"Debacle." What a terribly sad and ignorant comment.  The  tyrannical regime in Iran has gunned down more than 35,000 of its own people since the protests began .  Bringing people their freedom is one of the most noble things the United States will ever do. I'd argue this should have been done decades ago before Iran could strengthen its terror network and sell military hardware to China and Russia.  In addition to freeing the people of Iran, China gets almost all of its oil from Iran. I suspect the people of Taiwan are breathing slightly easier. Empty bridge intended to carry California's high speed rail tracks Yes, I realize that we are spending money that might have purchased a couple of miles of California high speed rail (given zero track has been laid and more than $14 billion spent to-date after more than 11 years of "construction").  Or, it might be just enough to purchase a week of Minneapolis "day care." I realize these spending prioritie...

Comrade Kamala and this generation of Democrats are the most dangerous to our freedoms -- ever! The "addition" item below this is why they think 30  Starlinks is news. It should 300! Addition: This is the Biden-Harris Administration's #1 goal at FEMA. It certainly isn't disaster recovery. 

Free speech is under assault . While the example at left (at the link) is from Great Britain, we in America must  peaceably but firmly  resist the assaults on our constitutional rights. 

From Instapundit : DEMS PREPARE IRS TO CRUSH EVANGELICALS: Buried in the laughably titled “Respect for Marriage Act” now before the Senate are  provisions authorizing  the IRS to jerk tax-exemption from any church or non-profit social service agency that refuses to support the LGBQT agenda regarding marriage. What will come in the months following enactment will be a swarm of gay couples demanding that evangelical pastors perform wedding ceremonies that many of them will refuse, as a matter of faith, to do. There will similarly be gay couples demanding that religious-based adoption agencies that only match orphans with intact heterosexual couples abandon their beliefs. In other words, the full force of the federal government is being prepared for the assault on tax-exempt churches and church-related social service agencies that liberals have dreamed of ever since Jimmy Carter failed effort in 1977 to do so woke up millions of evangelicals to their obligations as citizens ...

The personal computer: the greatest tyranny device, ever . 

For those who are not aware, "climate denial content" is what you often read here: anything that does not go along with "we're all going to die from global warming tomorrow" point of view.  And,  LinkedIn, the one mainstream platform that wasn't woke, went woke today. Note the brown print at the bottom.  It is quite the coincidence, wink, wink,  that all of this occurred within a few hours.  And, Google, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn claim to be competitors . R-i-g-h-t. For more on this topic, written earlier today, go here .  Or, more likely, this isn't about science at all. From our friends in Canada.

We've discussed many times that Big Climate wants a political issue more than it wants genuine progress on decarbonizing energy. Now, an outstanding piece has been published that lays this out in detail. Two key excerpts pertaining to Big Climate: The element of nuclear energy however has long been rejected by most of the major green groups, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth globally, the RSPB in the UK (which  allowed a gas plant on one of their reserves  but is protesting a nuclear plant on another), and the Sierra Club in the USA. Some individual scientists and activists have joined them in calling for 100 percent renewable grids  without nuclear power  despite the fact that it is not feasible—in fact only five countries with large electrical grids have low carbon emissions and they rely on constant large-scale hydropower and nuclear energy, with a little intermittent solar and wind power on top... Herein lies the rub. The very same groups that claim t...

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”                                                             -- President Ronald Reagan

  Today Yesterday I never thought I would find myself agreeing with Noam Chomsky but he is right on the money. Liberals used to champion the Bill of Rights. 

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”                                                             -- President Ronald Reagan I appreciate the 1000+ people who read my piece below . Thank you. If you haven't yet read it or Jason Whitlock's piece (purple link), I urge you to do so.  It was written before the stunning anti-free speech events of yesterday evening during which dozens of conservative voices were kicked off Twitter and Facebook. Chad Felix Greene, who identifies himself publicly as a gay, Jewish man has written a cogent summary here . I urge you to read it, also. The silence of President-Elect Joe Biden is deafening . In an earlier, better era, Presidents Truman and Kennedy would have denounced, in a heartbeat, these attempts to silence free ...

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is well known for his cynicism. He takes it up a notch here . As Stephen Green wrote separately this morning: “They will advocate some institutionalized changes in the way social media should work. Every change will involve compliance costs. Facebook will make sure that it can comply…and that its competitors cannot without great expense. That will give them a distinct advantage in the marketplace, make it more difficult for startups to compete, and guarantee this platform a leading place by law. This is why Mark readily agreed to be regulated. Regulations always work to the advantage of the largest market players.” I dropped Facebook more than a year ago and haven't missed them. Even worse, if that's possible, is Google. Any company that adopts a motto of "Don't Be Evil" is one that should be closely watched. Every time you use Google to search or use their maps, etc., you are supporting this nonsense. I've switch to t...

I'll never purchase another Gillette razor. I will be switching to Barbasol shave cream.