From the New York Times: New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns
From this: Representative Mike Johnson comes from Louisiana oil country and has said he does not believe burning fossil fuels is changing the climate.
A Republican who hails from “oil country” is unlikely to hold too much concern about climate change in the first place, but this is exacerbated by the Speaker’s position as a devout Christian. In Genesis, the bible explicitly tells us that “only God can end the Earth,” so why worry ourselves with environmental matters, when God has everything under control?
Here’s a reminder from John Locke, one of the very few philosophers whose thinking informed the original design of the United States, on exactly how close the U.S. came to tyranny.
These people are raising investment capital, or at least claim to be, for 
As suggested here, humans aren’t the only ones who suffer the senseless loss of loved ones.
This fellow makes a good point.
If you want an honest answer to the question posed at left, you’ll need to ask the National Rifle Association. How, precisely, did they buy our lawmaking processes? I’m sure it’s an interesting story.
Unless you’re a seditionist and/or hard-core religious zealot, these are not good times for America.
From my colleague Joe Spease:
Assume the turbine presented here is 1.5 meters tall, as shown, and let’s say 0.5 meters wide, meaning that its swept area is 0.75 square meters if it were refashioned into a standard bladed turbine, spinning in a circle, with a radius of 0.488 meters.
All this is fine, but we need specifics that juries can use to send this traitor to prison for life.
