The recent decision of the Eugene Oregon City Council to be the first in Oregon to ban natural gas hookups for new construction was surely made with the best of intentions. The three women and two men on the council who voted for the ban thought that they were leading a righteous crusade against fossil […]
Believing the unbelievable has consequences, sometimes very bad consequences. We expect our public officials to have IQs greater than shoe size and therefore to make wise decisions. That is increasingly not the case. And no political party (on the Left or Right) has a monopoly on stupidity. The British and their European allies are a […]
It is almost the same story, time and again. Most people prefer to trust rather than verify, opening the door to fraud, sometimes fraud on an incredible scale. Just a little competent checking might have prevented monumental disasters. Did anyone note the recent passing of one of the most brazen con men of all time: […]
The problem with allowing politicians and other non-scientists to practice science is that they have no idea what they are doing and may get things so dreadfully wrong that vast numbers of people are seriously harmed. To the politically inclined, science is a means to an end, not the end in itself. Real scientists are […]
Lord God, please help the people of Texas! Protect the vulnerable and provide for sensible and common sense energy policy. Could the crisis and rolling blackouts Texas faced this week have been avoided? The answer is certainly yes. But the bigger question I am asking is was this avoidable winter crisis about inept leadership or […]
One threatens our democracy, the other promises hope for economy, environment and country. We’ve heard about “nuclear options” since Harry was still Senator Reid. America now faces two major nuclear options: one involves political power, the other power to run an energy-dependent economy. In the political arena, President Biden and his allies are already going […]
Dominated by a fraudulent reality created by a Leftist media and academia echo chamber 2020 is the single most important election since 1860. This is not hyperbole. The future of America’s representative democracy is at stake. The Left plans to change fundamental policies that will cripple earnings and economic vitality. More ominous, the Left is […]
I absolutely loved Michelle Obama’s presentation at the Democratic Party’s Infomercial Convention. When she carried on about being an oppressed black woman, I rolled in the aisle with laughter. She was speaking to me from her twelve million dollar home on Martha’s Vineyard, off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. That is one of the wealthiest places […]
Democrats’ Green New Deal would make US reliance on China much worse China unleashed Covid-19 on an unsuspecting world. It knew by early January 2020 (if not by December 2019 or earlier) that it was dealing with a vicious, fast-spreading disease in Wuhan, a city with more people than Chicago and New York City combined. […]
Why don’t African black lives and ecological values matter? or impacts in and beyond Virginia? The US Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 to reverse a lower court ruling that had invalidated a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will bring West Virginia natural gas to Virginia and North Carolina, for home heating, factory power, […]