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The expensive and unreliable nature of wind and solar energy has led to skyrocketing power prices the more that the electric grid depends on so-called "green" energy. That has been illustrated recently when the higher cost of wind and solar and the high cost of replacing power on the spot market when weather conditions cut the output of wind and solar caused two Australian power companies to double their electric rates in the space of one month.
An article on the subject from the major newspaper The Australian is republished in Stop These Things: https://stopthesethings.com/2022/05/22/prices-double-obsession-with-subsidised-wind-solar-causes-runaway-power-prices/
Thanks to the RINO leadership in the NC General Assembly, NC electric consumers will face the same debacle in the future due to the passage of the Green New Deal / climate alarmist HB951. Phil Berger and Tim Moore screwed the NC electric consumer by ramming through that far left bill.
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Politicians in Washington are growing increasingly nervous, as the CDC has announced they have discovered the first case of Lizardpox on American shores.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 12:26 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday that suspending gas taxes is “certainly worth considering” amid rising energy prices.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 12:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Australia reportedly will not send officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, in response to the communist nation’s genocide against religious minorities.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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To what extent can a selective educational institution advantage certain racial groups in admissions decisions without discriminating against other groups simultaneously?
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 12:14 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday blamed global factors for Americans’ spiraling purchasing power and declared a recession is “not at all inevitable,” despite a growing consensus the U.S. could soon find out one is already underway.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
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With the price of food skyrocketing and the value of Bitcoin plummeting, McDonald's restaurants across the world have rolled out a new value menu in which all items cost only 1 Bitcoin.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 12:01 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden during a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday over the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have been amassing near its border in what experts warn might be a prelude to an invasion.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy Find that North Carolina's Dominant Hospital Systems Recorded Billions of Dollars in Profits After Taking Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) got some unexpected praise late this week from media personality Bill Maher, who insisted that DeSantis would be better than former President Donald Trump.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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Milestone Air Quality Legislation Paved Way for Significant Environmental and Clean Energy Efforts
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:47 am
By: Governor's Office
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took a shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during Tuesday’s press briefing over remarks that Ocasio-Cortez made about organized retail theft incidents that have plagued several major Democrat-controlled cities in recent weeks.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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The United States of America has edged closer and closer to the Leftist maxim of "Abortion on Demand" whenever it is demanded, by whomever demands it, but now that ease of operation to alleviate oneself of that nagging little problem has come to a screeching halt.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Profits rolled in
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 9:18 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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center for housing migrant ''children'' will be in Greensboro
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 8:46 am
By: John Steed
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) apparently blocked Republican senators from questioning a U.S. attorney on an ongoing federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 7:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed three bills into law yesterday, June 14, including one that legalizes FDA-approved THC medications.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 2:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson Releases Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationToday, the Supreme Court of the United States released its decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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SpaceX employees circulated an open letter criticizing CEO Elon Musk for his “behavior in the public sphere.” Those employees now find themselves out of a job, according to a Friday report from The New York Times.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 2:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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there is one of the 14 RINOs who still faces a Senate primary
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 4:51 pm
By: John Steed
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This week, local man Don Johnson told friends and family he had been struck with a revelation: his “Bored Ape” NFT may not have been a bulletproof investment vehicle, and perhaps he should have diversified his investments a bit.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 3:39 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Biden’s National Security Adviser Refuses To Answer If World A Safer Place After Biden-Putin MeetingPresident Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, refused to answer on Tuesday whether the world was a more or less safe place after the president met with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid concern that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 3:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A state House judiciary committee has approved new civilian traffic crash investigators for Greenville.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 3:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Brave Search is privacy and free speech oriented
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 3:06 pm
By: John Steed
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Country singer Jennifer Nettles shared heartbreaking news about her dad on Father’s Day as she revealed that her dad, Beamon Nettles, had passed away in May, something she had previously kept private.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki was grilled during Tuesday’s press briefing over President Joe Biden’s disastrous foreign policy record and was pointedly asked if Biden was living up to his campaign promise to restore America’s credibility around the world.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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“I’ve got 15 slots open right now and I can’t fill them. Nobody is walking in the door, nobody is calling. We don’t have the teachers,” said Myers.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gauging the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on K-12 enrollment and instruction is no small task.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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had come in as minor at age 12
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:36 am
By: John Steed
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Marie Miller, attorney at the Institute for Justice, explains how the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Carson v. Makin, a case from Maine, could affect North Carolina’s lawsuit challenging the Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It's more complex than "overturning Roe"
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:19 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Anthropologists Now Believe All-Female Amazon Tribe Collapsed Because Nobody Could Get Any Jars OpenTURKEY—Anthropologists have uncovered a cache of sealed jars near the city of Terme which could shed light on the sudden collapse of the mysterious all-female Amazon tribe.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 11:17 am
By: Babylon Bee
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