Comments on Ray Kurzweil’s Book: The Singularity Is Near

I read  from the book. I was persuaded by the section documenting ogarithmic growth in technology development, computer speeds, miniaturization, technology ubiquity, price declines for computing capacity. That part is undeniable. I did notice one prediction that Kurzweil missed. One of his predictions- “We will have the requisite hardware to emulate human intelligence with supercomputers [...]

Actual Ethics: Book Review

Actual Ethics By James Otteson Read December 2009 This book seemed to be inspired by a popular book by Peter Singer, Practical Ethics. Otteson sets out to counter Singer. Otteson affirms the classical liberal approach. He favors libertarianism. He relies on utilitarianism and disagrees with Kantian pure reason. He accepts natural law but only to [...]

Low Flow TVs and Smart Meters

The headline read: California Sets Energy-Efficiency Rules for TVs. Wall Street Journal, Nov. 19, 2009. The goals are clean air, energy conservation, saving water, saving rain forests, keeping forests from logging, reducing congestion, the environmental panoply. The list of things local, county, state, national, and now international governments are willing to do to constrain individual [...]

Gambling With a Pair of Tens

Democrats are gambling big. They have a pair of tens but they are betting their entire capital. They think health care takeover will make them heroes. It could easily make them losers. Democrats are marching Americans across the island like the Japanese did in the Batan Death March in WWII where many died. They have [...]

Jon Tester: “Change Parties”!

Suggestions for Senator Jon Tester December 27, 2009 Don’t let Landrieu get all the goodies. Request an amendment for a Black Angus Museum in Bozeman, a Sheep Museum in Lewistown, a Horse Museum in Miles City, a Grizzly Museum in Kalispell, a Wolf Museum in West, a Sturgeon Museum in Glasgow and a Buffalo Museum [...]

Is God a Pushover?

Some disciples in Belgrade imagine a God who lets everything go, tolerates everything. To them, He is a patsy, a pushover, the teacher who never sends anyone to the principal, the principal who repeatedly says, “If you hit your teacher one more time, I’m going to expel you!”, and never does. These disciples get their [...]

Montana Policy Institute Covers Healthcare Protest

Local Group Protests Health Care Proposals By: Michael Noyes | 2009-12-15 BOZEMAN – The national health care debate came to Main Street today as protesters gathered at noon outside Sen. Jon Tester’s (D) local office. Around 35 people showed up to protest potential health care legislation that is currently under consideration in the Senate. The [...]

Napoleon and Obama

When Napoleon marched on Moscow in 1812, he had 600,000 troops. After defeat, only 40,000 frost-bitten and half starved survivors stumbled back into France. Are Democrats setting themselves up for this kind of debacle? Hopefully so. Passage of the unpopular health bill could sink them. Their big gamble might be as disastrous as Napoleon’s, Rahm [...]

Global Governance in the Offing

According to the G-20 and Copenhagen collaborators, global governance is necessary to deal with over-paid bankers, financial regulation, environmental problems and labor law. Once the government is in place, well-meaning bureaucrats and parliamentarians will make decisions about the propriety of: one child policy size of car size of house banker pay, manager pay, union pay, [...]

Sex-change Operations On Demand

Forcing Taxpayers to Support Abortion, Sex-Change and Physician Assisted Suicide It should be alarmingly clear that if national health dictates pass, it will only be matter of time before advocates secure payments for abortion, sex-change operations and physician assisted suicide, either by forcing private insurers to cover them, or under government-run plans. Every American will [...]