Marathon Petroleum recently announced it will “indefinitely idle” its Martinez Refinery. The decision will remove hundreds of jobs, billions of dollars, and nearly 7 million gallons of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum liquids per day from the energy-hungry California economy. It will also send fuel prices even higher for minority and other poor families that…
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Featured Posts, Walter E. Williams
Is Racism Responsible for Today’s Black Problems?
I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd’s death — rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of mayhem by both whites and blacks. The pretense is that police conduct…
Featured Posts, William Kovacs
Who Has More Legal Power – Corporations or Humans?
Perhaps a discussion of “personhood” that compares the political rights of humans and corporations belongs more to a John Handey, “Deep Thoughts” segment on Saturday Night Live than as an article in “medium.com.” But it is a serious question with significant legal implications for whom government protects and how we govern society. John Handey might…
Featured Posts, Jay Lehr, Tom Harris
End Subsidies to ALL Energy Sources
The quagmire of outdated energy subsidies in the U.S. needs to end. They were built up over a century of programs once intended to help develop innovative ideas for energy development. But now practically all of them are simply aiding and abetting the flow of money to companies and individuals no longer deserving to feed…
Cassandra Fairbanks, Featured Posts
They Don’t Want You To Know: Reddit Mods Remove Viral GP Article About Woman Murdered for Saying ‘All Lives Matter’
The moderators on Reddit’s “Unpopular Opinions” board have removed the viral Gateway Pundit article about the murder of Jessica Doty Whitaker, who her fiance says was shot in the head for saying “All Lives Matter.” After the article gained over 15,000 upvotes, putting it in the running for the front page of Reddit, a moderator…
Featured Posts, Paul Driessen
Greens promote child slave labor and ecological destruction
The US Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 to reverse a lower court ruling that had invalidated a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will bring West Virginia natural gas to Virginia and North Carolina, for home heating, factory power, electricity generation and manufacturing petrochemical feedstocks. Environmentalists had claimed the US Forest Service had no…