No offense to the brilliant Robert Reich, but obviously it’s a no-brainer. Just like removing subsidies from the wealthiest enterprise in human history and putting a price on carbon. Any six-year-old can understand why all these things need to happen. …
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Fox News Hates All Things Biden, But Isn’t This Treason?
A reader notes: The fact that Russia banned all free speech, all social media platforms, and all journalists from reporting Putin’s war against Ukraine, yet pushes for Tucker Carlson and Fox News to be broadcast on Russian State TV should …
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Should You Invest in an Entrant in the “$4 Billion Wave Energy Market?”
Well, let’s start with an easier question: Is there a $4 billion wave energy market? The answer: No. Not now, not ever. Why? Because the levelized cost of energy from wave energy is outrageously high, and it will never become …
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Some Conspiracy Theories Require Serious Levels of Stupidity
Look, I love a good QAnon-style conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but even I’m not so sure about this one. The liberal environmentalists convinced Putin to invade Ukraine and manipulated global oil production levels?
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Satire from The Borowitz Report: “Trump Offers to Help Russia File for Bankruptcy”
Per Borowitz: “Bankruptcy is scary the first time you do it,” Trump said. “But once you’ve done it five or six times it’s the easiest and most beautiful thing in the world.” I won’t repeat the mild sense of dissatisfaction …
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Philosophy of Taxation
Here’s Ike Eisenhower defending his 90% top tax rate on corporations, at the same time the top rate on individuals was 70%. Nowadays we’re being told that “real Americans” need to oppose the idea of taxing the rich, as it’s …
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European Borders In Flux
The author of the meme here saw an opportunity to make a comparison to present-day Russia, where Putin is aggressively redrawing the borders in Eastern Europe. How far west he goes before he’s stopped is anybody’s guess. The fact that …
An Engaged Citizenry
There is a point to be made here, but the idea behind the law is to encourage home ownership, based on the (reasonable) belief that home owners are better, more engaged citizens. We do not want apathy and alienation from …
Wish It Weren’t So, But Fox News Viewers Believe What They’re Seeing
This is funny, but it’s not true; these people believe every syllable of the b.s. they’re consuming. That’s what make all this so dangerous. Where do we think the skyrocketing incidence of violence against Asian-Americans comes from? The Gods of …
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Biden and U.S. Energy Independence
A reader sent me something to the effect that Biden is at fault for our high gasoline prices, commenting that, from the day he took office, he’s done everything in his power to increase America’s dependence on foreign energy resources. …
Tagged with: American Petroleum Institute blames environmentalists, Biden is at fault for our high gasoline prices, Biden makes the U.S. dependent of foreign energy resources, Fox News says that Biden "has an obsession" for destroying the energy industry in the United States, oil companies are reluctant to ramp up production because of price volatility, reducing our Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a much faster rate than what we're doing now, supply and demand for oil
