A tale of two headlines. From Politico: Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies. From the…
American Federation of Teachers union President Randi Weingarten is leaving her position with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) due to disagreements with leadership, according to a letter obtained by POLITICO.…
President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders at 3 p.m. ET today relating to coal production. The EOs are expected to allow coal-fired generators to stay open past…
Another Minnesota city takes the government’s fiber-optic bait. “This time, it’ll be different!” This should be the tagline for Connect Willmar, the latest local government-funded fiber-optic internet project in…
Over the weekend, permitting reform failed to make the cut in Congress’s year-end spending and disaster legislation. While it’s disappointing that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) will continue to…
As President-elect Donald Trump fills in the blanks of his incoming Administration, some of the earliest appointments have come in the areas of energy and the environment. Most prominent among…
Renewable energy advocates like to stick to their talking points about wind and solar, but they never seem to address the elephant — or elephants — in the room when…
Electricity prices in the United States are skyrocketing, with all-sectors electricity rates reaching new all-time highs in 2022 and 2023, but wind and solar advocates like to pretend that these…
We think Minnesota’s $250 million+ Feeding Our Future scandal is impressive. The national unemployment scandal adds another three zeros. Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO, f/k/a General…
Tracing the Minnesota influence of a different shadowy international billionaire. There is a famous H.L. Mencken quote that goes, Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they…
A firm connected to Ilhan Omar’s current husband, Tim Mynett, is being sued in Hennepin County district court over a business dispute involving South Dakota cannabis start-up companies. South Dakota…
The following article was written by Emmet Penney in Compact Magazine: Is Vladmir Putin Europe’s secret savior? Has his invasion of Ukraine finally forced Europe to make the transition to…
Today, the Biden administration suspended Georgia’s State Innovation Waiver, less than three months before it was set to go live. This action invites a legal fight and could potentially change…
On Friday, CBS News reported: Senate Dems announce they have the votes to pass Inflation Reduction Act Today, CBS News reports: Senate passes Democrats’ sweeping climate, health and tax bill,…
Senator Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a climate, health care, and tax package last week. CBS News reports that the bill: …calls for $369 billion for…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Linnea Lueken, and the Center of the American Experiment’s Isaac Orr present episode 336 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode,…
On Thursday, February 3, American Experiment reported on a new study by economists at Johns Hopkins University that finds the body of empirical evidence shows lockdowns had “little to no…
Progressives write racial discrimination into the law of the land.
Gov. Tim Walz put out a press release last week touting Minnesota’s performance in a national ranking of states dealing with the pandemic. The lapdog Minnesota press dutifully put the…
The top officials at the Minnesota School Boards Association and the chair of the Austin Public Schools Board play prominent roles at the National School Boards Association that created a…
Europe’s green dreams are taking a nightmarish turn as energy prices skyrocket across the continent. Prices are rising because of low wind speeds, soaring natural gas prices, and Europe’s cap…
California is learning the hard way that people will grow impatient with unreliable energy sources, and this could lead to rolling blackouts this summer in the Golden State. The problem…
On June 24, 2021, the Biden administration announced it would be banning products containing silicon materials from Hoshine, a Chinese company tied to widespread human rights violations affecting ethnic Uyghur…
The following article originally appeared in Reason: As it turns out, a huge chunk of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan doesn’t have much to do with infrastructure. This is not…