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Solar Industry Fiascos Continue

Many Americans are familiar with federal, taxpayer-financed fiascos in the solar industry such as Solyndra and Abound Solar, but they are less familiar with state and local solar projects that have failed. Like federal fiascoes, these local fiascos have also wasted millions in tax money or bond debt that needs to be repaid. Taxpayers in three counties in New Jersey could be on the hook for up to $88 million in bonds that investors hold for a project to put solar panels on schools and other public buildings.(i] In Oregon, state officials wrongly awarded almost $12 million in state tax credits to a solar project based on phony documents. The Oregon project was also plagued by an international trade war, a bitter corporate rivalry and a labor shuffle that resulted in prison labor at 93 cents an hour being substituted for what was supposed to be high-paid Oregon jobs.[ii]
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015

San Francisco Threatening to sue Archbishop for Upholding the Faith

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is under legal fire for maintaining sound Catholic teaching and morals in the Catholic schools. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors says that Cordileone's effort to ensure that the city’s Catholic schools uphold the Faith is "discriminatory," and one member of the board is now saying the city is considering legal action.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015


Alabama Supreme Court Halts Illegal Marriages Statewide

Montgomery, AL - The Alabama Supreme Court has once again sided with Liberty Counsel in a historic case affirming natural marriage in the state. The Court's new order directs Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, which Judge Davis had previously done under the order of U.S. District Judge Callie Granade when she purported to overturn Alabama's marriage laws. The Alabama Supreme Court roundly refuted Judge Granade in a landmark ruling on March 3, granting Liberty Counsel's petition to stop the state's probate judges from following Judge Granade's faulty opinion.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015



Time to Delete the Name Clinton from List of 2016 Presidential Prospects!

After watching Hillary Clinton lie, deny, and defy her way through an illogical, contradictory and foolish attempt to explain why she believes herself justified in maintaining a private system for receiving, transmitting, and storing State Department documentation, contrary to federal requirements, one is struck by the fact that this political beast is of the same elitist, anti-rule of law mindset as the Demo-thug currently occupying the White House.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015


World Is At War

President Obama refuses to refer to ISIL, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Quds Force, and others as Islamic terrorists. He tends to mischaracterize the attacks by the radical Islamic terrorists on Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims, and he seems hesitant to vigorously take the fight to the terrorists. Why is that?
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015



The EPA Thinks You're Stupid

The folks at the Environmental Protection Agency, starting with a long line of its administrators that now includes Gina McCarthy, think you and the Congress of the United States are stupid. They have been telling lies for so long they can’t imagine that their chokehold on the American economy will ever end.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Graphene: A new tool for fighting cavities and gum disease?

Dental diseases, which are caused by the overgrowth of certain bacteria in the mouth, are among the most common health problems in the world. Now scientists have discovered that a material called graphene oxide is effective at eliminating these bacteria, some of which have developed antibiotic resistance. They report the findings in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Stem-cell therapy for ALS, diabetes

A new stem-cell technology with the potential to treat neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is now in development by the Israel Prize laureate responsible for the blockbuster multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Rebif.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Svante Arrhenius: An Early Prophet Of The ‘Energy Crisis’

It was surprising to encounter a book by Svante Arrhenius published in 1919 which contains many very current-sounding ideas on energy topics. Although Svante Arrhenius showed great foresight in many of his comments on energy, he was wrong in some of his most important predictions: America will run out of oil by 1953 at the latest. Coal reserves will be depleted in England within 50 years and in America within 150 years. --Charles G. Moseley, Journal of Chemical Education 55(3) 1978
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015


Uncovering the effects of cooking, digestion on gluten and wheat allergens in pasta

Researchers trying to understand wheat-related health problems have found new clues to how the grain's proteins, including gluten, change when cooked and digested. They report in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that boiling pasta releases some of its potential allergens, while other proteins persist throughout cooking and digestion. Their findings lend new insights that could ultimately help celiac patients and people allergic to wheat.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015

How 3-D bioprinting could address the shortage of organ donations

Three-dimensional bioprinting has come a long way since its early days when a bioengineer replaced the ink in his desktop printer with living cells. Scientists have since successfully printed small patches of tissue. Could it someday allow us to custom-print human organs for patients in need of transplants? An article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, explores the possibility.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015


Silk could be new 'green' material for next-generation batteries

Lithium-ion batteries have enabled many of today's electronics, from portable gadgets to electric cars. But much to the frustration of consumers, none of these batteries last long without a recharge. Now scientists report in the journal ACS Nano the development of a new, "green" way to boost the performance of these batteries — with a material derived from silk.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015

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