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May 8, 2025
THEY NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY: It Looks Like Democrats Are Once Again Choosing the Wrong Side of an 80-20 Issue.
To be fair to them, they hope if the tax cuts expire Trump will be blamed for the ruin that follows!
HONESTLY, IF YOU WEREN’T ON THE BIDENTIA’S ENEMIES LIST, IT’S TIME TO ASK WHAT YOU’RE EVEN DOING WITH YOUR LIFE: An Enemy of the State.
MEH. MOST OF THE PEOPLE DEPORTED ARE CRIMINALS OR PEOPLE WHO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM: Be careful what cart you hitch your horse to.
It’s kind of amazing how rarely known associates of bad people are good people.
Frankly I think the rule should be: Here illegally? Out you go. That’s due process enough.
WELL, THEY CAN SELF-DEPORT BEFORE IT COMES TO THAT, NO? Deported Illegal Immigrants May Get Sent to Libya…but a Key Detail Is Missing From Reports.
YES, THE DUELING FUNDRAISERS SMELL OF PSI-OPS. THERE WAS NOTHING ORGANIC ABOUT THE GEORGE FLOYD OUTRAGE, EITHER: In Sickness and Health.
May 7, 2025
JOEL KOTKIN: Who Gets Hurt with Green Policies?
Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable.
Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity in the state is now the highest in the continental U.S., at 30.22 cents per kilowatt hour.
You might want to blame the discrepancies on greed — Big Oil practicing price gouging, as Gov. Gavin Newsom has suggested, and utilities lining their shareholders’ pockets. But at the pump and on your light and power bill, California’s high energy prices are better understood as a self-inflicted wound, traceable to the state’s quixotic green energy policy.
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The high cost of California’s green energy policies
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An electric vehicle plugged in at a charging station in Anaheim. California’s climate agenda relies on expensive, and intermittent, energy sources, such as wind and solar.
(Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
By Joel KotkinContributing writer
May 7, 2025 3 AM PTSince the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable.
Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity in the state is now the highest in the continental U.S., at 30.22 cents per kilowatt hour.
You might want to blame the discrepancies on greed — Big Oil practicing price gouging, as Gov. Gavin Newsom has suggested, and utilities lining their shareholders’ pockets. But at the pump and on your light and power bill, California’s high energy prices are better understood as a self-inflicted wound, traceable to the state’s quixotic green energy policy.
The notoriously high cost of gas in the state is the result of a lot of factors — we tax gas to pay for road infrastructure and a less-polluting fuel mix in the summer months. Last year, Sacramento decided to move harder, faster toward its goal of a carbon-less future, adding disincentives for refineries and incentives for EVs that the California Air Resources Board has predicted will add 47 cents a gallon at the pump.
AdvertisementOverall, California’s zero-carbon climate policies — pushing EVs as your next car purchase and heat pumps to cool and heat your house — rely largely on electricity that in turn depends on expensive, and intermittent, energy sources, such as wind and solar. Come hell or high water, California’s leaders are trying to regulate, tax and incentivize their way to electricity that is 100% carbon-free by 2045.
Unfortunately, as green-skeptic energy analyst Robert Bryce notes in books and on his Substack, wherever governments have tried to base their energy supply on a swift shift to renewables — the UK, Germany, California — the result has been huge spikes in energy prices. Germany’s vaunted industrial economy has slowed in part, according to most observers, because of the high cost of renewable energy.
It’s a built-in cost of government run by crooks and morons.
ED MORRISSEY: Pulitzers Carry On Grand Tradition Of … Walter Duranty.
OH, THERE’S A SHOCK: Stanford Review: China Conducting Academic Espionage at Stanford.
CATS AND DOGS, LIVING TOGETHER:
This is a 1980's Ghostbusters movie moment.😳 https://t.co/xWbs5s8ft3 pic.twitter.com/UZIA487sok
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 7, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!
A FULL INTERVIEW BY SALENA ZITO: Pete Hegseth’s hard choices: Today’s decisions and tomorrow’s military.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Resilience lunar lander enters orbit around the moon.
I DON’T HAVE THAT, SO GOOD: Alzheimer’s Could Be Linked to a Common Virus You Already Have.
HAHA:
So let me get this straight… Palestinian protesters stormed the building, took it over and now that police are blocking them from leaving are begging and pleading to be let out? Thats some epic irony right there!
— 🔥Dark to Light🔥 1776 – 2024 (@pitbullpatriot3) May 7, 2025
More like this, please.
CAN’T TRUST THEM: Yet Again: FBI Botched, Changed, Then Withheld the Results of Its Congressional Baseball Shooting Investigation.
“Botched.”
Let's be clear about what happened:
The FBI deliberately withheld facts & falsely claimed the Congressional Baseball shooting was "suicide by cop" so they didn't have to admit it was politically motivated left-wing violence.
I applaud @FBIDirectorKash for correcting the record. pic.twitter.com/CjGbn8FhRU
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) May 7, 2025
ONE MORE PLUG for Kurt Schlichter & Irina Moises’ excellent Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets On The Sunset Strip. Highly enjoyable.
SELF-DEFENSE: ‘You Don’t Need a Gun,’ They Said…’Just Call 911,’ They Said. “They” say a lot of things.
BEAUTY IS NOT ALWAYS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER:
Put aside race, and whether it’s Letitia, this is the type of art that is designed to destroy souls.
An overweight, grumpy lady giving side eye to tourists from all over the world as they wander Times Square.
How inspiring… https://t.co/4AFxtpXvPP
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) May 7, 2025
More from Dana Loesch: “As part of a likely-partially taxpayer-funded temporary art installation, a giant bronze statute was erected in Times Square. The promo materials call it a ‘nod to Michelangelo’s David.'”
The bronze heifer in the square isn’t even remotely comparable. There is not devotion to such anatomical accuracy. Nothing to convey feeling, either for the viewer or on behalf of the subject. The attempt is nothing more than cheap sentiment on size masquerading as some vague, body positivity motif. We’ve had centuries of celebrating what society today would consider “plus-sized women,” in fact, it was a defining feature of Renaissance art as such women were considered more healthy, wealthy, and powerful. Pretending that such a celebration of the female form is new is historical illiteracy and an excuse for bad art. Pretending that obesity means the subject is undeserving of the dignity of definition is laziness.
The woman in the square has no defining features beyond her hair. Her body’s position suggests nothing, there are no defining details on her pants, presumably denim, nor on her arms. Her face is plain, expression, dead. She looks frumpy, dumpy, and made of marzipan.
No Renaissance master would dare render an object of reverence in such an offensive manner.
Read the whole thing.
And don’t forget how we got here:
In the 30s, Moscow ordered the CPUSA to promote ugly civic art in order to demoralize Americans and make them more susceptible to Communist propaganda.
He mentioned for no reason.
No reason at all.
I’M TOLD THEY TASTE BETTER THAN PENNED ATOMS: Physicists Capture First-Ever Images of Free-Range Atoms.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT BIDEN GOT HIS PHOTO-OP:
One of the biggest Biden embarrassments – the half baked Gaza Aid Pier. $230 million. 20 days in use. And now we find out it injured 60+ US soldiers. One soldier died! All to placate terrorists & their sympathizers in the Democratic Party. Insane scandal. @reuters 👇 pic.twitter.com/nPlZnVmMmt
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 7, 2025
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: German Democracy Is in Peril.