[FormerACLUmember]

I am grateful that the NY Times is being open about its democrat party agenda.

[ABQHispConservative]

Why don’t lib nut-jobs like him, Oliver Stone and Michael Moore not leave the United States. They can go to socialist hell holes like Cuba, North Vietnam, and I’m sad to say, Venezuela?

[ModelBreaker]

A lot of the US elite thought Fascism was pretty cool in the 20’s and 30’s. If you replace hatred of jews with hatred of the bourgeois, Italian Fascism pretty much ports over to the Obama administration intact. Obama even poses the way Moussolini did with the silly chin thing he does.

As a matter of fact, had Hitler not declared war on the Russian communists, the American left would probably still be defending the fascists and would have opposed our entering WWII bitterly. Until that declaration of war, the fascists were AOK with the American left.

[Rummyfan]

Fiedman has cited China before in admiration for the way they get things done, none of the messy problems associated with working in a representative republic.

[Nathan Zachary]

"China's leaders, he reported, are "boosting gasoline prices" and "overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power." All, of course, in the cause of reducing carbon emissions, which so many luminaries assure us are bound to produce global warming and environmental catastrophe."

What an outright LIE! China's CO2 outputs are climbing in proportion to it's economic growth, at about 5-10% a year.

[Bullish]

I’ll be glad when Freidman ceases to be a carbon emission.

[Pontiac]

China's leaders, he reported, are "boosting gasoline prices" and "overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power." All, of course, in the cause of reducing carbon emissions, which so many luminaries assure us are bound to produce global warming and environmental catastrophe.

I don’t know where Mr. Friedman got his idea that China’s leadership is worried about carbon emissions but I very much doubt that it is a fact.

If China is doing any or all of these things it is in an effort to become the pre-eminent world power that they believe it is their right and destiny to become.

[driftless2]

Barone makes a good point about the past predictors of world-wide disasters being wrong on every point. The world is not over-populating and we are not getting warmer. Although on the latter point as regards the northern U.S. (where I live) in the winter, I wish it were so.

People should remember the great, failed prophet of doom, Robert Ehrlich, who in 1969 forecast mass starvation in his book "The Population Bomb" before the end of the twentieth century. He was fastastically wrong but is still regarded in leftist circles as a great seer. That's how intelligent the left is. They can be proved utterly wrong but still declare their failed theories to be accurate.