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Today my long-awaited energy storage paper was officially published on the website of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Here is a link. The paper is 22 pages long in the form in which they have published it plus another few pages for an Executive Summary and table of contents. They have given it the title “The Energy Storage Conundrum.” Most of the points made in the paper have been made previously on this blog in one form or another. However, there is a good amount of additional detail in the paper that has never appeared here. I’ll provide one example...

Leftist activists who took over a portion of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood earlier this week have released a list of insane demands. 1. The abolition of the Seattle Police Department and the city’s courts. 2. Free college for the people of Washington state. 3. New trials for every violent black convicted inmate “by a jury of their peers in their community.” 4. The “unrestricted right” for prisoners to vote while incarcerated. 5. The abolition of imprisonment, which would be replaced by “accountability programs.” 6. Racially segregated hospitals in Seattle, with black health care workers for black patients. 7. Educations reforms...

A county mental health counselor appears to have been with a 16-year-old Oakland girl when the teenager allegedly slashed the throat of a 75-year-old woman near the Berkeley Rose Garden last week, county officials said Friday.

One screener had four Social Security numbers and a conviction for shoplifting, and as seen on a surveillance videotape exclusively obtained by CBS News, he used his position to steal jewelry and more from airline passengers' bags. WCBS's Cheryl Fiandaca reports for The Early Show. Transportation Security Administration screener Clarence Henry is supposed to be looking for bombs in checked luggage. Instead, he's looking for jewelry and cash. A surveillance video appears to show Henry carefully picking through the jewelry case in a bag - looking for expensive pieces and pocketing them when he finds them. And Henry isn't the...