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By Peter Adam ~

President Biden is doubling down on efforts to compel (“nudge” is the preferred euphemism) investors to put their hard-earned dollars into schemes that supposedly promote often misguided — but highly politicized — environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities.

On Monday, March 20, he vetoed – his first such action – a bill, which would have reinstated a Trump-era ban on federal managers of retirement plans from considering factors such as climate change, social impacts or pending lawsuits when making investment choices.

As things now stand, a decades-old rule requiring these fiduciaries to maximize returns has been reversed. A congressional override of his veto isn’t in the cards. It would take a two-thirds Senate-House vote to do so, of course, and sufficient support just isn’t there.

Though applauded by the left, the President’s veto is not widely hailed; far from it. The original bill in question enjoyed…

By Tim Graham ~

The White House press corps is a microcosm of the national media. It is overwhelmingly liberal, stuffed with Biden voters. So it was downright weird when former press secretary Jen Psaki told the Los Angeles Times she sometimes thought “I am an orderly in an insane asylum.”

The briefing room is usually a tank of hungry sharks for a Republican press secretary, and a classroom full of teacher’s pets for a Democrat press secretary. The news cycle has to be pretty negative for reporters to sound hostile to Biden’s press aides.

On March 20, black reporter Simon Ateba from an obscure website called “Today News Africa” began screaming at the very top of the briefing that current press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was not calling on him so he could ask his questions. Other reporters joined the fight, insisting Ateba press his complaints off camera.

There should…

Depend on the weather for your power needs, then get ready for plenty of routine disappointment.

Time and time again, Britain’s coal-fired power plants are called in to prevent total blackouts during calm and cloudy weather, of the kind that causes total collapses in wind and solar output. Notwithstanding efforts to drive them out of existence with massive subsidies to – and guaranteed set price contracts for – wind and solar.

Every winter, it’s the same story. A burst of frigid, calm weather sees demand spike which coincides with a total collapse in wind and solar output; grid managers scramble to keep the grid from a total collapse, ordering Britain’s remaining coal-fired power plants back into action.

Peter Caddle reports on another such event.

UK Forced to Use Emergency Coal Generators as Green Energy Fails to Keep Up
Breitbart
Peter Caddle
9 March 2023

Britain’s crusade for net zero saw…