John Droz Jr. is the founder of Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED), a 10,000-member international coalition promoting science-based energy and environmental policies. Mr. Droz received undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Boston College, a graduate degree in Physics from Syracuse University, and has been a Mensa member. He worked for GE Aerospace Electronics, Mohawk Data Sciences, and Monolithic Memories. After retiring at age 34, he has focused on educating citizens about energy and environmental issues. John has been a guest speaker on dozens of radio and TV shows nationwide, as well as lectured to numerous organizations on energy and environmental issues. In addition to publishing more than one hundred articles on energy policy, Droz has testified before the North Carolina legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives Science & Technology Committee.
This is a guest post by Mike Dee. Mike is an engineer from Western NY who is on the right side of the issues (like wind energy). He frequently writes for local papers there. I’ve enjoyed his commentaries, and asked that he do a special one for us. Enjoy! The Woke Left seems intent on destroying Western […]
Critical Thinking and AI Literacy are the key missing subjects. This is a followup to my last commentary where I am proposing that a State immediately implement a new K-12 course: Critical Thinking and AI Literacy. Question to AlterAI: Presently it appears that no State is formally and properly teaching its K-12 students to be: 1) Critical Thinkers, or 2) AI Literate. Please confirm that. […]
Most people do not realize that the real power regarding K-12 curricula resides with their State Board of Education (SBE) — not local boards. In most States, among other things, the SBE does the following three key things: they approve Standards for every subject and every grade year, they approve textbooks for every subject and every grade year, and they approve periodic statewide competency tests. […]
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Please read Part 1, before proceeding. To give readers an idea about the high degree of difficulty in getting to the Truth on almost anything, I drafted up five question on important (and different) societal issues, where I know the answer: When taking into account ALL economics, is industrial wind energy actually a low cost source of electricity? […]
Our choice is Quick & Easy or Accurate Everyone is very interested in the Truth. Truth is extremely important to us concerning almost any topic we can imagine— from personal health issues to national political matters. Without knowing a close proximity to Truth, our actions will literally be hit and miss. That will produce ineffective results as well as a great […]
President Trump was scheduled to meet with his cabinet today, concerning the Iran issue, and then plans changed… If I were there, I would say: “Before proceeding, let’s see if we can all agree on some basic facts.” I would then propose the following… Fact #1: Over the last four decades, Iran has been an aggressive supporter […]
Welcome! We cover Energy to Education to Elections — and more! Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media. Checkout the 2026, 2025, & 2024 archives, plus asterisked items below. The 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 30% of female high school students and 14% of males had […]
I was notified by a friend that an FDA advisory committee was accepting public comments (until midnight, Tuesday, the 26th of May, 2026) on vaccine composition. For details, see here. Below is what I submitted. If you are inspired to also make a submission, please do so! Some Major FDA EUA/Approval Reforms Needed 1 – Based on […]
Good News for those who advocate for informed choices This is a repost (with editing for space) of a piece last month from Megan McArdle. She wrote about Gender orthodoxy, but I thought that she made several good points which apply to a wide variety of societal issues — e.g., COVID-19, Climate Change, etc. What she didn’t […]
Right after I posted my last commentary, Critically Thinking about Life, I was sent a video about a wonderful 2026 university commencement talk. This was to UNC and given by country music star Eric Church. I’m not going to add anything, as he does a masterful job… (I’d recommend clicking on the expand arrows in the upper left-hand […]
Being a good parent is an extremely challenging job. Being a loving, competent parent to teenagers is worthy of a medal. I tell people who are struggling with two or three kids that my parents had nine (9) — so things could be a LOT worse! Of course, I was the #1 child, so they […]
I’m a fan of Sharyl Attkisson — since seeing her thoughtful reports on TV, back around the Civil War time. She now has a Substack and is doing what a good journalist should be doing: objectively reporting on societal issues. (I’ve added her Substack to the select few that I recommend.) Last month, she wrote an interesting piece, “11 […]
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I wrote something like this about three years ago. Due to popular demand, and the fact we have thousands of new readers since then, and this is a time many people are scheduling their Summer vacation, I’m posting it again… I started with providing ten hints about where many would consider the optimum US vacation area: It is where […]