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By Craig Rucker ~

Then they came for our food supply.

CFACT senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen reports at CFACT.org on “climate czar” John Kerry’s recent pronouncements at a Department of Agriculture summit.

“We can’t get to net-zero,” Kerry said, “we can’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us here understand the depths of this mission.”

“Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way we do the things we’ve been doing,” he continued. “With a growing population on the planet – we’ve just crossed the threshold of 8 billion fellow citizens around the world – emissions from the food system alone are expected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century.”

Bonner fleshes out what Kerry’s words mean in practice:

“Though the Department of Agriculture has yet to elaborate on what…

By Deroy Murdock ~

Sen. Tim Scott is running for president of the United States. “Love, unconditional love, binds hearts together,” he declared Monday.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., addresses a crowd at his presidential campaign kickoff event at his alma mater, Charleston Southern University, in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday. (Photo: Washington Post/Getty Images)

While Democrats, not surprisingly, oppose the South Carolina Republican on most issues, they refuse to acknowledge that his announcement’s warm reception among Republicans shows that black Americans Have Overcome or, at least, Are Overcoming.

Citing “systemic racism,” Joy Behar of ABC’s “The View,” said that Scott “doesn’t get it. Neither does [Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas], and that’s why they’re Republicans.”

Duke University professor of African and African American studies Mark Anthony Neal stated ungrammatically via Twitter, “Tim Scott acting like he the only Black person in America who had a…

By Tim Graham ~

A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 1,200 “non-Hispanic Black adults” asked whether President Biden’s policies helped, hurt, or made no difference to black people. Almost half — 49 percent — picked “made no difference.” Ouch. When they displayed this poll result on CNN’s Inside Politics on Thursday, I had to joke on Twitter that this poll would probably be buried inside the paper:

Points awarded! The Post put the poll on page A-4, and it was not the main headline, which was blander:

In Floyd’s wake, a reckoning for Biden’s agenda on race

Many Black voters are disappointed, poll shows, after 2020’s promises

Reporters Toluse Olorunnipa, Scott, Clement, and Emily Guskin began:

Three years after the murder of George Floyd sparked global protests and led then-candidate Joe Biden to endorse a broad platform of racial justice initiatives, the president is under pressure to prove to…

If wild weather and heavy seas weren’t enough to contend with, oceangoing vessels now have thousands of 300 tonne wind turbine towers to dodge and avoid. Recently a German cargo ship the Petra L, came off second-best when it failed to do so. After colliding with one of these giant whirling wonders, the vessel was left with a hole in her hull the size of a barn door. Fortunately, the boat stayed afloat and no one was killed or injured (this time).

Cargo Ship Arrives in Germany with Large Hole After Striking Wind Farm
Maritime Executive
26 April 2023

Germany’s water police are investigating what they believe may be the first case in which a working merchant ship underway struck a North Sea wind turbine. The captain of the vessel according to the police has so far not explained how his vessel received a hole the “size of a barn…