Originally posted Feb 20th, 2024. Away from the Maddening Crowd According to the WSJ, vocational and technical training is making a comeback in America’s educational system. Or at least in a part of New England where one of the bigger problems is, “you can’t get there from here.” St. George, which takes it’s from the […]
Snookering Consumers on Zero Emissions Vehicles
Lies, Lies, Dirty Lies “Zero emissions vehicles” are called that because they don’t have tail pipes. That explanation, however, is deceptive, writes the WSJ. Generating the electricity that powers those cars creates particulate pollution, and of course electric cars still use tires, which are made from petroleum. Electric cars weigh far more than gasoline-powered ones, […]
Taking the Plunge
It May Be a Cold Day in Hell Before that Happens After having spent 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) upgrading sewage and storm-water treatment facilities in the Paris region to improve the water quality of the Seine as well as its major tributary, the Marne, French authorities are still in a race against time, As […]
A Bad Hair Day in Texas
“The Team’s Gonna Miss You” In an abbreviated version of Jason L. Riley’s latest WSJ article, one reader sums it up: Family moves into town, enrolls child in school, signs contract which includes strict dress code. Student ignores code and is disciplined. Story should now end. Good story about keeping your word. Here from Jason […]
The Conundrum of “Uncommitted”
Exporting the Islamic Revolution As Israel pushes deeper into Gaza and prepares for war with Hezbollah in the north, “Iran’s campaign against the Jewish state and the U.S. is approaching an inflection point,” warns Seth Cropsey in the WSJ. Mr. Cropsey, president of the Yorktown Institute, warns that a new strategy is needed in Jerusalem […]
Germany Should’ve Listened
Trump Told You So The world does not seem to be going Germany’s way. Walter Russel Mead reports that Germany just authorized the use of cannabis and, as Mr. Mead notes in the WSJ, Germany’s leadership is going to need all the mellow it can get. Being higher than a kite might help Germany forget […]
Bending Foreign Policy
“Uncommitted” Come this November, Michigan again will be a contested state. In 2020, President Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by only three percentage points, reports the editors at the WSJ. The Democratic left is trying to send President Biden a message about the war in Gaza, and the effort already seems to be changing U.S. […]
Is AI Europe’s Chance to Crack into Big Tech?
For the most part, “Big Tech” is dominated by American companies like Apple, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft, but Arthur Mensch, a French scientist who formerly worked for Google, thinks his new company, Mistral AI, and artificial intelligence in general, could be Europe’s launchpad into tech dominance. The Wall Street Journal’s Sam Schechner reports: This time […]
A Hard Time Keeping Hope Alive
Why Things Don’t Work What happens when a society defunds the police, legalizes lethal drugs, open its borders, ignores the law, ends bail, weakens energy reliability, deficit spends trillions annually, declares white people evil? Probably not expect to survive, might be one person’s opinion. James Freeman writes in the WSJ of the struggle he is […]
Twisting and Redefining the Laws
“Blue Laws for Red Citizens” Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness warns of the dangerous era America is entering. Some might say “has entered.” It’s a time when “ideology and party affiliations increasingly determine guilt and punishment.” Opponents are first targeted, and then laws are twisted and redefined to convict them. Mr. Hanason writes about […]