Utopia, you are standing in it!

Below is my column in The Hill on the growing list of aliases used by President Joe Biden in prior years and the unsuccessful efforts of public interest groups and Congress to gain access to the emails. There may be innocent explanations of why the President used aliases to send information to Hunter Biden. For…

Biden’s Use of False Names Could Cost Him

A fascinating article on an event that has long been indicated by human genome research but which more powerful analytical methods have been able to pin down more accurately: The population of human ancestors crashed between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago. They estimate that there were only 1,280 breeding individuals alive during this transition between […]

Extinction Event

Green Energy Activists are hitting hard realities, as summarized by Jonathan Lesser at New York Post Why wind and solar power are running out of juice.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images Green energy and the push to electrify everything have been in the news recently but for all the wrong reasons. […]

Green Energy Grinding to a Halt

Judge Mehta: A dominant firm like Google does not violate the law, however, merely because it occupies a monopoly market position. It must act in a manner that produces anticompetitive effects in the defined markets. [e.g., that harm consumers].Mozilla CEO testifying on behalf of Google (page 109 of MSJ transcript): …consumers are choosing Google. We’re…

Should the Justice Dept be more concerned with Google’s complaining competitors or their enthusiastic customers?

By Paul Homewood   A new study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate, by 37 researchers from 18 countries suggests that current estimates of global warming are contaminated by urban warming biases. The study also suggests that the solar activity estimates considered in the most recent reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

New study suggests global warming could be mostly an urban problem

Background:  Remember that the World Bank recognizes personal mobility as the defining characteristic of the Middle Class.  Also recall that as Aristotle stated, the Middle Class is the social buffer against tryanny by the elite and slavery of the poor. Finally, be informed that C40 is a global network of mayors of the world’s leading […]

Londoners Vs. ULEZ Cameras

Jackson and the Treaty – it seems he has forgotten what Lange said about partnership and why Clark wouldn’t sign UN declaration Let’s hear it for Labour’s Willie Jackson, a minister of this, that and the other in the Hipkins government and a fellow with a curious grasp of what happened in the days of…

BOB EDLIN: Jackson and the Treaty

In my torts class, I often compare the different approaches and doctrines in the United States and the United Kingdom. One of the most pronounced is the position and authority of physicians on issues like consent and malpractice. This week produced a particularly striking example. British doctors are seeking to take a 19-year-old critically ill […]

British Court Rules that Competent and Conscious Patient Can Be Denied Life-Sustaining Treatment Against Her Will

By Paul Homewood   h/t Mike Rennoldson   Research has revealed that wildfires are on the decline, despite the mainstream narrative that they have increased because of “climate change.” Danish author and academic Bjorn Lomborg’s analysis, published in the Wall Street Journal, reveals a large disparity between the actual number of wildfires and the concern […]

Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire–Bjorn Lomborg

I’ve written a few posts here over the years about the idea – which apparently Labour, National, and the Greens are now keen on – of a state established and funded policy costings unit. The most recent two were a month ago, here and here. I’m a longstanding sceptic of the case for such a […]

Policy costings: a case study