"Climate change information disseminated to the public has a huge political filter.
In the 1970s, besides poor air quality, the three biggest air-related issues were depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer, acid rain, and climate change. The climate change angst was in a state of flux, with a solid leaning toward the coming of the next ice age.
As the 1980s rolled in, progress was underway to limit ozone-depleting chemicals (chlorofluorocarbons) and to curtail acid rain by reducing power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide, among other actions.
Climate change concern was veering from cooling to warming and the “greenhouse effect” became the popular nomenclature (later to morph into “global warming,” then “climate change,” and more dire terminology)...
“[His statement] should terrify everybody,” according to Glenn.
“This is about good versus evil ... not just for Israel. The West is riddled with supporters of Hamas and their clones. They're marching in our own streets! Do you think if Hamas is re-energized, it's going to be good for America?” he asks.
“If Israel fails in this, the world will be darker for it, but it will not stop there. They will come for the rest of us. [Hagari] is wrong.”
Joe Biden has pushed this hoax for years now, and even claimed he ran for president because Trump called White supremacists very fine people. Few people in the media ever contradicted this narrative, even though there was no question that it was false...
1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
1985 - ABC's "Monday Night Football" began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
A government watchdog, observing what could be a step in the transition of West Point to "Wokey" Point, has sued the Department of Defense over the decision to kill the "Duty, Honor, Country" slogan at the military academy.
"Given the woke virus infecting West Point, deleting the words 'Duty, Honor, Country' from its mission statement has sparked justified concern about what the Army's rising leadership is being taught at the United States Military Academy," explained Judicial Watch chief Tom Fitton.
Which of the two do you want attending your academically selective college? ...
Yet, following the logic of Landscape, the College Board’s quietly insidious “contextualization” resource,admissions officers may find themselves shunting Leigh aside in Bill’s favor.
Developed in 2018 and broadly available since 2020, Landscape is a free admissions dashboard that allows decision makers to “consider each student within the context of where they’ve learned and lived.”...
Saudi Arabia has officially ended its 50-year petrodollar agreement with the U.S. and will now be accepting multiple currencies to purchase its crude oil.
According to a report from the Atlantic Council, Saudi Arabia announced on June 13 that it will not be renewing its agreement with the U.S., which was signed in 1974 during the Nixon administration, to sell oil exclusively in U.S. dollars.
An article in Bloomberg, titled “Climate Change Is Putting Swelling Cities at Risk,” with the subtitle, “A warming world is putting Bangladesh, Niger, Pakistan, and other countries more at risk for extreme weather,” makes some false claims that are refuted by real-world data and by scientific research which examines the impacts of growth and the densification of cities...
International Brotherhood of Teamster's union general president Sean O'Brien is slated to speak at the Republican National Convention next month in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"Sean O’Brien, the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has accepted my invitation to speak at the RNC Convention in Milwaukee. Our GREAT convention will unify Americans and demonstrate to the nation’s working families they come first," former President Donald Trump declared in a post on Truth Social.
The City of Ottawa, Canada's capital, wants to choose which neighborhoods deserve more trees based on race and other identity factors.
They want to make sure the urban forest meets their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals...
The report, under the section "INDIGENOUS GENDER AND EQUITY IMPLICATIONS" (whatever that means for tree-planting), proposes one analysis, known as a "Tree Equity Score," which considers factors such as race, age, language, employment, mental health, and income...