Politics

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post - As PJ Media’s Bryan Preston, who lives in Texas, explained, “Piecing known information together, the wind turbines in Western Texas froze up starting Friday before the icy snowstorm hit, on Sunday night to Monday morning. This destabilized the Texas grid ahead of the worst of the storm.. the grid was set up to suffer mightily as it’s not hardened against extreme cold such as this once-in-a-century storm series is delivering.”

By James Malloy, The Stream - We have a new president with a much different philosophy than our previous one. Besides Biden and his beliefs, those who helped him get elected will receive payoffs through their policy prescriptions for those they deem valuable, including themselves. Government control for equal outcomes is the far left’s agenda, although some are more equal than others. Now the president and his teammates are the head social engineers on this train.

By Kelsey Bolar, The Federalist - Amongst the record-breaking number of executive actions taken by President Joe Biden was one related to a little-known, frightening Obama-era program called Operation Choke Point. The program, dubbed so under former Attorney General Eric Holder, uses the power of the federal government to target legal yet leftist-disfavored businesses. These include gun sellers, pawnshops, and short-term money lenders.