Opinion
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Big Media Finally Catches Up: Big Banks Only Lending to Rich People
Opinion -There has been of late a trickle of “news” stories – which has Big Media FINALLY reporting something is rotten in the state of Big Banks and their loan practices. Contained within Big Media’s tardy “reporting” – are examples of just how much they have been missing the boats for more than a year. Big […] -
Climate Change Weekly #468: Fact-Checking Fact-Deprived Fact Checkers
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A funny thing happened on the way to Agence France-Presse’s (AFP) fact check of The Heartland Institute’s Climate at a Glance (CAAG) booklet for teachers and students. They forgot to check any facts. -
Biden Is Financing Putin’s War Machine with His anti-American Energy Policy
Opinion -The Biden administration repeatedly cites climate change to justify its decisions blocking new American oil projects and imposing punitive new restrictions on existing oil projects. -
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. -
Amazon Shutters Book Depository
Opinion -In the latest of its cost-cutting moves, Amazon has announced the closing of its global on-line bookstore, the Book Depository. effective April 26th. The announcement continues a trend of cost-cutting in the tech sector. -
Democracy in Chicago and in Wisconsin
Opinion -H. L. Mencken once defined democracy as "the theory that the common people know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard." -
Are Public Employee Unions Unconstitutional?
Opinion -Clearly, the PEUs are by their nature, political. In fact, the National Education Association spent twice as much on politics in 2021 as it did on representing its members – $66 million compared to $32 million, according to the union’s LM2. -
The 2023 Supreme Court Term and Student Loan Forgiveness
Opinion -It was not long ago that Americans were largely united in support of free speech and the press broadly defined would largely resist attempts by the government to enlist them in suppressing speech or minority or contrary viewpoints. -
Climate Change Weekly #466: New IPCC Report Suggests the Organization May Be Obsolete
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -The main takeaway from the IPCC’s 85-page lament is that we are soon to surpass the dreaded 1.5℃ temperature rise which climate scolds claim will spell doom for the planet. -
Defense Dept Helps China – In the Name of National Security
Opinion -Government is and will always be a nigh-universal impediment to freedom and economic advancement. -
A National Divorce and Economic Policy
Opinion -A national divorce offers benefits and not just the avoidance of conflict. -
In LA, Unions Are Winning at The Expense of Kids
Opinion -As we have seen time and again, the students aren’t exactly a priority for the teachers’ unions. -
Old Refineries Incapable of Manufacturing Enough Light Hydrocarbons to Electrify The World
Opinion -The future does not bode well as 20 percent of the 700 worldwide aging refineries are projected to close in the next 5 years that will result in less manufacturing with the loss of 140 sites to meet the ever growing demands. -
Still Not Good Enough
Opinion -Brown clouds in Denver, Los Angeles and many other cities were legendary when EPA developed the first air quality standards in 1970. Today the brown clouds are rare and intermittent, largely because of automobile improvements. -
Renewables and Fossil Fuels Are Not Comparable for Their Support of Humanity
Opinion -Renewables cannot manufacture anything for humanity. -
Must We Balkanize the Economy?
Opinion -Will Red and Blue states soon have their own banks, hotels, and other businesses?
