March 15, 2021

Climate change alarmists can't explain Pittsburgh

Global warming as it's argued today is pretty much a crock. Let's take one example to show it, with data from the city of Pittsburgh. Back in the mid-20th century, Pittsburgh was famously filled with smog and air pollution....

March 2, 2021

Global Bodies Went Off the Rails When They Scrapped Ozone, Targeted Carbon Dioxide

Some of us old timers who grew up in Southern California recall the inversion layers of particles in the valleys that trapped smog.  We later learned that the haze we saw (which was then called 'smog') was ozone, created primari...

March 2, 2021

Photos: What I saw at CPAC 2021

I went to this past weekend's CPAC in Orlando, Florida.  It was a great spectacle that left me no doubt that the Republican base continues to love and support President Trump. I arrived on a warm Sunday afternoon for the la...

December 23, 2020

All About Smartmatic

We received a lengthy letter from Dominion's defamation lawyers explaining why they believe that their client has been the victim of defamatory statements. Have considered the full import of the letter, we have agreed to their request that w...

October 26, 2020

What's the Endgame with Ozone?

I keep hearing politicians referring to man-made-induced climate change is settled science.  After all, Governor Gavin Newsom recently issued an executive order to stop selling fossil-fueled vehicles starting in 2050.  I searched the Intern...

May 4, 2020

All Aboard for Testing the Wuhan Virus

The cry du jour from the usual anti-Trump folks is testing, testing, testing!  Where are my COVID-19 (aka Wuhan) virus test kits, some governors shout?  As of the start of Ramadan (April 23, 2020), about 5 million tests have been administer...

April 14, 2020

Was the U.S. Unprepared for the China COVID-19 Virus?

Being sequestered at home gives one the opportunity to reflect on the political actions taken over the past several weeks and the associated praise and criticisms resulting from those actions.  President Trump has repeatedly referred to the ...

January 3, 2020

An Elephant in the Room on Biden and Burisma?

Not too long ago, on Nov. 8, 2011, Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, German Chancellor Angel Merkel, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte participated in an inauguration ceremony for the first of two natur...

November 19, 2019

San Diego's Green New Deal Showcase Unwittingly Reveals an Expensive Future

A couple of weeks ago, functionaries from the San Diego’s Metropolitan Transport System (MTS) proudly rolled out one of six new electric buses that they had bought. These million dollar babies compete with their Compressed Natural Gas ...

November 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren's Rabbit Hole

Grace Slick was right.  Some pills make you taller.  Elizabeth Ann (Herring) Warren has now moved ahead of the pack in the latest polling in Iowa for the Democrats.  Senator Warren wants to launch the Green Apollo Program, Green Indust...

October 4, 2019

Why are California Utility Bills so High?

Gee, that sounds like a dumb question, right?  After all, what Governor Jerry Brown did as one of his parting reminders is very clear. On September 10, 2018, he signed into law that power production by renewables be increased from the curre...

October 2, 2019

Green Dream to End Fossil Fuels Also Means Going without Plastics

Have you ever seen the 1967 movie, “The Graduate,” where actor Dustin Hoffman, in the role of a young graduate, gets sage advice as to what field he should get into?  "Plastics," young man, is the future was the r...

July 28, 2019

So who's Baltimore's most famous politician?

Who is the most famous modern-day politician from Baltimore?  Is it Elijah Cummings, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee?  Chairman Cummings has been in the news lately whether it be sparring with President Trump as he has now, or els...

July 25, 2019

Snapshots from abroad: What locals ask an American when they want to know what's going on there

I have worked in Central Asia for the past decade.  On one project, I had people on my team from 30 different countries.  On the project I am working on today, I counted people from nine countries at a staff meeting one recent morning. It...

July 7, 2019

A tired old man...

I’m a tired old man. I’m tired of people telling me that symbols of freedom of this great country are supposedly symbols of oppression. I’m tired of people telling me that symbols of Christianity offend them yet I am supposed to tur...

June 5, 2019

Free University Nirvana?

Many of our left-wing radical politicians, a.k.a., snake oil salesmen, are pitching free university education for all.  And it's not surprising: Teachers’ unions and university administrators might salivate at the thought.  H...

May 31, 2019

What people who have lived under socialism, good and hard, will tell you about it

I have been blessed to have lived and/or worked in many countries.  Some are socialist.  Others were socialist cubed. They all have negative effects, and the real world experience people take from it matters. Look at socialized medicine....

May 28, 2019

The good, the bad, and the ugly of the oil business in Venezuela

How to look at Venezuela's oil industry?  Well, Venezuela has the largest known crude oil reserves in the world.  That is the good.  And within those reserves, it has an abundance of extra heavy crude oil, which...

May 27, 2019

Contrary to Greenie narrative, not every oil spill is man-made...

When an offshore spill occurs in the oil industry, the mainstream media visuals most remembered are oil slicks, oiled waterfowl, and contaminated sea mammals.  How often have you seen similar visuals from the effects of natural oil seeps?...

May 26, 2019

The Democrats and the Squanderer

Ever since the new Congress was sworn in on 3 January 2019, nearly five months ago, there have been nonstop clown shows led by Democrat leaders of House committees.  House rules that were drawn by Speaker Pelosi in late 2018 were specific t...

May 2, 2019

How many more groups of Americans can Omar anger?

The junior Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, has an opinion about anyone and anything, just ask her.  Rep. Omar provided a clear example of her understanding U.S. history regarding a key framer of the Constitution, Benjam...

August 1, 2017

Death Throes in Venezuela

The successor to Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who died over four years ago, Nicolas Maduro, has been floundering for months. Hyperinflation, food rationing, failed government-provided services are just a few of the endemic problems...

July 27, 2017

The Imminent Death of Venezuelan Democracy

The successor to the Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who died over four years ago, Nicolas Maduro, has proposed a vote for a new constitutional assembly on this Sunday.  Note that on July 16, 2017, there was a vote sanctioned by ...

March 26, 2012

The Real Obama Truth Squad

The campaign to reelect President Obama has on their web page a Truth Team with a folder that has "Keeping His Word" as the common theme.  Governor Romney has taken a lot of heat from the Etch-a-Sketch quip.  So the President has drawn from...