Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton

“The term in the headline was first applied, I think, to the strongly Pentecostal roving brush arbor preachers of the Great Awakening in the States back in the early 1800s – whom Westerners referred to as ‘sky pilots.’ It was picked up by ‘knights of the road’ (hobos) and the dispossessed and displaced of the Dirty Thirties. It poked fun at these iterant preachers – mostly scam artists – who made a living by preaching about ‘giving to God’ (meaning, in the preacher’s contribution basket) would reap wonderful benefits in heaven after death. Politicians, of course, have been preaching a version of this for millennia – especially here in the States.” (04/22/24)

https://thepriceofliberty.org/2024/04/22/pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by-prophets-of-science/

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“The Biden administration believes it should be a federal crime to refuse to hire ex-convicts. There is no such federal statute, but that hasn’t stopped President Biden’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from seizing dictatorial power to impose its own decrees. The EEOC sued Sheetz Inc. Thursday for using criminal background checks to staff its 600+ convenience stores in six states. The agency does not allege Sheetz is biased against minorities per se — only against minorities who failed the background check.” (04/22/24)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/04/22/n-y-post-biden-and-the-great-sheetz-shakedown/

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Madison Yablonski

“This Earth Day, it’s time to reflect on the gains of conservation. Doom-and-gloom Earth Day messaging often paints a depressing future, but there is plenty of progress to celebrate. Here are three examples of innovative conservation happening all across the American West to celebrate our planet and our progress.” (04/22/24)

https://www.perc.org/2024/04/22/creative-conservation-inspires-hope-this-earth-day/

Source: Quillette
by Marian L Tupy

“The 2024 Simon Abundance Index was released today to coincide with the annual celebration of Earth Day. This was no coincidence: the Index aims to modify Earth Day’s empirical and metaphysical bearings. When it was first observed in 1970, Earth Day justifiably bemoaned the harm caused to the planet over the preceding two centuries by massive, though mostly beneficial, economic expansion, and called upon our species to be better stewards of the planet. Over the succeeding 54 years, the growing influence and legislative triumphs of the environmental movement have led it to radicalize and become more anti-human and apocalyptic. … Between 1980 and 2023, the average time price of the 50 basic commodities fell by 70.4 percent. For the time required to earn the money to buy one unit of this commodity basket in 1980, you would get 3.38 units in 2023. In other words, your resource abundance increased by 238 percent.” (04/22/24)

https://quillette.com/2024/04/22/simon-abundance-index-prosperity-innovation-population/

Source: The American Prospect
by Gerard Edic

“Nearly every day for the past month, the Biden administration has made an announcement about a finalized regulation. They have completed a minimum staffing ratio for nursing homes, conserved 13 million acres in the Alaskan Arctic, designated ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous substances, invested in rooftop solar panels in low-income communities, banned most noncompete agreements at U.S. businesses, directed federal agencies to purchase sustainable products, and closed the ‘gun show loophole’, to name just a few. Why has April been a month of regulatory action? The administration surely wants to show key constituencies that they have made progress. But policymakers are also racing to get regulations done to protect them from being overturned in the next Congress.” [editor’s note: As if we needed another reason NOT to support this regime – SAT] (04/23/24)

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-23-biden-administration-regulations-congressional-review-act/