My February Fool’s Day Recipient and Checking My Stack of Stuff

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MY FEBRUARY FOOL – While I can usually count on President Biden to take my monthly fool honors with one of his actions, Whoopi Goldberg, moderator for ABC’s The View, gets my dubious recognition for February Fool’s Day.

During a discussion about a novel that depicts the horrors of the Holocaust, Goldberg commented, “Well this is white people doing it to white people, so y’all gonna fight amongst yourselves. … read more

What Would You Be Willing to Pay for All-Renewable Energy? The Costs are Enormous

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Regular readers will recall that I have devoted a great deal of commentary on the subject of climate change, and the flawed effort to end our dependence on fossil fuels in favor of renewable sources like solar and wind.

I have noted surveys showing strong pubic support for wind and solar energy, but there was always that doubt about just how much they would be willing to pay more for it. … read more

Biden More Interested in Ukraine’s Sovereignty Than That of the United States

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NOTE TO READERS: If you’ve noticed that you haven’t been receiving my blog as often as in the past, it’s because I had to resolve a delivery issue with the firm I use to e-mail it to you. It wasn’t initially apparent that there was a problem, and it appears that you may not have received my last six posts. read more

Look … President Biden Held a Press Conference

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On 17 occasions during President Biden’s press conference remarks Wednesday, he sought our attention, saying “look,” as if what followed would be something of note. It usually wasn’t.

Among them were, “look, we’re not there yet … look, I’m a capitalist … look, I didn’t overpromise … well look, as you know … look, I’ve laid out … look, I still contend … look, think of what we did … look, what I said …” and “look, I made it clear …” but perhaps “look, maybe I’m kidding myself …” was the most telling.… read more

More from My Stack of Stuff

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WHILE THE DOJ IS SO OBSESSED with domestic terrorism caused by extremist white supremacists that it has formed a special unit equipped with massive resources to address it, they’ve taken their eye off anti-Semitic threats.

Anti-Semitic attacks have grown since the 2018 killing of 11 people in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.… read more

Elizabeth Warren Again Surfaces ‘Profit’ as a Dirty Word

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Years ago, I recall reading about a survey in which Americans believed businesses made on average profits of 36 percent, an estimate supported by years of similar polls by Opinion Research when estimates ranged from 28 to 37 percent.

A recent review of more than 7,000 companies revealed that the average profit margin for all companies was 7.9 percent, and just one industry had a profit margin as high as 36 percent – tobacco at 43.3 percent.… read more

Transcript: “Profoundly Unpresidential”

Regular readers know that I don’t make a practice of publishing full transcipts of speeches, television interviews or press conferences, choosing instead to take excerpts from them to use in my commentaries.  However, I felt the Senate Minority Leader’s response to President Biden’s over-the-top speech was called for, and I wanted you to read his defense of the Republican Party.read more

Democrats View Domestic Terrorism Threat to Democracy Supplanting Threats of Climate Change, Systemic Racism and the Viruses

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By now, you must have noticed that the left is diverting its scare tactics over climate change, systemic racism and the viruses to make you believe there’s a new threat.  We are in danger of losing our democracy and we need to fear domestic terrorism.

During his Summit for Democracy last month, President Biden referred to the struggle as “the defining challenge of our time,” noting that democracy was in retreat in the U.S.”… read more