If decarbonization is to be achieved by expanding renewables the expansion will have to come in wind, solar and biomass. So let’s take hydro out and see how far growth in wind, solar and biomass has carried us along the decarbonization path so far:

Clearly they still have a long way to go.

I had this discussion with a fellow actor over a decade ago when we tried to mount a production.  Nice to see great minds think alike:

The Crucible: a Parable of the Red Scare or the Totalitarian State?

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IRS TECHNOLOGISTS ORDERED TO SAVE HARD DRIVES: IN FIVE OFFICES.

ROGER KIMBALL: The “obvious and commonsense conclusion” about the IRS scandal. “On the whole, we have to draw the obvious and commonsense conclusion that documents destroyed or hidden probably were embarrassing or incriminating, and that the effort to blot out or falsify the record was undertaken in order to deny responsibility for the IRS’s criminal activity in persecuting opponents of the Obama administration.”

FEC Recycled Hard Drive of Attorney Under Investigation for Potentially Illegal Political Activity

WISH I TRUSTED THEM TO DO THIS RIGHT: Justice Department Said to Be Probing Missing IRS E-Mails.

Related: House Votes To Block Bonuses At IRS.

And I have it on good authority - IRS office workers have been instructed to NOT refer to the Obamacare Tax as a tax.  OR as a penalty.  Its a  Share Responsability Payment.

Today in 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne died in Ted Kennedy’s car as he fled the scene. 

Here’s an ad slamming Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin for paying women on his staff less than men. I imagine we’ll see a lot of these, since so many Dems are vulnerable, and since they’ve fertilized the field with all this #waronwomen talk.

Obama deprives tens of thousans of women of birth control: The administration just took Obamacare away from the territories.

I've not posted much on the topic but there was some interesting stuff "coming across my desk" last week.

Regarding the AP U.S. History exam, Stanley Kurtz says that while it is true that the new AP framework allows teachers to include their own examples, the framework “also insists that the examples must be used to illustrate the themes and concepts behind the official College Board vision.”

Consequently, Kurtz observes:

The upshot is that James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the other founders are largely left out of the new test, unless they are presented as examples of conflict and identity by class, gender, race, ethnicity, etc. The Constitution can be studied as an example of the Colonists’ belief in the superiority of their own culture, for instance. But any teacher who presents a full unit on the principles of the American Constitution taught in the traditional way would be severely disadvantaging his students. So while allowing some minor flexibility on details, the new AP U.S. History framework effectively forces teachers to train their students in a leftist, blame-America-first reading of history, while omitting traditional treatments of our founding principles.

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"The controversy over the AP U.S. History Test is going to transform the national battle over Common Core,” Kurtz told Breitbart News. “The changes to the AP U.S. History Exam, enforced by none other than David Coleman, architect of the Common Core, confirm widespread fears that the Common Core will lead to politicized indoctrination.”

“Up to now, Coleman and his allies have done their best to avoid overtly ideological moves,” he continued. “Now they've tipped their hand. The AP controversy is going to energize the anti-Common Core forces and push this battle to a whole new level.”