Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Member of the Creationist Party? - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

In case you missed it: a revealing performance yesterday by "global warming believers" Chris Matthews and Jim Moran (D., VA), who hurl derision at Dana Rohrbacher (R., Calif.) over his lack of scientific sophistication, then run for cover under "the world's scientists all agree" when pressed on a few climate-science questions.

Matthews again resorts to his now signature (for lack of a better word) argument: "Are you a creationist?"

Rohrbacher handles them readily.

Too Many Lobbyist Hands in the Cap and Trade Cookie Jar » The Foundry

Special interest politics have always been a part of politics and it’s unlikely to stop any time soon. Milton Friedman’s son explains it nicely:

“Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each person. No one minds; who cares about a penny? When he has gotten all the way around the circle, the politician throws fifty cents down in front of one person, who is overjoyed at the unexpected windfall. The process is repeated, ending with a different person. After a hundred rounds everyone is a hundred cents poorer, fifty cents richer, and happy.”

In this case, the ‘pennies’ are taken from the American taxpayer, and in return they are hit with higher energy prices, job losses, income cuts, and a sharp left turn toward big government.