Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

John O. Blackburn and Sam Cunningham of North Carolina Waste Awareness & Reduction Network (NC WARN) have released a new paper, “Solar and Nuclear Costs — The Historic Crossover: Solar Energy is Now the Better Buy,” [warning: PDF] that claims, as its title implies, that the price of solar electricity is now less than the [...]

BBC News reports, “Many in the armed forces feel that too few civilians fully appreciate the drive to serve in combat.”
So, that’s why US taxpayers are paying a billion dollars per day on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s a safari to keep soldiers entertained… or a turkey shoot, considering that more than 100,000 Iraqis [...]

Rasmussen Reports reports, “23% of [US] voters nationwide believe the [US] federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.”
In other words, a huge majority in the USA consists of individuals who feel disenfranchised. At that point, very little difference exists between [...]

Mark Twain, among many others, famously quipped, “There’s lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
The Washington Post, generally a left-leaning rag, reports, “Overall, more than a third of voters polled — 36 percent — say they have no confidence or only some confidence in the president…”
Since when does one lump those who have ’some confidence’ with those [...]

This is a video produced by Japanese artist, Isao Hashimoto, which depicts the 2,053 nuclear bombs detonated between 1945 and 1998.
CWE

Why are feminists still fighting last century’s war?
The work force in the USA now is majority female, including managers. Additionally, young, urban women earn more on average than their male counterparts.
Nonetheless, we still see feminists who perpetuate the myth of female victimhood.
This has gone beyond equality and degenerated into gender supremacy of particularly ugly [...]

Recently, I had an unexpected exchange with some strident feminists on Facebook. I had made the acquaintance of the individual whose post I responded to through a free-market advocate of our mutual acquaintance. I assumed from this connection and previous comments of hers that the poster believes in individual rights. If I [...]

The Hill reports that the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has approved a bill that grants the president of the USA a kill switch on the Internet. In Washington, DC, Orwellian doublespeak, this measure strengthens US residents’ access to information.
Watch out China, Iran, and North Korea, we gaining on you!
Meanwhile, the [...]

Hernando de Soto explains the importance of extending capitalist institutions to the poorest of the poor.

Invest accordingly.

Cornell University Psychology professors Justin Kruger and David Dunning wrote in the abstract to their “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments” (1999, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77 (6), pp. 1121-1134):
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and [...]