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Notice to Readers from Rob Natelson 0
- February 10, 2022
Salon.com issued a defamatory article it has refused to correct.
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Xcel Proposes Yet Another Rate Hike 0
- December 2, 2022
Colorado’s largest utility is back before the PUC requesting another rate increase, this time a $312.2 million bump in electric rates. The request is just the latest to arrive in 2022, a year that has come to represent a cost-hike bonanza for the energy monopoly. The PUC already approved a $182.2 million electric rate hike
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As Wind Turbines Falter, Gas Saves the Day in the U.K.0
- November 28, 2022
Renewables advocates are constantly downplaying the risks associated with intermittency. When the wind isn’t blowing, or the sun isn’t shining, we’re assured that batteries and electricity imports from neighboring jurisdictions can fill in the gaps. The problem, of course, is that current viable battery technology is only capable of storing power in 4-hour intervals, and
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: part 5: Aristotle 0
- November 28, 2022
James Madison admired Aristotle’s work “The Politeia.”
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Destroying Falsehoods Behind ‘You Didn’t Build That!’0
- November 22, 2022
This particular piece of sophistry is particularly beguiling, because it relies on several hidden fallacies….
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The source of federal power to stop illegal immigration 0
- November 21, 2022
Instead of speculating on the issue, II’s Senior Fellow actually examined books of international law widely used among the founding generation.
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The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 4: the pioneers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato 0
- November 20, 2022
Some Federalists expressed pride in the Constitution precisely because they considered it more reality-based than Plato’s “Republic.”
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