Inconvenient facts show why wind energy is not renewable, sustainable or climate-friendly Wind turbines continue to be the most controversial of so-called “renewable” energy sources worldwide. But, you say, wind is surely renewable. It blows intermittently, but it’s natural, free, renewable and climate-friendly. That’s certainly what we hear, almost constantly. However, while the wind itself […]
Biofuels are unsustainable in every way, but still demand – and get – preferential treatment The Big Oil-Big Biofuel wars rage on. From my perch, ethanol, biodiesel and “advanced biofuels” make about zero energy, economic or environmental sense. They make little political sense either, until you recognize that politics is largely driven by crony-capitalism, campaign […]
How politically diverse is the Yale faculty today? According to an article by James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal, “0%.” He notes, “Nobody looks to the Ivy League for balanced political discourse. But a new report suggests that on at least one campus, the stifling of conservative views among faculty members is nearly complete.” […]
By most accounts, American colleges and universities are highly successful businesses, with students clamoring for admission and willing to pay whatever tuition, room, board, and books the school demands. That may seem like an ideal business relationship, where the customers are very happy with the products offered and the business is very happy with the […]
Banning neonic pesticides in wildlife refuges would hurt birds, bees, other wildlife and people. The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources recently approved HR 2854, the 2019 Protect Our Refuges Act, prohibiting the use of neonicotinoid insecticides in any of the nation’s 560 National Wildlife Refuges, some of which are the size of Delaware […]
On December 2, I had the opportunity to tour the Wapato Corrections Facility, along with about 100 others. It sits at the heart of a debate raging between the owner, who wants to transform it into a homeless facility, and elected officials who would rather see it destroyed. I previously conducted research on criminal justice […]
The dithering Democrats finally settled on two lame articles of impeachment – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The first is lame because it is not the president who is abusing his power but Congress. It is certainly possible for a president to abuse his power – President Obama did that when he created […]
Democrats, in their mindless, vitriolic pursuit of President Trump, have cycled through a veritable plethora of grounds for impeachment. They have settled on the suitably vague and amorphous charges of “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress,” a ridiculous charge that overlooks the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution. The president, they aver, abused […]
The First Amendment took a major beating in a California courtroom last month. On Friday, 11/15/19, a jury in San Francisco’s U.S. District Court found David Daleiden and his team guilty of trespassing, fraud, and other infractions. Daleiden and his group produced the 2015 undercover videos (still available at www.cmp.org) that expose the trafficking of […]
I feel like I lost a friend when Chick-fil-A apparently decided to throw Christians under the bus to curry favor with the LBGTQ crowd. Not that they could ever be “good” enough to please the radical gays, because the goal is not really tolerance. It is forced acceptance and celebration. But one thing that truly […]