The budgets being considered by the Texas Senate and Texas House may look fiscally conservative on their face. However, once you look at the details, it is clear these budgets will continue the recent trend of the Texas Legislature significantly increasing state spending while manipulating the data in various ways in order to pretend otherwise….
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Adding ‘unreliable’ wind, solar is ‘at the expense of the reliables’
By Juliette Fairley. Houston Republic Taxpayer subsidies paid to wind and solar developers contributed to the grid nearing emergency conditions this week, according to an oil and gas expert. “That’s part of it,” Robert Bradley, CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, said. “We get a lot of generation we don’t need just because…
Jesus Warns of the Consequences of Corporate Welfare
“What the Gospel accounts showed was a Jesus who was very concerned about economic exploitation, but whose economic denunciations were not broad, to-whom-it-may-concern condemnations of all wealth. Instead, He directed His denunciations in very specific geographical and socioeconomic ways, aiming His barbs at the exploitative members of the ruling class. A close and careful reading…
Texas was once again at the mercy of wind generation – and it did not come through
Karla Florez – Austin News Earlier this week, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, came close to declaring “emergency conditions” after approximately 25% of its capacity was shut off to undergo maintenance. “Alert: Due to a combination of high-gen outages typical in April & higher-than-forecasted demand caused by a…
The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 2-Racism
Just like the 1980’s era TV commercial picturing senior citizens struggling after fall and unable to get up to call for help, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), like all churches, struggles to address the cultural issues facing our country today. In this series, I am providing a brief history of the errors of the…
Putting on Our Coates Coats
by Douglas Wilson Introduction The only real science involved in all the corona-panic anymore is the science of crowd control. And however poorly our governments may have done with regard to the virus itself, having run out of rest homes to put the contagious in, they have done a marvelous job when it comes to…
Buffett’s proposed power plants would make Texans ‘bear all of the costs’
By Andy Nghiem Representatives from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy are currently proposing to build 10 new natural gas power plants in Texas at a cost of $8 billion. The Texas Tribune reported that lawmakers would provide Berkshire a return on its investment by creating an additional charge on Texans’ power bills. Critics, however, question whether this deal…
Makems and Takems
Do Takems Have the Upper Hand? The people of Sunderland in England have been building, or making, ships on the River Wear as far back as the 14th century. Since that time, their neighbors to the north in Newcastle upon Tyne have been taking the ships from Sunderland and using them to ship goods from the…
Do You Love Black People?
by Samuel Sey Christians who embrace critical race theory are right about one thing: many white Christians are not loving black people. Except, they don’t know they are speaking about themselves. If you love black people, you should hate critical race theory. If you love critical race theory, you’ll be tempted to hate people—especially black…
Hancock offers amendment promoting ancillary services during emergencies
By Bree Gonzales (this article was originally published in the Lone Star Standard) State Sen. Kelly Hancock (R-North Richland Hills) has offered an amendment to Senate Bill 3, which provides that renewable energy sources must fund reliable ancillary services in the event that they are unable to meet demand. Hancock, who also filed SB 1278, which…