Commentary

Regular readers know that I endeavor to address a single topic in my blog, but that I occasionally go to my ‘Stack of Stuff’ for topics on which I still want to comment.  This is one of those days.

February 17, 2022 was the one-year anniversary of the passing of Rush Limbaugh, but on that day, I felt compelled to relate the story of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the corruption traced to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign that the media was trying to hide from the American public.  Rush would have understood.

Reading Stephen Kruiser’s Top of the Briefing in PJ Media the following day, he quoted Kathryn Limbaugh, speaking of the state of the United States:

“I think he would be rather furious.  He would be upset with the United States not being as strong as it has been and should be. I know he would say it’s not time to panic.”

As an avid follower of Rush, I recall his upbeat commentary following Republican losses to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.  And his now famous 2020 quote, ”I’ve told you that I’ll tell you when it’s time to panic.  I’m never going to give up.  So, no, it’s not time to panic.”

If Rush were with us today, he would vigorously repeat that it is not time to panic, despite the damage the Biden administration has done to the United States in just one year.  He would be reminding us that with the midterms just nine months away, and we needed to make sure we put the House and Senate back in the hands of the GOP.

Looking Ahead

We need candidates who will put 2020 behind us and tell voters how they are going to again help put America first.  And God knows Biden has given them enough ammunition to not only talk about his failure to unite the country, but bring about the worse inflation in decades.

In 2020, voting irregularities were discovered in many states.  Dead people voted.  Election rules were ignored or changed to permit mail-in ballots during the pandemic.  It’s up the states now to tighten voting, not the federal government.

Now is not the time to be concerned whether we want Donald Trump to run again, or to worry about who he might endorse; someone who will continue his more successful policies in 2024.   

SPEAKING OF ELECTIONS, Arizona’s MIA Senator Mark Kelly is apparently worried about the midterms and has suggested the suspension of the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon for the remainder of the year.

While this would reduce gas prices a bit, it doesn’t address his party’s excessive monetary and fiscal stimulus that fueled inflation.

Obviously, Kelly doesn’t think Arizona’s voters are wise to him.  He’s part of the anti-fossil fuel gang that supported taxpayer funding of electric vehicle charging stations along federal highways, and subsidizing purchases of electric vehicles, at least those manufactured by unionized auto manufacturers.

I cannot understand how Kelly, a former astronaut, has been convinced that solar and wind will be able to provide the power to get the U.S. to zero-emissions.

IN A WHITE PAPER on the electric vehicle scam that recently came to my attention, it noted that in order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical gas station services in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid, enough to power 20,000 homes.  Reportedly it can take from 30 minutes to eight hours to recharge a vehicle, depending on whether it’s a short “topping off” or a full charge.

FROM THE WHITE HOUSE – In a tweet from President Biden @JoeBiden: “We’re gearing up to make all 600,000 federal government vehicles electric.”  To which former Utah Sen. Orin Hatch responded: “While families struggle to afford gas and groceries, Joe Biden bought 600,000 electric cars for government workers.”

THE U.S. ARMY has already unveiled its plan for an electric vehicle fleet, calling for a cut in emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050.  Oddly, the plan calls for them to be “non-tactical” vehicles.

“Climate change threatens America’s security and is altering the geostrategic landscape as we know it,” said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, who has clearly bought into Biden’s whole of government accommodation to tackle the issue.

If you’re wondering what has happened to peace through strength, consider that Wormuth, along with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mike Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, find time to plan for climate change while conducting efforts to search for extremists within the military, promoting diversity through critical race theory instruction and assuring service members of gender transition care. How sad.

ON GREENLAND’S MELTING ICE – Regular readers of this blog will recall that I have long believed that climate change is cyclical, and one of my favorite experts, Steven E. Koonin, who wrote “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t and Why it Matters.”

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Greenland’s Melting Ice Is No Cause for Climate Change Panic,” Koonin published a graph that depicts Greenland Ice Loss (1900-2021) and writes that the amount of ice that Greenland has lost every year since 1900, averaged over 10-year intervals, the annual loss averages about 110 gigatons.  Is that a lot?  A gigaton is one billion metric tons, or slightly 2.2 trillion pounds.  But that has caused the planet’s oceans to rise year by only 0.01 inch, about one-fifth the thickness of a dime, according to Koonin.

“Most climate reporting today highlights short-term changes when they fit a narrative,” says Koonin.

WORLD POLITICS REVIEW, however, still believes the climate scares of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that made it clear in its recent assessment that the long-unforeseen climate emergency is upon us.  Evidence is mounting that critical components of the earth system could be approaching tipping points.  “Glaciers and arctic sea ice are retreating; the oceans are warming and acidifying; climate zones are shifting poleward; sea levels are rising …” WPR reports.

FRANCIS MENTION, a fellow blogger at the Manhattan Contrarian recently wrote how various agencies alter temperature and climate data to suit a desired narrative in a piece he entitled, “The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time.”

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United State of America.