Why I’m A Denier (Hint: Because It’s Crap)

Why I’m A Denier (Hint: Because It’s Crap)

Given that it’s Earth Day, I thought I’d re-release an article I wrote about four years ago explaining why I’m a global warming skeptic. Originally published June 10, 2011 in Front Page Magazine.   Why I’m A Global Warming Skeptic By Evan Sayet Let’s begin by acknowledging that the science of global warming is beyond the vast majority of us.  Nonetheless, this does not mean we turn off our brains and simply accept the pronouncements of those sounding the alarm and offering their remedies.  I am a global warming skeptic (to say the least) specifically because I have thought through the issue and the claims of the alarmists just don’t add up.  What follows is my thinking and what it is that has led me to conclude that global-warming is a leftist farce which is being perpetuated for both financial and political reasons. First, I am skeptical because skepticism is the scientific starting point.  Not cynicism but skepticism.  This is especially true when the remedy being proposed is so drastic — in this case requiring the near-total dismantling of society as we know it. I am not overly impressed by talk of a “consensus” as there are enough good and serious scientists who reject the claims of the alarmists to make the pronouncement of “consensus” simply untrue. Besides, every wrong theory that had previously been embraced by society – such as the “fact” that the world is flat – was embraced by a “consensus” of scientists at the time and obviously that consensus was very wrong. My skepticism is only increased with the knowledge that the science of climatology...
Generals Talk Trash About Hillary

Generals Talk Trash About Hillary

From the “reset button” to Behghazi, Hillary Clinton’s run as Secretary of State has been for America. Tim Brown of Freedom Outpost put together a terrific piece that exposes how her failures run even deeper. Tim Brown 8 Hours Ago Secret Pentagon Tapes Reveal Admirals & Generals Indictment of Hillary Clinton on Libyan War More damning evidence is coming out about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. According to top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat member of Congress, they didn’t put any faith in Clinton’s 2011 war in Libya, according to secret audio recordings which were recovered from Tripoli. According to the sources, they sought to go around the Clinton State Department and open diplomatic channels with the Gadhafi government in an effort to stave off what eventually followed. The Washington Times reports: The tapes, reviewed by The Washington Times and authenticated by the participants,chronicle U.S. officials’ unfiltered conversations with Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s son and a top Libyan leader, including criticisms that Mrs. Clinton had developed tunnel vision and led the U.S. into an unnecessary war without adequately weighing the intelligence community’s concerns. “You should see these internal State Department reports that are produced in the State Department that go out to the Congress. They’re just full of stupid, stupid facts,” an American intermediary specifically dispatched by the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Gadhafi regime in July 2011, saying the State Department was controlling what intelligence would be reported to U.S. officials. At the time, the Gadhafi regime was fighting a civil war that grew out of the Arab Spring, battling Islamist-backed rebels who wanted to dethrone...
“I’m Offended” Jack Simmon’s New Music Video

“I’m Offended” Jack Simmon’s New Music Video

I find myself quoted in a lot of places.  Ben Shapiro’s book,  the New York Times. Rush Limbaugh.  But THIS may be the most unusual place I’ve ever found myself quoted.  It’s in the middle of a great new music video from Jack Simmons.  Watch it and pass it  on.  Let’s help Jack make this go viral!  I’ll be offended if you don’t.  ...
Lowry Demands “Stop Lying About the Police”

Lowry Demands “Stop Lying About the Police”

Liberals have no problem lying  because they believe their lies are in the service of a BIGGER truth. It’s okay to lie about Tawana Brawley or the Duke University Lacrosse team or Michael Brown and so on because racism in America is real and rampant. But, of course, if it were real and rampant, they wouldn’t have to lie.   Here’s a great piece by Rich Lowry. Stop Lying About the Police By Rich Lowry – December 27, 2014 We have heard a lot lately about tensions between the police and the communities that they serve, and the urgent need to reduce them. Here’s an easy first step: Stop lying about the cops. The “national conversation” about race and policing we’ve been having ever since Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., last summer has been based on lies. The lie that Officer Wilson shot Brown while he had his hands up and was pleading “Don’t shoot.” The lie that New York City policemen targeted Eric Garner for a violent arrest because he was black. The lie, peddled especially by the progressive prince of New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio, that the police are racist. These are the lies that fuel hatred for the police, because if the police routinely execute black men in cold blood and serve a thoroughly racist system, they deserve to be hated. They should be the subject of nightly protests. They should be showered with obloquy. They should be harried by Attorney General Eric Holder. They should be considered a stain on the national conscience to be extricated at...

Appeasement and acceptance of an evil status quo has NEVER led to compromise.  “Live and let live” requires the other side to want you — or at least allow you — to live. Has the West Lost the Will to Live? December 18, 2014 by Mark Tapson 53 Comments When it became too obvious to deny that the hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia was an act of Islamic terrorism, Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked Aussie citizens for calm, saying, “The whole point of politically motivated violence is to scare people out of being themselves. Australia is a peaceful, open and generous society – nothing should ever change that. And that’s why I would urge all Australians today to go about their business as usual.” That’s what a politician is expected to say. But what he should have said is that the time for business-as-usual is over. Recently my friend Doris Wise Montrose – founder of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and its related site for self-defense instruction, Jews Can Shoot – brought to my attention something she found disconcerting. It was a Facebook post by a very popular Israeli news blogger, a brief update on theknife attack perpetrated by a young Arab on shoppers in a Jerusalem supermarket. This update was accompanied by mention of the blogger’s own mundane shopping trip to a different supermarket, and a photo of the contents of his cart. Doris commented to him that connecting the two experiences in the same breath, in the same tone, seemed oddly cavalier. The blogger replied that it was simply an acknowledgement that this is the way of...
Horowitz: The Left’s War Against Justice and Peace

Horowitz: The Left’s War Against Justice and Peace

There’s a reason that the Left doesn’t talk about “justice” but rather “social justice.”  It’s because the modifier they insert changes the very meaning of the word.  It is a “modified” version of justice — what David Horowitz calls here their justice — that they seek and that “justice” is the very antithesis of what decent people think.  Social Justice  requires the rewarding of all that is evil, failed and recognized by decent society as wrong and the concurrent punishment of all that is good, right and successful. Since Western Civilization is good, right and successful — in fact, the best, most right and most successful culture in all of human history —  it is Western Civilization that the Modern Liberal first and foremost seeks to destroy. This is an important piece from an important man at an important time.  Please read and share. HOROWITZ: The Left’s War Against Justice And Peace: What Conservatives Still Must Understand About Progressives   When rioters and “protesters” defend criminals and attack the police it is not a protest. It is an attack. When radicals and rioters defend the guilty and attempt to prosecute the innocent, it is not a protest. It is an attack. When they make race an issue when it is clearly not an issue, it is an attack. When whites are regarded as guilty before the fact and blacks guiltless even after the facts show they are guilty, it is not a protest; it is an attack. It is a calculated attack and the target is America, is us. “No Justice, No Peace!” is the cry of modern lynch mobs. It means “Our Justice,...