Liberty
Portuguese awake to Islam’s cultural threat
Samuel Short writes for the Gateway Pundit about an interesting development in western Europe. The Portuguese are realizing that Islam has no place in Europe, much to the chagrin of…
Portugal
country in Southwestern Europe
Liberty
Blackouts followed Spanish experiment with renewables
Sabrina Penty writes for DailyMail.com about recent revelations involving a recent energy failure in Spain. Spanish authorities were experimenting with how far they could push their reliance on renewable energy…
Liberty
America needs ‘anti-fragile’ electric grid
Chris Talgo writes for the American Thinker about a critical need for the nation’s infrastructure. In our modern age, the electric grid is the mother of all networks. Without electricity,…
Research Brief
Energy
Blackouts: The pain in Spain is mainly renewables’ blame
Shortly after Spain announced it had finally achieved 100 percent renewable power on the grid, the world got a reminder of the importance of baseload, dispatchable power. On April 22,…
Liberty
Fiscal Crisis Closer Than Official Numbers Project
Mark Warshawsky writes for National Review Online about the federal government’s gloomy fiscal picture. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its updated outlook for the finances of the federal government. CBO…
Energy
Costs Are Up 57% on Already Super Expensive Offshore Wind Projects
When government decides to buy something, cost increases are sure to follow. One reason is that people are generally less cost-conscious when they’re spending other people’s money. Government decision-makers are…
Liberty
Teaching Truth About Slavery Would Make America Better
Kathleen Brush writes for the American Thinker about the need for better historical instruction dealing with slavery. Liberal Whites wallowing in revisionist histories have made Whites the racist pariahs of…
Health Care
Placing Fauci’s pronouncements in perspective
David Harsanyi warns National Review Online readers against placing too much emphasis on one health expert’s statements. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief pandemic adviser to President Joe Biden, is a…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Governments and private-sector accounting standards
Matthew Klein argues for Barron’s that governments need to adopt stricter accounting standards. Governments hide what they owe and ignore what they own. Current practice “misses large swaths of government…
Liberty
Tax Foundation Comparison Offers New Ammo For Tax Reformers
The folks at the Tax Foundation just released their annual International Tax Competitiveness Index, giving conservatives and entrepreneurs new ammunition in their call to reform and streamline the U.S. tax…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Obamacare and sluggish economic growth
Scott Powell explains at Investor’s Business Daily why repealing the Affordable Care Act remains a critical component of boosting economic growth. … [T]here is still a way forward. The legislative…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
North Carolina’s economy on the world stage, 2015
This post is a follow-up to an earlier post, looking at how North Carolina’s GDP compares on the world stage if NC — and the other U.S. states — were independent…