Let No Emergency Go to Waste President Joe Biden boasted to the Weather Channel earlier this month that he has “in practice” already declared a national climate emergency. Pray this massive government power grab ain’t so. It would be scientifically fraudulent and invite draconian government control measures. Suppression of constitutional rights and other civil liberties violations […]
The World Ablaze
Originally posted August 1, 2023. Read almost any headline this summer, and it would be easy for you to think the world is in a cataclysmic burn. Despite what you are told, it is not, writes Bjorn Lomborg in the WSJ. The percentage of the globe that burns each year is on the decline. Has […]
Blowin’ in the Wind
Across the U.S. and in Europe, at least ten offshore projects in recent weeks have been delayed or “hit the doldrums.” The reported malaise isn’t cheap, with a $33 billion price tag, reports the WSJ. Outside of nuclear power, observes the WSJ’s James Freeman in “Best of the Web,” “the zero-emission energy movement isn’t exactly […]
An Avoidable Loss by an Insufferable Ego
How is it that one of women’s sports’ biggest stars has now become arguably its biggest enemy? The team, some would argue, has humored aging players and granted these figureheads minutes they don’t deserve. The US Women’s National Soccer Team, in case you haven’t heard, lost to Sweden in penalties last Sunday. Luther Ray Abel reports […]
“The Best Use of a Battery Is in a Hybrid”
UPDATE 8.8.23: U.S. News and World Report recently published an explainer on how hybrids work, beginning with a brief history of hybrid vehicles: The world’s first hybrid car was actually a Porsche. The legendary Ferdinand Porsche built a battery EV with electric hub motors in the wheels called the Lohner-Porsche Electromobile in 1900, but followed […]
The State of Small Businesses and the Job Market
A report from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is due out later today. Meanwhile, the latest monthly survey reports that U.S. small businesses remained on the hunt for new employees in July and still couldn’t find enough of them. According to William Dunkelberg, NFIB chief economist: As long as consumers spend, firms will […]
Books That Shaped World Views
Which Books Did It? At NRO, Jay Nordlinger discusses books that changed the way readers thought of the world. Jay’s full article is available at National Review Online. An eclectic array of books, not surprisingly, are mentioned, from Milton Friedman and Malcolm Muggeridge to Victor Hugo and Dostoevsky. Pretty much to the moon and back. […]
Don’ t ♥ New York
That’s right. New York City apparently has a new message. This time the message is not aimed at sophisticated, moneyed tourists. Rather its goal is to warn immigrants not to come visit New York. At all. Exacerbated at what he characterizes as a “disaster,” NYC Mayor Eric Adams is planning to dispense police-tape yellow flyers […]
Waging War on Things That Work
Government Overreach How to make life miserable? In pursuit of a cleaner planet, here are some things that will make us all more equitably bleak. Snuff out incandescent lights for good has continued despite the clear preferences of consumers, particularly low-income Americans. In 2018, University of Michigan researchers found that high-efficiency LED light bulbs “are […]
The Hunter Mess
Unequal Justice How long will it take for U.S. Attorney David Weiss to testify publicly in front of the House, and Republicans? Kimberley Strassel at the WSJ guesses it could take a week for the Delaware prosecutor to unwind his office’s growing list of Hunter Biden special favors. That’s before mentioning its half-truths and outright […]
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