Wind and solar also bring little to no value to electrical grids. When the sun doesn’t shine, and the wind doesn’t blow at set speeds, it destroys a grid’s spinning reserve mode, peaking mode, and backup mode. Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, South Australia, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the latest government to go all in for renewables — Virginia — have all…
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Saint Paul the Sociologist
One might want to say that the culminating moment of the sexual revolution came in June of 2015 when the Supreme Court found (or rather, “found”) that the Constitution contains a right to same-sex “marriage” – just as one might want to say that the culminating moment of the French Revolution came in January of…
Release Free Market for Affordable, Accessible Medical Care
There are several lessons we have learned from the CoViD-19 experience such as: the unreliability of predictive models; the danger of depending on foreign supply chains; over-reaction can be a deadly as under-reaction; and the need for better contingency planning. There is one lesson we have not absorbed: to get timely, affordable care, Americans need the private sector, the…
Honoring the Moral Purpose of Business
To become an honorable businessperson, then, requires not only technical training, but also an understanding of wTo become an honorable businessperson, then, requires not only technical training, but also a philosophically grounded understanding of what the purpose of that training is. And that requires drawing on humanities—philosophy, theology, history, literature. Honorable business has enabled unprecedented…
‘Grant’ and the Left-Wing MEET Complex
Taken together, the MEET complex is formidable in its ability to saturate the American public with its slanted propaganda. It writes, teaches, portrays, and filters any history that might confirm right-leaning assumptions out of the story. If you really want to defeat leftist propaganda, you first have to isolate and defeat the MEET complex. We…
Turning nursing homes into extermination sites: the Gretchen factor
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/turning_nursing_homes_into_extermination_sites_the_gretchen_factor.html Nor have we seen the end of it. Yesterday Gretchen announced that, obeying the Will of the People, she will continue her iron-fisted policies until at least June 19th. Plenty of those sickies in hiding who need to be rousted out, you know. Not to mention those defiant barbers and ministers. Got to keep…
Why Young Christians Get “Weird”
Postmodern liberals do not feel threatened as long as traditional Christianity agrees to be just one among many elements in the cultural smorgasbord. When people reject the philosophical infrastructure that sustains liberalism, however, they get alarmed. The problem for these searching young Christians is not their objects of wonder, but how to take the next…
WSJ–Covid-19 Builds Teams That Are Ford Tough
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-builds-teams-that-are-ford-tough-11589479465 Businesses everywhere are sorting out tough problems. But behind the people directly responsible for decisions, there are armies of unlikely characters self-organizing to make things happen. It’s a marvel to witness. Business leaders should pay attention in their own organizations and notice who runs toward the fire. It might not be who you expect….