Leaving the misnamed inflation reduction act (ira) subsidies intact will actively undermine America’s return to energy dominance and national security. In 2024 alone, solar represented 61% of all new electricity generation in our nation, with more expected this year. By the end of this year, wind generation in the US is expected to increase 11% from 2023 because of these subsidies. These numbers do not reflect a natural market shift. They are the result of government subsidies that distort the U.S. energy sector, displace reliable coal and natural gas and the domestic jobs they produce, and put the stability and independence of our electric grid in jeopardy.

To see the consequences of this path, we need only to look at Europe’s over-reliance on renewables(1), which has left them vulnerable and reliant on Russian oil and gas. Meanwhile, China gladly sells us solar panels and electric vehicle components while expanding its own coal capacity to maintain grid stability and economic advantage. If we do not course correct, we will trade American energy dominance for dependence on hostile regimes.

We must fully repeal the ira’s dangerous green subsidies. Doing so will:

-Save Taxpayers $1 trillion. Estimates project the inflation reduction act will cost between $825 billion—according to the Congressional Budget Office—and over $1 trillion over the next decade. Eliminating these subsidies will allow us to rein in the debt and reallocate funds to genuine national priorities.

-Ease inflation and spur economic growth. ira subsidies exacerbate inflation and push up interest rates, making it harder for Americans to buy homes and cars and start businesses. Repealing them will provide immediate financial relief and create a stronger economic environment.

-Restore energy affordability and security. ira subsidies force utilities to overbuild solar and wind capacity, weakening grid reliability and increasing energy costs. Ending these subsidies will restore affordability and stability to our energy supply.

Meanwhile, in 2021, as part of a commitment to fight climate change, China pledged to the biden regime to stop funding coal development and use abroad—not domestically, mind you, but just to stop helping developing countries develop mines and coal-fueled power plants. But a report by the climate think tank Global Energy Monitor (GEM) shows that, as with so many other pledges, China is breaking its commitment and is continuing to build out coal power plants in a number of countries, particularly in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), and has subsequently expanded to include Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan.
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Witness in real time as Elon Musk and the Dept of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discover the malfeasance, fraud, and criminality of not fictional but the real live people who run our massive government institutions To name only a few, there are the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Pentagon, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). All of these have been fleecing our country — with our tax dollars — not of millions or billions, but of trillions of dollars! In fact, DOGE has been unearthing the deep corruption involving both Republicans and (mostly) democrats and proving the maxim that to unearth criminal behavior, always, always, always follow the money! We have learned that our elected officials have sent vast fortunes to terrorist groups with eye-popping millions upon millions of dollars.

Among egregious examples of the kinds of waste, fraud, and abuse DOGE has been uncovering is that tens of millions of dead people are on our Social Security rolls, many of them children and people over 115 years old! And look what DOGE found — that $4.7 trillion in payments from the Treasury Department were “almost impossible” to track. That is trillion, with a T! DOGE has also found that California, New York, and Massachusetts, 3 left-wing/democrat states — surprise, surprise! — were responsible for over 50% of the fraudulent unemployment claims in the United States since 2020, again involving massive mountains of money.

OMG, bleat the perpetually sky-is-falling, empty-headed, hate-spewing leftists, that is illegitimate! But, according to Victor Davis Hanson, Musk acts completely under executive authority. They remind one of a child having a temper tantrum in Aisle 4 of a supermarket — flailing arms, copious tears, kicking and screaming, crashing the cans and breakable jars off the shelf, simply because Mommy didn’t buy those all-important Animal Crackers. “Clean-up in Aisle 4” is then blared over the loudspeaker.

That is what DOGE is all about: cleaning up the monumental financial mess that our greedy and corrupt elected officials and government agencies have inflicted on all of us.

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“The little truth that is urged, is usually urged coarsely, weakened and rendered vicious, by personalities; while those who live by falsehoods, fallacies, enmities, partialities and the schemes of the designing find the press the very instrument that the devils would invent to effect their designs.”---James Fenimore Cooper

"Newspapers ... serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke." --Thomas Jefferson

"The liberal mainstream media is held in such low regard by the public -- in polls of the most respected professions we usually come somewhere between Nigerian e-mail scammers and serial pedophiles"--Mark Steyn

"If you watch the delusional left-wing media, they make it seem like everyone in America is a Trump-hating liberal who despises the Founding Fathers and hates guns. In reality, nearly all TV programming — news, sitcoms, movies, etc. — comes from just two radical Left-wing cities: Los Angeles and New York City. The people in these cities live in extremist Left-wing “thought bubbles” that are entirely disconnected from the real world. Their goal is to try to convince you that you’re totally alone if you believe in the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment or in honoring the legitimate outcomes of elections. In truth, most of America agrees with you, but they’re all too busy working real jobs to produce crappy sitcoms and Netflix programming. LA and NYC don’t represent America; they represent fringe extremism of the delusional Left." - Natural News

Many of us recognize (although many more, its sad to say, do not) that the electronic media with their high definition sensationalism and sound-bite are hardly an amenable venue for sound reflection on the hard realities of the human condition. For example, in our age of images and symbols(1), elections are easy to capture on film. But how do you televise the Rule of law? Still, that is no excuse for the way they are transforming what should be the news.

Listen to the current apologists for the mainstream media excusing the false reporting they do. The usual refrain of justification is a swarmy-spin that in substance concedes that sure, its fake but its believed to be true. As their great nemesis Rush Limbaugh sums it up, it isn’t the weight of the facts that matter for this media, but the extent of the seriousness of the charge they can dream up that they deem being truthful. Animal Farm anyone?

The Pew Research Center found the gap between journalists and other Americans is particularly wide on social issues. In 1995, 22% of journalists told Pew they were liberal, and 5% conservative, the rest didn’t have the guts to be honest. Now it's around 34% vs. and 7% respectively. Yet 20% of Americans now call themselves liberal, versus 33% who say they're conservative. Since human beings, especially journalists, are susceptible to the fact that we humans tend to form our views heavily influenced by emotions and our emotional state is largely determined by what we attend to, all news, regardless of its pedigree, is influenced by its background, therefore it seems there’s a disconnect between the audience and the 5th estate.

Reporters exert plenty of influence over their coverage and can't help missing parts of the big picture if they look at things the same way. Yet the trend toward a liberal-biased viewpoint continues to rise. Journalists are often blind to their bias, deciding to cover one story and not another, deciding some people are kooks and not worth consideration. Such practice, known in the behavioral sciences, is called anchoring, whose definition means different starting points yield different results, which are biased toward the initially presented values. As Daniel Kahneman tells us: People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the extent of the coverage in the media.” Intellectually honest people know that leaving out data is just as harmful to the pursuit of truth as getting the wrong data or making logical errors.

In a Gallup poll 41% of Americans said the news media are too liberal, while 14% said too conservative. It also found TV news and daily papers near the bottom - on par with Congress and labor unions - in its ranking of public confidence in US institutions. Approximately 69% of the adult English speaking population of the U.S. finds the national news media too liberal-biased and unbelievable. The result of years of inbreeding of management-ownership? Like minds attracting and employing like minds? Supported by an extreme left leaning education system that teaches that journalism's function is not to inform but to participate in enacting specific agenda? CONTINUED...

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The corrupt biden regime implemented the Release of the 2023 Women, Peace and Security Strategy and National Action Plan. The regime noted it: “Promoted women’s meaningful participation and protection in the U.S. milita. biden made it a top priority to eliminate obstacles to women’s military service.” It “Institutionalized WPS expertise throughout the Dept of Defense by investing in the Gender Advisory workforce…establishing a Gender Advisor workforce… to promote women’s meaningful participation in our own force and with partner nations.”

You might wonder what any of this has to do with warfighting. The answer is nothing!
The military needs to focus on warfighting. And it must be allowed to plan and train for warfighting as it sees fit, under the broad guidance and direction of civilians who understand it. Not the micromanaging, the broad guidance and direction.

Men are stronger than women. Men are more reckless than women. Men are more violent than women. Men are less concerned with self-preservation than women. These traits are not admirable, they are merely real.

War is inevitably violent and dangerous and frequently depends on physical strength. So men are better warfighters than women. The left-wing/democrat thinks it can engineer away or simply ignore these realities. The risk of ignoring reality in the war business is deadly.

Our Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines (especially the Marines!) do not need to remake themselves for women. They do not need to accommodate women. Women who want to be part of them need to understand the challenges they will face going in and accept those challenges. Some women will, and congratulations to them.

The top-down neo-liberal meddling on this issue, and in particular the pretense that women can be frontline warfighters, is deeply corrosive to an institution that depends at its core on the willingness of men to fight and die for each other.

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Existential emergency was invoked by Abraham Lincoln at the very beginning of his presidency when he suspended the most basic of civil liberties, the writ of habeas corpus, in order to stop a plot in the Maryland legislature to secede from the Union, making Washington indefensible and the Union cause lost. The case came before Chief Justice Roger Taney, who ruled the suspension was illegal and demanded the prisoners’ release, which was denied. Taney then issued an opinion stating that only Congress had the constitutional right to suspend habeas corpus. Lincoln disagreed.

As Lincoln put it, for want of risking a wrong interpretation of 1 phrase of the Constitution, we would lose the Constitution in its entirety. It was with that same sense of responsibility that Churchill assumed intensely concentrated power and abrogated the normal liberties of his countryman in order to save Britain and the world from the scourge of hitlerism.

We must accept the challenge of reality and not run away to a world of abstractions divorced from the world of experience. We must preserve our liberties by seeing the actual nature of the challenge that confronts us. That truth alone enables us to prioritize the equally valid and complementary polarities before us. The stakes are our Republic’s survival.

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