Category: Renewables – Politics

The word “resist” has had a good couple of years, given the visceral reaction most Americans are having to Trump’s presidency.  I would bet it hasn’t been used with this frequency since the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.  …

Boom Time for the Word “Resist” Read More »

In response to this article in the New York Times, Bernie Sanders writes: This is just the latest in a long stream of attacks Trump has made against the judicial branch and judges who don’t agree with him. It is …

Trump Takes Aim at Appeals Court, Calling It a ‘Disgrace’ Read More »

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From this article: In the wake of a near-political annihilation in California that has left even longtime conservative stronghold Orange County bereft of a single Republican in the House of Representatives, a growing chorus of GOP loyalists here say there’s …

Running as a Republican in California Is Tough On a Good Day…And Today’s Not a Good Day Read More »

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John Schindler (pictured) is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he’s also been a Navy officer and a War College professor.

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This is funny, but I often think how glad I am that our planet is (probably) not being visited by an advanced civilization.  I can’t think of how embarrassed I’d be to take an intelligent alien to my “leader.”

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Concerns over President Trump’s mental health have waxed and waned over his term in office.  At times he appears extremely consistent in his demagoguery as well as his wanton destruction of American values (like honesty and decency) and institutions (like democracy). 

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Most of us have encountered those who hope Trump somehow dies.  I sure have; I know tons of them.  Here’s a discussion, at the bottom of which I present my thoughts on why this isn’t a rational wish.

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Those who have never experienced an earthquake can only imagine how terrifying it is.  Yet the terror resides exclusively in the fact that, when the ground starts to shake, no one knows if it’s going to be a 4.5 (no …

Let’s Hope the White Supremacist Movement Is Waning Read More »

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The oil companies would like you to believe that they have your best interests at heart. You may have heard, for instance, that ExxonMobil is working on algae-based biofuels and developing the separators for the lithium-ion batteries that are the …

The Oil Companies Have Our Backs, Don’t They? Read More »

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The race for the open senate seat in Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema (D) vs. Martha McSally (R), is one of the most hotly contested in the country. RealClearPolitics has it as a tie.  

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