Backers of the (Arizona) Corp Comm Green New Deal Think That Legislators Are Too Stupid to Handle Energy Policy
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Supporters of the Arizona Corporation Commission’s plan to impose the Green New Deal and ban all fossil fuels are up in arms this week. The reason? The legislature has decided to exert their constitutional authority and make it clear that they are in charge of setting energy policy for the […]
Wind Turbines Don’t Even Last 20 Years
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors Note: As some at the Arizona Corporation Commission want to take us down the “green” rat hole of subsidies and expensive electricity, we need to learn what has happened in other states, in this case, Minnesota. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), wind turbines are supposed to have […]
The Political Imprisonment of Steve Bannon
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes On July 1, 2024, the US detained its most prominent political prisoner; its most obvious political prisoner probably since the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in World War 2. On July 1, 2024, podcaster, entrepreneur, former Navy officer, and political advisor to President Trump, Stephen K. Bannon, “surrendered,” in his words, to […]
American K-12 science education gone bad
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes I don’t often write an article about someone else’s article but Shepard Barbash’s deeply researched piece “Science betrayed” deserves a wide readership. His subtitle says it all: “The propaganda infecting K–12 science curricula, especially on the environment, won’t go away.” Barbash first looks at the history, then where we are today. […]
A Failed Assassination Attempt And Donald Trump’s Raised Fist
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes July 13, 2024 will go down in the history books for a number of reasons, among them that a single inch in a bullet’s trajectory may have altered the course of the entire world. Had the assassin’s bullet been one inch to Donald Trump’s left, instead of grazing his right […]
Will France Save Us Again?
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes After saving us in the Revolutionary War, will it save us from wokeness? France deserves our gratitude, at least from those of us who believe that America is worth saving in spite of its imperfections. First, France helped us in winning the Revolutionary War. That would be the war that […]
Biblical Conditions of Pima County Roads
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes According to the Bible, the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years. Likewise, homeowners on a suburban street in Pima County, in metro Tucson, have been wandering in the desert for 40 years why their street hasn’t been repaved. To the last point, below is a complaint sent by […]
Abraham Lincoln on Election Fraud
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Lincoln blamed his loss to Douglas on immigrants, vote tampering, and flexible voter registration laws. I’m not an election denier who believes that Biden stole the election, but am enough of a history buff to know that voter fraud has been commonplace throughout American history. To that point, halfway down […]
WSJ Shoots Itself in Right Foot
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes As a classical liberal, or, in today’s parlance, a libertarian, I wasn’t in sync with Rush Limbaugh’s brand of conservatism but admired his intelligence, courage, wit, and good nature. I also didn’t see him a right-winger, unlike America’s conservative newspaper, the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ labeled Limbaugh as a […]
I’m Trying to Be More Asian and Less White
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes That’s what Coca-Cola wants me to do. A diversity training program at Coca-Cola gives pointers on how to be less white. I’m going to take it to heart and try to be more Asian, in ways that I’ll describe momentarily. First, as background, the program said that the way to be […]