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The dangerous schemes of Enviros

Posted by Rocky Mountain Foundation on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:40:42 PM
"The selling of the green economy involves much economic make-believe. Environmentalists not only maximize the dangers of global warming -- from rising sea levels to advancing tropical diseases -- they also minimize the costs of dealing with it. Actually, no one involved in this debate really knows what the consequences or costs might be. All are inferred from models of uncertain reliability. Great schemes of economic and social engineering are proposed on shaky foundations of knowledge. Candor and common sense are in scarce supply."

That's the conclusion of this Robert J. Samuelson column.
 
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A rich dessert for the crocodile

Posted by Rocky Mountain Foundation on Sunday, April 26, 2009 1:18:23 PM

Winston Churchill on appeasers - "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Xcel Energy's appeasement in Colorado is legion, some discussed here.
 
The General Electric Company may be an order of magnitude worse. This once respected company has lost more than two-thirds of its market value in a year, run by what one major business magazine identified as among the country's worst CEOs. It owns NBC and MSNBC, which are right up there with - maybe now ahead of - the disgraced Dan Rather for flagrant misuse of televised "news" and commentary to the advantage of one presidential candidate over another.
 
To see and hear more on this developing story, see Bill O'Reilly and guests here and here.
 
Like Excel, GE is oh-so-green. Among its products are the hazardous mercury-containing replacements for incandescent light bulbs Congress has decided to outlaw. One wonders how much of that poorly justified congressional action was a victory for GE's Washington DC lobbying.
 
GE is now reported to be in the carbon cap-and-trade business, possibly soon to be an international economic disaster.
 
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"Green" energy failing (again), Nuclear ascending (almost) worldwide

Posted by John Dendahl on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:20:38 AM
"The reality, of course, is that it doesn't matter how much sun or wind there is as long as the government provides huge subsidies at the expense of the taxpayer and of the economy's future prospects ... [leaving the United States] in the unenviable position of being the only major economic power led by a president dogmatically wedded to yesterday's make-believe universe of green energy that has already been debunked by reality in the rest of the world."
 
In its April 20 issue, National Review published an astonishing account of huge expansions of nuclear-electric generating capacity, both underway and planned, throughout the world. Meanwhile Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter brags of his state, ""We've become a national and worldwide leader with our New Energy Economy."
 
"New Energy Economy" is cheerleader's rhetoric for the failing green energy that is the subject of the outtake above. The United States is, as they say, "sucking wind."
 
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It's always TABOR's fault

Posted by John Dendahl on Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:35:27 PM

Writing in The Denver Post recently, the reliably left-wing Mike Littwin lamented, "In the land of TABOR, where the legislators basically work in handcuffs, an economic downturn always turns into crisis."
 
On the website Homepage of The Rocky Mountain Foundation, we have a little discussion of TABOR, a fine brake on growth of government spending that is the envy of most other states. And we discuss sabotage of TABOR by a later voter initiative pushed by the left, Amendment 23.
 
The handcuffs on legislators lamented by Littwin is spending growth for K-12 government schools mandated by Amendment 23.
 
Amendment 23 is to TABOR what salmonella is to peanuts.  
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Charles Schumer 'splains "bipartisanship"

Posted by Rocky Mountain Foundation on Monday, April 13, 2009 1:04:04 PM
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says as to traditional values and a strong foreign policy, "All that's over." In the our-way-or-the-highway world of Schumer & Co., the "change" we heard so much about in 2008 depends on "the Republican grassroots [pushing] their people over."
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Xcel Energy asking for $159 million in Colorado

Posted by John Dendahl on Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:07:21 PM
An article in The Denver Post this morning reports on a request Xcel Energy has made to Colorado's Public Utilities Commission for "$159.3 million it has spent on a coal plant, two natural-gas plants, power lines and other equipment."
 
The Rocky Mountain Foundation has no plans to intervene in the upcoming hearings on a rate increase which would, if Xcel has its way, add a reported $4.50 monthly to the average residential customer's electric bill.
 
 
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Global warming fever: ecology or tax opportunity?

Posted by John Dendahl on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:50:07 PM

During Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s service as U.S. Senator from Colorado, home to my wife and me along with much of our family, I attempted to communicate with him several times to share facts about global warming running counter to his predisposition to be threat-to-peace Al Gore’s clone. I am virtually certain all these communications were short-stopped by the staffer through whom I had been instructed to communicate with the senator.

One of those included this: "Even if Sen. Salazar supports raising taxes, I am confident he is honest enough to say that directly rather than sliding through an enormous tax increase like the carbon cap scheme having a colossal fraud as its entire support."

Well, I lied a little in that I have no such confidence in Salazar’s integrity. Nor did I have it when that was written in December 2008.

Salazar's successor, Michael Bennet, isn't starting out any better. Three attempts over a month to get his attention with e-mails at his website have drawn the same boilerplate: "Hearing from Coloradans is important to me. I will respond to your concerns in the near future." Wouldn't one expect "near future" to fall within a month?
 
I now believe what was initially a bonanza for grant-seeking scientists has become the pot at the end of the rainbow for elected officials, bureaucrats and the left generally, all sensing here a stupendously large (and economically ruinous) source of revenue. That Gore and a number of sly business executives have also figured out how to make billions buying and selling carbon emissions "rights" is also worth our notice.

The Nobel Committee’s decision to give Gore the Peace Prize ranks right up there with its earlier decision to give one to Yasser Arafat. Read more Gore, propaganda and "peace" here.

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Tom Tancredo: Critic of the War on Drugs

Posted by Rocky Mountain Foundation on Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:00:00 AM
The Denver Post published today a piece by columnist Vincent Carroll in which he recounts - with evident surprise - learning during a recent luncheon with former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) that Tancredo is a firm critic of the War on Drugs.
 
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"Those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it."

Posted by John Dendahl on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:20:06 PM
Here is Brit commentator Melanie Phillips, applying George Santayana's timeless observation to Israel:
 
"It is only if the true history of the Middle East is understood that certain things become inescapably clear: the scale of the monumental lie that has been so assiduously promulgated about the nature of this dispute ... the fact that the fundamental cause of this tragic impasse was the repeated British appeasement of Arab terror, illegality and injustice, a policy which continues to this very day; and the immorality and absurdity therefore of believing that today's ‘two-state solution’ ... would be anything other than a Final Solution for the Jews of Israel ...."
 
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Copenhagen: Environmental Munich

Posted by Rocky Mountain Foundation on Sunday, March 29, 2009 1:13:42 PM
That's the title given by Investor's Business Daily to commentary published March 27 on the latest international socialist activity as to global warming and penalizing anything that emits that frightening substance carbon dioxide. Could make the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act seem like a Sunday afternoon stroll in the park while, in fact, it helped lead the world into the Depression of the 30s.
 
As an aside, to too many educated in the United States after its government schools were given over to the intellectual sloth of the Nation's teachers colleges, "Munich" only inspires visions of quaffing beer in lovely Bavaria; mention of an infamous chat there between Neville Chamberlain and Adolph Hitler brings forth, at most, "Oh yeah, that." And Smoot Hawley sounds maybe like the name of a contemporary entertainer.
 
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Blood soon on Barney Frank's and Charles Grassley's hands?

Posted by John Dendahl on Friday, March 27, 2009 5:17:42 PM
What could be more disgusting than watching the Roman circus in what passes for the legislative branch of American government while contemplating the complicity of that institution's membership in creating the economic mess we are having to deal with?
One stumbles across Democrat Rep. Barney Frank excoriating certain corporate executives for having been paid bonuses explicitly protected by statute via an amendment thoughtfully provided by Frank's well-oiled-by-AIG-and-other-fnancial-giants'-contributions Democrat colleague in the Senate, Chris Dodd. One stumbles across Republican Sen. Charles Grassley suggesting hara-kiri as an appropriate act for some in the same executive class. (Has Grassley thought of hara-kiri for some who sit high, mighty and hypocritical beneath the dome of the U.S. Capitol?)
 
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Colorado - That Was Then

Posted by John Dendahl on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:23:58 PM
One wouldn't believe it looking today at the three left-dominated branches of Colorado state government, but there was a time when the State Assembly (legislature) could act to assert the rights intended to be protected under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In his column published March 25, professor Walter Williams discusses the need for other state legislatures to join the eight that have  introduced resolutions declaring state sovereignty under the Ninth and 10th amendments.
 
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Prohibition and Violence Linked - Again

Posted by Rocky Mountain Foundation on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:40:17 AM
Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University, discusses the consequences of America's unlearned Prohibition lessons.
 
"The U.S. and Mexican responses to [Mexican drug cartel] violence have been predictable: more troops and police, greater border controls and expanded enforcement of every kind. Escalation is the wrong response, however; drug prohibition is the cause of the violence. ... It is impossible to reconcile respect for individual liberty with drug prohibition. The U.S. has been at the forefront of this puritanical policy for almost a century, with disastrous consequences at home and abroad."
 
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UC Berkeley prof on Gore exaggerations, other politicized science

Posted by Rocky Mountain Foundation on Monday, March 16, 2009 4:45:14 PM
Richard A. Muller conducts a class titled "Physics for Future Presidents," voted last year the best class at the University of California's Berkeley campus. Of his hybrid-electric Toyota Prius automobile he says, "It doesn't save me money. It doesn't help slow global warming. I just love the technology."
 
He also has some interesting things to say about purveyors of climate alarmism like Al Gore and Tom Friedman.
 
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Milton Friedman explains "greed" to Phil Donahue

Posted by John Dendahl on Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:35:51 PM

In these hard times, with a mainstream media gone messianic and all, Milton Friedman's words 30 years ago are a wonderful reminder of which economies get the job done best.

Click here to see the video.

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