According to this article, many people who decry wokeism have trouble defining the term. When challenged in this regard, I borrow from what etiquette maven Emily Post said about manners, in an effort to calm an anxious lady who had …
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Ron Johnson (R-WI) Empty-Headed?
Describing Ron Johnson, a reader notes: empty-headed senator. From NPR: In the last two months, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has attracted headlines and liberal criticism for saying taking care of children isn’t “society’s responsibility“; for declining to call on Oshkosh Defense to …
Dishonesty in COVID Reporting
A reader sent me this meme, which is typical of the twisting the truth we see so often. The implication here is that removing the restrictions caused the infection rates to decrease, which is simply untrue. From NPR: COPENHAGEN, Denmark …
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Will Remain Pristine
From NPR: One of the Trump administration’s biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with a lease sale that attracted just three bidders — …
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Trump Administration V. First Amendment Protection of the Free Press
From this article: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the State Department’s decision to deny NPR press credentials for his trip to Europe following his confrontation with reporter Mary Louise Kelly, stating in an interview in Kazakhstan Sunday that it …
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Neither Big Energy Nor Big Food Are Behaving Princely Re: Public Health
I’ve often written that Big Energy is on the same path that Big Tobacco chose to take in the mid 20th Century: knowingly causing significant damage to the population’s health and safety, but covering it up as long as possible. In …
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Energy, the Environment and Climate Change
Here’s a good article by Robert Rapier, an extremely senior journalist in the energy industry. He and I had a nice chat on cellulosic ethanol a few years ago, and I have a great deal of respect for him. Having said …
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Obama Fails To Redeem Self on Clean Energy — But Man, Doesn’t He Speak Well?
I’m incredibly moved by acts – or even words – of brilliance. And that’s why, as saddened as I am that Obama has disappointed so many of the progressives who brought him to power, I believe that all Americans should …
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