Commentary
Watch Zelensky’s Speech or Go for Ice Cream?
When White House Mouthpiece Jen Psaki was asked if President Biden would be watching Ukraine’s President Zelensky’s virtual presentation to Congress on Wednesday, she intimated it depended on his daily schedule. Really, Jen?
As a former spokesman in the corporate world, her answer should have been: ‘While I haven’t seen his schedule for the day, I’m sure viewing that speech will preempt anything previously scheduled.’
Incidentally, he will be seeing a real leader in action.
Unpatriotic Democrats
Democrats get upset when Republicans accuse them of not loving their country, not believing in American exceptionalism, and being unpatriotic. But it’s a fact.
Here’s the latest evidence. It will be interesting to see how Democrats respond to the recent Quinnipiac poll, that revealed that 52 percent of their party members would flee the U.S. when asked, “If you were in the same position as Ukrainians are in now, do you think that you would stay and fight or leave the country?”
Republicans indicated at 55 percent that they would stay and fight, while Independents, at 57 percent, would stay and fight.
Of note: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, recently mocked the pledge of allegiance during an appearance with a group of LGBQT camp students, while giving a special pledge to the rainbow flag.
Parents vs Teachers
The latest battleground between parents and teachers is in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where there is debate over the role of schools in promoting activism, and teaching “woke” concepts about race, gender and sex.
Teachers are being instructed to hide their students’ changing gender identities from parents on the grounds that “parents are not entitled to know” and that it is “knowledge that must be earned,” according to Ryan Mills, reporting on leaked documents for National Review. Earned?
Of course, critics say it is “blatant disregard for the parents and guardians of our community’s children,” adding that it sends the message that schools are in control of children, not parents and families.
New Details Emerge on Biden’s Court Nominee
The public defender work of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s “first black female nominee” to the Supreme Court has surfaced as she prepares to face Senate hearings, according to Matt Margolis, in PJ Media.
According to a “Note” for the Harvard Law School, she argued that convicted sex offenders were treated “unfairly” in the courts.
More interesting is her work as a public defender from 2005 to 2007 representing terrorists at Guantanamo Bay prison. While the law in the United States assures that everyone has a right to counsel, it appears that Jackson continued to advocate for terrorists when she went into private practice. Included was her work on Supreme Court amicus briefs related to Guantanamo detainees, challenging the Defense Department’s detention review system.
Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has said this criticism of Jackson is misplaced.
It’s More Than Just the “Messaging”
Speaking to the faithful at the Democrat’s winter retreat in Philadelphia, New York’s Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chairman of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, he said, “They (voters) think that we’re too divisive and too focused on cultural issues. They think we are too preachy. They think that we act like we know better than parents, when it come to their kids in schools. The problem is not the voters; the problem is us.”
He should have stopped there, but instead, he offered that he thinks it’s really a problem with “messaging,” the left’s usual fallback when they don’t want to admit that they have gone off the rails.
The Truth in just Thirteen Words
“No amount of incremental wind and solar power can ever provide energy independence.” – Francis Menton, the Manhattan Contrarian
We have come to realize that President Biden’s vengeful decision to end President Trump’s important achievement of gaining energy independence for the U.S. on his first day in office, has become the every-day topic as Americans stop for gas.
While he continues to talk about the alternatives of wind and solar, most Americans are beginning to recognize that his goal to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels for wind and solar generation is not nearly possible.
Since Biden took that step, Francis Menton has written a number of credible commentaries on the subject, and I have quoted him frequently.
In his latest post, Mention writes, “Electricity gets consumed the instant it is generated. Electricity is consumed all the time, and therefore must be generated all the time.
“Indeed, some of the peak times for electricity consumption occur on winter evenings, when the sun has set, temperatures are very cold, the wind is often completely calm, and the need for energy for light, heat, cooking, and more are high.
“During such times, a combined wind and solar generation system produces zero power. It doesn’t matter if you build a thousand wind turbines and solar panels, or a million, or a billion or a trillion. The output will still be zero.”
As I have often pointed out in kramerontheright, there’s a lot of talk about wind and solar liberating us from fossil fuels, alternative fuel activists fail to address the issue of storage.
“Since combined wind and solar power facilities regularly produce no power at all when it is most needed, a wind and solar generation system will either be dependent on fossil fuel backup or dependent on storage for backup, or both,” writes Menton.
“A fossil-fuel-free system based on wind and solar generation is completely useless without sufficient storage to cover all times of insufficient simultaneous generation.”
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
