The Permian Basin is a vast sedimentary basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico that is the largest oil and gas-producing region in the United States. I just got an email from “East Daley,” whose white paper Permian Basin …
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Does Killing Innocent People Cause Americans “Outrage?”
A reader notes: These are war crimes meant to test the amount of public outrage they can get away with. That’s a distinct possibility, though it’s hard to know the precise motive for these crimes. Obviously, Trump supporters have no …
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Is the System Rigged?
If I were writing the piece at left, I wouldn’t say, “the system is rigged,” because that implies some clandestine. I would say the system is designed to make rich people richer, and to ignore the needs of the masses. …
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What Can Trump Destroy?
In other posts, we’ve looked at the prospects of a massive refusal on the part of America’s top military to follow a manifestly illegal order, like invading Canada. What about a less dramatic case? What if I were the chief …
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Why Norway Is a World Leader in Renewables
It’s true that Norway is a world leader in renewable energy. To be fair, however, they have a few things going for them. One is the hydro resource itself, which is enormous, especially considering the nation’s small population. The other, and …
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Germany and the U.S. — a Key Difference
As I mentioned in my recent post on Germany, we have a president in the United States who’s doing everything in his power to destroy the entire renewable energy industry, and, thus, is creating a real problem for those concerned …
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Germany Cranks Up the Volume on Renewable Energy
Germany finds itself in a unique position among the countries of the world, in that it’s gotten rid of both coal and nuclear and now depends quite heavily on renewables. Germany is the world’s third largest economy, behind the United …
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Trump Getting Dumber Every Day?
Trump never has and never will have the slightest interest in learning, which is sad, and should have long ago disqualified himself from the White House. Also, he seems to be on a cognitive decline and makes bizarre and indefensible …
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Trump’s Third Term
In this video, Donald Trump says that he hasn’t really thought about a third term, though, he boasts, his poll numbers are great. Then we have one of these on-air statisticians who says that Trump has one of the worst …
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Did Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Say “America Is for White People?”
Below is the AI response, but before you read it, here’s mine: Missourians who rise to the level of the U.S. Senate must have two qualities: a) a hard-hitting level of racism that leaves voters with no doubt that you’re …
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