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Can the West Survive Four Years of Harris or Trump?

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Great empires always fall, pushed by their own leaders. Just think of the role played in Britain’s decline by the Liberals who blundered into the First World War, permanently crippling the world’s dominant empire.  read more »

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Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters Off Our Coasts

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Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental  read more »

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How the City of Angels Went to Hell

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A journey through Los Angeles, the adopted home of Vice President Kamala Harris, offers a masterclass in urban dysfunction.  read more »

How to Prepare America for Demographic Decline

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America is in the early days of a vast demographic transition. In the coming decades, the U.S. population will grow far more slowly than ever before  read more »

Elon Musk and Woke Capital are in a Battle for the Future of America

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In 16th century Japan, the Daimyo feudal lords, like their Medieval European counterparts, battled to secure control of the realm.  read more »

Moving Away from Density to Less Dense Detached Housing Areas

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Further evidence of the continued dispersion of the US population is revealed by an examination of net domestic migration data  read more »

Western Nations Cripple Their Economies With Green Initiatives While China and Others Laugh

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North America, with its vast resources, may be in a position to save the economies of the west. But governments on both sides of the border seem more concerned with green virtue signaling than actually finding a workable approach to carbon emissions  read more »

An Inflation Hurricane Is Shorting The Electric Grid

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The reports about the damage caused by Hurricane Helene and the amount of water dumped on the region by the storm are gobsmacking.  read more »

Gov Newsom’s unpopularity might have something to do with his extreme mandates that make life unaffordable!

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California’s emission mandates do an excellent job of increasing the cost of electricity, products, and fuels to its citizens.  read more »

Kamala Harris is Hiding the Truth about Her Real Plan for America

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In baseball as well as in American football, there’s something called the “hidden ball” trick, where a player hides the round object in order to befuddle the opposition. American politics is experiencing something similar, with politicians, particularly on the progressive side, hiding often unpopular views before the poor voters cast their ballots.  read more »

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