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Renewable energy — the data is blowing in the wind

Better weather and power forecasting has many benefits. Among the most financially significant is improving the economics of renewable from wind and solar energy as well as fostering integration with conventional sources such as hydro and fossil. If utilities can forecast, hour by hour, or better yet minute by minute, …

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Human trafficking will not end until it ends in India

For generations, 300 million Dalits—the poorest of the poor in India—have been taught that they are worthless. Less than human. Excluded from society, they have limited access to education or justice. They are used, cheated, and abused freely by others. They are given no protection by law enforcement; no access …

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Barack Obama — my deluded pen pal

Since September 29, 2012, I’ve received 98 emails from President Obama and his political action groups (Organizing for Action, MoveOn). These emails are always highly partisan, divisive and never pose a specific plan or course of action for solving any of the problems we face as a nation. Consider the …

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Did Holder mislead Congress about targeting reporters like James Rosen?

In his speech at the National Defense University Thursday, President Obama said, “Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. Our focus must be on those who break the law.” Maybe it’s time for the president to have a heart-to-heart with his attorney general, Eric Holder. NBC …

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Arming untrained teachers puts our kids at greater risk

In April, the U.S. Senate struck down gun control legislation that would have required universal background checks for gun purchases and imposed limits on gun magazine capacity, among other measures. Standing with family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, President Obama declared that this is only “round one” …

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Why I’m optimistic about Christianity’s future

I’ve been asked more times than I can remember by secular people and the secular press if Christianity is now, truly…finally…a dying religion. The scenario plays out a bit like this. A reporter, after rattling off a steady stream of apocalyptic examples “supported by research,” then asks something like: “Given …

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Why age and experience don't matter any more in football

When Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel shattered the Heisman Trophy barrier that had kept freshmen from winning the award throughout its 78-year history, it shouldn’t have been a surprise. The exclusive Heisman winners club had admitted its first sophomore, the University of Florida’s Tim Tebow, in 2007, and two years …

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Despite criticism from left and right, MSNBC's silence is deafening about doctored 'heckling' video

A video doctored by MSNBC featuring the grieving father of one of the children who died in the Sandy Hook tragedy from has set the Internet aflame this week. The video, which first aired on the Monday, January 28 broadcast of the liberal network’s “Martin Bashir”show is only the latest …

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The Tea Party and Media Corruption

Ever since the Tea Party protests began last summer, the left-wing media in America has been attacking the movement. At first, Tea Party folks were labeled stupid, too dumb to understand complicated issues. Then, as the protests grew, some in the media actually began calling Tea Party people dirty names, …

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Toyota's Top Dog to Testify

So now he’s coming: Toyota’s top dog in Japan will testify to Congress next week. Akio Toyoda balked at first, but someone in PR there must have talked to him since. Or maybe it was any one of a myriad of other CEOs here, who’ve been dragged through these congressional …

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