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  • Jay Lehr, R.I.P.

    Published January 11, 2023
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    A giant of man, a brave scientist, and a dear friend passed away suddenly on Tuesday.
  • The Dysfunctional State Of California

    Published January 11, 2023
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    Many Californians realize that the state’s leadership is a disaster and are leaving…en masse.
  • Can Anyone Manage the Federal Estate?

    Published January 11, 2023
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    No genius could possibly understand the nuances of all 154 national forests, or 18,000 grazing permits.
  • The Silly Giant Scale of US Offshore Wind Development

    Published January 11, 2023
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    Rushing to build a big bunch of incredibly expensive giant wind arrays that are far bigger than anything built in the world to date is bad engineering and worse environmental policy.
  • Vital Energy Lessons for Virginia and America

    Published January 10, 2023
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    You don’t want to get caught in your EV during a hurricane evacuation or blizzard, especially since already limited battery life decreases in cold weather and with heater or AC use.
  • Paul Ehrlich Predicts Imminent End of the World, Collapse of Civilization, Mass Starvation and Extinction

    Published January 10, 2023
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    Why has Ehrlich always been spectacularly wrong? Paul Ehrlich has never been right about anything in his entire life. As he is now 90 years old, that’s saying something. On this year’s opening “60 Minutes” show, Ehrlich remains confident in the imminent end of the world, collapse of civilization, mass starvation, industrial pollution, climate change, […]
  • The Hydrocarbon Elephant in the Room California Governor Gavin Newsom Refuses to Address

    Published January 9, 2023
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    Today’s dangerous emphasis on wind and solar power for intermittent electricity is creating a lack of products in the future.
  • YouTube Pulls Down Heartland Institute’s Channel Just Before Live-stream with Climate Scientist Judith Curry

    Published January 6, 2023
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    It is hard to believe this was just a coincidence -- that the algorithm just happened to get around to catching this supposed violation by us -- and it's just our awful luck that it happened mere minutes before we were going live with Dr. Curry.
  • The Education Battlefield

    Published January 6, 2023
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    As the new year begins, the education freedom wars show no sign of abating.
  • Climate Change Weekly #457: Coalition Provides 2022 Climate Fact Check

    Published January 6, 2023
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    Climate alarmists and their media allies once again made a slew of claims about natural disasters being caused by man-made emissions in 2022. And once again, these claims clashed with reality and science.
  • The FTX Collapse

    Published January 3, 2023
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    I will assume that FTX was basically a scam, based on a statement by the court appointed supervisor, John Ray, who has supervised numerous bankruptcies including Enron: “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy information."
  • Ron DeSantis Battles The Teachers Union

    Published January 2, 2023
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    Let’s hope Governor DeSantis succeeds with his plan to remove the government as the teachers unions’ bagman
  • College Carnage

    Published December 22, 2022
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    The nation’s colleges and the students who attend them are in deep trouble. The well-documented woes that plague our government-run k-12 schools are now infecting our colleges. Students are arriving at universities woefully unprepared with the skills that are needed to tackle the rigors of upper-level education. Of late, the downward k-12 spiral is a […]
  • Big Tech’s Fake ‘Green Energy’ PR Push – To Paper Over Their Obnoxiousness

    Published December 22, 2022
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    Big Tech’s fake “green” PR push – is the tip of their world domination ice berg. Below the surface – are their massive bureaucrat political donations and post-government gigs and salaries. Let us begin this exercise with: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is NOT a pollutant. The modern Zeitgeist’s stupidity notwithstanding.  The Latest from Seton Motley is […]
  • CFPB Shouldn’t Exist. It Should Stop Expanding Its Oversight-Free Power

    Published December 22, 2022
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    This massive economic destruction – to the massive benefit of the Big Banks – ain’t a bug of DC’s policies. It’s a feature. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an unconstitutional nightmare mess. We have been saying so for a while now…. CFPB Is Unconstitutional – Can We At Least Have Congress Provide Some […]
  • A Holiday Climate Potpourri

    Published December 16, 2022
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    Climate Change Weekly #456
  • Losing A Generation

    Published December 15, 2022
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    School-related cultural upheaval is taking a serious toll on children.
  • The Most Selfish Generation

    Published December 13, 2022
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    The ultimate failure of young adults today is that they have lost the willingness, if not the ability, to perpetuate American life through the most fundamental of all human responsibilities, reproducing itself to provide for future generations.
  • A Pandemic Amnesty?

    Published December 12, 2022
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    Acting in a world of ignorance and discovery inevitably produces decisions later appearing cringeworthy. Mistakes made in ignorance are forgivable only if experts acknowledge their ignorance and learn humility.
  • Today’s Economic Challenges Exacerbated by Ponzi Schemes

    Published December 9, 2022
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    Like the national debt Ponzi, the shortages of the products, fuels, pesticides, and fertilizers MANUFACTURED from fossil fuels will also contribute to shortages and further inflation in perpetuity.
  • COP 27 Will End Up as FLOP 27

    Published December 8, 2022
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    Climate Change Weekly #455
  • PRESS RELEASE: Public Interest Groups File Comments to Protect Endangered Right Whale from Offshore Virginia Wind Project

    Published December 8, 2022
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    Noise from turbines will add to ship collisions that already have pushed the North Atlantic right whale to edge of extinction
  • Citizens of the Same World

    Published December 8, 2022
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    Politicians are sanctimoniously exporting America’s environmental problems to other countries. Then, they claim to be “solving” a global problem, when all they are really doing is kneecapping their own economy.
  • Interrogated by Cruz, Diplomat Gives False Testimony About Biden’s Billion Dollar Bribe

    Published December 6, 2022
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    Biden’s illicit actions, which are substantiated by a wealth of other incriminating facts, accord with textbook definitions of bribery, extortion, and obstruction of justice.

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