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Bill Ponton
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July 9, 2025
Hochul’s imaginative energy proposal revisitedNew York is going to hell in a handbasket with these Democrats.
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June 30, 2025
Data center operators prefer natural gasIn West Texas, where wind and solar power are more abundant than most anywhere on the planet, why are data centers opting for natural gas to power their energy needs?
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June 30, 2025
The Trump-Musk showdown continuesThe whole affair with Musk says a great deal about Trump and his commitment to the MAGA vision of America moving forward.
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June 26, 2025
Virtue-signaling with nuclear powerJust four years ago, New York forced the closure of nuclear plants; now the plan is to build a new one.
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June 23, 2025
Some trends just sneak up on youPossessing a healthy skepticism about any new societal trends makes a person (largely) immune to societal contagions.
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June 20, 2025
Limiting our role in IranIf the Iranian regime does fall, the best strategy is to sit back and observe what emerges in the aftermath of the Ayatollah’s demise.
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June 17, 2025
Rock the CasbahIn the middle of scolding the Great Satan (USA), an Israeli ordnance finds its way into an Iranian broadcast studio.
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June 16, 2025
The children of Israel have a secret weaponFor those in academia who see the world through the anticolonialism prism, there is an important lesson here:
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June 11, 2025
Whatever happened to Greta Thunberg?Greta should be a little more cautious around her newfound friends; she is not playing in the climate catastrophe sandbox anymore.
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June 9, 2025
Los Angeles belongs to all of usGavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and the open border activists are mistaken in believing that the neighborhoods of LA are their own private playground where they can act out their dystopian fantasy of opposing Trump’s deportations.
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June 2, 2025
What constitutes a national emergency?Overreactive imaginations have gotten us into a world of hurt.
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May 28, 2025
Clerisy on the runScientific malfeasance propped up by federal funding is coming to an end.
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May 26, 2025
The Case for ColonialismToday, the beleaguered Boer population is all that remains of a colonial presence in Africa.
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May 23, 2025
Will Clean Energy ever grow up?I’m reminded of Milton Friedman’s “infant industry argument” and wondering: Isn’t it time for “clean energy” to move out of its parents’ basement?
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May 21, 2025
Buckling under to the Green New DealThe Republicans got roped into a deal that keeps the IRA (a.k.a. Green New Deal) intact.
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May 20, 2025
The future for GazaIt is time to think out of the box about answers to this conflict and ignore the academics who are stuck in the oppressor-oppressed mindset.
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May 19, 2025
The role that hubris playsLost in the exhilaration of flight, we have normalized actions that no other society in history have condoned.
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May 15, 2025
Ayanna Pressley and Cory Booker submit new reparations proposalA half century of “racial healing” has done nothing to improve the lot of anyone but the princely class to which Pressley and Cory belong.
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May 14, 2025
In the aftermath of the Spanish blackoutThe Spanish grid is about to get a LOT more expensive.
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May 5, 2025
Stolen victimhood?Rep. Mark Pocan retells his “gay-bashing” experience time and time again, but one has to wonder how truthful he’s been about it.
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May 2, 2025
What are the merits of renewables?The Spanish blackout made us all aware of how unstable the grid can get when renewables are in the driver’s seat, but one should also not forget that they don’t come cheaply.
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May 1, 2025
Safety concerns in the rush to be carbon-freeThe Spanish blackout reveals yet another failure of the rush to “net zero.”
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April 30, 2025
The need for inherently stable systemsThe problem with “net zero” schemes is that they rely on human intervention to survive, and the recent European blackout is just another datum point.
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April 29, 2025
Déjà vu (again)Another fantastical story from the media about what really caused the catastrophic Spanish blackout sends my BS meter whirring.
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April 28, 2025
Beyond idiocyLike Anheuser-Busch, British Petroleum is hoping that the world will forget its dalliance with wokeism.
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April 23, 2025
Fredi Otto, the new Greta ThunbergWith darling Greta Thunberg going off script, the Left needed a new poster child for their cause of climate change.
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April 15, 2025
Championing the MS-13ersChris Van Hollen wanted a meeting with El Salvador’s Bukele to negotiate the return of violent criminals.
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April 14, 2025
Junk science at NOAA about to come to an endIt was a comical farce that they created, weaving tales about storms of biblical proportion due to a trace element in the atmosphere that happens to be the basis of all life.
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April 10, 2025
The idealized pastMythologizing the early years of the leftist crusades masks their latent potential for destruction.
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April 7, 2025
Wake up call for UK energy plannersThe old adage about putting all your eggs in one basket comes to mind.
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April 3, 2025
Baptists and BootleggersHow do you explain two different interest groups joining forces to support the same policies? Economist Bruce Yandle answered the question in the 1980s.
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April 2, 2025
The gift that keeps on givingTulsi’s performance before the irrationally fearful Senator Angus King was a political waltz...and comedic gold.
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March 21, 2025
NATO and the German straitjacketThe reassertion of Russian military strength and Trump’s determination to make NATO allies pay their fair share has changed everything for Germany.
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March 20, 2025
Greenpeace takes a hitA decision from a North Dakota may just bankrupt the leftist brats at Greenpeace.
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March 10, 2025
Crisis fatigue catches up with the DemocratsThe Democrats are finding out that cultivating a state of fear in the populace to attain and maintain power has its limitations.
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March 3, 2025
Another lesson in Great Power PoliticsAfter the recent Oval Office flare up, it is obvious that Zelensky still believes that his allies in entertainment/media, the Democrat party, and the EU will come to his rescue and derail the Trump train.
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February 25, 2025
A lesson in great power politicsAlthough Western intelligentsia refuse to let go of the Munich appeasement narrative, with one phone call to Putin, Trump has put a dagger in it.
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February 13, 2025
All you need to know about atmospheric physicsSince Al Gore first opened his mouth in a Congressional hearing in 1976 on the subject of climate, it was obvious that he was full of it.
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February 12, 2025
Our Conservative Climate Caucus“Republicans” working to dilute Trump’s war against taxpayer-funded progressive energy scams.
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February 3, 2025
How they stopped worrying and learned to ignore the bombWhy does “climate change” pose a greater threat than nuclear war?
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January 24, 2025
Imaginary birthrightPresident Trump’s decision to end birthright citizenship is challenged in court, but the whole argument is ludicrous.
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January 23, 2025
As Los Angeles (still) burnsLeftists apparently prefer performance art over practical solutions, and at this point, I have no qualms about giving them over to their desires.
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January 23, 2025
How extreme weather came to rule the climate change roostIt all hearkens back to Hurricane Katrina.
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January 13, 2025
Systemic risk in the modern eraClimate change cultists are using a flawed model to assert “systemic” risk in the insurance industry.
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January 9, 2025
As Los Angeles burnsOne side understands that fire hydrants failing to deliver the water needed to fight fires is a result of municipal incompetence, the other side engages in a rite of self-flagellation proclaiming that our sacrifice has not been sufficient to placate nature’s god.
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January 7, 2025
‘Hands off our Democracy’ say the German elitists to the peopleProgressive German politician wants Elon Musk to stop stating the obvious.
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January 3, 2025
Musk, battery salesman or American hero?It is difficult to pigeonhole Elon Musk, so do not be tempted to do so.
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December 16, 2024
Reaping the harvest of seeds sownThe current approach of retiring fossil fuel plants and not replacing them is suicidal.
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November 26, 2024
The Wisdom of NATO entry for Poland and UkraineNeutrality was the answer, not NATO membership.
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November 21, 2024
Standoff in UkraineAs a parting gift, Joe Biden brings us to the brink of nuclear war. We need a negotiated settlement and we need it now.
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November 20, 2024
Whining Euro-weenies on full displayMaybe when Elon and Vivek are done transforming the federal government, they can tackle the liberation of Europe.
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November 14, 2024
The ebb of the Church Lady’s influenceDana Carvey’s pearl-clutching SNL character is the epitome of those astounded over Trump’s popularity and victory.
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November 12, 2024
Europe wants to take the reinsThe warmongers in Europe are delusional, and it is time for sane people to bring the war in Ukraine to a negotiated end.
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November 9, 2024
In the wake of Trump’s return, the EU refuses to compromise on Ukrainian war aimsTrump is ready to negotiate peace, but European progressives want war.
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October 21, 2024
The Harris campaign word-salad generatorIs Kamala Harris and company using AI to generate her nonsensical talking points?
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October 3, 2024
Was Am I Racist? a one-off?While some might argue that Matt Walsh happened to highlight a few imbeciles at the top of the DEI hierarchy, my own little experiment suggests gullibility is endemic to the field.