DJT’s CPAC speech just ended. It was masterful in all the Trumpian ways. He was not one bit shy about lambasting Biden, and he put himself forward to serve as the GOP’s king-maker.

Now we will discover whether he can build coalitions that win elections, and if the GOP wants the help.

My take is that he has a real chance. Trump embraced bare-knuckles politics in the American tradition. My guess is many people will like that.

At CPAC DJT came out as a viable threat to Democratic Party politics.

Source: KQED.

The object lessons of this piece can be extended to the broader issue of our assumptions about the lingering effects of slavery. The message is entirely positive: It is most useful to examine present realities, if understanding them is your objective.

Elephant…

Joke.

Source: BusinessWorld.

I’d say the headline is overly ambitious, but the body of the article appears to be an evenhanded report. You can look up the subject paper here.

The question is, will the Biden administration and the state governments who “follow the science” follow this science? I doubt it. On this I agree with radical liberal Naomi Wolf, who made news this past week by claiming Joe Biden and our elites will continue to use the pandemic to usher in totalitarianism.

Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

“An all-electric economy, with the electricity itself reliant on unreliable wind and solar generation, is exactly the future envisioned for Virginia and being put into place by Governor Ralph Northam and the majority in the General Assembly.”

Continue reading “The Virginia War On Fossil Fuels” →

I like Reina Del Cid (dark hair) and Toni Lindgren because they remind me of my youth. In my circles somehow a random collection of incredibly talented young musicians seemed to appear out of nowhere at gatherings. I imagine high school band practice had something to do with it, but I don’t really know.

Continue reading “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Bob Dylan cover)” →

Source: Department of Energy (PDF).

Anti-free market types have claimed that deregulation of Texas electricity markets is to blame for the blackouts earlier this month. They argue that the companies operating power generation facilities didn’t spend enough money to weatherize their plants because the expense would have eaten into their profits. Now comes a written order from the Department of Energy that undermines that argument.

Continue reading “Order No. 202-21-1” →

Source: Frontpage Mag.

It seems a plausible explanation for the rhetoric to me: The green Left needs the fake apocalypse of global warming to scare the public it wishes to rule. Therefore windmills — the poster children of renewable energy — must, at all costs, remain blameless in the Texas blackout.

Continue reading “Why The Texas Blackout Has The Greens So Scared” →

Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).

Wednesday’s lead editorial at WSJ defines the causes of electrical grid vulnerability:

Continue reading “More Green Blackouts Ahead” →

Source: National Review.

The writer observes, “Thing is, though: Permitless carry is the law in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and yet there is precisely no evidence whatsoever that it does anything at all to the crime statistics in either direction.”

I’ll leave it to others to defend the assertion. My question is, Would it matter if its true?