The weather has been drop-dead gorgeous this week, particularly for late October, and I’ve been taking advantage of it. But events continue to unfold, so it’s time for an installment of news and views.
NEWS: Clueless Joe Biden, in last week’s address from the Oval Office, pitched war as good for U.S. arms merchants. Since then, Politico reportedly has obtained a copy of talking points to paint more war as being beneficial for U.S. arms manufacturers and therefore, Bidenomics.
VIEWS: For a change, the Biden regime is speaking the truth. Wars tend to enrich select companies and countries. The rise of the United States to industrial dominance in the 1950s was a direct result of World War II decimating European manufacturing capacity, and not doing a lot of good for Japan, either.
NEWS: Stock shares of German company Siemens Energy plunged 37 percent Thursday on news that the wind turbine division was having issues with quality and demand. This comes a week after shares of SolarEdge tanked 30 percent or so on weakening European demand.
VIEWS: The renewable energy folks, wind or solar, exist largely on the backs of government subsidies and make-work infrastructure handouts. It is the same with EVs. Try getting the government to give you a $7,500 tax credit the next time you purchase a traditional internal combustion engine vehicle. You can’t fool Mother Nature. If renewable energy and electric vehicles are not competitive in the market without the helping hand of government money, they never truly can be the solution. Another story predicts fossil fuel use will rise 1.8 percent in 2024. This despite all that government largesse for alternatives.
NEWS: Democrat U.S Rep. Jamaal Bowman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for pulling a fire alarm in the Capitol that interrupted a key House vote. Bowman alleged he was just trying to open a door.
VIEWS: Bowman reportedly will pay a $1,000 fine and write an I’m sorry note. You might ask why he’s not being charged with insurrection for interrupting the proceedings of Congress and you would not be alone. I guess because he didn’t do it on Jan. 6 and is a Democrat, gives him immunity.
NEWS: Just The News reports that a U.S. prosecutor had evidence of Hunter Biden misdoings, but was thwarted in pursuing them by, among other usual suspects, the FBI. In a separate story, there is a report of more than 40 whistleblowers on Biden family alleged illegalities reported to the FBI and left to die there.
VIEWS: Note the hypocrisy of the political left. Any whistleblower intimating Trump, or Republican misdeeds must be believed and the allegations investigated with the full power of all federal departments. If Biden is mentioned, let’s just forget about it. FBI now stands for Federal Biden Ignorers. CIA is Can Ignore All (leftist misdeeds).
NEWS: House Republicans finally have elected a speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
VIEWS: I must confess to not being up to speed on Johnson, but the more I read, the more I like. He’s a Christian and doesn’t think public schools should be spending government money discussing sexual orientation with children under 10 years of age. Johnson also is for limits on abortions and didn’t see the 2020 election as being on the up and up. What sealed the deal for me was Democrat House leader Hakeem Jeffries lamenting the selection of a right-wing idealogue. Being a left-wing idealogue is OK, however. Speaking of hypocrisy, Jeffries referred to Johnson as an election denier. This would be the same Jeffries who, on archived social media posts, spent plenty of time denying the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
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