You could power 9,800 homes for a year on the energy that the U.S. Department of Energy is wasting by not using setback thermostats in its facilities, many of which already have them installed.
Archives: August 2009
You’re still alive, no thanks to government
Posted: August 26, 2009 9:32 pm
A five year old e-mail forward purporting to describe a “Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican” is making the rounds again this week. The e-mail, originally published at Michael Moore’s web site, is a fictional account of Joe the Republican, who supposedly derives numerous benefits from “liberals” who have interfered in his life using government in ways he never saw or understood, ostensibly in order to make him safer, healthier and happier.
VA mistakenly tells veterans they have Lou Gehrig’s disease
Posted: August 25, 2009 11:39 am
An Iraq war veteran once told me he thought his Veterans Administration doctor was trying to kill him. It seems the latest VA cost-saving trick is to try to frighten veterans to death.
Stefan Molyneux: The “Against Me” Argument
Posted: August 23, 2009 10:48 pm
Arguments from pragmatism fail to convince because people refuse to believe studies and statistics, and arguments from principle fail because they are too abstract for people to grasp. How, then, does one argue for liberty?
Civil unrest grips U.S.
Posted: August 10, 2009 10:09 am
The debate over health care reform has turned violent in the last week as protesters on both sides of the issue clashed in cities across the country, revealing a long-simmering civil unrest.
