They are the object of the ire of establishment lefties and neocons alike: As pervasive as “traitor” accusations were during the Trump presidency, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has elevated this "treason” mania to never-before-seen heights. Everyone and anyone who questions or deviates in any way from the prevailing bipartisan consensus is accused of being …
Energy Puritans Enable Enemies of Democracies — Science Matters
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (Reuters) Western media has stirred up a puritanical revulsion against carbon-based energy, resulting in calls for prohibition of fossil fuels. Leaders in western democracies responded with regulations and constraints punishing companies either producing energy or operating supply infrastructure. This empowers market dominance by sovereign energy […]Energy …
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My Canadian Sheeple Problem
Justin Trudeau's brutal suppression of the truckers' protest in Ottawa--and it upholding by the Canadian Parliament--has for me one silver lining. It's solved a long-running mystery concerning a long time commenter (troll, really) of this blog and then my Twitter account, one David Lloyd-Jones of Toronto. For four years, from 2013 to 2017, we went …
The liberal order is already dead — Unherd
In the summer of 1990, I stood where the wall had been and wondered at what had happened to Europe. I wasn’t alone: the rest of the city, the rest of…The liberal order is already dead
Those Un-Aspirational Americans
Or, as the New York Times magazine put it, anti-ambitional: But those top-line numbers obscure a muddier truth. After the latest employment numbers were released in February (which seemed to show remarkable job growth and an unemployment rate of 4 percent), one B.L.S. economist took to his Substack to call it the “most complicated job …
Back in the Day, They All Hated Science
Another one of those "inconvenient truths:" Embracing the science he hated until a year ago means that like a whole lot of partisan people, he only pretends to accept it because the issue is political. Writing in The Daily Beast, Louis Anslow reminds the public that just a few years ago Young released a whole …
The Left Pushes Back Against Vaccine Mandates
Yes, they do: As writers from the Left, we are disturbed by this turn of events. We don’t think there is anything progressive about the current move towards compelled — and in places mandatory — Covid vaccinations. These are discriminatory against minority communities, many of whom for historical reasons are suspicious of medicine and the …
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Leaked Emails, Leaked Viruses: The Sad Trail of Fauci, Collins and COVID-19
It's not easy, but we're getting closer to the truth: Now a string of unearthed emails—the most recent being a batch viewed by the House Oversight and Reform Committee and referred to in its January 11, 2022 letter—is making it seem increasingly likely that there was, in fact, a conspiracy, its aim being to suppress …
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Reaching the Turning Point
I've done many posts on this site over the years. If I look back, say ten years ago, many of those deal with the same issues that we fight over today. Our media on both sides of the political divide are, as my mother used to say, like geese: they get up in a new …
Denmark Embraces Secular Blasphemy
That's what it looks like: 'I think we will have that in the next two months, and then I hope the infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back,' she said on Monday. Before the start of the last semester I wrote a piece entitled Teaching Secular Blasphemy, where I pointed out …
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