Ivanpah — Not so Squeaky Green

Ivanpah — Not so Squeaky Green 2

Promoted as the future of renewable clean solar energy, the Ivanpah electric generating plant has less to boast about than first thought. With three massive towers rising 495 feet high and 352,000 mirrors focusing sunlight toward the tops of the towers to boil water with solar energy, Ivanpah is far less environmentally … Read more

Radical Environmentalists Demand Compensation: You Pay

Radical Environmentalists Demand Compensation: You Pay

With the close of the Bonn climate change conference, radical environmentalists seem unfazed by the failure of their agenda to redistribute global wealth. However, that has not stopped them from demanding your money to pay for anything they deem caused by anthropogenic (man-made) climate change. They insist upon de-carbonizing the global economy … Read more

Another Earth Day has Come and Gone

With the founding of Earth Day on April 22, 1970 by the late Senator Gaylord Nelson, environmentalists created a rallying point. No one can dispute that there were and are real environmental issues to address. What has become alarming is the method of influence and goals proposed by climate change alarmists. As … Read more

Starbucks’ “Race Together” Never Crosses the Finish Line

Starbucks’ “Race Together” Never Crosses the Finish Line

With companies getting involved in every aspect of the cultural debate today, there seems to be no end to what a corporation will do to further a liberal agenda. The latest example is when Starbucks launched a destined-to-fail effort to promote “dialogue” about race by requiring baristas to write the social media … Read more

Will Raising Minimum Wage Help Seattle’s Poor?

Will Raising Minimum Wage Help Seattle's Poor

With a law set to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $15 an hour, Seattle begins its journey to help those who are impoverished while stimulating its economy at the same time. On the surface this appears to be a win-win situation that only the ignorant and hard-hearted could condemn. Indeed, … Read more

The Great (Fire) Wall of China Keeps Out Free Speech

Great Fire Wall of China Keeps Out Free Speech

It seems that whenever the communist Chinese have a problem, they like to wall it off by separating the problem from the general population. For a long time, dissidents have been separated in labor and reeducation camps. Now it appears that unwelcome commentary is getting its own wall—a firewall. In a futile … Read more

Where is the Separation of Church and State in Global Warming?

Where is the Separation of Church and State in Global Warming?

With 23 years of failure to their credit, environmentalists, socialists and liberals of every color continue the alarmist mantra of global warming ad nauseam. While NASA and the University of East Anglia struggle to produce credible data confirming the theory of global warming, 60 percent of Americans have not bought into the … Read more

Abortion: The Ultimate Act of Terrorism

As hundreds of thousands of pro-life activists gathered in Washington DC for the annual March for Life on January 22, it marks 42 years of protest against legalized abortion. One wonders about the contradiction, even outright hypocrisy, from some of our politicians and clergy. There is no doubt that humanity must be … Read more

Charlie Hebdo: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

At Charlie Hebdo, blasphemy and freedom of speech are considered venerable, sacred and powerful. For Charlie, there is no difference between good and evil or truth and error. They are all the same. For the Muslim terrorists, morality also has no meaning. Any act that advances their goal can be done, no … Read more

Socialized Medicine Scores Big in Venezuela

With civilized countries looking to depart from traditional methods of healthcare, and some forcibly implementing a socialist alternative, a quick look at how things are going in socialist Venezuela might give a taste of things to come. According to El Universal, 14,700 doctors have fled Venezuela seeking a just compensation elsewhere and … Read more