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If it’s not open warfare, it’s collusive law-fare
Opinion -Environmentalist lawsuits reach new heights of absurdity and threats to American energy. -
New York Senator is Taking Legislative Action to Stop the “Transition” until a Fossil Fuel Replacement is Identified
Opinion -Today, the only supply chain for the parts and components for wind turbines and solar panels are made with fossil fuels! -
Government Price Fixing Is Just as Stupid in Europe
Opinion -Rather than let the market players determine the value of SEPs, Government in its infinite ineptitude is going to fix the rates -
The Abuse Abyss
Opinion -Due to apathy, incompetence, and crippling union diktats, the number of sexual abuse cases in public schools is shocking. -
Surging New England Energy Prices: No Surprise
Opinion -New Englanders now pay more than twice the price for natural gas than most other US residents pay, and that gap is growing. -
How Much Wind Killing Do We Want?
Opinion -That rapidly growing wind power development kills birds in ever increasing numbers is clear. That it also kills whales and other marine mammals is becoming clear. So the policy question is how much killing is enough, before we stop killing more? This question seems not to be asked. -
Everything You’ve Heard About the Debt Limit is Wrong
Opinion -Contrary to widespread claims that the U.S. government will default on its debt if Congress doesn’t raise the debt limit, federal law and the Constitution require the Treasury to pay the debt, and it has ample tax revenues to do this. -
The War On Boys And Girls
Opinion -“Half of American men and almost a third of women (30%) now think that society ‘punishes men just for acting like men.’ One of the main culprits for young males’ problems is the ongoing stress on so-called toxic masculinity. -
The Practical Impossibility of Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would set stringent limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from US power plants. But the cost of capture and the amount of CO2 that proponents say needs to be captured crush any ideas about feasibility. -
What’s Good and Bad with DEI
Opinion -Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in business and higher education have become controversial. What is problematic about being welcoming and inclusive? DEI programs have evolved from critical theory, the application of Marxist analysis to gender and race instead of economic class. -
Biggest AI Problem (for Now): The People Designing It
Opinion -We have no scintilla of understanding of the catastrophic AI creature we’re about to unleash upon our little planet. We were the only self-aware beings on Earth. That will - very soon - no longer be the case. -
The Unions’ Heavy Grifting
Opinion -Over the years, the unions, especially the public employee variety, have heaped abuses on just about all of us. But finally, there are the seeds of resistance. -
Your Taxes at Work: ‘Eco-Anxiety’ Counseling for Federal Workers
Opinion -US Fish and Wildlife Service employees are struggling to cope with feelings of trauma and loss over the world’s changing climates and imperiled environments. The FWS is thus offering paid leave to employees who attend “eco-anxiety” and “climate grief” training. -
Lighting the Way to More Government
Opinion -The breakthrough invention of Thomas Edison that brought civilization out of the whale oil age and transformed the lives of billions, is now considered one of many everyday conveniences that are destroying the planet. -
The Gender Dysphoria Fad Shows No Signs of Abating
Opinion -In the 1970s, various eating disorders were the rage. But they were treated as physical disorders and serious mental health problems. Today, bulimia and anorexia are passé and have been replaced by gender dysphoria, which is being used as a political cudgel by many with a nefarious agenda. -
Four Underused Tools to Stop School Shootings
Opinion -In the aftermath of school shootings, media outlets often amplify calls for gun control while ignoring or spurning evidence-based ways to protect students. Here are four life-saving tools they are missing or dismissing. -
Parental Choice is Proliferating Nationwide
Opinion -Wresting total control of America’s schoolchildren from the government-union educational complex is moving apace. 2021 was declared “The Year of Education Choice.” -
Will They Ever Get Tired of Losing?
Opinion -“Destructive federal overreach.” A federal judge in Texas blocked the Biden administration from implementing EPA control over all water in the US. -
Heavier EV’s Not Funding California Roadways
Opinion -California Governor Gavin Newsom has mandated no sales of internal combustion engine vehicles after 2035. He appears incapable of acknowledging EV’s currently contribute nothing for road maintenance and repairs. -
Activist Journalism Is Attempting to Pollute Science on Clean Air Regulations
Opinion -A group of activist reporters and a UC Berkeley educated epidemiologist have launched a bizarre effort to subvert the well-established regulatory science of pre-harvest burns. -
TikTok and National Security
Opinion -Congress seeks to either force a sale of TikTok to a U.S. company or ban the app. The bar to shut down or disrupt the livelihoods of law-abiding Americans should be extremely high. -
Small Lenders Beg DC to Not Accelerate DC’s Executing Them
Opinion -Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)’s demise was death by misadventure - an accidental suicide. Too many Leftist cotillions - not enough risk management. -
Greens Create Food Disaster
Opinion -Green propagandists continue to inflict lethal damage to our electricity industry – it has become dangerously unreliable and dreadfully expensive. -
Belize: I Guess I Unilaterally Seceded
Opinion -In 7th grade, I wrote a history paper saying the pre-Civil War southern states had a constitutional right (First Amendment - freedom of assembly) to leave the Union. My modern secession solution has been met with nigh universal revulsion from DC’s Conservative, Inc. For going on two decades now.
