Showing posts with label MaximLott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MaximLott. Show all posts
John Stossel's "Illegal Everything"
MaximLott RegulationMy son Maxim produced the segment on taxi cabs.
American Taxpayers paying for hidden climate data?
Environment Fraud GlobalWarming MaximLottA new piece by my son Maxim:
Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be "Yes."
The original Climategate emails -- correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K. and released on the Internet in late 2009 -- shook up the field of climate research. Now a new batch posted in late November to a Russian server shows that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit refused to share their U.S. government-funded data with anyone they thought would disagree with them.
Making that case in 2009, the then-head of the Research Unit, Dr. Phil Jones, told colleagues repeatedly that the U.S. Department of Energy was funding his data collection -- and that officials there agreed that he should not have to release the data. . . .
Maxim's new piece at Fox News: Top 5 Union Work Controversies
MaximLott UnionsHis piece starts this way:
Government work rules restrict what public employees can do, often in the name of safety. But critics say the rules have, over the years, been manipulated for political ends by bureaucrats and unions. Sometimes, the rules restrict public employees so much that they put lives in danger.
From an incident in California in which police and firefighters watched as a man drowned himself, to a public school teacher in Texas who stood by as one of his pupils was beaten up by another student, government and union work policies have had tragic consequences.
FoxNews.com takes a look at five of the most serious cases.
1) Firefighters Not Allowed to Save Drowning Man On Memorial Day -- . . .
My Son Maxim responsible for 20/20 segment tonight
JohnStossel MaximLottMy son Maxim pitched the 20/20 segment tonight that deals with markets predicting the outcome of elections. The show airs at 10 pm EDT on ABC.
Foretelling the Future: Online Prediction Markets
Skittish About the Stock Market? Try Trading Election Results Instead
By JOHN STOSSEL and MAXIM LOTT
May 9, 2008 —
Who will win the Democratic nomination? Who will be the next president? When might Britney Spears go back to rehab? And who will be the next "American Idol"?
Don't look for guidance from TV pundits or gossip magazines. Instead, go to the Web site where people are putting their money where their mouths are: Intrade.com.
Intrade is a futures market, just like commodities markets where people make trades betting on the future prices of things like oil, gold and pork bellies. On Intrade, thousands of people bet on the outcomes of current events.
Watch the story today on "20/20" at 10 p.m. ET . . . .
New Op-ed in Philadelphia Inquirer: Guns don't kill people, Phila. does
Crime GunControl MaximLott RendellMy son Maxim and I have an op-ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer:
When Mayor Street spent 15 hours waiting in line for an iPhone recently, the city was not impressed by his love of new technology. Rather, Street had to answer to a passerby asking, "How can you sit here with 200 murders in the city already?"
Local politicians say they know the source of the problem: the lack of gun control. Gov. Rendell recently complained the state legislature "has been in the control of the NRA." Street blames the increasing murder rate on "the dangerous proliferation of guns on our city streets." Last Tuesday, two City Council members announced the novel legal tactic of suing the state government to let Philadelphia pass its own gun laws. . . . .
A comment tread can be found here.
Local politicians say they know the source of the problem: the lack of gun control. Gov. Rendell recently complained the state legislature "has been in the control of the NRA." Street blames the increasing murder rate on "the dangerous proliferation of guns on our city streets." Last Tuesday, two City Council members announced the novel legal tactic of suing the state government to let Philadelphia pass its own gun laws. . . . .
A comment tread can be found here.
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