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Taxpayers Eat Another Solar Energy Flop 0
- Economics
- January 21, 2020
Looks like another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust. Bloomberg News reports, “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online.” In 2011 the $1 billion [Crescent Dunes] project was to be the biggest solar plant of its kind, and it looked like the future of renewable power. Citigroup Inc. and other financiers
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Children Under Siege in the Digital Age 0
- Culture
- January 21, 2020
In The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald casts both an unlikely hero and an unlikely weapon to defeat the enemy. In what is almost unimaginable in today’s culture, the hero is a twelve-year-old boy, and his weapon is verse. When the goblins threaten to attack, only a chant or rhyme can defeat these villains. The hero,
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Why Failure Is a Relative State 0
- Culture
- January 20, 2020
Part of the uniqueness of the human condition is our tendency to compare each other. We compare our jobs, our possessions, and our very bodies to those of our neighbors and coworkers. “If only I had a house as big as he does…” “If only I made as much money as she is making…” “If
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The Senate Impeachment Trial: Eight Things You Need to Know 0
- Politics
- January 20, 2020
The House of Representatives has chosen members to participate in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and they have presented the articles of impeachment to the Senate. This is only the third impeachment trial of a president in our nation’s history, with the others occurring in 1868 for Andrew Johnson and 1999 for
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The Covington Kids’ Revenge, One Year Later 0
- Culture
- January 20, 2020
Almost to the day CNN paid out a notable cash settlement to Nick Sandmann, the Covington High School kid it defamed as a racist pup for grinning at a Native American whilst supporting President Trump, the network was one of a gaggle of MSM outlets out to spin the killing of an Iranian general – into another
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Moral Education From Birmingham Jail 0
- Culture
- January 20, 2020
In an age of moral confusion, Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” offers welcome clarity. Its rhetoric still has power today, with memorable phrases like “justice too long delayed is justice denied” and “Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability.” But the heart of his argument, that man-made laws are just
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