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May 1, 2025
Nukes, Renewables, and the European Grid CollapseThe collapse was predictable and could have been prevented—for a price.
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April 23, 2025
Are we prepared for a new Chinese period of the warring states?Assuming Trump’s success in cornering China on trade, will there be an implosion or an explosion?
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April 22, 2025
When Nuclear Regulation Goes AwryIn the world of nuclear regulation, there can be too much of a good thing, and the results can be ridiculous, costly, or even dangerous.
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March 30, 2025
Now’s the Time to Buy a Nuke (Nuclear Power Plant, That Is)As the world accepts that green energy will not power it, they need to start getting in line for all the nuclear plants that will inevitably be built.
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March 4, 2025
Nuclear weapons: dangerous threat or just a menace?While nuclear weapons sound scary, the reality is that they’re not a very useful weapon in modern warfare.
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February 9, 2025
America Must, Can, And Should Renew Its Nuclear Energy DominanceWe’ve allowed our nuclear power manufacturing capability to atrophy, but that’s a short-sighted and dangerous approach that empowers our geopolitical opponents.
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December 6, 2023
My day at COP28It was good to see some countries, including the UAE, which hosted the event, finally taking nuclear energy seriously.
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September 14, 2022
How the Fed will Strangle New NukesEven as the world cries out for more nuclear power, the only true clean and reliable source of energy, the single cure for inflation will make building them impossible.
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January 5, 2020
Don't expect a magic fix for Iranian conflictsThe Romans fought the Persians for hundreds of years. Why should we be different?
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September 12, 2019
The Philippines -- The Poland of the Pacific?As in 1938, when Poland lay between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army, the Philippines is the weak point between the U.S. and China.
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October 25, 2017
Do Private Uranium Investors Have a $3B Claim against Obama Administration Officials?Members of the Obama administration may have used the extensive regulation and secrecy integral to U.S. uranium operations to bankrupt a $3-billion private firm. Civil litigation, with very different and often more permissive rules of discovery and deposition, may be feasible as a mechanism of getting at the rot.
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October 12, 2017
Progressivism and the Seven Deadly SinsProgressivism is waging war on the West by extolling and justifying the Seven Deadly Sins.
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February 15, 2017
Governor Moonbeam shakes the begging cupCalifornia needs $162 million for floods but has $251 million budgeted for drought.
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August 2, 2013
Nuclear Power's New Friends?Is the global warming-pushing environmentalist crowd finally coming around to nuclear power? And should dyed-in-the-wool nuclear advocates welcome them?
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October 13, 2012
Obama's War on Nuclear PowerThis administration has thrown up roadblock after roadblock to cheap and reliable power for the United States.
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January 6, 2011
Saving California Almost Half a Billion a Year -- EasyHey, Jerry Brown. Here's a practical way to to chip away a significant chunk of the multibillion-dollar deficit California faces this year.
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June 11, 2010
Secession? No, Ejection!Personally, I think rethinking the right to secede from the Union is a dead end. However, maybe there is another route to a similar result.
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December 15, 2009
Uranium Enrichment: U.S. Government Cheese for the FrenchI will yield to no man in my support for nuclear power in this country, but recent news makes me think that we've gone a bit too far in government involvement in the nuclear business.
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October 6, 2009
How Taxes Pervert our Energy ChoicesThe different tax treatments of our electrical generation options rewards the inefficient.
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March 19, 2009
Megaphone Envy and the Fairness DoctrineThe way the leftists and liberals go on about conservative talk radio, what they call our "megaphones," one would suspect that they had a bad case of megaphone envy.
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January 23, 2009
Productive stimulus: Fast-track nuclear powerReduce energy imports, atmospheric emissions, and unemployment. The only obstacle is political willpower.
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September 21, 2008
One small stepAmerican Thinker justly can claim credit for legislation to protect Californians against at least one petty tyranny. SB 1491 in on the Governor's desk awaiting signature.
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August 28, 2008
Sticking it to GazpromGiven Russia's new aggressive foreign policy as seen by its invasion of Georgia, few can doubt that it will exploit the power of European gas dependency. The question is, how does the West blunt that power?
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August 18, 2008
Gang of 10 on Nuclear EnergyNuclear energy doesn't get the same amount of press as offshore drilling, solar, wind, and other sources. But it is a vital part of any energy program for America.
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January 14, 2008
How Did They Become 'Smart' Thermostats?As the debate builds about state-controlled thermostats in your homes, you may notice that programmable communicating thermostats (PCTs) are now being referred to as "Smart" thermostats.
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January 4, 2008
Who Will Control Your Thermostat?Californians may lose ultimate control of their thermostats, if proposed revisions to state building regulations are approved. All in the name of the greater good, of course.
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July 19, 2007
New Nukes for California?As a Californian, I know well the opinion the rest of the country holds of our political sensibilities. But when it comes to actual political decisions, we're not always so dumb