Green Guru James Lovelock on Climate Change: ‘I don’t think anybody really knows what’s happening. They just guess’ – Lovelock Reverses Himself on Global Warming

James Lovelock: ''IPCC is too politicized & too internalized' -- On Green religion: 'I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting CO2 in the air'

You don't say?  Why has it taken this long for people to see this?

James Lovelock on Ozone hole science: ‘We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone affair because the corruption of science in that was so bad…’ ‘Something like 80% of the measurements being made during that time were either faked, or incompetently done’

Global warming guru admits he was wrong about climate change: ‘He admits that speaking in more reasonable terms ‘would have spoilt the book.’

2010 Shock: Green Guru Lovelock warms to skeptics! ‘The skeptics have kept us sane…They have kept us from regarding climate science as a religion. It had gone too far that way’

80% of the ozone measurements were bad data or FAKED?  Why are we just now hearing this??  We spent, who knows how many billions of dollars to retool refrigeration systems because of BAD SCIENCE?

Will anyone believe the technocrats after all this?

DETROIT POLICE STAND WITH CITIZENS WHO ARE USING GUNS FOR SELF-DEFENSE

History will repeat itself.  In CA.

According to The Detroit News, "justified" self-defense shootings in Detroit are hovering around 10 since January 1st.

This is up considerably from 2013, in which "there were 15 justifiable [self-defense shootings] in the city" during the entire year.

And far from criticizing the fact that more and more homeowners are standing up for their lives and property, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said he views this rebirth of self-defense as proof that"more and more Detroiters are becoming empowered."

Did Michigan just trigger 'constitutional convention'? Bid gains steam

Michigan is the 34th state to call a Constitutional Convention.

Just don't let the Leftists hijack it.

Even if the requisite number of states have applied, questions remain about how such a convention would work -- and whether, as Michigan wants, such a convention could be limited to only discussing a balanced-budget amendment.

It still may be a long shot, but some analysts are warning about the unintended consequences of such a move.

In Louisiana, Budget Project Policy Analyst Steve Spire argued against the state's resolution, saying the convention could permanently damage the nation’s political system.

Permanently damage the nation's political system?  And that's a bad thing?

Apparently, according to the article, several of the 34 states have rescinded their call.  We'll see how this plays out.

And a balance budget amendment? I'm sorry, but the Federal Government already IGNORES THE CONSTITUTION.  Do you think adding another amendment is going to magically start them following it?  I don't think so.

The answer is somewhere else.  Something that not only takes power away from The Fed, but also gives it to states or individuals.

Study: States with higher minimum wages had higher unemployment

This is such a no brainer. 

A new study by the free-market American Action Forum found that states with minimum wages higher than the federal minimum suffer from higher unemployment.

Researchers looked at labor data from both the nineteen states that as of 2013 had enforced minimum wages above $7.25 per hour and the thirty-one states that had minimum wages equal to $7.25.

Overall, they found that just a $1 increase in the minimum wage was “associated with a 1.48 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate,” and a “0.18 percentage point decrease in the net job growth rate.”

Yes, We Can... Wait

Taranto tells it like it is.  Government so inept, so incompetent, so....STUPID that they look at the lines of people waiting to get insurance not as a bug but as a feature.

The post includes photos of people literally waiting in line in outside drab, institutional-looking buildings in Las Vegas and two Texas cities, El Paso and McAllen. There are also shots from Tampa, Fla., and Houston, where rows of people sit in classrooms in front of computers. Two people in Houston are standing at the back of the room, allowing McGuinness to hype the scene by saying "it was standing-room-only."

But it was the line photos that we found arresting. And it's clear McGuinness was advancing a White House line. Press secretary Jay Carney opened his daily briefing yesterday with the following gasconade: "As you can see by the lines around the country this weekend, we are seeing a surge in enrollment."

The first thing we thought of when we saw the pictures was the photos we've recently seen on Twitter of Venezuelans waiting in bread lines. Waiting in line to purchase necessities is a characteristic not of a prosperous free society but of command economies under repressive regimes. Closer to home, one doubts even the Transportation Security Administration would be so tone-deaf as to advertise long airport lines as an indication it's doing a great job.

U-Haul Index for April 2014

Maybe last month was a glitch.  The number are back up for Fresno:

San Francisco ==> San Antonio  $1,395
San Antonio ==> San Francisco  $  616

Fresno ==> San Antonio        $ 1,690
San Antonio ==> Fresno        $    845

INTERVIEW: CA CANDIDATE IGOR BIRMAN--TYRANNY NO LONGER ‘ACADEMIC’

Finally, someone in CA who gets it.

Birman said, “My parents risked their lives to get me and my brother out of the collapsed Soviet Union. I mean they exhibited an incredible degree of courage that I respect to no extent.”

This appreciation for the sacrifice of his parents and how freedom led to their success drives and motivates Birman. He said that “the problem in America is that we’ve taken our freedoms for granted for much too long. Ronald Reagan was right that freedom is not ours by inheritance, we have to fight for it.”

What has been most disturbing to Birman is that the government has “grown far outside the bounds that the Constitution originally placed on it,” and that this outsized government now has the power to make “very intimate decisions that belong to Americans of all aspects of life from the cradle to the grave.”