulation
New York Times | Feb 24, 2011 By LESLIE KAUFMAN An inquiry by a federal watchdog agency found no evidence that scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data to buttress the evidence in support of global … Continue reading →
Joe Bastardi Explains Why the Cold Miser Is Winning the Climate-Change Showdown
Photograph courtesy of Joe Bastardi. “As far as the global warming goes, to me that’s just a big forecast. Who’s going to be right? There are guys saying C02 is driving the whole thing and making the world warmer. Well, … Continue reading →
Friday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 25th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: Jaime Daremblum, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, blogs on the “underreported news” that the U.S. government is investigating “whether Venezuela recently defied American sanctions by sending gasoline to the Islamic Republic.” “‘Hugo Chávez and PDVSA are actively ...
Sanctions against Libya?
Like most people, I’m horrified at Gaddafi’s use of terror and violence in Libya. He has distinguished himself as being uncommonly brutal and disarmingly undisguised in the carrying out of what all governments the world over stand to enforce: their monopoly on the use of aggressive force. What we see here is the essence of the state in action, and this is particularly embarrassing to all other states in the world, since Gaddafi has taken the mask off and told it like it is: he must continue to rule because, well, he rules and therefore he decides what is and... Continue Reading Related posts:
In Praise of the Tourist Trap
I’m in Florida for an event sponsored by the Mises Institute, and flying into Fort Meyers meant walking through the glorious micro-civilization that airports have become, little utopias of commerce and plenty. In the airport, you can stand in one spot and choose to walk twenty feet in any direction and find yourself in a Spanish or Thai restaurant, or grab a book from a literary looking place, or have a Starbucks, or eat a decadent cinnamon roll, or pretend to be on Savile Row at a high end men’s store, or perhaps get a massage or toss down a... Continue Reading Related posts:
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