Skeptic's Corner: Jefferson quote

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

C3: Is Global Warming Baking The 'Big Apple'? Heat Wave After Killer Heat Wave? Only In "Elite" Alarmists' Fantasy World

Advice for elites sitting in their A/C chilled boxes, terrified about catastrophic global warming: Turn off your TV; stop reading the 'terrified-twins', Krugman & Friedman; and start reading Climate Depot on a daily basis. And be assured, it's safe to go outside.

From the Declaration of Independence - Jay Nordlinger on National Review Online

Been a while since you read the Declaration of Independence? Me too. A reader wrote,

In light of the recent coverage of the Waxman-Markey bill and the new bureaucracy it spawns, and the economic costs it imposes, I was struck by a line from the Declaration, which I was reading yesterday. It is in the section that lists longstanding grievances against the British king. And I found this line an apt prediction of what will come from our carbon-emissions police.

That line is, “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

Lessons from Massachusetts « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Especially in certain affluent neighborhoods, this feeling is tangible in the way people occasionally react – as though I’m somehow bothering them by reminding them that our way of life is affecting the climate, harming the poor, indebting our children. What can we do? We need to keep trying, but I’ve also come to realize that my efforts are better spent elsewhere.