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Since politics has become a year-round hunt with no definable season, this article is offered as a public service for those who want to become political sharpshooters but aren't completely familiar with the vocabulary of this most ancient and ruthlessly brutal of human blood sports. Politics – The art of manipulating people. This definition can be infinitely refined and redefined but those five words are its essence. Democracy – A system of thuggary in which the majority enforces its will on everyone else, as opposed to the original United States, which was a constitutional republic featuring a minimal government empowered to protect the rights of individuals from the thuggary of the majority.

Carbon emissions, we're told, cause global warming. Cars cough up carbon. Solution: biofuel. Brilliant! Politicians shovel billions of subsidy taxbucks at farmers who get rich selling corn to bio-refiners. Brazilians burn down that 1990s eco-chic cause, the Amazon rain forest, and plant soybeans. Indonesians hack down so much wilderness for palm oil trees for biodiesel they've climbed into third place on the Worldwide Carbon Emitter's Hit Parade. Turns out leafy growing things store carbon. When they're hacked and burned they cough up their carbon into the atmosphere. All this leaves less food for food .... And then there's this: "We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don't cause global warming." - US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Carbon emissions, we're told, cause global warming. Cars cough up carbon. Solution: biofuel. Brilliant!