Compromise Candidate | Yes, Minister: 1984 Christmas Special
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The List of School Choice Hypocrites Is Getting Longer
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When contemplating the issue of school choice, it’s most important to focus on how we can improve educational outcomes, particularly for children from low-income communities.
But, as a fiscal economist, I can’t help thinking about how school choice is also good news for taxpayers.
And I also can’t help but notice that opponents are often very hypocritical.
- Such as Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who utilized private education for her offspring but endlessly fights against school choice for less-affluent families.
- Such as the high-level education bureaucrat from Alexandria, Virginia who sent his kids to private school while opposing educational options for less-affluent families.
Such as the Democratic congressional candidate whose kids were enrolled in an elite private school, yet attacked his opponent for supporting choice for less-affluent families.- Such as the head of a teacher union in California who had his daughter in a private school…
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European Energy Crisis, Updated: Germans Shut Down Perfectly Good Nuclear Plants, Utilities Send Socks to Shivering Customers and Advise Eating Porridge
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As we noted in September, natural gas prices are sky-high in Europe. Coal-burning power plants have been shut down and the windmills have not spun as fast as expected, which led to a drawdown of European natural gas stocks for electric power generation. The Russians are not sending as much gas as hoped through their pipelines, so Europe is scratching around for (very, very expensive) liquified natural gas to be shipped by ship from the U.S. and the Middle East.
As noted, this hurts European economies in various ways. Fertilizer plants and aluminum smelters have shut down because of too-costly natural gas feedstock, consumers are paying much more in utility bills, and some governments are going deeper into deficit by paying subsidies to partially cushion consumers. This energy shortage also makes Europe very vulnerable to Russia, at a time when Putin is menacing Ukraine with invasion.
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Ol’ 55 – Looking For An Echo (Countdown 1976)
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Pessimism bias
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Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson – The Best Things In Life Are Free.
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North Korea’s Counterfeiting Operation Funded Its Nuclear Program
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Why Berlin’s 15 Year-Old Airport has Never Had a Flight
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Subsidised Suicide: 2021 Revealed Wind & Solar To Be Unreliable & Utterly Useless
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Wind and solar are said to be ‘cheap’, but then so’s talk. 2021 was the year when wind and solar were revealed to be thoroughly useless, thanks to their inherent intermittency and general lack of reliability.
Starting in September last year, for months on end, Europe’s wind power fleet struggle to produce any consistent power of any value, at all. Week after week, wind power output barely registered in Germany and the UK.
Unable to deliver even occasional bursts of power, Europe’s wind industry was relegated to the status of a laughingstock, while Germans and British fired up their old coal-fired power plants, the only thing preventing a wholesale grid collapse.
The renewable energy debacle wasn’t confined to Europe, as Robert Bryce details below.
Seven Top Energy Stories of 2021
Forbes
Robert Bryce
31 December 2021
It has been a chaotic year in the energy sector. And with just a…
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