July, 2017

Growth in Rooftop Installations Expected to Decline This Year

Rooftop solar installations have seen explosive growth, but that growth explosion is expected to change this year. Bloomberg News Energy Finance projects a 2.4 percentdecline in new residential installations.¹

Why It Matters That CA Assembly Leaders Mayes and Olsen Had an Affair

While I am a political analyst more comfortable with legislation and policy, occasionally the personal lives of politicians become entangled with politics and even policy. The affair of Republican Assembly Leader Chad Mayes and former Assembly Leader Kristen Olsen is one such situation where personal lives intersected with politics. This is personal and difficult to write about however, it is necessary.

Democrat Tim Ryan (OH) is on board with Trump’s 15% corporate tax rate proposal

Currently, the United States "enjoys" a 39.1% corporate tax rate - the third highest corporate tax rate on Earth, and the highest in the Western world. Donald Trump has announced that he'd like to see that burden cut to 15%.

Battle stations! The voter purges are coming!

One of the Left’s favorite scare tactics is to claim that Republicans want to ruthlessly purge members of Democrat-friendly demographic groups from the nation’s voter rolls. They claim Republicans want to do this because they hate minorities and the poor. This is simply propaganda but it persists election cycle after election cycle.

Left Claims Hitler-Style ‘Indoctrination’ in Trump’s Boy Scouts Speech

To the left, the big takeaway from President Trump’s speech to the Boy Scouts is that the Boy Scouts look a lot like the Hitler Youth. They have uniforms. They cheer the leader when he speaks. They are proud of their country and way of life. They think they are preserving something important for tomorrow – or even a thousand years of tomorrows.

Violent rhetoric, deeds from the Left

Some rare good news came out of Washington this week when House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was released from MedStar Washington Hospital after multiple surgeries from a gunshot wound, and was in “good spirits” and “looking forward to his return to work,” according to a statement by the hospital.

SHOWDOWN AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT

Strange as it may seem, the current rioting by Arabs in Jerusalem may be a blessing in disguise. First, it will force the government to assert its sovereign authority over the Temple Mount.

Democrat candidate for Minneapolis mayor: Let’s take the guns away from the police

This is the logical next step for the left on this, isn't it? Well, let's slow down on it a little bit and look at their big-picture strategy, since the left often thinks it's won more people over to its point of view than it really has.

CNN published 2014 op-ed by Wasserman Schultz’s on-the-lam IT guy lecturing against ‘Islamophobia’

Now this is good stuff. Today Imran Awan is known mainly as the former IT staffer to Debbie Wasserman Schultz who was busted trying to leave the country to escape charges of bank fraud. Rob covered it in detail yesterday, but while Awan's name is relatively new to most of us, he's an old friend of CNN.

So-called ‘skinny repeal’ might be the only scenario that can pass the Senate

There's no way to put a happy face on this. The Republican-controlled Senate is not 100 percent populated by frauds and poseurs. But it has enough of them that with only 52 members in the first place, there's no way it can cobble together 50 votes to do anything serious to deal with ObamaCare.

DOJ - Title VII Does Not Include LGBT

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) filed an amicus brief in Zarda v. Altitude Express yesterday at the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals, which contends that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans gender discrimination, but does not include sexual orientation or gender identity, in the workplace.

Israel caught in a trap of its own making

Ever seen how a jackal kills its prey? Usually, it doesn’t kill it with one blow or bite? It surrounds it, it challenges it, it probes for points of weakness. It then gets its claws around the neck of its prey and won’t let go. Whenever the animal struggles it makes itself weaker.

LIVE STREAM: White House Daily Press Briefing with Sarah Sanders

“Slide Through Summer” escape.

With summer officially upon us, we wanted to reach out to share this amazing staycation as the world’s largest Marriott - Orlando World Center Marriott - invites friends and families to stop squandering vacation days and live it up with a “Slide Through Summer” escape.

New law could shore up U.S. helium supply

Helium is essential for MRIs, the fiber optics that deliver images to our TVs, scientific research and of course, party balloons. In the past decade, helium prices have sky-rocketed due to supply shortages. But if small updates are made to an old law, the U.S. could boost its domestic helium output and help keep critical medical tests and electronics running, reports Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.

NanoVelcro microchips could someday noninvasively diagnose prenatal conditions

Many pregnant women undergo some form of prenatal testing before their children are born. The information that expectant mothers gain from these tests vary, from the baby's gender to genetic defects. But the tests are often invasive, which can potentially harm the fetus and the mother. Now, one group reports in ACS Nano that they have developed a device that provides sensitive results but in a less invasive way: a blood test.

Longer-lasting fragrance is just a shampoo away, thanks to peptides

Many people select their shampoo based on smell. Unfortunately, that scent usually doesn't last long on hair. Now, one team reports in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces a new way to help the fragrance "stick" to hair longer.

Hacked Emails Expose Hacks

The sore loser cry babies who refuse to accept the results of American voters will do anything to make the vote of the people for Donald Trump appear illegitimate. Their lame attempts at frivolous recounts only exposed their own corruption and added votes to the Donald's bottom line. So it is time for a new approach. Blame it on the Russians.

Hollywood resistance leader ‘DISGUSTED’ over Bannon’s desire to raise taxes on millionaires

If there's one thing the left loves more than the elimination of your 2nd Amendment rights, it's increasing taxes. They never miss an opportunity to demand higher and higher rates, more and more confiscation, and ever-increasing penalties for success. All federal power flows from the government's ability to take what you earn and, and the left adores federal power, so there's rarely a tax they don't like.

The New York Times issues a threat to America’s Boy Scouts

On Monday night, President Trump delivered a funny, idiosyncratic, and inspirational speech in classic New Yorker-ese to Boy Scouts gathered at the organization's National Jamboree.