With Halloween right around the corner, maybe it’s a good time to talk about things that scare us. And those things aren’t necessarily ghosts, chain saws, and meat-cleavers. Some of them are just words. Socialism, for example. Please read through the …
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Reagan in 1964: Socialism Is Coming for Your Business
Whenever I come across things like this video, I wonder: a) Do this guy and I actually live in the same country? and b) Has the person making this assertion ever run so much as a lemonade stand? Reagan claims …
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Bernie Sanders and His Attempt to Overturn the "Citizens United" Decision
In a comment on my recent piece on Bernie Sanders and the attack on our democracy represented by the U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United, one reader attacked Sanders as a communist. In response, another notes: There are some words you …
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Big Energy Loves U.S. Supreme Court Decision "Citizens United"
Duke Brooks writes on Independent Vermont senator Citizens United opponent Bernie Sanders as follows: Sanders is, of course, not an independent. He is, IN FACT, a self-described socialist…. The opposition to Citizens United (granting corporations the right to spend as much …
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When Politics Gets in the Way of Sane Energy Policy
I suppose I should have seen this coming, but the traditional energy industry, apparently starting to feel the heat, has recently ratcheted up the volume of its ongoing public relations efforts against the renewables industry. I had a wonderful conversation …
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Energy Policy — Looking for the Broad Side of the Barn
Wednesday morning as I was getting ready to conclude my participation in the Renewable Energy Finance Forum, I had a thought I wanted to share. It had been two-days of nitty-gritty financial talk — extremely precise language of tax lawyers …
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The Tragic Results of Political Compromise in US Energy Policy
The results of political compromise — maybe by definition — are seldom satisfactory to anyone. But hasn’t this whole process recently gotten worse than ever before? The healthcare reform bill that the Obama administration put through was the product of a hammer and …
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Global Warming and the "Preponderance of the Evidence"
Passionate global warming skeptic Alex C. writes: Scientific evidence, facts, truth, and “global warming” is NOT a democratic activity where whoever has the most votes wins … There is only one truth at it is not up to a vote. …
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