Opinion
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The Sandstorm: Still Stupid In America
Opinion -America’s government-run school system is failing. -
Stop the ‘Green Hallucinationists’ Plan to Close All 200 Coal Power Plants
Opinion -America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels to replace coal power plants. -
Marc Andreessen on Joe Rogan: ‘CFPB…Gets to Run and Do Whatever It Wants’
Opinion -By the most conservative of estimates, there are now in the federal Leviathan at least 111 “independent agencies.” One of the most pernicious? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): “(A)n independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector." -
Trump Administration Energy and Climate Policy Initiatives
Opinion -Donald Trump and JD Vance have a mandate on energy, economic, immigration and other issues that won them 50% of popular, 58% of electoral and 82% of US county votes. -
Updates on Elections in Europe
Opinion -The democracies of Europe seem caught between Putin and the left. On the one hand, the objections of the populist-right parties to the EU and NATO policies risk encouraging Putin's aggression. On the other hand, the generally Europhillic left parties want to increase taxes and spending. -
The California Offshore Wind Environmental Impact Statement Is Full of Holes
Opinion -BOEM is taking comments on a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for its five floating wind offshore leases off the California coast. -
Climate Change Weekly # 527: Climategate Revisited: 15th Anniversary of Climate Hoax Exposure
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -This month marks the 15th anniversary of “Climategate”—the release of thousands of emails among climate scientists showing them behaving very badly. -
California ‘Purifies’ Its Little Air Bubble at the Expense of Its Residents
Opinion -Driven by California Governor Gavin Newsom’s obliviousness to the reality that the so-called energy transition is only an electricity transition, the State’s 40 million residents continue to bear the expense of his so-called transition from fossil fuels. -
The Sandstorm: Minimizing The State As Co-Parent
Opinion -The government’s intrusion into family affairs, notably in educating children, is very troubling; microschools are a way out. -
COP 29 Diplomacy Delivers Perfectly Vague Promises a Decade Away
Opinion -In Cop 29’s “Finance agreement” diplomacy is truly the art of agreeing to nothing. There is no agreement of substance here because there is no substance to this agreement. Each side gets its number someday and that is all there is to it. -
The US Government Really Needs to Stop Bullying Everyone
Opinion -The United States government has - since at least World War II - been a titanic bully. On the world stage - and domestically. -
PRESS RELEASE: Nearly Every Openly Socialist Candidate Won in 2024
Opinion -Press Release -Out of 51 openly socialist candidates across 22 states and the District of Columbia, 94% won in November. -
Climate Change Weekly # 526: Some Suggestions on Climate and Environmental Policy for the New Sheriff in Town
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
The Sandstorm: How Will Trump Handle Education Policy?
Opinion -I don’t know. You don’t either. -
The FBI’s Biden-Era Murder Estimates Are Far Below the Number of Homicides Recorded on Death Certificates
Opinion -The Biden administration FBI inexplicably revised its pre-Biden murder data all the way back to 2003, elevating the counts in certain years by up to 7%. The FBI made these unprecedented alterations without so much as a footnote to inform the public. -
Taking Private Land for Public… Nothing
Opinion -The Fifth Amendment is an essential part of the Bill of Rights, ensuring, “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” -
Improving DC: Gov Can’t Get More Efficient – So Make It MUCH Smaller
Opinion -Congress should authorize spectrum auction authority - for the NTIA. And then Musk and Ramaswamy - should shut down the FCC. As in: End it - don’t futilely attempt to mend it. -
Scientists Haven’t ‘Saved’ the Ozone Layer
Opinion -In 2015, scientists at NASA predicted that the Ozone Hole would be half closed by 2020. That hasn’t happened. Other scientists have forecasted that the hole will not begin to disappear until 2040 or later. But the longer the hole persists, the greater the likelihood that the ozone layer is dominated by natural factors, not human CFC emissions. -
Who Decides What’s a Public Road?
Opinion -The ongoing question is, “Who decides whether a road is public?” Now another federal court has again told the government, “Not you.” -
Climate Change Weekly #525: Data Indicate Climate Change Won’t Slow Crop Yield Increases
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
New Book Pushes Back on Justin Trudeau’s Net Zero Plan with Facts
Opinion -Press Release -"Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition" outlines why Trudeau’s climate plans will cause economic hardship in Canada, and will do nothing measurable to improve the global climate. -
The Sandstorm: Unlike Its Membership, Teacher Union Leaders Are Far Left
Opinion -Union bosses ignore the rank and file on political issues. -
Developing Countries Are Leading the Movement Toward Nuclear-Generated Electricity
Opinion -Astonishingly, while hungry countries are pursuing reliable and emissions-free electricity from nuclear and low-emission technologies for their electricity supply from coal, oil, and gas, the wealthier countries with ample goods and services produced by fossil fuel derivatives are focusing on continuously subsidizing wind and solar for occasional and unreliable electricity. -
Today: The Business of America – Is Government. Here’s Hoping Trump Addresses That
Opinion -Under Trump, small businesses are seeing in their future less taxes and fewer regs. Which is good for their actual business models.