algore and global warming from PatriotPost

And Last...
One moment Al Gore and the climate gorons are warning breathlessly about melting polar ice caps and drowning polar bears due to global warming due to your SUV. The next moment, it's the opposite. Either way, Gore laments, "Not a single question was asked about climate in any of the numerous, multitudinous debates that these candidates have had." He added that neglecting the issue means the future of civilization is "at risk." Substitute "my profits" for "civilization," and he's right.
As for the latest, Cambridge University researchers have concluded in a study that carbon dioxide emissions are actually helping stave off the next ice age. The BBC reports, "Researchers used data on the Earth's orbit and other things to find the historical warm interglacial period that looks most like the current one. In the journal Nature Geoscience, they write that the next Ice Age would begin within 1,500 years -- but emissions have been so high that it will not." Whew, that's a relief! We guess it's back to the attic with that extra mammoth pelt.

Illinois Raises State Income Taxes

Illinois Raises Taxes

Speaking of Obama, the former community organizer's home state is preparing to do its part to drive up unemployment. Illinois Democrat Governor Pat Quinn and the lame-duck Democrat-controlled legislature enacted a 67 percent state income tax hike, which will add an average of $1,400 to a family's tax bill, as well as a 50 percent increase in the corporate tax. The personal income tax rate will move from 3 percent to 5 percent for four years (yes, another "temporary" tax hike), in order to help close a $15 billion budget deficit. Of course, raising taxes rarely raises the revenue its proponents "need."

Illinois has lost 374,000 jobs in the last two years, and taxing businesses won't help that number. In fact, governors Mitch Daniels (R-IN) and Scott Walker (R-WI) took the opportunity to extend invitations for Illinois residents and businesses to relocate to their states. As Daniels said, "We already had an edge on Illinois in terms of the cost of doing business, and this is going to make it significantly wider."

(I am retired, but will now think about moving out of this state...)

Events of the Day

"[Those] who run Washington, and their intellectual supporters, believe they have superior wisdom and greater intelligence than the masses. They believe they have been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Like any other tyrant, they have what they consider good reasons for restricting the freedom of others." --economist Walter E. Williams

"In the Democrat leadership, we are not dealing with conventional politicians for whom the goal of being reelected is paramount and will rein in their radicalism. They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections. After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority. This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you've calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state." --columnist Andy McCarthy

"One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen." --economist Thomas Sowell

"While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe." --columnist Mark Steyn

"Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office -- like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security -- are inalienable rights. They are not." --columnist Ben Shapiro