Global Warming Becomes Literally Un-bear-able

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have concluded that by the year 2050, summer sea ice off of Alaska will have diminished by 40% compared to the 1980’s. This loss has the potential to drastically impact the habitats of polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals.

Lobbying Congress on behalf of the outraged polar bears is Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity or CBD.

“It’s absolutely horrifying from the polar bear perspective.”
“They’re going to drown, they’re going to starve, they’re going to resort to cannibalism, they’re going to become extinct.”

So what can be done to prevent these senseless killings? According to CBD, almost anything that contributes to “global warming” should be stopped: burning fossil fuels, shipping goods near the Arctic, driving cars, or breathing (carbon dioxide emission).

But these precautions are completely unnecessary. If Hollywood has taught us anything, it is how to control cannibals. We should place restraint muzzles on all polar bears and lock them in maximum security prisons. That way there is no way they can do harm to other innocent polar bears. Now that the polar bear issue is solved, what’s next?

Burgundy is the New Green

That's Ron Burgundy. According to an article published two days ago, Will Ferrell has become very active with the Natural Resources Defense Council. This comes as a crushing blow. However, it's hard to believe that someone who played a race car driver could ever attempt to be an environmentalist.

The Center for Biological Diversity Wants to Burn Your House

Today, The American ran an article by Stephen Albert, a research fellow, and James Dellinger, Executive Director of GreenWatch, from the Capital Research Center.

The Center for Biological Diversity opposes the spraying of herbicides on public lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management in the western United States. However, this has been shown to put private property in jeopardy.

PETA = The Anti-Christ

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is well known for its acts of terror. From splattering fake blood on the walls of a KFC to standing naked in coffins outside of Dolce and Gabbana, these fear mongers are inescapable. However, the latest stance from their "philosophical godfather" goes beyond pushing the envelope, it puts a Forever stamp on and mails it!

Recently, Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and life inspiration of PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, gave insight to the relationship between Judeo-Christianity and the extreme animal rights movement...

"[H]owever sympathetically you interpret the Judeo-Christian religious tradition, it puts animals in a fundamentally different category from human beings ... I think in the end we have, reluctantly, to recognize that the Judeo-Christian religious tradition is our foe."

Singer, is correct that animals are different from human beings. However, a mandate is also given to man.

Genesis 1:26 - Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

Genesis 1: 28 - God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Post-Fall, this mandate was not rescinded. Man must still toil by the sweat of his brow, till the earth, and rule over animals. Followers of PETA fail to embrace this mandate, and doing so reject a mandate handed down by God.

As Singer stated, PETA and Judeo-Christianity are at odds. Many of Jesus's disciples were fishermen, but according to PETA, fish feel pain. When Jesus was born, shepherds nearby were told the good news. In fact, Jesus was considered a good shepherd, tending his flock, and saving the lost sheep. But, that would involve keeping sheep for wool or sale for food. I think ...yeah... PETA is against both of those as well.

While Christianity certainly does not condone animal abuse, there is a responsibility to empower oneself over nature. Without this, prosperity would be impossible. So, Singer was correct in his statement that Judeo-Christianity is his foe...and must understand that makes him the anti-Christ.

Mugabe Claims Supremacy Over Supply and Demand

On June 26th, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe ordered prices to be slashed by 50% in an attempt to curb the country's runaway 10,000% hyperinflation. Surprisingly, last Thursday the New York Times reported empty gas stations and bare store shelves due to low supply and high demand. When producers can not recover their costs of production, it is hard for even Mugabe to force owners to produce goods, though he may try.

Today, the Washington Times ran an article on the number of business owners who face fines for defying the mandatory price controls. 7,495. By jailing or fining the only people in the country who provide productive, economic services, Mugabe has ensured the demise of his country.

Autocrat quote of the day: "Some are...saying they will not supply goods and services but we say you will."

My Way or the Highway

By now, everyone within a 50-mile radius of a television or radio has heard about the rush-hour collapse of the Interstate 35 bridge in Minnesota. The public reaction to this news has been a call for increased bridge inspections, carried out by government officials. Brad Edmonds, a writer for the Ludwig von Mises institute provides a great critique of this outcry.

If bridge and road quality is waning, private engineering firms and construction companies, who rely on their public reputation, should be hired to provide the needed repairs. Under ideal circumstances, the roads would be privatized, leaving the owner to provide for the safety of his customers, or travelers. However, this is not the ideal case, and the best course of action would be to allow those companies which have an incentive to provide quality work to conduct the repairs of public roads.