Monckton on his smashing the U.N. wall of silence on lack of warming, and censure

Reblogged from Watts Up With That?:

UPDATE: The Russian TV channel "RT" aka “TV-Novosti” blames Monckton for the failure of COP18 to fail to reach an agreement:

The 18th Climate Change Summit in Doha is drawing to an end after once again failing to find common consensus on what it calls a major threat to human existence. Failure seemed inevitable after climate skeptic Lord Monckton crashed the event.

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Lord Monckton is my hero.

The Link Between High Tax Rates and Corruption

Reblogged from International Liberty:

I've been very critical of Obama's class-warfare ideology because it leads to bad fiscal policy. But perhaps it is time to give some attention to other arguments against high tax rates.

Robert Samuelson, a columnist for the Washington Post, has a very important insight about tax rates and sleaze in Washington.

His column is mostly about Obama's anti-tax reform agenda, but it includes this very important passage.

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And it's not just "breaking the law"-type corruption: high tax rates encourage people and corporations to seek loopholes and special privileges written into the code that the rest of us have no access to. Better to have lower, flatter rates with no incentive to rig the system.