Your Sunday editorial section: Will on BCS; Gurwitz on global warming
George Will steps in the sports arena (kind of) and says Congress needs to get out of the business of regulating college football. If for no other reason, some one will always be unhappy. He's right.
If congressional pressure leads to, say, a four-team playoff, half a dozen other teams will call that “arbitrary” and will pressure Congress to press for an eight-team playoff.
The BCS has created a two-tier bowl system — the big four bowls plus the national championship game, with their gigantic TV contracts, and the 29 much less-profitable bowls — whichis unfair, but none of Congress' business.
Barton's bill makes the usual perfunctory nod to the Constitution, finding that college teams travel in interstate commerce, and college games “involve and affect” such commerce and therefore — the usual non sequitur — it is fine for Congress to meddle.
Barton's bill, which should draw a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness to the idea of limited government, demonstrates how Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce has become an end run around that idea.
See Will's column here.
San Antonio's Jonathan Gurwitz says "global warming adherents should stick to science, not tricks"
For years, Chicken Littles have warned of the ever-worsening, ever more impending doom of global warming whose source, out of a universe of variables, they have attributed to man. A scientific consensus exists about this theory. The issue, they claim, is settled.
What Climategate suggests is that the consensus is contrived and that the issue, rather than being settled, has been steamrolled. George Monbiot, a leading figure in the global warming community, wrote on his blog, “There is a word for the apparent repeated attempts to prevent disclosure revealed in these emails: unscientific.”
In place of transparent, reputable science supporting anthropogenic — manmade — global warming, in place of the scientific method, we encounter the dogma of global warmism. As with other dogmas, global warmism declares that doubters are deranged heretics and demands that nonbelievers, such as the more than 700 international scientists who dissent from the IPCC findings, be scourged.
See Gurwitz here.
If congressional pressure leads to, say, a four-team playoff, half a dozen other teams will call that “arbitrary” and will pressure Congress to press for an eight-team playoff.
The BCS has created a two-tier bowl system — the big four bowls plus the national championship game, with their gigantic TV contracts, and the 29 much less-profitable bowls — whichis unfair, but none of Congress' business.
Barton's bill makes the usual perfunctory nod to the Constitution, finding that college teams travel in interstate commerce, and college games “involve and affect” such commerce and therefore — the usual non sequitur — it is fine for Congress to meddle.
Barton's bill, which should draw a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness to the idea of limited government, demonstrates how Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce has become an end run around that idea.
See Will's column here.
San Antonio's Jonathan Gurwitz says "global warming adherents should stick to science, not tricks"
For years, Chicken Littles have warned of the ever-worsening, ever more impending doom of global warming whose source, out of a universe of variables, they have attributed to man. A scientific consensus exists about this theory. The issue, they claim, is settled.
What Climategate suggests is that the consensus is contrived and that the issue, rather than being settled, has been steamrolled. George Monbiot, a leading figure in the global warming community, wrote on his blog, “There is a word for the apparent repeated attempts to prevent disclosure revealed in these emails: unscientific.”
In place of transparent, reputable science supporting anthropogenic — manmade — global warming, in place of the scientific method, we encounter the dogma of global warmism. As with other dogmas, global warmism declares that doubters are deranged heretics and demands that nonbelievers, such as the more than 700 international scientists who dissent from the IPCC findings, be scourged.
See Gurwitz here.
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