WHAT BIAS LOOKS LIKE: “One of the things the legacy of racism has taught us is just how good dominant groups are at constructing narratives that justify their dominance. Somehow, the problem is never them. It’s always the out group....”

Read the whole thing and track back to McArdle’s original post. It’s worth the time.

Linked from Instapundit.

MISERABLE FAILURE. “At no point in the president’s 10-year projection would the U.S. government spend less than it’s taking in.”

More here: “Screw You, Suckers.”

WHAT A SURPRISE: EPA in bed with ‘Big Green’.

The ... emergency order is ... just the latest indicator of a growing scandal that illustrates how deeply intertwined are EPA officials and the Big Green environmental activist non-profits that heavily lobby government and the media on behalf of policies and programs that become fund raising tools for their organizations and jobs for their members.”

Our government pays the environmentalists to lobby for additional funding from the very government entities that pay them in the first place. Why? Because they will then demand more regulation - and regulators - to 'protect' the environment.

What a deal.

THE ELECTRIC CAR -- It’s time for America to run with an idea popular in 1905.

Pfft. All the author managed to show is that EVs were as uneconomical in 1905 as they are today. The only difference is that in 1905 the government didn’t subsidize them.

MARS 500 ‘LANDS’ ON MARS: Volunteers participating in the Mars500 program "will on Saturday reach a key stage in an unprecedented one-and-a-half year experiment to study the effects of a mission to Mars when they 'land' on the Red Planet's surface."