Just in case you are interested, the chart above shows how much money wind generators have bilked from American taxpayers through the federal production tax credit. Fifteen of the largest companies–and their Wall Street investment bankers–have received $19.4 billion. Those companies have a combined market cap of more than $500 billion.
Category: U.S. Politics
In Europe, Free Speech Bows to Sharia
The primary goal of the left today appears to be suppression of speech. Which makes total sense of your goal is to eliminate your opponents. All you have to do is to get their ideas labeled as hateful, get a mob to shout them down, get the press to denounce them and their ideas, get…
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Still Matters
I love the consistent inconsistency of the left. First we are told that the world is already being ravaged by the fallout of human induced global warming. Next we hear that if we don’t drastically reduce CO2 emissions in the next decade or so, “we’ll start feeling the brunt of the effects as soon as…
Bombs A-Weighed
Mark Steyn makes a point almost nobody else is making connecting the suppression of free speech with the rise of civil discord and violence: The absence of a wide degree of vigorous free speech leads to “hate acts”, to violent societies where, in the absence of a culture of dissent, the state thinks nothing of,…
Transacting with Riyadh
Islam is a murderous religion. It takes the sword to those who fail to submit to Allah. Andrew McCarthy describes how we see this playing out in the murderous regime ruling Saudi Arabia: What is variously called “radical Islam,” Islamism, “political Islam,” or “Islamic extremism” (and don’t you dare ask what it is that they’re…
The Caravan to Nowhere
If you can get the (almost) open borders Wall Street Journal to support closing the border, you know something big is afoot: The reality is that bowing to this migration blackmail would produce an American political backlash that would damage the cause of legal immigration and a humane refugee policy. Think of Germany’s Angela Merkel…
How Liberals Handed the Midterm Elections to Republicans
The headline over at the Transom this morning is “The Border is the October Surprise.” The October Surprise, of course, is an event one party or candidate waits until the last minute to make public in the hopes of shifting the the election outcome in their direction. The Transom quotes from Sohrab Amari’s article on…
Why I Will Vote for Trump in 2020
In the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election, I shared with anyone who would listen why I wasn’t going to vote for Donald Trump. The primary reason for my decision was that I wasn’t sure the country would be better off with Trump as president than it would be with Hillary. I admitted…
The Supreme Court Is a Historically Regressive and Presently Expendable Institution
Often it is difficult to believe what the left is saying. Despite the fact that their arguments often seem irrational, there is usually rational, if incorrect, thought underlying their arguments. Here is one liberal’s take on the current debate over the Supreme Court: There are two immediate ways in which right-wing judges and justices might help…
A patriot’s perspective
David French is a patriot and a decent guy. Marvin Olasky recently published an interview with him in World Magazine. Here’s an excerpt: We’re also geographically sorting. The number of landslide counties that one side wins by 20 percent or more is the highest it’s been. The more we geographically sort ourselves, the more extreme we…