1. We have moved to "green" energy before it could make up for the loss in fossil fuel energy and nuclear energy (which is also "green" in emissions terms).
2. The lack of energy is imposing hardship on residents and businesses in the form of shortages, higher prices, and lack of reliability.
3. We are about to mandate electric vehicles at a time when we are also telling people not to charge their electric vehicles at certain times of day due to electricity shortages.
4. Ostensibly, we are going to find a way to expand the grid's capacity by 30% in the next 13 years without building new fossil fuel or nuclear plants, i.e. relying on solar and wind, and while accommodating for the loss of several of these.
5. 17 liberal states have pegged their energy/emissions policies to California.
6. Somehow electric vehicles are going to be made more affordable even though their batteries depend on rare minerals that China currently controls.
7. The movement to electric vehicles will have a negligible affect on global emissions and temperature unless China/India et al. follow suit (unlikely).
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- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
