Ponderable

The complete disintegration of Venezuela’s society and economy due to socialism. When will we hear from Bernie, Hillary or Barack about the horrific failures of socialism just 1,400 miles from Miami? Or from left-leaning economist Mark Weisbrot, who in November 2013 scolded the “Venezuela haters” by claiming that “this economy is not the Greece of Latin America,” and warning the haters (aka sensible adults) that “predicting a Venezuelan apocalypse won’t make it happen.”

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Mark Weisbrot
This model is proven, unlike other models wired into climate politics.
 
Only in your own mind. Every time you've been challenged to describe or prove the above, you've gone silent.

So in your policy decision would you allot more money to mental health care or administering background checks for gun licensing? As suspected from your link:

Firearm homicides

  • Number of deaths: 11,208
  • Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.5

Again, the number above represents approximately one third of gun deaths. Can you guess the cause of death for the other two thirds? So if gun deaths are going to pass car deaths, I wonder what the magnitudes might be for homicide vs. suicide. At least your sources are consistent.
Hardly silent. Please continue.
 
It proves you post stats without understanding them and what policies might be prioritized and implemented.

Oh really, please describe to me what exactly I posted that I don't understand. Go ahead BIZ, describe what the conversation was, the context, the specific points being made and how my links somehow support you and not me, we'll wait....

You're such a waste of time, the perpetual rabbit hole...
 
Oh really, please describe to me what exactly I posted that I don't understand. Go ahead BIZ, describe what the conversation was, the context, the specific points being made and how my links somehow support you and not me, we'll wait....

You're such a waste of time...
And yet you respond. Back in to contradiction mode again I see.


So in your policy decision would you allot more money to mental health care or administering background checks for gun licensing? As suspected from your link:

Firearm homicides

  • Number of deaths: 11,208
  • Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.5

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And before I describe anything, how about you answer some policy questions.
 
It is axiomatic that any government sponsored program will always accomplish the opposite of the stated intent.--Nelson Nash
 
E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco. They contain nicotine, a chemical derived from tobacco and other plants.
Plain English was never a deterrent, though, to regulators on an empire-expanding mission. The Food and Drug Administration this week rolled out new regulations on e-cigarettes based on a 2009 law giving the agency power over products that "contain tobacco."


This is from a first-rate editorial by Holman Jenkins in today's Wall Street Journal, "The FDA's Misguided Nicotine Crusade." There's not a wasted paragraph, and were I to quote the best paragraphs, I would be quoting the whole thing.


Here's one other key paragraph though:

E-cigarettes, let's remember, operate by heating a solution containing nicotine, rather than burning tobacco. These small operators are unlikely to afford the estimated million-dollar cost of submitting each and every existing product and product variation for retroactive consideration by the FDA, as required by the law. Their trade group, the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association, estimates that 99% of existing products therefore will exit the market during the two-year phase-in of the prohibitory new rules.
Jenkins's article could easily have been titled, with no exaggeration, "The FDA's Nasty Pro-Tobacco Crusade."


It's hard for me to believe that a well-funded public interest firm--Institute for Justice, maybe--could not have a good case against this regulation. When the Congress gives the FDA power to regulate tobacco, and the FDA uses this power to regulate something that contains zero tobacco, one would think the case against the FDA would be slam-dunk.
 
“The Most Dangerous Faggot Tour”

College administrators are short on guts and backbone. But there is a glimmer of hope every now and then. Young Americans for Liberty at Rutgers University invited Breitbart News’ technology editor, Milo Yiannopoulos, who is a homosexual, to give a lecture. Yiannopoulos describes his lecture tour as “The Most Dangerous Faggot Tour.” His lecture was titled “How the Progressive Left Is Destroying American Education.”

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion...tors-closed-minds-snapped-open-by-pocketbooks
 
Christina Hoff Sommers is an avowed feminist and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She’s spent a lifetime visiting college campuses. Recently, upon her arrival at Oberlin College, Georgetown University and other campuses, trigger warnings were issued asserting, in her words, that her “very presence on campus” was “a form of violence” and that she was threatening students’ mental health.

At Oberlin, 30 students and the campus therapy dog retired to a “safe room” with soft music, crayons and coloring books to escape any uncomfortable facts raised by Sommers.

The problem for students and some professors is that Sommers challenges the narrative, with credible statistical facts, that women are living in a violent, paternalistic rape culture.

As a result, she has been “excommunicated from the church of campus feminism” in order to protect women from her uncomfortable facts. This prompted Sommers to say, “There’s a move to get young women in combat, and yet on our campuses, they are so fragile they can’t handle a speaker with dissenting views.”

http://www.dentonrc.com/opinion/col...ter-e.-williams-college-erode-free-speech.ece
 
http://www.aei.org/publication/do-y...s-snapping-shut-and-the-chickens-coming-home/

Scott MacConnell cherishes the memory of his years at Amherst College, where he discovered his future métier as a theatrical designer. But protests on campus over cultural and racial sensitivities last year soured his feelings. Now Mr. MacConnell, who graduated in 1960, is expressing his discontent through his wallet. In June, he cut the college out of his will. “As an alumnus of the college, I feel that I have been lied to, patronized and basically dismissed as an old, white bigot who is insensitive to the needs and feelings of the current college community,” Mr. MacConnell, 77, wrote in a letter to the college’s alumni fund in December, when he first warned that he was reducing his support to the college to a token $5.

A backlash from alumni is an unexpected aftershock of the campus disruptions of the last academic year. Although fund-raisers are still gauging the extent of the effect on philanthropy, some colleges — particularly small, elite liberal arts institutions — have reported a decline in donations, accompanied by a laundry list of complaints.
 
Despite having more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, and in fact more proven oil reserves than any country in the world (8 times more than the US), oil-rich Venezuela’s economy is imploding and collapsing under the crippling burden of socialism, and economic conditions there have deteriorated so dramatically that they probably now qualify as the “economic apocalypse” that some left-leaning economists were predicting just a few years ago would never happen in Venezuela. Some links and updates about Venezuela’s economic apocalypse appear below (see my previous CD post Venezuela Apocalypse I from May):--Mark Perry

http://www.aei.org/publication/vene...c-failure-of-socialism-in-oil-rich-venezuela/
 
Why are we always so happy to get a low mortgage interest rate like 3.25% when the true interest rate is actually 20 times that?
 
Please explain. How does any accidental gun deaths in the US "not hold true"?
Statistically your way more likely to die in an auto accident going or coming from the doctors office then from an accidental shooting.
Again all accidentals deaths are tragic.
Better education safety classes and awareness will continue to lower the number of accidental deaths.
They won't eliminate them. Again what are folks gonna do? Stop driving ?
 
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