August, 2017

Going ‘green’ with plant-based resins

Airplanes, electronics and solar cells are all in demand, but the materials holding these items together — epoxy thermosets — are not environmentally friendly. Now, a group reports in ACS' journal Macromolecules that they have created a plant-based thermoset that could make devices "greener."

Fish database could help eliminate the ultimate bait and switch

Fish fraud, the misrepresentation of cheaper fish as more expensive ones, is a rampant problem worldwide. Now in a study appearing ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists report that they are making strides toward the development of a protein database capable of definitively identifying fish species. This information could help nab imposters of salmon, tuna and other popular fish before they reach people's plates.

Turning pollen into a low-cost fertilizer

As the world population continues to balloon, agricultural experts puzzle over how farms will produce enough food to keep up with demand. One tactic involves boosting crop yields. Toward that end, scientists have developed a method to make a low-cost, biocompatible fertilizer with carbon dots derived from rapeseed pollen. The study, appearing in ACS Omega, found that applying the carbon dots to hydroponically cultivated lettuce promoted its growth by 50 percent.

Remember When Chicago Aldermen and Police Seized a Portrait?

It’s not the so-called Confederate statues that are the problem. The problem is the hold that Marxist art theory and criticism has on the US art world.

Is It Prudent To Increase The Dose of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs?

Do you remember the story about the straw that broke the camel’s back? How the camel’s owner kept loading more and more straw on the animal’s back. Eventually one more straw broke the poor creature’s back. Pushing your luck too far is a poor idea. Now, a report in the British Medical Journal shows that doctors, like camel owners, should heed this advice.

A chill wind blows

Freedom of speech is under assault by the Left like never before. The shutting down of Patriot Prayer's planned rally at a federal park in San Francisco Saturday is yet more proof of the political ascendancy of the evil ultra-violent "antifa" street thug movement. Patriot Prayer is an innocuous Tea Party-ish group that only wanted to conduct a rally to support free speech. Instead the group has been smeared relentlessly — and now as it turns out, persecuted by state actors.

The Swamp Report Card: Grading Enemies and Friends

Swamp Creature Report Card: Navy Admiral James “Ace” Lyons shocked the nation with his candid remarks at the Center for Security Policy "Defeat Jihad Summit” held in January, 2015. Admiral Lyons calmly and plainly stated that Obama was deliberately and unilaterally disarming the military. The Admiral further warned that the Muslim Brotherhood has already penetrated every one of our national security security agencies including our intelligence agencies.

Texas Nationalist Movement: Statement on Hurricane Harvey

My First Political Fight in West Virginia

My wife Mary and I moved from Florida to West Virginia to be closer to our elderly parents. Its a tiny town, population 500. Because internet will not be installed at our home until later this month, I was at the local small library working on my computer.

Latest MSM Melodrama Claims Trump Rhetoric Will See Reporters Killed

It’s okay, mainstream media fraidy-cats, who fear President Donald Trump’s anti-media rhetoric is inspiring violence against reporters. You can come out from needlessly cowering under your desks now.

U.S. one of only three countries opposing UN resolution that restricts free speech in order to fight

I wonder how many Americans realize that free speech is not valued around the world like it is here, and that the very idea of free speech as a basic right government cannot restrict is a reasonably new concept in the context of world history.

Seven Memorable “Guterres Moments” for Israel during the UN Secretary-General’s First Seven Mo

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is scheduled to visit Israel for the first time in late August 2017, seven full months after assuming the prestigious post in January 2017. Upon his election, the Israeli establishment expressed hope that Guterres' leadership would lead to a change in the UN’s bias against Israel. In considering seven milestones during the past seven months, Guterres’ actions, rhetoric, and statements on Israel-related issues create the impression that he is indeed committed to bettering the situation.

Some of you have careened headlong into the crazy zone

In Texas, a man tried to blow up a Confederate statue, because these days statues are apparently the greatest threat to our lives, health and well-being. But not before taking a drink of the substance he intended to use to cause the explosion! He did spit it out, so I guess it didn’t taste good.

US anti-Semitism superseded by civic foundations

Contrary to European anti-Semitism, the recent episodes of anti-Semitism in the US--such as hundreds of white supremacists, bearing torches and giving the Nazi salute - represent a negligible American minority, religiously, socially, ethnically and politically. These episodes defy the civic, moral and religious foundations of the US, as well as the US political, media and civic discourse, which have demonstrated high esteem for Judaism from the era of the early Pilgrims, through the Founding Fathers until today.

Never mind name-changing: For Indians and Inuit the reality is now

As the Roman historian Polybius wrote, learning from history can avert repetition of past mistakes. Most name-changing unnecessarily corrupts history. One lesson from history, and geography, is that Aboriginal leaders—and grandstanding busybodies—don’t speak for the burgeoning cohort of followers doubling every twenty years.

Statement by Gary Hunt Regarding the Freedom of the Press - Show Cause Hearing of August 23, 2017

I intended to write an article about the Freedom of the Press hearing in Portland, Oregon. However, since I had decided to testify, I had mentally prepared to answer cross-examination questions, should they be asked.

The Persecution of Patriot Prayer

Democrat politicians like Nancy Pelosi have given their ultra-violent “antifa” allies permission to use physical violence against the Patriot Prayer group rallying in a San Francisco park on Saturday by smearing them as “Nazi sympathizers.”

WITH FRIENDS LIKE GARY COHN, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?

President Donald Trump is attacked on a daily basis by his enemies in the media, the political establishment, and the deep state. He is under unrelenting assault, more so than any other U.S. President in recent history.

ESPN needs to fire Bob Ley

As everyone who has been at least semi-conscious in the past few days knows, ESPN pulled Asian American Robert Lee from covering the opening college football game between the University of Virginia and William and Mary.

UN Hypocrites Lecture U.S. on Charlottesville Racism

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, acting under its “Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedures,” intervened in the ongoing controversy over the deadly violence in Charlottesville sparked by a white supremacist rally and the Trump administration’s response.