By Duggan Flanakin ~

Cats, the BBC tells us, kill more birds than wind turbines. And they are right.

But unlike cats, notes British journalist Matt Ridley, all over the world, the largest and rarest eagles and vultures are dying in significant numbers as a result of wind turbines. — wedge-tailed eagles in Australia, Verreaux’s eagles in South Africa, sea eagles in Norway, and bald and golden eagles in the United States.

Ridley notes that a32-turbine wind power station in Spain kills a vulture every three days – decimating rare populations of griffon, cincerous, bearded, and Egyptian vultures. In California’s Altamont Pass wind turbines kill over 1,000 birds of prey each year. A Norwegian wind power station has reduced the number of sea eagle territories on the island of Smola from thirteen to just five – making local extinction a real possibility.

A 2018 study in India’s Western Ghats…

By Rachel Greszler ~

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced Thursday that Central States Teamsters’ private union pension will receive $35.8 billion in taxpayers’ money.

Behind this bailout is a tragic history of reckless actions by self-seeking unions and muddied political favoritism that allowed the problem to fester for decades unchecked.

This bailout for unions makes taxpayers, future retirees, and many union workers and retirees worse off. Because the bailout doesn’t do a single thing to fix the problems, it incentivizes pension plans to worsen their funding so that they might qualify for a future bailout. (Photo illustration: Sam Edwards/Getty Images)

What the Biden administration applauds as a “protection” of hard-earned retirement benefits is instead an appalling, no-strings-attached bailout that picks winners and losers.

Instead of fixing the problem, it will make the problem worse.

Background on Union Pension Plans

Across the United States, 10.8 million workers and retirees belong…