Can sailing yachts replace jet planes? We posted the facts to CFACT.org: Climate child activist Greta Thunberg announced that she will not fly in planes, and so is traveling from Europe to a UN climate conference in New York on an elite racing yacht. Greta achieved celebrity by boycotting school and speaking at climate events…
Viv Forbes
Zero Emissions Australia?
Ut may be possible for a perpetual committee of green bureaucrats to electrify Australia with a vast but flimsy spider-web of power lines connecting consumers to wind turbines, solar panels, lithium batteries and pumped-hydro batteries. In this wonder-world, electric scooters and mini-cars will be mandated and demand rationing will be imposed. But this costly, ramshackle…
Matt Kittle
The Shirley Abrahamson I Remember Clung To Power, Crushed Civil Liberties
In celebrating Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson’s 43-year career on the state’s high court, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers last week, like so many others on the left, lionized Wisconsin’s first lady of jurisprudence. “Justice Shirley Abrahamson will be remembered for many things — her wit, her passion for our judicial and legal institutions, and…
Larry Bell
Facial Recognition an Overpowering Tyranny
George Orwell’s grim 1984 story admonition that “Big Brother is Watching You” has since gained a rapidly growing number of progeny. That same year he wrote it — in 1949 an American company released the first commercially-available closed-circuit television (CCTV) system. The market for these devices literally exploded a half-century later following September 2001 terror…
Craig Rucker
Tragic Eco-Terror Manifesto
This past weekend brought horrific news to our nation. At a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, some 21 people were shot and killed and another 26 were injured on Saturday. Horrifically, within 24 hours, yet another shooting took place. This time it was in Dayton, Ohio, where a gunman wearing body…
General
Two Eau Claire TIF Cases Dismissed
The News: Courts dismissed two separate challenges to Eau Claire TIF (tax incremental finance) districts this week, showing an unwillingness to hold cities to the strict requirements state statutes place on their creation. Voters With Facts, a local grassroots organization, and many individual taxpayers had brought the challenges seeking to rein in the dramatic…