Last week I attended a particularly timely Texas Public Policy Foundation-sponsored presentation by Cambridge University principal lecturer Rupert Darwell of his book “Green Tyranny.” Highlighted in this column, Rupert’s insights offer urgent Green New Deal lessons for America taken from European renewable energy experiences. The biggest player in this ironic and economically disastrous tragi-comedy is…
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Wisconsin Activist Army Won Crucial Victory, But Much Work Lies Ahead
By Steve Welcenbach and Dennis BarthenheierThe importance of the Hagedorn election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court cannot be overstated. Securing a strict constitutional court for the next four years ensures the continuation of the myriad of reforms and policies which revolutionized the Wisconsin economic landscape. Yes, it was a BIG win. A really big one!…
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That was 3/11/19 in Milwaukee
“Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient,” I Timothy 1:9aAs a reader of Reality News, I was reading the Science and Environmental Policy page, called “The Week That was March 9th, 2019,” while writing about Dariaz Higgins murdering Sierra & Noelani Robinson. I looked…
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Climate Alarmists Follow Acid Rain Scare Playbook
There is nothing coincidental about common déjà vu features of a CO2 climate crisis-premised war on fossil fuels and a hysterically-hyped sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission acid rain environmental calamity a half-century ago. Both scams have claimed to be based upon dire computer model-based predictions calling for costly interventions. Both also involved the same sorts of…
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Form-based Codes: Replacing the everyday American City with the ‘Ideal Communist City’
A form-based code is a land development regulation that fosters predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for the code. Aform-based code is a regulation, not a mere guideline, adopted into city, town, or county law. A form-based code offers a…
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Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prize-Winning Physicist Says
In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief Marcelo Gleiser, a 60-year-old Brazil-born theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College and prolific science popularizer, has won this year’s Templeton Prize. Valued at just under $1.5 million, the award from the…