Edward Ring – American Greatness

Trump and the Fate of Western Civilization

Edward Ring — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:00:19 +0000

Less than a week ago, a lone assassin’s bullet came within millimeters of killing Donald Trump. Had it succeeded, the unrest and polarization we already […]

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Why Gavin Newsom Must Never Become U.S. President

Edward Ring — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:00:44 +0000

As President Biden’s age threatens to derail his reelection campaign, waiting in the wings and trying not to appear too eager is Gavin Newsom. It’s […]

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The Aftermath of COVID: Four Years Later

Edward Ring — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 07:00:50 +0000

The years of COVID deaths are finally becoming a memory, but many years remain before we will fully understand what happened. As we uncover more […]

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The Day Democracy Died in California

Edward Ring — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:00:51 +0000

On June 20, the California Supreme Court ruled that the Taxpayer Protection Act, a ballot initiative that would have given voters veto power over new taxes, was […]

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The Way to Unite America’s Political Spectrum is Economic

Edward Ring — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:00:48 +0000

An insightful, if pithy, tweet surfaced recently on my feed. It nicely summarized what happened to neutralize an awakening electorate in America over the past decade: “They […]

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Will Texas Repeat California’s Bullet Train Debacle?

Edward Ring — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 07:00:23 +0000

When it comes to wasting stupefying sums of money, few government-funded projects in American history can rival California’s so-called “High-Speed Rail.” After nearly two decades […]

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Taking Back California – Part Six: The Party of the Future

Edward Ring — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:00:31 +0000

California is in play. Only a small minority of Californians are immune to the failures of the one-party state. Everyone else is its victim. A […]

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Taking Back California – Part Five: Abundant Water

Edward Ring — Wed, 29 May 2024 07:00:11 +0000

If energy powers modern civilization, then water gives it life. And in California, for at least the last 20 years, with escalating severity, life has […]

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Taking Back California – Part Four: Abundant Energy

Edward Ring — Wed, 22 May 2024 07:00:43 +0000

When it comes to the essentials of civilization, energy is at the top. It is the prerequisite for every other basic essential, from pumping and […]

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Taking Back California – Part Three: Fighting Crime

Edward Ring — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:00:40 +0000

In recent years, California’s become a target for conservatives around the rest of the country who claim it is the prime example of a deep […]

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Taking Back California – Part Two: Fixing Education

Edward Ring — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:00:46 +0000

Convincing California’s affluent white liberals to vote Republican is not worth the effort. As noted in part one, these voters don’t feel the consequences of the […]

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Taking Back California – Part One: The Voters

Edward Ring — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:00:57 +0000

California is a one-party state. The good news, if you want to call it that, is that California’s Republicans have nowhere to go but up. […]

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The Case for an Inclusive Energy Strategy

Edward Ring — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

The justification for rapidly transitioning the global energy economy to renewables is to avert a catastrophic environmental crisis. It is based on the premise that […]

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The Power of Moderate Populism

Edward Ring — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:00:16 +0000

My positions are centrist: Secure borders. Safe & clean cities. Don’t bankrupt America with spending. Racism against any race is wrong. No sterilization below age […]

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Two Visions for California’s Future

Edward Ring — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:00:38 +0000

The average retail price of regular gasoline in California as of April 3, 2024, was $5.15 per gallon. Since that’s an average, there are spots where […]

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Governing by Hope Instead of Fear

Edward Ring — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:00:40 +0000

“A liberal program must also be a responsible program, a reasonable, rational, realistic program. We must know how much it will cost and where the […]

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Floating Offshore Wind Projects Will Squander Hundreds of Billions of Dollars

Edward Ring — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:00:31 +0000

In December 2022, after years of planning, the U.S. Dept. of the Interior sold rights to develop offshore wind in five lease areas off the California […]

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Our Perilous, Magnificent, Perilous Future

Edward Ring — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:00:15 +0000

The establishment narrative in the United States is pathologically negative, with its centerpiece being the climate “crisis.” A generation of America’s youth has been indoctrinated […]

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The Financialization of Nature

Edward Ring — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:00:39 +0000

Financialization: “A pattern of accumulation in which profit making occurs increasingly through financial channels rather than through trade and commodity production.” – Greta Krippner, Economic Sociologist, […]

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Drain the Reservoirs, Return California’s Stolen Land

Edward Ring — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:00:23 +0000

The destruction of dams on the Klamath River provides an encouraging precedent for progressives throughout California. As was breathlessly reported in the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere, indigenous […]

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How Another Newsom Recall Effort Helps America

Edward Ring — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:55:05 +0000

California isn’t as bad as millions of people outside the state have been led to believe. No, not every downtown street is awash in homeless drug […]

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Irreconcilable Differences: California’s GOP Falters From Within

Edward Ring — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:00:40 +0000

Two very different visions for California. Steve Garvey, the leading Republican, is too conservative for California. He voted for Trump, twice, and supported Republicans for […]

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Realigning California is not Impossible

Edward Ring — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:00:13 +0000

It’s no secret that California is a juggernaut, exercising influence in national politics even disproportionate to its status as the largest state. And it’s all […]

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The Delusions of Davos and Dubai – Part Three: Alternatives to Wind & Solar Energy

Edward Ring — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:00:36 +0000

If the delusional but dead serious demands coming out of the international climate crisis community are to be believed, and as documented in the earlier […]

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The Delusions of Davos and Dubai – Part Two: Can Wind & Solar Energy Expand 50-100 Times?

Edward Ring — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:00:20 +0000

In the most recent “Conference of the Parties,” otherwise known as the United Nations extravaganza that convenes every few years for world leaders to discuss […]

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The Delusions of Davos and Dubai – Part One: Achieving Universal Energy Security

Edward Ring — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:00:55 +0000

Wind and solar energy cannot lift humanity into prosperity. But as an impressive fleet of private jets has recently migrated from the COP 28 Summit […]

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The Intellectual Foundations of MAGA

Edward Ring — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:00:53 +0000

Republicans are dumb. They are easily led suckers, voting against their own best interests, manipulated by dangerous demagogues. This accusation is accepted as fact by […]

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The Inherently Destructive Uniparty Agenda

Edward Ring — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:00:11 +0000

It’s easy enough to blame Democrats for everything, but as a rapidly increasing percentage of American voters have realized, Republicans share the blame. These politicians […]

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An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century

Edward Ring — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:00:52 +0000

Beginning April 1, the minimum wage for employees working in California’s fast food chains and health care industries will rise to $20 per hour and, […]

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A Slavic Christmas

Edward Ring — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 10:00:26 +0000

Last week I had the extraordinary privilege of attending an annual Christmas event held at a Christian cathedral in Sacramento, California. And here in the […]

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Netflix and the Erasure of History

Edward Ring — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:00:29 +0000

“Trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people.” – Excerpt from “Leave the World Behind,” released on Netflix December 8, 2023 If anyone […]

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What Motivates American Globalism?

Edward Ring — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:00:16 +0000

It is too easy, and dangerously misleading, to examine the most controversial globalist policies combined with America’s most obvious weaknesses and conclude that American power, […]

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Reforming Private Sector Unions

Edward Ring — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:00:03 +0000

Unlike public sector unions, which are inherently corrupt and need to be outlawed, private sector unions have a vital role to play in American society. […]

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Outlaw Public Sector Unions

Edward Ring — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Money doesn’t guarantee victory in political campaigns. For proof, look no further than Meg Whitman, the California billionaire who in 2010 squandered $179 million in her futile […]

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The Meaning of Thanksgiving Can Save America

Edward Ring — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:00:30 +0000

Thanksgiving, according to Britannica.com, has come to “has come to symbolize intercultural peace, America’s opportunity for newcomers, and the sanctity of home and family.” This definition […]

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The Demographics of Polarization

Edward Ring — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:00:20 +0000

Women around the world are having fewer than two children. But while population decline is well underway in most nations, there are a handful of […]

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Trump’s Popularity is Not Inexplicable

Edward Ring — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:00:40 +0000

In a routine that has become familiar of late, CNN’s Jim Acosta reports the ongoing ascendancy of Donald Trump in the polls with a mixture […]

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Tribalism and Democracy

Edward Ring — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:00:33 +0000

This latest war between Israelis and Palestinians, growing worse by the day, has its origins in the horrific slaughter of civilians by Hamas terrorists on […]

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Climate Data Refutes Crisis Narrative

Edward Ring — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:00:35 +0000

On September 16, with great fanfare, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced his office had filed a lawsuit against five major oil companies. Accusing them of […]

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Will Americans Fight for Globalism?

Edward Ring — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:57 +0000

Imagining a cascade of catastrophic escalations plunging humanity into the next world war is no longer a stretch, and it could happen fast. Israel invades […]

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Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe

Edward Ring — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:00:41 +0000

When it comes to “renewables” wreaking havoc on the environment, wind turbines have stiff competition. For example, over 500,000 square miles of biofuel plantations have already replaced […]

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Who Rules the World?

Edward Ring — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:00:56 +0000

Many years ago a friend of mine insisted we go to a bookstore so I could purchase a copy of a book that had her […]

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Finding Unity in a Divided America

Edward Ring — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:00:17 +0000

We are in the middle of a national identity crisis. Faith, patriotism and hard work have disappeared. Wokeness, gender ideology, and the climate cult have […]

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The Hidden Agenda Behind Lockdowns

Edward Ring — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:00:59 +0000

You can call it a “road diet,” or “15 days to stop the spread,” or a “fifteen minute city,” or a “smart city,” a “central […]

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Precautionary Principle Extremism

Edward Ring — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:00:57 +0000

Most people with any understanding of risk are familiar with the precautionary principle. It is defined as “the precept that an action should not be taken if […]

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Non-COVID deaths are still way higher than normal. Why?

Edward Ring — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:00:49 +0000

According to data reported weekly by the CDC, the death rate in America remains elevated. In the six years prior to the COVID era, deaths in […]

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Saving the Environment from Environmentalists

Edward Ring — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:00:38 +0000

The oceans director of Greenpeace told USA Today that groups attempting to link offshore wind to whale deaths are part of a “cynical disinformation campaign.” […]

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Christianity and the Globalist Agenda

Edward Ring — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:00:59 +0000

When God tells you what to do you cannot hesitate. – “Vampiro,” played by Bill Camp, in the Movie “Sound of Freedom“ The power of […]

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How Unions Have Betrayed America

Edward Ring — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:55 +0000

Anyone suggesting there is no role for unions in America today might first consider a fact of history: more than a century ago, when oligarchs […]

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Turning California Purple

Edward Ring — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:00:45 +0000

California is the epicenter of Democratic power in the United States. The ultra-blue state backs up its progressive agenda with a state legislature that commands […]

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