Archive for 2023

MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE ISN’T A SIDE EFFECT, IT’S A GOAL: Congress Sheds Light on Proposed New Energy Rules That Could Leave Americans in the Dark. “In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed rules to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Our modeling at American Experiment found these strict regulations would cause massive rolling blackouts in America’s heartland by forcing reliable, abundant forms of traditional U.S. energy — like coal and natural gas — out of use. On top of blackouts, these regulations will also result in higher power bills and greater dependence on hostile foreign energy sources.”

YES, THE WEST HAS LOST ITS MIND: The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo reports the U.S. and other western nations provide an estimated $80 million every two weeks to the Taliban regime that enslaves Afghanistan. Yes, you read that correctly. And that’s over and above the billions in U.S. military equipment and technology we left behind in the shameful Biden withdrawal.

REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE TOLD THAT ELECTING BIDEN WOULD BRING A RETURN TO NORMALCY?

UPDATE:

OUCH: The true cost of an EV? Think tank claims subsidies for electric vehicles cost $50,000 PER CAR over a ten-year period.

The largest cost identified by the report was that on buyers of gas cars.

The argument made was that as car manufacturers incur costs in order to meet federal and state mandates to make more electric cars than they would otherwise, they pass those costs on to buyers of their gas cars.

According to the paper, around 16 states have ‘zero emission vehicle’ (ZEV) mandates whereby the state sets a number or percentage of new vehicles sold that must be zero-emission.

‘Of course, the cost to meet these mandates is not limited to the states that impose them but spread out over the entire fleet of each automaker trying to meet them,’ read the paper.

On top of that, federal regulations impose similar obligations on automakers that incentivize them to make more electric vehicles.

‘The largest source of financial support for EVs comes not from direct subsidies but from hidden costs driven by federal regulations,’ read the paper.

‘These regulatory standards are applied on a fleetwide basis and allow for the trading of regulatory credits, the costs of which are passed on to buyers of gasoline and diesel vehicles.’

The Texas Public Policy Foundation paper estimated the value of those credits was around $27,881 per vehicle.

Median-income earners can no longer afford a new median-priced gas car but above-average earners enjoy subsidies on their EVs.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Hamas Keeps Making a Clear Case for Destroying Hamas. “Those of us who harshly criticize Islamic terrorist groups are reflexively called ‘Islamophobic’ by leftists who inhabit an alt-reality where suicide bombers are simply misunderstood and the people they blow up probably had it coming to them.”

WHEN THEY SHOW YOU WHOSE SIDE THEY’RE ON, BELIEVE THEM: White House Announces National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia… Yes, Really.

Related: “These were young people going out to have a wonderful evening, celebrating and supporting the concept of peace, and they were slaughtered by Hamas. All of that will be drowned by pictures, articles, concern about proportionate responses. And my question is: If you know that 40 babies have been killed, what’s a proportionate response?”

THE FRUITS OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS:

A public statement like that one was virtually impossible before Arab nations started signing bilateral peace agreements under the Trump/Pompeo/Kushner Abraham Accord — since dismissed as “tactics of the prior administration” by the Biden White House.

We’ve tasted the bitter fruits of their tactics these last few weeks.

WELL, THE DOJ HAS ALREADY LABELED CONCERNED PARENTS DOMESTIC TERRORISTS: DOJ Attorney Wants To Join Loudoun School Board, Running An Anti-Parent, Openly Partisan, And Possibly Illegal Campaign.

Not long after the Department of Justice mobilized the FBI against parents by citing a letter that painted the father of a Loudoun County, Virginia rape victim as a terrorist, an attorney from one of the department’s most corrupt branches is running for a seat on America’s most politicized school board on a platform that labels advocates for “parents’ rights” as “extremists.”

While most federal employees shy away from any sort of political activity because of how it could erode credibility and violate the Hatch Act, Anne Donohue has run openly as a Democrat for the At-Large seat on Loudoun County’s school board.

Compare and contrast: White House indicates people making ‘violent antisemitic threats’ not classified as ‘domestic terrorists.’

When people tell you who their enemies are, believe them.