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Power grids are finally balanced affairs that were never designed for the haphazard occasional delivery of wind and solar. Maintaining voltage and frequency within critical defined tolerances is a cinch with conventional generators, like nuclear, gas and coal-fired plants, which deliver the goods, around-the-clock and irrespective of the weather.

Around 20 years ago, deranged zealots hijacked energy policy and they have no appreciation of any of the simple facts above.

Rather, as with any cult, they simply cling to their founding myth, ignoring any unhelpful fact, deriding those who might point to reality as dangerous heretics.

But, as Robert Louis Stevenson pointed out, sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences. Reality bites, often with a vengeance.

And so it is in the USA, where its Environment Protection Agency has set out to destroy every last coal-fired power plant in the country, despite the obvious and…

By Tim Graham ~

Conservatives on Twitter are mocking CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale again, especially since his Twitter bio explains his work as “I fact-check the president. “ Fox News reported on June 16 that Dale hasn’t published a fact-check of President Biden since March 30, and that was only online, not on TV. “Since that time, though, his database shows 21 bylined stories or on-air appearances that fact-checked claims made by Republicans, most of them by Trump.”

One of the reasons you can laugh at the phrase “independent fact-checkers” is the obvious tilt in targeting. CNN may not be paid by the Democrats, but the target list makes it look like they are. CNN’s obsession over Trump always prompts the question ‘Who is the president now?’ Because CNN acts like Trump never lost. Joe Biden simply isn’t someone powerful enough to evaluate.

Joe Biden can repeatedly suggest the Republicans…

There’s nothing even vaguely ‘clean’ or ‘green’ about wind power. An industry built on lies and running on subsidies can’t produce power as and when we need it, but is a master at producing environmental havoc at a global scale.

The wind and sun cult happily ignores the thousands of wind turbine blades and millions solar panels already being dumped in landfills. Apparently, their mountainous toxic waste legacy will be something for future generations to deal with.

Likewise, little notice is given to the millions of bird and bat carcasses diced and shredded by 40-70m blades with their outer tips travelling at over 350 km/h.

And the hundreds of dolphins and porpoises, and dozens of whales washing up along the Atlantic coast – victims of America’s offshore wind industry – don’t signify, either. Of course, the US government has given the wind industry a license to kill as many marine…

By Tony Kinnett ~

As America’s public education system reports the worst literacy and math performance in decades, its schools dedicate increasingly immense portions of their time to lessons on the supposed virtues of racial and gender segregation.

Leftist social activism is being pushed in schools over ways to increase basic competency in reading and math. (Photo: Ariel Skelley/Getty Images)

With only eight hours per day and 180 school days per year, one would think that everyone from the newest teacher’s aide to the tenured administrators would call “all hands on deck” to spend every moment trying to close the enormous performance gaps inflamed by COVID-19 lockdowns.

Instead of utilizing data-proven methods to close gaps in literacy and math, like many private and microschools do, most public schools have centered on a different tactic: political distraction.

As parents around the country began demanding answers for the lack of results from…

By Clay Waters ~

Reporters Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel made the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times with “G.O.P. Strikes At Researchers Into Deception — A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.”

It’s yet another Times attempt to dismiss concerns about the government squelching of free speech in the name of protecting citizens from “misinformation” and “disinformation” regarding COVID. This time the angle was sympathy for university-based researchers who now have to justify pressuring social media outlets, especially Twitter, into censor conservatives whose views were considered dangerous by so-called “public health experts” – even when those views were correct.

On Capitol Hill and in the courts, Republican lawmakers and activists are mounting a sweeping legal campaign against universities, think tanks and private companies that study the spread of disinformation…