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Renewables Rejected: How American Communities Successfully Block Wind & Solar Projects
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Americans fight – which is the only way to beat Big Wind and Big Solar when they’re threatening anyone’s backyard.
Over the last few years, American communities have banded together, got organised and lawyered up. The result is an enviable string of victories by which pro-community and pro-reliable energy groups have defeated the crony capitalists and subsidy seeking carpetbaggers hoping to use their victims’ taxes to help them destroy the fabric of American rural life.
Increasing opposition to having their landscape carpeted in 600-700 foot high wind turbines and endless seas of solar panels was inevitable.
If you only subscribe to the ‘renewables will save us’ mob however, you’d believe that all is well and there is no limit to the number of these things or solar panels that the American heartland will take. Well, that’s the propaganda from RE GHQ, anyway.
Robert Bryce has been following the backlash against…
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Review of “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
736 pages
Alfred A. Knopf
Published: April 2005
“American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin was published in 2005 and earned the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Bird is a journalist and author who has written several books including a recent biography of Jimmy Carter. Sherwin was a professor of history until his death in 2021.
Fascinated by the atomic age and nuclear proliferation, Sherwin began working on this book in the late 1970s…and eventually asked Bird for assistance bringing the project to fruition. Built on a foundation of extraordinary research, the authors combed through thousands of once-classified documents, conducted more than 100 interviews and reconstructed seemingly contradictory historical threads in order to fully understand how Oppenheimer’s story unfolded.
The resulting 591-page…
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Review of “Sam Houston” by James L. Haley
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Sam Houston
by James L. Haley
544 pages
University of Oklahoma Press
Published: April 2002
James Haley’s 2002 biography “Sam Houston” examines the life of a fascinating figure in early Texas-American history. Haley is the author of 14 books, including both fiction and non-fiction. Among his recent publications are a history of Hawaii and a biography of Jack London.
Readers familiar with Texas history (or America’s westward expansion more generally) are likely to recognize Sam Houston (1793-1863). He left home as a teen to live with a tribe of Cherokee Indians – for three years. Later he managed Texas’s war for independence, was President of the Republic of Texas, served as a U.S. Senator and, finally, was elected governor.
His personal life was no less exciting. He was thrice married and his final bride – 26 years his junior – bore him eight children. If Houston himself…
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