When ideology is all, reality has a nasty habit of undoing the grandest of plans. So it is with the great wind and solar ‘reset’. The economic storage of intermittent wind and solar is a fantastic pipe dream; the colossal expense attached to mythical mega-batteries means that it will remain so.

The minerals required for any kind of wind and solar transition will outstrip the world’s resources 10 times over; hence rocketing prices for base metals, like copper and the rare earths that go into every turbine and solar panel. And the demand for land is already seeing renewable energy rent seekers forced to rub up against real community opposition, which will only increase in its hostility.

Gone are the days when wind power outfits could throw $10,000 a year to spear a turbine into the back paddock of some gullible farmer. These days, they’re aware that the owner of…

By Fred Lucas ~

The failure of the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security to carry out the most basic enforcement of U.S. immigration laws has led to skyrocketing crime and drug deaths, a Republican senator told The Daily Signal.

“While illegal immigration and the resulting fentanyl overdose deaths and violent crime continue to skyrocket, the Biden administration must immediately stop its abdication of basic immigration enforcement,” Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said Tuesday in a written statement.

“Too many lives and livelihoods hang in the balance,” Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., tells The Daily Signal. Pictured: Hagerty speaks during a Senate subcommittee hearing April 27. (Photo: Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

“Too many lives and livelihoods hang in the balance,” Hagerty told The Daily Signal.

A day earlier, Hagerty led a letter in which he and six other Republican senators pressed embattled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to explain why more than…

By Tim Graham ~

The Associated Press sells itself to news clients with the motto “Advancing the Power of Facts.” But the AP Stylebook — which instructs reporters on which terms to use or not use — has grown increasingly counter-factual. In July, the AP Stylebook commissars bowed to the transgender lobby: “A person’s sex and gender are usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants and can turn out to be inaccurate.” Don’t look at an actual human body. Feelings trump facts.

On Tuesday, in a bow to the abortion industry, AP is suggesting that having an abortion late in pregnancy should not be described as a late-term abortion.

How on earth does a “late-term abortion” start at 41 weeks? Most would think of it as a third-trimester abortion, or as a post-viability abortion.

The pro-life website LifeNews.org criticized AP for relying on an activist source. “ACOG is…