Monthly Archives: January 2009

Google Apologizes for Being Great

By patrick | Published: January 14, 2009
Times Online has an alarmist article about the environmental impact of Google searches which elicited an apology of sorts from Google in which they explain that the numbers in the original article were inflated. They then proceed to show how much penance they have already done, for the sin of doing business, through climate saving [...]
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Leaving a Footprint

By patrick | Published: January 13, 2009
In an op-ed at the Washington Times, Keith Lockitch takes environmentalists to task for the never-ending guilt levied on us for our “environmental footprint.” [F]or environmentalism, the size of your “footprint” is the measure of your guilt. Nature, according to green philosophy, is something to be left alone to be preserved untouched by human activity. [...]
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Irresponsible Banks? Hardly

By patrick | Published: January 12, 2009
Another gem from Obama’s “only government” speech: Banks made loans without concern for whether borrowers could repay them… Assuming he’s referring to mortgages, these banks were forced to lower their standards and offer “affordable” loans to borrowers that couldn’t repay them. And when those loans were taken off the bank’s hands by concerns backed by [...]
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Only Government

By patrick | Published: January 12, 2009
President-elect Obama’s speeches have been so full of tiresome platitudes unattached to ideas that it’s been hard to know what he stands for, and hard to determine how he will act as president. His appointments of Clinton retreads aren’t the “change” some were “hoping” for, and have given a few hope that America won’t swing [...]
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MSM is Dying

By patrick | Published: January 11, 2009
Here are a couple links that show the decline of traditional media as opposed to the growth of online media. Pew Research Center reports that the Internet has overtaken newspapers and “has now surpassed all other media except television as an outlet for national and international news.” For young people (Americans under 30, sadly a [...]
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LGF: Gaza Video Supplier Responds

By patrick | Published: January 11, 2009
LGF has posted a response from the supplier of the suspicious CNN video purportedly showing the resuscitation attempt of a young boy injured in the conflict in Gaza. This part of the response struck me: No-one in their right mind would suggest that any person would allow doctors to play games with a dying or [...]
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Democracy != Freedom

By patrick | Published: January 10, 2009
Democracy isn’t freedom. Democracy is mob rule. We need to be careful to always promote individual rights instead of democracy. Basing anything on “the will of the people” is a recipe for disaster. When you set democracy as your ideal, without constitutional restraints on government that provide for the protection of every individual’s rights, you [...]
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