(Pictured: retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens) From John McCain (R-AZ), one of America’s most revered leaders: I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Excellent Public Speaking Meets Environmental Activism
I’m preparing for the 50-minute talk I need to deliver on the energy industry at the International Trade Fair. It’s on occasions like these that I wish I were a bit more bombastic as a speaker; I do a decent …
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Discussion on Private Property and Civilized Society
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Cameron Atwood writes: The most basic paradigms by which our societies now operate are far too often sourced in some deception or some novel and baseless belief. Examples include the commodification of natural resources like water, forests, oil, …
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Let’s Make America Great Again
Ironically, what you mean when you say that you want to make America great again is that you want to return to the time between the end of WWII and the beginning of the Reagan administration, when taxes on the …
Tagged with: taxes on the super-rich
Notes on U.S. Politics
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: Yelling at Trump supporters “you’re stupid,” isn’t helpful or productive.
A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Environmental Devastation
It’s not uncommon for our political pundits here in the US to be completely wrong with their predictions—sometimes embarrassingly so. But we need to give them credit when they forecasted that this presidential election campaign was going to degenerate …
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Tagged with: Clean Power Act, climate change is a hoax, eliminating the EPA, improvements in the U.S. approach to energy, lens of energy and the environment, Paris climate accord, rapid decline in the health of the environment, removing all regulation that current restricts the generation of energy, support the coal industry
America and Human Rights
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of the man who said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real way, human rights invented America.” That’s Jimmy Carter, born in Plains, Georgia (1924). This is both so correct …
Political Memes Are Everywhere, and Some of Them Are Incredibly Clever
Here’s one that speaks for itself; it’s the cover of a current edition of a literary magazine in Mexico. No need to learn Spanish to get this one.
What Trump Supporters Really Need Is the Exact Opposite of What He Would Deliver
A few people have commented that my anti-Trump posts could alienate his followers, and actually galvanize support for the sociopath. No one with any sense and decency deliberately wants to alienate Trump supporters, or anyone else for that matter. But …
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Certainty Isn’t Necessarily a Good Thing
It’s the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald who said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” This, in turn, …
