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Artificial Intelligence Bots: Good for Mankind Or Not Good For Mankind—That’s The Question
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier I have lived thru the pre and post-Internet period. I have found that the Internet, which connects individuals, corporations and governments globally, has both its good and bad sides. It has both good and bad outcomes. The current technological sea change is the use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to interact with […]
Sen. Joe Manchin Vows To Block All Biden Nominees To Environmental Protection Agency
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin will block all of President Joe Biden’s nominees to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s proposed rule regulating power plants, he announced Wednesday. “This Administration is determined to advance its radical climate agenda and has made it clear they are hellbent on doing […]
Wind turbines irreparable harm to our natural world: CFACT to NJ GOP legislators
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Last week I participated in a hearing conducted by the New Jersey Senate GOP on the subject of offshore wind and whales. During my testimony I spoke about the “irreparable harm” in store for both people and marine life from permitting these unbelievably massive offshore wind farms to spoil the […]
The Injustice of Biden’s Equity Agenda
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council In a move that has critics crying “socialism,” the Biden administration created a new policy that will raise mortgage fees on low-risk borrowers so high-risk borrowers can pay less. The most affected group, those with credit scores between 720 and 759 who also have a downpayment of 15% -20%, would pay […]
Climate Change: A Fairy-Tale Wrapped In Falsehoods Inside Fictions
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US The phony climate change narrative has had a rough time on Capitol Hill, lately. David Turk, deputy secretary of the Energy Department, made a complete fool of himself in congressional testimony when he would not say how much it would cost to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. He admitted it would […]
‘Death with Dignity’ — Ha!
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US The Left loves its phony narratives and I’ve taken aim at several of them. Today I take aim at ‘death with dignity’, the phony narrative the Left uses to sell assisted suicide and euthanasia. I start with the spectacular story out of the Netherlands in 2019 where a court […]
Gavin Newsom’s Carbon-Neutral Grid Plan Looks To Be Going The Way Of The Bullet Train To Nowhere
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller California’s planned transition to a carbon-neutral electricity grid by 2045 relies heavily on offshore wind power. It might take a miracle to get there. The growth of offshore wind will have to accelerate faster than a Tesla Model S, which goes from zero to 60 in less than two seconds. As […]
Michigan Supreme Court Embroiled in Pronoun Battle Prompted by ACLU—Thomas More Law Center Joins Fray
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Thomas More Law Center ANN ARBOR, MI — On Monday, May 1, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”) filed its written opposition in the Michigan Supreme Court challenging the wisdom of a proposed amendment to Michigan Court Rule 1.109, which would require all judges in the state to refer to parties and attorneys by any personal pronoun they […]
‘The Only Thing That Should Be Dragging in the Navy Is an Anchor’: Congressman
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Anheuser-Busch hasn’t exactly been teaching a master class on marketing after its poisonous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. When sales crashed, CEO Michel Doukeris tried the “It wasn’t a campaign — it was just a can” excuse for Bud Light’s relationship with the trans influencer, but it was $6 billion too late. Now, the […]
EU Backs Dutch Scheme to Forcibly Shut Down Thousands of Farms to Meet EU’s Climate Goals
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Dutch Scheme Bans Farmers From Returning to Agriculture Forever. The buyout scheme prohibits Dutch farmers from moving to other countries and starting up farms abroad, meaning that their knowledge and expertise would be lost. No one is safe. Responding to the announcement from the EU, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek said: “This […]
SEAL Who Helped Kill Bin Laden Fuming Over Navy’s Drag Queen Ambassador: ‘Can’t Believe I Fought Bor This Bullsh–t’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Thank you, hero. Everyone is so afraid to state the obvious. The military has a huge recruiting and retention problem because they went woke. They’ve hit bottom. So why keep digging? SEAL who helped kill bin Laden fumes over Navy’s drag queen ambassador: ‘Can’t believe I fought for this bullsh–t’ By: […]
The New Ugly Americans
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors. But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest American […]
What the Imposing of Ideological Fantasies Reveals
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Father Jerry J. Pokorsky: Science is the study of the handiwork of God. Christians must not object to legitimate science, but we must object to the abuse of science. There is an instructive story about an American hostage who asks his Iranian captors to listen to reason. They agree, but add, “Then […]
Bud Light Parent Cans Ad Agency In Wake Of Dylan Mulvaney Debacle: REPORT
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Anheuser-Busch told its U.S. beer distributors it had fired the advertising agency responsible for the partnership between Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, according to The New York Post. Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company, recently sent a commemorative can of beer to Mulvaney to celebrate the influencer’s “365 Days of Girlhood” series, […]
The Boy Who Knew Too Much for His School
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Exposing trans madness in education doesn’t require advanced degrees, political influence, charisma, or even 18 years of life, as one plucky middle-schooler demonstrated. At the April 13 School Committee Meeting for Middleboro, Mass. Public Schools, 7th grader Liam Morrison, a student at Nichols Middle School, stepped up to the microphone for two […]
Trans Procedure Bills Signal Growing Consensus around Protecting Children
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council On April 28, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte (R) signed into law SB 99, a bill that prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital-mutilating surgeries for minors. A similar bill was sent to the governor’s desk in Oklahoma on April 27. Both pieces of legislation passed their respective state legislatures by a wide margin, […]
Biden Energy Secretary Doubles Down on Electrifying US Military’s Vehicle Fleet by 2030
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Nuts! The United States will lose to China with this kind of idiotic, feckless and delusional leadership. They are destroying EVERYTHING. When these morons plug in their vehicles, where do they think the energy comes from? Biden energy secretary doubles down on electrifying US military’s vehicle fleet by 2030: ‘We can […]
New York State To Ban Gas Stoves
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Democrats hate you. Natural gas is one of the cleanest forms of energy. This is a deliberate attack on our very way of life. Where do these morons think the electrical energy comes from? New York would ban gas stoves in new buildings under potential budget deal By Tim Meads • Apr 29, […]
The Transgender Follies––More Madness from the Left
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Joan Swirsky Growing up in the 1950s, I remember distinctly that all of my high school classmates were obsessed with figuring out who they really were, males or females. Every conversation, the special clubs we formed to talk about this issue, the heated arguments we had with our parents who didn’t “get” that the […]
THE WEB OF DYSTOPIAN TYRANNY: Medical and Societal Perversion
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kelleigh Nelson “Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.” — Nikola Tesla “We must not lie to ourselves that loving our neighbor means waving a Pride flag, putting pronouns in our bios, and doing nothing while children are psychologically traumatized, medically altered, physically […]
ABC Censors RFK, Jr.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report ABC heavily edited its interview with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday because it didn’t like what he said about vaccines. In doing this, ABC demonstrated that it thinks the people who are unfortunate enough to watch the network are too stupid to think for themselves or evaluate truth […]
Feds Admit Offshore Wind Turbines Can Kill Whales!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Despite public proclamations of innocence, it turns out BOEM and NOAA clearly acknowledge the deadly threat of offshore wind development to marine mammals. Not surprisingly they do it in documents that are subject to judicial review, lest they be caught fibbing. Of course these admissions are well hidden, buried […]
Metaphors, ticking bombs and climate change
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities We should beware of allowing figures of speech to distort the debate. Since linguist George Lakoff and philosopher Mark Johnson published their monograph Metaphors We Live By in 1980, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the use of metaphor as a cognitive tool that enables people to apply what they know […]
The Government’s Sprawling Effort to Censor [True] Information During the Pandemic
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) In July 2022, Twitter permanently suspended Rhode Island physician Andrew Bostom after awarding the epidemiologist and longtime researcher at Brown University a fifth strike for spreading “misinformation.” A July 26 tweet alleging that there was no solid evidence Covid-19 vaccines had prevented any children from being hospitalized—”only RCT data […]
In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as they did when I attended them in the 1980s and 90s, when they also looked quite similar to how they did when my father attended those same schools in […]
The Threat of a Super-EMP
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani It’s a staggering prediction, something reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic, mega-disaster movie that has the winnowing characters scavenging for anything they can in a desperate search for water and food. But this is no movie, and it isn’t fiction. This frightening estimate has the consensus of the U.S. government, well-known, pro-electric-grid “protectionists” screaming […]
House Passes Bipartisan Bill To Repeal Biden’s China Solar Rules
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The House passed a resolution Friday morning to repeal President Joe Biden’s moratorium on solar panel tariffs to several Southeast Asian nations, where Chinese firms linked to slave labor have reportedly been assembling their products to avoid U.S. tariffs. The resolution passed 221 to 202, with the support of most Republicans and 12 […]
An open secret: Social contagion is driving the astronomic rise in teen gender dysphoria
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities And adults are not immune either. Social contagion is at least partially responsible for the upsurge in gender dysphoria in the past three decades, but this is vehemently denied by most social institutions charged with the safeguarding of children and young people, including governments, universities and schools, human rights […]
‘License To Kill’ Whales, Dolphins Handed to Offshore Wind Power Companies in Biden’s Green Energy Push
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Since December, Dozens Of Whales And Dolphins Have Washed Up Dead Along East Coast Beaches, Especially The New Jersey Coast. Greenpeace launched its “Save the Whales” campaign on April 27, 1975. But in the ensuing years, Greenpeace has gone full Orwell. Greenpeace is no longer interested in saving the […]
TAKE ACTION: M·A·C· Cosmetics Is Proud to Support the LGBTQ Lifestyle
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy One Million Moms Parents should be aware that M·A·C· Cosmetics has a dedicated VIVA GLAM line that financially supports the LGBTQ lifestyle. M·A·C· uses transgenders, drag queens, and particularly, trans social media influencers to push this lifestyle onto impressionable teens who see the influencers glamorize their lifestyle. In truth, M·A·C· is pushing an agenda […]