Walter Williams has a terrific column today in which he questions some notions that are largely accepted as true, but aren’t. Catastrophic global warming? The hype is merely “a gambit for more government control over our lives.” The “fact” that the US is losing all its manufacturing and we’ll soon be a nation of burger flippers? Also false. Employment in manufacturing has been declining, but that’s due to increasing efficiency — just as we experienced with agriculture a century ago. This is another bogey man story designed to get people to support increasing government interference in the economy.