Prepare for a clickbait avalanche about a super El Niño !

Summary:  The current bout of hysteria about the El Niño demonstrates an under-reported but serious problem. The world grows more complex and evolves faster. We have reliable sources to help us understand and manage events, but appear to have little interest in them. Clickbait by a desperate news media, struggling with overcapacity, better appeals to […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 15, 2015 at 12:00PM

A warning about water: we’re exhausting groundwater reservoirs

Summary: A groundbreaking study shows that nearly a third of all underground water basins are stressed and how this year’s monsoons and El Niño are affecting these water supplies. It’s more evidence that we need better measurement and analysis of our world, and to take our exploitation of it off “exploit at will” mode. There […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 14, 2015 at 12:00PM

Is our certain fate a coal-driven climate apocalypse?

Summary: The news media overflows with scary stories as we approach November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. The latest are fears about the coal apocalypse, based on forecasts that coal will become the fuel of the 21st Century –the foundation of the IPCC’s projections. Like most aspects of climate modeling, these tales are […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 13, 2015 at 12:00PM

To understand ISIS, see its history

Summary:  To gain a perspective to understand the Islamic State, Martin van Creveld looks at the history of the Middle East for its origins. Although written, last year it remains as useful today (despite the monthly clickbait announcements of turning points in this war. Van Gogh sees the history of the Middle East The Monster […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 12, 2015 at 12:00PM

A Brighter Outlook for America’s Unemployed

Summary: Following up yesterday’s post (the good news is that the bad news about the economy is wrong), we have a cheerful view of the economy. A Brighter Outlook for America’s Unemployed by John Ridlehoover of the VA Home Loan Centers Over the last several years, the unemployment rate in the United States has been […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 11, 2015 at 12:00PM

Zero Hedge is a model publisher for 21st C America. Be afraid.

Summary: Perhaps Americans cannot regain control of our nation because we’re lost amidst a wilderness of mirrors, and so unable to clearly see the world. Here’s an example of the fun house media that increasingly dominate web publishing. We choose them over less entertaining but more accurate sources. The cost of doing so is high.  […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 11, 2015 at 12:00AM

The Left will rue the day they cheered an activist Court

Summary:  The reactions to the Court’s ruling on Obamacare and same sex marriage divide on predictable partisan grounds, as Americans seek what they want. We care little about Constitutional procedure and less about the work of making the machinery work as the Founders intended. It’s the thinking typical of political regimes’ last days, when belief […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 10, 2015 at 12:00PM

Darwin explains the futility of killing insurgents. It makes them more effective.

Summary: During the past decade we have deployed our most skilled warriors and most advanced technology in an assassination program with few precedents in history. Result: the Middle East in flames and our foes resurgent. I and others predicted this, the natural result of putting the force of evolution to work for our foes. It’s […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 10, 2015 at 12:00AM

Forms to sign before having sex

Summary: A benefit of age is watching the succession of generations, each inverting the values of those before. The young boomers campaigned for free love and the right to say “f**k!” in public., and rioted against the war and racism. Five decades later campuses activists enact legalistic codes regulating speech and sex that Puritans would […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 09, 2015 at 12:00PM

Another disturbing article about climate change. Where in the world is the IPCC?

Summary:  Climate change is among our most important public policy issues, and shows our broken ability to see and understand our world around us.  Today Esquire gives us a powerful but misleading story about our imminent doom, one rich with lessons for us. Expect to see many more of these before November’s United Nations Climate […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 09, 2015 at 12:30AM

We need a criminal justice 2.0 (the 1.0 is broken)

Summary: Here’s another post about our broken criminal justice system by someone who .understands its weaknesses –Hon. Alex Kozinski, a judge on the Ninth Circuit. His description has little resemblance to what we see on TV in CSI and NCIS, or to what our peers experience in Europe or Japan.  {1st of 2 posts today.} […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 08, 2015 at 12:00PM

Climate news: “The time for debate has ended. Action is urgently needed.”

Summary: The science establishment is betting its credibility, going all in on extreme climate in preparation for November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.  The pretense of professional objectivity has been abandoned. The role of science in our society and the political Left — allies in this project — might depend on the weather […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 08, 2015 at 01:00AM

Stratfor describes the rise of Warlord Entrepreneurs

Summary: This analysis by Stratfor discusses the adoption of modern business methods by insurgents, something long discussed here. It’s progress that mainstream geopolitical analysts are finding more analytically useful perspectives on jihadists rather than the usual hackneyed labels. It’s learning, that if continued might make us a threat to them.  {1st of 2 posts today.} […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 07, 2015 at 12:00PM

A post-holiday bulletin: government fear-mongering makes us less prepared!

Summary:  We’ve survived yet another brush with death from terror, although we disregarded the barrage of warnings on cable news to wet our pants on command of the FBI. There are lessons from this, if we wish to learn. Fear-mongering makes us less prepared for the eventual attack.  This is a post-holiday follow-up to Prepare […]

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Germany shows what the Right wants us to become

Summary: The Greek-eurozone tale is a common one, much like that of America’s inner cities. As usual, the Right begins its tightening with the weak and poorly behaved. People told that they deserve their harsh fate.  But it doesn’t end with them, as austerity is a medicine always requiring another dose.  {1st of 2 posts […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 06, 2015 at 10:30AM

The Greece crisis shows Europe’s 1% winning, just like their cousins in America

Summary: Previous posts reported economists’ explainging the roots of the Greek crisis, so unlike the simple morality play in the newspapers. This post looks at its politics, a narrative of victory by Europe’s 1%, a milestone on their 2 centuries long quest to destroy the Left. Progress requires sacrifices, so examples have to be made […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 05, 2015 at 07:00PM

A report card for the Republic on Independence Day!

Summary:  For the second post on this Independence Day, see this post from 4 July 2008. Written at the start of that presidential campaign, it remains as true today as then. We have to learn from these experiences and do better if we are to have a free and prosperous future. The salons of our Versailles-on-the-Potomac ring […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 05, 2015 at 01:00AM

Independence Day Inspiration

Summary; Today we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, a a milestone on the march to American independence. But we should also remember that journey’s now almost lost beginning — events equally heroic but more relevant and inspirational to us today. “We have spent the prime of our lives in procuring {for our children} the precious […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 04, 2015 at 12:00PM

STRATFOR gives A New Way to Think About Mexican Organized Crime

Summary: Stratfor looks at events in our southern partner, whose dynamics we ignore but might have a decisive effect on 21st century America. Trade, crime, immigration — Mexico is a central player in all of these, yet we pay more attention to events in Yemen. It’s another example of our cloudy vision, a weakness that […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 04, 2015 at 12:00AM

Martin van Creveld looks at the Islamic State, Iran, & us

Summary:  Today Martin van Creveld looks at the Islamic State. Are they ethnic militia unable to expand from their home zone, or a modern version of the Asiatic hordes? Who will stop them?  (1st of 2 posts today.}   The Monster By Martin van Creveld From his website, 13 August 2014 Here with his generous […]

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This article by Editor of the Fabius Maximus website originally appeared on fabiusmaximus.com on July 03, 2015 at 12:00PM