Behind California’s Green curtain
Green rhetoric hide's California's failing economy, increasing poverty and fleeing workforce.
A global carbon tax would put us on the road to ruin
BY MICHELLE STIRLING: As Joanne Nova reports in “The Other Side of Climate,”carbon markets are booming for banks and big business, but it all costs you and me, the little guy, way more than we can pay."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Green, garrulous and ready to transform America
Is America ready for full-blown socialism?
Carbon tax economists profoundly ignorant and/or cynical
BY MARK MATHIS: A bipartisan group of Nobel Prize-winning economists, former Federal Reserve chairs and top economic advisers to recent presidents has endorsed a carbon tax. Their reasons for supporting the tax demonstrate a profound obliviousness to energy reality.
Bogus headline of the week: It’s hot — Put down that burger!
More drivel in the war against meat,
The Green New Deal: It’s worse than you think
A government-mandated transition to 100% renewable energy would completely destroy the U.S. industrial base and cause lights to go out in millions of households across the country.
The wacky “Green New Deal”
If the GND sucked up enough workers the economy would collapse.
By law, California high speed rail may be doomed to fail
By Ronald Stein It has been 10 years since passage of California Proposition 1A the High-Speed Rail Act that approved the $9.95 billion bond, a down payment on a high-speed rail project that was optimistically estimated by proponents at that time to cost $40 billion. Today, the California high-speed rail cost may approach $100 billion. Public enthusiasm is obviously dwindling.
Give thanks that we no longer live on the precipice
Suddenly, a great miracle happened! Beginning around 1800, health, prosperity and life expectancy began to climb … slowly but inexorably at first, then more rapidly and dramatically. Today, the average American lives longer, healthier and better than even royalty did a mere century ago. How did this happen? What was suddenly present that had been absent before, to cause this incredible transformation?
An agricultural solution in search of a problem
By John Thoming Almond milk, as well as soy milk and other such products, have been on the market for decades. So, why the sudden interest in tripping up California’s almond farmers with an unfair and ill-conceived regulation?
Silicon Valley and free speech
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, four of the world’s ten largest market cap corporations are Silicon Valley companies and two of the remaining ten largest are Chinese information tech companies. How does that power impact civil liberties?
A looming technology-security minerals crisis?
A new book analyzes America's near-total foreign dependency for critical minerals – and offers solutions.
2017 tax law continues to bring benefits
By Mark Murphy Even before enactment, anticipation of passage spurred investments, jobs and growth.
As the world and climate change yet again
By John Shanahan Who is helping to create a better world? Who is determined to hold everyone back?
500 days of unleashing our economic engine
Amazing growth – while protecting environment, health and welfare from actual threats.