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John Kerry

January 31, 2021 Rand Simberg 10 Comments

He’s back, in all of his tone-deaf glory.

Forget the fact that to first order, there are no solar-panel manufacturers here. Has anyone done an economic analysis of shifting from a high-density energy source to a low one? Kerry et al say that solar-panel production is the one in which jobs are growing fastest, but that’s meaningless outside the context of how many there are, or how low labor productivity they are in energy production, compared to gas and oil. It’s easy to grow something that is minuscule fast, but that doesn’t solve the problems of all the people Biden just threw out of work.

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The Republican Party

January 31, 2021 Rand Simberg 13 Comments

…has failed us.

Kristi Noem is the female Ronald Reagan, and she may be the second, if not the first woman president.

[Update a while later]

Yes, as pointed out in comments, the first elected woman president. And she may be the first, period, if Demented Joe manages to hang on for four years (or something happens to Harris before something happens to Joe).

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More Money Down The Drain

January 28, 2021 Rand Simberg 8 Comments

I hadn’t realized that the Air Force had given NG over half a billion for The Stick. I hope that this is the last of the money that will be wasted on it.

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