Yeah, We Missed That
What to know: The United Nations held its first-ever International Day of Clean Energy on Jan. 26.
The TPPF take: The U.N.’s energy goals will widen the energy gap and keep the world’s poor in squalor.
“The U.N. wants to fight climate change by taxing Americans and Europeans to send the cash to corrupt Third World leaders, while building a few trophy wind and solar projects to provide unreliable electricity to the masses,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “This will neither change global temperature (whatever that means) nor lift the 6.2 billion people of the planet’s 8.1 billion who live in developing nations up from poverty.”
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Georgia On My Mind
What to know: All eyes are on Georgia, as former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden each make stops in that state before its upcoming primaries. Georgia is truly a battleground state now.
The TPPF take: Elections officials in Georgia and elsewhere are undermining voter confidence by dismissing their concerns about illegal voting.
“Citizens have a right to know that their elections are secure. It is inappropriate for election officials to shirk reasonable questions about the security of an election, and it only feeds tension and distrust,” says TPPF’s Josh Findlay. “Not only do citizens see when their officials’ narratives conflict with their experience at the polls, but eventually the rest of the country begins to take notice as well.”
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Classical Education
What to know: Classical education is “perhaps the biggest culture-war flashpoint in the current disruption of traditional public education prompted by the historic exodus of students during the pandemic,” Real Clear Investigations reports.
The TPPF take: A Catholic and classical school in Florida shows that with school choice via education savings accounts, schools are free to educate their students how they see fit. There are no government strings.
“In Texas, fears of government strings helped sink a school choice bill last summer,” says TPPF’s Roy Maynard. “But as the Chesterton Academy in Orlando demonstrates, such fears are unfounded if the legislation is crafted carefully.”
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