This week the California Air Resources Board is expected to approve what’s known as its 2022 Scoping Plan, the blueprint to make the state, the world’s fourth-largest economy, carbon-neutral by 2045. The plan is beyond ambitious. “It’ll spur an economic transformation akin to the Industrial Revolution,” Gov. Gavin Newsom declared when it was released last… Continue reading California’s Ambitious Decarbonization Plan Hasn’t Been Future-Proofed
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The Trouble with Russian Blacklisting
I’ve officially been banned from setting foot in Russia. Last month, I discovered I was number 44 on the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ latest list of banished Americans. Like more than 1,200 other Americans, I now stand accused of having a hand in the “promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime… Continue reading The Trouble with Russian Blacklisting
Does It Really Matter Who Owns Twitter?
Unless you live in a cave, you know that Elon Musk paid $44 Billion to buy Twitter and then take it from a public company to a private one. There has been more than a great deal of concern about the Twitter platform and the future of the company itself. On November 22,… Continue reading Does It Really Matter Who Owns Twitter?
Bringing About a ‘More Perfect Union’: Street Diplomacy in the Nineteenth Century
In the heart of Philadelphia, a runaway mother desperately held her infant son close as she matched wits with a ruthless slave catcher. The mother, Catherine Thompson, escaped slavery in Maryland, married a free man named William Thompson, and eventually settled in Burlington County, New Jersey. There she gave birth to her son, Joel, and… Continue reading Bringing About a ‘More Perfect Union’: Street Diplomacy in the Nineteenth Century
How Winners are Losing in American Elections
Who exactly are the winners of this new and confusing electoral system called ranked-choice voting (RCV)? It’s not the thousands of voters that show up to the polls in RCV elections only to have their votes thrown out. The winners of RCV are partisans and special interests who use the system’s design to manipulate election… Continue reading How Winners are Losing in American Elections
What’s Good for the Goose Isn’t Necessarily Good For the Gander
My good friends at Merriam Webster define this expression “to say that one person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated” (see: https://bit.ly/3qPXRKh) Should the U.S. concede the information advantage to our enemies and adversaries? The Washington Post posted “Pentagon orders review of psyops after… Continue reading What’s Good for the Goose Isn’t Necessarily Good For the Gander
Despite Wind at Its Back, America’s Dominant Abortion Provider Faces a Struggle to Adapt
Shown, an image from a Planned Parenthood video likening chemical abortion to an “early miscarriage” with “lots of cramps and bleeding.” As many of its surgical abortion clinics close, the organization faces competition from abortion drugs widely available online. By Mark Hemingway, RealClearInvestigationsSeptember 8, 2022 Since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June, Planned… Continue reading Despite Wind at Its Back, America’s Dominant Abortion Provider Faces a Struggle to Adapt
Bank of America’s Equity: Racial Discrimination, Elitism, Fraud, and Bad Business
Bank of America (BoA)’s newest racially discriminatory program provides a casebook study in what “equity” is really about – racial discrimination perpetrated by billionaires against poor white people to atone on the backs of others for the fact that they are very, very rich, while too few non-white people are equally rich. In other words, making other,… Continue reading Bank of America’s Equity: Racial Discrimination, Elitism, Fraud, and Bad Business
How Blatant Anti-White Racism Won Acceptance in Elite America
In a 2021 lecture at Yale University titled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani described her “fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in… Continue reading How Blatant Anti-White Racism Won Acceptance in Elite America
A Trump/DeSantis Ticket is Legally Workable
The midterm elections are only about two months away, but for many, it’s easy to look past them and start thinking about the 2024 presidential election. On the Republican side, the two most talked-about candidates are former president Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Many Republicans would like a ticket with Trump as the… Continue reading A Trump/DeSantis Ticket is Legally Workable