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Today’s Upside-Down Preference for Wind over Natural Gas | Richard Epstein (Member Post)

4 days ago | ricochet.com | Richard Epstein

This past May, President Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul struck a contentious political deal to break the energy gridlock that has plagued New York, and indeed all of New England. Trump, for his part, announced he would remove the barrier the federal government had raised to the completion of the Empire Wind 1 offshore farm that New York had proposed to advance its stated goal of “decarbonization” by weaning itself from all fossil fuels.
The Democrat Party’s “Speak with American Men” Project (Member Post)

1 month ago | ricochet.com | Brian Watt

The brain trust of the Democrat Party still cannot understand why Kamala Harris and Tim Walz didn’t attract and sway young American males to vote for them, and who instead turned out to vote for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. So they’re spending millions of dollars and commissioning an exhaustive research effort to actually speak with these younger grunting, primitive, knuckle-dragging, troglodytes. Of course, it speaks volumes about how ideologically entrenched and clueless Democrats are.
DC Jew-slaying (Member Post)

1 month ago | ricochet.com | James Lileks

Headline: 2 Israeli Embassy staff members killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DCWASHINGTON, D.C. — One man and one woman were shot and killed outside of an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, law enforcement sources told ABC News. The suspect in the shooting has been identified as a 30-year-old man from Chicago, Washington, D.C. Police Chief Pam Smith said. She also said the suspect shouted “free, free Palestine” after his arrest.
Math Points to a Designed Universe (Member Post)

1 month ago | ricochet.com | Mark Eckel

It was the mathematicians who stayed after to talk in my biblical integration teaching at Liberty University. The math department was especially interested in my quote from Herbert E. Huntley, The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty:In the classroom where science and mathematics are taught exists the feast of beauty unlimited both in abundance and variety.
The Reason for DOGE-Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (Member Post)

1 month ago | ricochet.com | Bob Thompson

And I’m sure there are more reasons than listed in the title. One might be the failures by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). I’m not a certified public accountant but I do have an accounting degree and a lifetime career working in financial institutions, so I kinda know what an audit is. Here’s a headline from an article today at RedState by Ward Clark:Busted: Fed Budget Analyst Cops to Embezzling $657K – and There Are Many More Doing the Same
Why Reciprocal Trade Negotiations Will Fail | Richard Epstein (Member Post)

1 month ago | ricochet.com | Richard Epstein

The latest bulletins from the trade wars report Trump’s ultimate surrender in his ill-fated efforts to depose Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for his steadfast refusal to lower interest rates to offset the massive short-term costs from the Trump tariff program.
For All You White Male Christian Cis-Gender Macho MAGA Men Out There (Member Post)

2 months ago | ricochet.com | Brian Watt

This one is for you. Sometimes removing a corrupt and dishonest bureaucrat is like removing a tick that burrows further into the skin. One quite nasty pest, Susan Rice, managed to burrow into the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee sometime before President Trump’s inauguration, presumably still with Top Secret clearance since she was a former national security advisor and, for a time, a prospect to become the secretary of state.
View ‘Consumer Sentiment’ Surveys Skeptically (Member Post)

2 months ago | ricochet.com | Dennis Kneale

Are Surveys About the Economy Really About Political Views? The headline writers pounced on the plunge in the University of Michigan’s (UMich) much-watched index for consumer sentiment on April 11th. Almost gleefully so. “Consumer sentiment tumbles in April as inflation fears spike” (CNBC.com) and “Extends Plunge as Price Expectations Soar” (Bloomberg). The Wall Street Journal, “‘From Anxious to Petrified’: Consumer Sentiment Plunges Further.”Petrified? Maybe we should lighten up.
A.I. my A.S. (Member Post)

2 months ago | ricochet.com | Douglas Pratt

AI is already plaguing artistic endeavors, writing, and many other fields of human activity. I’ve seen audiobooks appear on Audible narrated by “Virtual Voice,” and others from other publishers. The reviews seem to be universally negative. So I guess the business case is “Good, fast, cheap: pick two.”Last week I got a look at how AI is encroaching on my craft. I got an offer to participate in a beta-testing program.
The Cabinet Checks In (Member Post)

2 months ago | ricochet.com | James Lileks

This compilation of Tweets details what the Cabinet members announced today. Said the tweet author, “One by one, Cabinet members reported directly to the people. Here is a recap by department and I’m not joking when I say the best are towards the end.”With the exception of Rubio’s remarks on Iran, I don’t think there’s a single thing uttered that would have been spoken by a Cabinet member under a Harris administration. In fact, you’d probably get an inversion of every initiative.