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The U.S. Weatherization Assistance Program (website shown) is on track to triple its budget to $1 billion despite a documented Obama-era record of failing to insulate taxpayers from local fleecing. By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 30, 2022 Alarm bells are sounding at the Department of Energy as the Biden administration has moved to triple the budget… Continue reading Cloudy With a Chance of Fraud: Federal Weatherization’s Back

A book I wrote called “The Death of Learning” has been generating some attention, both good and bad. It catalogs the decline of traditional liberal arts education in America – especially in our colleges and universities – and offers some modest and fairly traditional ways to turn this situation around. But what most commentators have… Continue reading Why High School Teachers Need to Teach Liberal Arts

  The NY Times featured an article on August 22, 2022 “People are paying to have personal messagespainted on Ukrainian artillery shells.” (see: https://nyti.ms/3CsFNwy, which is also a photo source.)   The article chronicles a novel way that Ukrainians are raising money to support their war effort against Russia. According to the article the signmyrocket… Continue reading When You Don’t Know If the Indirect Effect Will Be Greater

Above, two of the top print and TV affiliates of the powerful and liberal Communications Workers of America. Though their journalists are union members, the news outlets don’t disclose to their readers their employees’ conflicts of interest on issues they cover. By James Varney, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 18, 2022 The text bulletin the Communication Workers of America… Continue reading The Powerful Leftwing Journalists’ Union and the Conflicts of Interest News Junkies Don’t Hear About

On July 8, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that ballot harvesting and the use of unsupervised ballot boxes is not consistent with the statutes governing Wisconsin election law and must be discontinued. The decision in Teigen and Thom v. Wisconsin Election Commission represents the latest skirmish in the national debate over election integrity versus ballot… Continue reading The Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Rule of Law, and the Return to Normalcy

Encouraging reports indicate that the more sensible of the states have finally begun to confront not only the leftist takeover of corporate boards and executive suites, but against the attempts by the modern malefactors of great power – Larry Fink and BlackRock, Brian Moynihan and Bank of America, and the rest of that crowd –… Continue reading Wise States Begin to Push Back Against BlackRock, Larry Fink

The Hague: Environmentally sensitive Dutch farmers are rebelling against government elites’ more draconian green diktats — and they’re inspiring protests by other farmers across Europe. By Michael Shellenberger, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 11, 2022 ALMERE, Netherlands — Farmers in the Netherlands reduced nitrogen pollution by nearly 70% through a voluntary system. But the government says that is not… Continue reading Why Greens Can’t Keep Angry Farmers Down on the Farm, in the Netherlands or Globally

The results of the Florida primaries, which will take place on August 23, will likely have a major impact on the midterms and on the political landscape.  Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis will likely win reelection in November, but Democrats are seriously contesting the governorship. Democrats’ two major candidates are agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried and… Continue reading Florida Primary Races to Watch

“The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession.” – President Barak Obama, August 5, 2009 Not here. Not in the state proudly dubbed the “Free State of Florida.” It’s a shame to have to point this out, but the United States Senate is considering legislation so… Continue reading Don’t Be Fooled—the Left Is Gaslighting Again