Better Serving Those Who Served
The TPPF take: Veteran offenders must not be allowed to fall through the cracks of any criminal justice system when their service experience contributed to their offense.
“Far too many of our nation’s veterans are encountering the criminal justice system due to service-related conditions,” says TPPF’s Maggie Horzempa. “States have taken different approaches with VTCs and have been assisted by limited federal programming, but it is time to harness best practices and standardize processes. Broad eligibility, cost sharing by federal, state, and local governments, and community-coordinated treatment/service options are essential to VTC success.”
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Copping Out
What to know: COP30, the U.N.’s climate alarmism conference, was a complete failure, says one regular attendee.
The TPPF take: The conference drew just a fraction of previous years’ attendance.
“As COP30 unfolds with a fraction of Glasgow’s fanfare, what we’re witnessing is not climate denial, but a growing climate realism,” says TPPF’s Cullen Neely. “More important than COP attendance, the global climate finance architecture is collapsing behind the scenes. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)—launched at COP26 with more than 450 institutions promising $100 trillion for climate finance—is effectively dead.”
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Coal for Christmas?
What to know: As electricity prices continue to spike, coal is now being re-examined as a solution.
The TPPF take: American coal is making a comeback after more than a decade of harmful federal policies that have been driving it to extinction.
“For more than a century, coal has been a reliable energy source making our modern way of life possible,” says Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian, writing in The Cannon Online. “It wasn’t until radical environmentalists created the Net Zero fantasy that the United States and the rest of the developed world abandoned coal production and coal-fired electric generation. As a result, many coal plants – like the one in Hallsville, Texas – have been run out of business by their own government after decades by ‘woke’ energy policies and replaced with taxpayer-subsidized wind and solar powered projects — which are costly and unreliable.”
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