Janet Yellen says the administration’s proposals “are extremely important and necessary to invest in our economy so that we can be competitive.”

It’s so refreshing to see this happening.  The entire rest of the world understands that building out infrastructure with a focus on sustainability is the only way to remain competitive as we move through this precarious time in human history.  Now, it appears, the United States is catching on.

And there is so much more to like about where we’re going than where we’ve been.  Imagine your son could have one of the jobs shown below: coal miner, solar installer, defender of America’s oil supply line.  Which one would you choose for him?

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From The GuardianCut taxes on the rich. Unleash a wave of entrepreneurship. Growth will pick up and more jobs will be created. Everybody benefits. That, in essence, is trickle down – a theory of economics that Joe Biden wants to consign to the dustbin of history.

It appears that Biden just might get this done, because, with the exception of rank corruption, there is little standing in his way. (more…)

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This spoke to me.

There is a great deal of hand-wringing about the acceptance of LGBTQs into our society, but it seems like such a stupid and mean-spirited enterprise.

What Rudner writes at the bottom captures the real reason some people can’t “live and let live,” i.e., their agenda of discrimination and hate.

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Both Canada and the UK have banned Fox News.  Obviously, this is a far trickier subject in the United States, given our First Amendment rights to free speech.  Yet, there are several kinds of speech that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled unprotected, some of which are germane to this subject. (more…)

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Here’s a piece on “heat bombs” that researchers believe are a chief cause of the vast Arctic ice-melt taking place before us.

Until now, it was known that all sea ice is on a path to disappear in the Arctic summers in the next few decades, but no one understood the mechanism by which this catastrophe is occurring. (more…)

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This is true right now, in the spring of 2021.  Whether it will be true when the mid-terms roll around in 2022 or the 2024 presidential election is anyone’s guess.  Consider: (more…)

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Is it because he doesn’t play too much golf?   Because he doesn’t tell 13 lies per day, hog credit for everything good that happens, “takes no responsibility” for anything bad, and works feverish to enrich the billionaires while screwing the middle class?

Who knows?  And who cares?

Most progressives have to admit that they are pleasantly surprised to see Joe Biden, someone most of us presumed to be an aging, feckless political centrist taking such aggressive actions to create a just government that actually delivers value for the American people.

And btw, to my knowledge, this is the first smile on Vindman’s face ever published.  Great to see.

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From NBC News:

Facing a defamation lawsuit, conservative television outlet Newsmax on Friday apologized to Dominion Voting Systems security director Eric Coomer and backed off claims that he manipulated voting machines and counts to thwart the re-election of President Donald Trump.

“Newsmax has found no evidence that Dr. Coomer interfered with Dominion voting machines or voting software in any way, nor that Dr. Coomer ever claimed to have done so,” it said in a statement. “Nor has Newsmax found any evidence that Dr. Coomer ever participated in any conversation with members of ‘Antifa,’ nor that he was directly involved with any partisan political organization.” There has been no evidence that the election was rigged.

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This is what anyone would have expected.

For the United States to recover the level of esteem it had before Trump is going to take a very long time, if it happens at all.  We proved that we’re capable of supporting an obvious conman, a common fraud.  We let him lie, cheat, and steal for four years, and then 47% of us voted to re-elect him.

We seem almost as mentally unstable as he is himself. (more…)

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This may sound absurd to you and me, but keep in mind that it’s essentially what climate deniers are claiming.

Most of these climate scientists are university professors, which, in my experience, tend not to be conspiratorial criminals.

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