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  • Elementary History: Test your knowledge of general history

    Elementary History: Test your knowledge of general history0

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  • Electricity Access Is Spreading (Except in Venezuela)

    Electricity Access Is Spreading (Except in Venezuela)0

    Venezuela has recently experienced a wave of blackouts resulting from the ineptitude of Maduro’s dictatorship, whose policies have led the country to the most severe economic crisis of its history. The lack of access to electricity is having an unprecedented humanitarian impact on the Venezuelan population. Food is spoiling in unpowered refrigerators, looters are running

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  • Electric Cars Are Not ‘Zero-Emission Vehicles’

    Electric Cars Are Not ‘Zero-Emission Vehicles’4

    While praising California’s decision to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, Governor Gavin Newsom declared that this will require “100% of new car sales in California to be zero-emission vehicles” like “electric cars.” In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to the environment than conventional

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  • Elections Need More Transparency. Why Do Some on the Left Want Less?

    Elections Need More Transparency. Why Do Some on the Left Want Less?0

    Why are some self-proclaimed “champions of democracy” calling for less transparency in elections, rather than more? The hundreds of thousands of law-abiding poll observers nationwide who volunteer to monitor elections safeguard one essential component of democracy; namely, transparent elections. Poll observers are the true champions of democracy. In the past few years, election officials have

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  • Election Pundits: Clueless, Spectacularly Clueless

    Election Pundits: Clueless, Spectacularly Clueless0

    Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, in a victory which gobsmacked the media and pundits. Trump overcame sex scandals, bad debates, a shambolic organisation, hostility from the grandees of his own party and a relentlessly hostile media. It was a smashing success. Instead of dragging the Republicans into infighting, irrelevance and

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  • Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty

    Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty0

    As I’ve said before in print, I’m not the best of prognosticators.            An early example of my failures as a crystal ball reader comes from long ago when I was a seventh-grader at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. My roommate appeared after Christmas break with an album by four Brits

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