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There is no such thing as “renewable energy”. It’s a talking point. The climate gurus point to solar panels and wind turbines as means to solve our energy problems. There is little doubt that they output useable power and YES…the wind is free and Yes…the sunshine is free. You want “free” sunshine and “free” wind? […]

After the end of the American Revolution in 1783, the newly independent states formed a government under the Articles of Confederation. Essentially each state was independent, printing their own money, governing their own affairs, and establishing their own laws. The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States. They created a weak

Interesting on how the Greta Clan has figured out how to take a scientific fact, turn it into a catch phrase, and create an entirely new science.  Climate change is real, climate change is man made, and man made climate change is going to destroy the planet.  We have to rid ourselves of all fossil

The Old Codger’s Collected Tales I have to start this off with a bit of a disclaimer.  It is really hard keeping up with the meanderings of the old coot.  Literally, not figuratively, every day, a new tall tale comes out.  He really is like a long running television series.  But we try…Imagine an idyllic

We too often mistake “democracy” for “democratic”.  We do not live in a “democracy”, rather we live in a “democratic constitutional republic”. We are a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.  The ideal of a democracy is universal equality.  The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty.  Democracy always degenerates into dictatorship which always promises equality

On a daily drum beat, we hear politicians, “climate” activists, and mass media haranguing the American public that we should be leading the world in fighting climate change; that the American taxpayer should be combatting climate change to the tune of $50 trillion in the next five years.  Our gross domestic product (the total value

Joe Biden on the Expressway to Nowhere Joe Biden is very hard to keep track of. Oh, not for his bank busting spending plans, or his “everything is free” ideology, or his MAGA fixation, or his EV mania, or his student loan giveaway, or his disregard for the borders, or his “sky is falling” climate

And here we go again.  Once more a cry for the elimination of the Electoral College.  I opened my morning newspaper to the Opinion page and was greeted with the headline:          Abandoning the Electoral College to uphold true democracy. The writer, Aron Solomon (not a historian, but entitled to his opinion),