Here’s a short video describing how wind farms are built. Its producer says that renewable energy is required because “we’re running out of fossil fuels.” Completely wrong. There is so much coal in Wyoming, for instance, that hikers have to …
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Eliminating Slavery
When we think of slavery in our modern world, many of us, understanding as we do that the institution is illegal in every sovereign country on Earth, assume that it no longer exists. Sadly, that’s not true; it’s estimated that …
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Dismantling Social Security and Medicare
If you’re wondering how it’s possible for the Republicans who are trying to dismantle Social Security and Medicare to remain viable candidates for re-election, it’s explained in the meme here. They are simply lying to mainstream audiences. Politicians have been …
What Trump Supporters Will Buy
Ha! In truth, however, she’s not going to buy just any s***. It needs to be something that could be believed to protect her against the socialist nation that the radical left is working so hard to fashion our country …
Nikki Haley’s Viewpoints Are Blowin’ in the Wind
The meme here is from a reader whose point is that Nikki Haley switches positions on important topics as easily as the wind shifts directions. Hate to say it, but: obviously. This forms an interesting dichotomy between her and politicians …
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How Soon Can We Arrest Trump?
Most Americans, and to a lesser degree, most living in the rest of the world, are frustrated by how long it’s taken the U.S. justice system to arrest Donald Trump for one (or several) of the crimes he committed while …
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Sci-Fi Authors Don’t Always Get it Right
Robert Heinlein was one of the “big three” American science fiction writers of the 20th Century, along with Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov. Like so many others of my (baby-boomer) generation, I loved his Stranger in a Strange Land. …
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Vonnegut on Religion
What the popular novelist and playwright Kurt Vonnegut wrote here is one interpretation of our need for religion, and I regard him as one of the most astute observers of human civilization. Yet I submit the the principal driver of …
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Why Ratchet Up International Tensions?
As tensions between China and the United States rise, U.S. military equipment is flooding into Southeast Asia, in places like the Philippines, Okinawa, Australia, and Guam. Some suggest that building embassies, so as better engage in diplomacy, is a stronger …
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Morality and Religion
I could be wrong, but I don’t think many people today accept what Arthur C. Clark said here. I would guess that even the most pious folks out there recognize that there are atheists who are morally good, who live …
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