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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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Two Great Essays in Support of Free Trade
Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist and The Evolution of Everything, has posted a column about Brexit entitled, “Britain’s Chance to be the Global Champion of Free Trade.” In it he says: The prime minister…
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What we can learn from the struggling European and Chinese economies
Kevin Williamson‘s latest column at National Review Online targets readers who might not grasp just how closely the American economy resembles those of Europe and China. In 2015, the human…
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Fund places Greek vote in context of Europe’s future
John Fund explains for National Review Online readers why the recent Greek referendum bodes ill for the future of a united Europe. It should now be obvious to the Eurocrats…
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A cautionary tale about an overly powerful public sector
This forum has documented in the past the problems associated with overly powerful public-sector unions. For a sense of how those problems can play out when public-sector unions hold even…
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Because Brazil isn’t like the United States
In the news: SAO PAULO ? Grumpy the clown won election in a laugher, getting more votes than any other candidate for Brazil’s Congress. Now he has to prove that…
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Hitchens takes on the Obama Nobel
Christopher Hitchens‘ latest Newsweek column sets out five categories for which people have collected past Nobel Peace Prize awards, including “service to cynicism, opportunism, and hypocrisy,” and “service to random…
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“An attack against children”
That is how the National Education Association describes Bush’s veto of the House’s appropriations bill. According to the NEA, “Cutting these programs would literally leave millions of children behind…” I…
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News flash: Republican young people not monsters!
That seems to be Suzanne Malveaux’s reaction to being around Jenna Bush, one of the First Daughters, in Africa: But when Jenna was with children she completely lit up. It…
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New MeckDeck Contest
Inspired by the indecipherable work of Uptown paper of record theater critic Julie York Coppens let’s play — Name Julie’s Native Language Here Julie’s clumsy first graf reminds one of…