Thursday, August 21, 2025
Choosing the Positive Reality of Hydrocarbons Over ‘Green’ Fantasies
BP’s clever but ill-conceived “green” marketing of “Beyond Petroleum” has shifted to “Petroleum Now and for the Foreseeable Future.” - Vijay Jayaraj
- British multinational BP has announced its largest oil and gas discovery in 25 years in Brazil’s Santos Basin...
- Similarly chastened by reality, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – once anointed to reverse his predecessor’s policies of developing the nation’s natural resources – has vetoed legislation to tighten environmental licensing...
- Countries like China and India have mastered the art of paying lip service to climate goals while doubling down on oil, natural gas and coal, and now others are following their lead.
This is the same hypocrisy that has political leaders fly private jets to climate summits – creating the lifetime carbon footprint of entire communities in Africa – and then propose to police the thermostats and driving habits of working people.
- The next time you hear a speech about ending the use of hydrocarbons, remember BP’s Brazilian oil, the coal plants under construction in Asia and Africa and Norwegian wealth created by offshore wells...
"Free" money pi$$ed away again!-----Biden paid $89 million to boost electric motorcycle production. It's failing.
LiveWire, an electric motorcycle company, sold just 55 motorcycles in Q2 2025 despite receiving millions of dollars in federal backing. - Tosin Akintola 
In 2024, President Joe Biden's Energy Department awarded $1.7 billion in grants to increase domestic manufacturing of electric vehicles (E.V.s), including $89 million to Harley-Davidson to expand its manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania for electric motorcycle production.
- At the time, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm claimed the funding would "ensure that our automotive industry stays competitive."
- Then-Sen. Bob Casey (D–Pa.) championed the grant, with his office declaring that it would "help Harley Davidson make investments necessary to hit its goal of producing more zero-emission motorcycles."
More than a year later, it appears that this funding plan is failing...
EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Looked Other Way As Antisemitism Allegations Piled Up At Columbia, Trump Official Says | The Daily Caller
EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Looked Other Way As Antisemitism Allegations Piled Up At Columbia, Trump Official Says | The Daily Caller:
Antisemitism at Columbia University grew as the Biden administration passed up an opportunity to address the problem, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) acting Chair Andrea Lucas told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview.
California pastor urges families to flee state if AB 495 caregiver bill passes | Fox News
California pastor urges families to flee state if AB 495 caregiver bill passes | Fox News:
The bill allows a caregiver who is a relative or has "an established familial or mentoring relationship with the child" to sign a caregiver's authorization affidavit and be given the legal right to enroll a minor in school and consent to school-related medical care on behalf of the minor, its text says.
No need to fix potholes when you're doing "goddesses' work"-----Michigan spends six figures begging residents not to commit suicide
Ads target vaccines, firearm storage, menthol cigarettes - Scott McClallen and Taylor RegesterThe Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spent more than $3.1 million in advertising across social media on 68 media campaigns from 2024 to 2025...
The state of Michigan also spends taxpayer dollars to buy your attention through advertisements on gas pumps and highway billboards...
The state of Michigan also spends taxpayer dollars to buy your attention through advertisements on gas pumps and highway billboards...
- The state health department spent $111,260 from 2024-25 urging residents not to kill themselves. The funding advertised the suicide hotline.
- The state advertises doula services and
- safe firearm storage.
- The department spent $34,440 on YouTube advertising aimed at compulsive gamblers...
Rich Liberals to the Rescue! - WSJ
Some of the left’s most generously funded foundations support public broadcasters. - James FreemanBetter late than never, wealthy institutional donors seem poised to take a larger role in funding TV and radio shows they like, rather than letting average taxpayers get stuck with the bill.
The taxpayer savings will not be enormous given the gargantuan scale of federal spending.
Yet it certainly counts as progress to see the un-American phenomenon of state-backed media give way to a healthier model of voluntary support and independent broadcasting...
- Even for those who believe in state-backed media, this does seem to raise questions about the overall amount as well as the allocation of the $1.1 billion in funding.
- After its rescission, CPB support for the most vulnerable stations can be replaced for just $100 million?...
U.S. academia now so corrupted, it's even harming 'liberal' college students, constitutional expert says * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
U.S. academia now so corrupted, it's even harming 'liberal' college students, constitutional expert says * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
A constitutional expert has cited the results of research by Northwestern University to warn that American academia, the colleges, universities, their teachers and administration, have become so corrupted that they are hurting even "liberal" students.
Joe Biden threw open the border to rig the census — and elections for Democrats
There is mounting evidence that the Biden administration tried to cook the books to give Democrats an unfair advantage, which explains why a minority of Democrats (43% compared to 83% Republicans) approve of President Trump’s decision to take a new census that excludes illegal aliens from the population count. - Miranda DevineWe know that the Biden administration deliberately broke the border and ushered in over 20 million illegal aliens, at a huge cost to the nation’s social welfare system, and with a reckless disregard for potential criminality and terrorism.
- Exactly why it did it has always been the burning question.
- A new Rasmussen poll gives us a clue: It’s the census...
History for August 21
History for August 21 - On-This-Day.com 
Jim McMahon 1959
- 1680 - The Pueblo Indians drove the Spanish out and took possession of Santa Fe, NM.
- 1831 - Nat Turner, a former slave, led a violent insurrection in Virginia. He was later executed
- 1912 - Arthur R. Eldred became the first American boy to become an Eagle Scout. It is the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America.
- 1923 - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, an ordinance was passed forbidding dancers from gazing into the eyes of their partner.
- 1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state. U.S. President Eisenhower also issued the order for the 50 star flag.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Poll: Trump Approval Surges to 54 Percent After Meeting with Putin
Poll: Trump Approval Surges to 54 Percent After Meeting with Putin:
President Donald Trump’s voter approval rating surged to 54 percent following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
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