Warmer days usually mean more time outdoors. Along with spending more time in the garden come nagging worries about ticks and what to do if you find one on your body. According to Sumathi Reddy in the WSJ, “Get it off pronto.” To infect you with Lyme disease, a tick must bite and attach to your […]
The Nickel Pickle from EVs
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs … Auto manufacturers and developers of batteries for EVs worried there would be a nickel shortage, especially after the move away from cobalt. Why move away from cobalt? When human rights groups and journalists reported on widespread child labor in cobalt operations and dangerous conditions faced by miners in […]
Rewarding Loyalty with Ridicule
If you vote for any Democrat for public office, Francis Menton wonders, do you inevitably get someone who will go along with every single element of the most radical agenda of the Left? Billions of $$$ to Crazy Energy Ideas Well, “yes,” explains our Manhattan Contrarian. At the federal level, the approval of last year’s […]
Auto Profitability Colliding with Low Emissions
From President Obama’s Task Force: At some point . . . the drive for profitability is likely to collide with [the government’s] fuel-efficiency and low-emission goals. Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. asks in the WSJ, “What did the drafters of the House Oversight Committee expect?” That the administration’s “54.5 miles per gallon mandate for 2025 was based on […]
The Party Is Going Off the Rails
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is challenging the President in a formidable manner. What is not clear is, what can Joe Biden do about it? A Formidable Challenger In a new poll, (Echelon Insights) James Freeman reports in the WSJ that “likely voters have a remarkably positive view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” the “kooky” environmental […]
Commemorating Memorial Day
Memorial Day 2023 is gone, but here’s hoping its significance lingers long. Jay Nordlinger in NRO unabashedly admits to “love these United States.” Adds he, “Always have since early childhood.” I hope our country is never brought down, by foes domestic or foreign. May we outshine, and outlive, haters of the American experiment, […]
Joe Biden’s Death Warrant for Fossil Fuel Plants
Originally posted May 18, 2023. The energy crisis is coming. And coming fast. Isaac Orr, an energy analyst at the Center for the American Experiment, recently passed on this information to the Spectator: A Fragile Electric System “By requiring carbon capture or hydrogen burning, two technologies that haven’t even had multiple successful demonstration projects, let […]
A Memorial Day Message
Thinking bigger and better. The following is adapted from the commencement address by Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17. … So, here are lessons I learned from basic SEAL training that hopefully will be of value to you as you […]
Pushing the Envelope Too Far
Why Not Put the Beast in a Cage? As the Left continues waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America, John Durham, special counsel, just issued his final report on wrongdoing with the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice. Victor Davis Hanson reports in American Greatness that “the summary confirms that our premier investigatory and […]
America’s Favorite Wordsmith Needs Tutoring
Who Is Amanda Gorman? In case you’re a bit clueless, Amanda Gorman is the young female poet who read at Joe Biden’s inauguration. At 22, her style and poise attracted a lot of attention. The trouble, no disrespect intended to Mrs. Obama or to Oprah, is the actual poem. Take the poem away from the […]
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