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Nov 09 2021
Opinion
How Getting Fired For His Beliefs Became A Huge Opportunity For My Husband And Our Family Canceling
Canceling conservatives is not silencing or cowing them. It is driving Christians to consider the connections between their faith and their money and jobs.
“You may be a CEO who is a Christian, but not a Christian CEO.” These are the words that I believe eventually led to my husband’s departure from his company.
He had run a successful tech company for more than a decade, and
The FederalistAug 06 2021
News
Infrastructure bill will add $256 billion to deficit, government analysts say
The bipartisan infrastructure legislation poised for a vote in the Senate this week would add $256 billion to the deficit over the next decade, congressional budget analysts announced Thursday, dashing hopes that provisions in the bill would fully pay for it.
The news will not come as a surprise to lawmakers skeptical of offsets included in the $1.2 trillion measure, but it immediately
Washington ExaminerMay 29 2021
Analysis
Why Big Oil should be worried after a day of reckoning
Three of the world’s largest oil companies faced a major reckoning on Wednesday over their part in climate change.
First, a Dutch court told Royal Dutch Shell to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a whopping 45 percent by 2030 in response to a lawsuit filed by seven environmental groups. Arguing that Shell is bound by an “unwritten standard of care” to human rights and the Paris
VoxJul 16 2021
Fact Check
Did the White House Suggest Cuban Protests Were Only About Vaccines and U.S. Sanctions?
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro claimed in a tweet Monday that the White House suggested that “this liberty movement [in Cuba] is solely about lack of vaccines and US sanctions.”
This tweet came after Biden administration official Julie Chung, who is the acting assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairstweeted that the protesters are
The Dispatch Fact CheckFeb 18 2022
News
Study Exposes Climate Claims by Big Oil as Corporate Propaganda
While continuing to fuel the climate emergency over the past decade, oil and gas majors relied on misleading messages rather than actually taking action to transition to clean energy, according to research released Wednesday.
The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal PLOS One, focused on two American companies, Chevron and ExxonMobil, as well as two European ones, BP and Shell—
Common DreamsMar 20 2022
Opinion
Rep. Ralph Norman: Ukraine Conflict Shows Why U.S. Energy Development Is a National Security Priority
Regardless of whether we use a combination of oil, natural gas, solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear power, our enormous appetite for energy will not decrease any time soon. This forces us to grapple with the reality that fossil fuel is here to stay until the market incentivizes the large-scale development of renewable energy infrastructure.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is devastating and
Breitbart NewsJan 02 2019
News
US authorities fire teargas across border to repel Central Americans
Customs and Border Protection said the gas was used to target rock throwers apart from the migrants who were trying to cross.
The GuardianNov 02 2021
News
Leaders at global climate talks pledge to cut methane and save forests
Leaders at the COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow have pledged to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to help slow climate change.
The inability of major powers so far to agree more broadly on rapid reductions in the use of fossil fuels, the main cause of manmade global warming, has upset the poorer, smaller
ReutersMar 17 2022
News
House leaders want to take up daylight saving time bill — later
A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent is finding bipartisan support in the House after its passage in the Senate.
But it’s unclear when – or if – the lower chamber will take up the legislation as leaders punt the effort to the back burner in favor of other pressing matters, including responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Word of the proposal passing in the upper
The HillJul 06 2022
News
U.S. homeownership rate tumbles to 1980s levels
High prices for everything from groceries to gas aren’t the only things making this year feel like a throwback to the 1980s.
After almost a decade of gains, homeownership in the U.S. also has slipped back to levels seen about four decades ago (see chart below), when former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was waging a battle against high inflation that pushed the American economy
MarketWatch