Political protest in France tends toward the dramatic and the revolutionary, but the underlying issues in the riots currently convulsing Paris bear some similarity to the political issues that divide America into red and blue camps. English language media reports emphasize that the issue is fuel taxes on gasoline and diesel, but don’t bother to connect the dots on what underlies the anger and violence. John Hinderaker of Powerline correctly noted that these are riots against “green policies,” something that the mainstream media would be loath to admit. Global warming theory is supposed to be above criticism, or even close scrutiny, because it is “settled science” (based on a fictitious “consensus”) so the thought of a popular uprising against measures (taxes, actually) a government adopted to purportedly ease “global warming” is anathema. It is clear from the pictures and videos we see from Paris that these protestors are very...(Read Full Post)