Francis Menton cfact.org The effort to increase the percentage of electricity generated by intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar inevitably brings about large increases in the actual price of electricity that must be paid by consumers. The price increases grow and accelerate as the percentage of electricity generated
Lomi Kriel and Lexi Churchill Co-published with The Texas Tribune This story was originally published by ProPublica propublica.org Series: Under the Gun: How Gun Violence Is Impacting the Nation As America emerged from the pandemic, communities continued to experience a rising tide of gun violence. School shootings and the
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com There has been fairly predictable outrage this week at the revelation by Judith Collins, the minister in charge of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and Security Intelligence Service (SIS), that China spied on our Parliament in 2021. China has denied the accusation, but knowing Judith
Many years ago, I was interviewing a financial planner on the subject of succession planning. One her greatest bugbears, she said, was people who were swimming in a fortune of assets, but still determined to get the aged pension. “You’re sitting on a ten million dollar property — you don’
When the shocking video of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore broke, many Australians were immediately reminded of Hobart’s Tasman Bridge disaster in 1975. In that disaster, twelve people were killed when an off-course bulk freighter struck the bridge, causing a section to collapse. As
As I wrote some time ago, Ron DeSantis for a while looked like the new Ronald Reagan. In a sense, that’s still true: DeSantis is the closest to a centre-right conservative who might reunite a bitterly divided America. But that’s not what America needs in 2024: things have
There are few wider gulfs ‘twixt self-regard and reality than exist in the minds of mainstream media journalists. In their own minds, they’re still running All the President’s Men and Network on loop, imagining themselves as the lone, brave heroes “speaking truth to power”. To the rest of
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is founder, author, and president at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
Tim Graham Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the internet era. newsbusters.org For the first two years of Joe Biden’s
Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania State Senate
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com American meat processing giant Tyson Foods is about to get the Bud Light treatment. As the backlash plays out, a valuable window is being opened onto the ugly reality that the massive illegal immigration “migrant” crisis in this nation is fueled to a startling degree by
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org For one of the wealthier countries on this planet, America, with 330 million people representing about four per cent of the world’
familyfirst.org.nz Welcome to PulsePoint Episode 2 – the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about – issues from both New Zealand and overseas that the Family First team have been monitoring and researching over the last week. It’s time to
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. Her
As I wrote recently, the repeated insistence that illegal immigrants in the US are less likely to commit crimes than citizens is a myth based entirely on a handful of crank “studies” by a single pro-open borders activist. Nevertheless, by dint of endlessly repeating the lie, the left-media have erected
The famous saying is: “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”. Kevin Rudd might want to start touring the animal shelters for a mate or two. The congressional Republicans most likely to come to Kevin Rudd’s defence after he endured sharp criticism from Donald Trump have
