And why does the answer illustrate the fallaciousness of the whole climate change movement? I’ll give you the weekend to comment on it before I pontificate. Mongolia fetes Vladmir Putin in violation of the ICC criminal warrant (which Mongolia is a party to). Russia Invades Ukraine China rams Philipine fishing boats in South China Sea. […]
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In response to higher gas prices, Elizabeth Warren is proposing a windfall profit tax on large oil companies, whose “greed” is exploiting an international crisis. Economics has this nasty little way of bringing reality into the conversation, as supply and demand will both have their day. Progressive hostility to fossil fuels, which has accelerated during […]
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From One Bad Actor to Another–we have to do anything but produce oil in the United States
07 Mar 2022
It is really unbelievable. I am quite serious when I say this–I have been stunned by the suicidal political instincts of the Biden Administration and their congressional leaders to slavishly bow down to their progressive wing, whose agenda is so toxic to the country and the Democratic Party. Everyone looked for some sort of reboot […]
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Oxford students learn a lesson
05 Feb 2020
After watching university after university cave to the politically correct demands of students here in the U.S., I was heartened to see a little sanity prevail across the pond. As reported in the WSJ earlier this week, activist students occupied the quad of the university’s bursar at St Johns College (the largest endowed college at […]
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The Green New Deal: Absurdity & Threat
15 Feb 2019
I believe there is a general tacit agreement as to what most people would like to see in the culture and society in which they live. This is in general true of all people across cultures and across time. We want to live in a world that is free from the ravages and devastation of […]
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The Green War Economy
11 Feb 2019
This past Thursday Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)’s Office released House Resolution 109 “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal”. According to the Resolution’s preamble many, if not all, contemporary socio-economic problems (insufficient provision of basic needs, wage stagnation, racial injustice, and a threat to national security, etc.) are caused or […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 14
04 Feb 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. A friend was talking with me the other day, and he brought up the fact that you really never really know what’s going […]
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HT over to Mark Perry @ Carpe Diem a few days ago. Mark highlights the unintended (but perfectly predictable) consequences of environmental restrictions on new pipeline development in the Northeast part of the United States. Mr. Perry asks the question: “Why is LNG coming 4,500 miles to Boston from the Russian Arctic when the US […]
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President Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement. I will say at the outset that I support this move. Let’s settle the “legal” issues first. The agreement was not a treaty, and was not ratified by the Senate. It might be classified as an executive agreement or as a simple presidential agreement. The courts […]
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The Next Step Toward the Brave New World
02 Apr 2017
Wesley Smith wrote a short news item on “The Corner” in National Review Online, and linking a longer article in First Things, in which he mentions that in New Zealand and India, a few rivers have now been granted formal rights, allowing them, through their lawyers, to sue on behalf of themselves. They were legally […]
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